All the talk this week about Timothy Geitner’s tax problems seems like even smaller potatoes compared to this: Eighty-three of the nation’s 100 largest corporations, including Citigroup, Bank of America and News Corp., had subsidiaries in offshore tax havens in 2007, and some of the companies received federal bailout funding, a government watchdog said Friday. […]
Yup tomorrow morning is lining up to be a day of right wing talking heads: ABC’s “This Week” — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.; Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.; Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sen. Carl […]
That’s exactly what this is: A small group of Republicans facing election fights next year have rallied around war legislation they think could unite the GOP: call for an end to U.S. combat in Iraq, but wait until President Bush is out of office. The legislation was deemed essentially a nonstarter by Democrats Friday and […]
This from one of the strongest supporters of the war: Sen. John Warner, the former GOP chairman and influential member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is set to introduce a second resolution Monday that expresses criticism of President Bush’s call for a troop increase in Iraq, a move Bush Administration officials have scrambled to […]
Joe Biden, Carl Levin and Chuck Hagel are now working on their non-binding resolution to oppose the troop escalation. President George W. Bush on Wednesday tried to shore up support among fellow Republicans for increasing U.S. troops in Iraq but a bipartisan group of senators drew up a resolution opposing his plan. According to a […]
This is from today’s confirmation hearings for Gates: Robert Gates, U.S. President George W. Bush’s choice to take over the Pentagon, said on Tuesday America was not winning in Iraq and warned the Middle East could explode into violence. Appearing at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gates said Bush wanted him […]
Wow this is getting heated: On the eve of a potentially contentious Senate hearing about the Iraq war, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to testify before Congress, saying it’s been too long without such an appearance. Clinton, D-N.Y., is a member of the Armed Services Committee, and while she has criticized […]
Here we go: This Week with George Stephanopoulos John McCain, Diane Feinstein, Joe Klein, Cokie Roberts and Fred Thompson Meet the Press Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Bill Bennett, John Harwood, Dana Priest and William Safire Face the Nation Bill Keller of the NYT, Sen. Arlen Specter and Sen. Carl Levin CNN’s Late Edition […]
Here are some choice quotes from this New York Times article today about the Hayden hearings and the NSA program: “It would be very difficult to have a confirmation hearing for General Hayden when half the committee knows what he’s been doing and the other half hasn’t,” said Senator Christopher S. Bond, Republican of Missouri. […]
The administrations defense for “rendition” has taken another strong hit. This morning’s New York Times gives us proof of that: WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 – The Bush administration based a crucial prewar assertion about ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda on detailed statements made by a prisoner while in Egyptian custody who later said he had […]