For a President and Secretary of Defense who always talk so highly of their working relationship with the military, I wonder how they will respond to this: The Army’s top officer withheld a required 2008 budget plan from Pentagon leaders last month after protesting to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that the service could not […]
This is the true culture of corruption: Rep. Bob Ney agreed Friday to plead guilty to federal criminal charges he made false statements and conspired to commit fraud and violate federal lobbying laws in the congressional corruption probe spawned by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Ney, R-Ohio, who for months had defiantly denied any wrongdoing, said […]
Ken Mehlman has laid out his party’s strategy for 2006 and guess what? It is the same as 2004 and 2002: The head of the Republican Party accused Democrats of being willing to surrender the tools necessary to combat terrorism as the GOP tries to capitalize on its national security advantage in a tough election […]
You know things are really bad in Iraq when Rumsfeld goes there and can’t even find anything good to say about the situation: “We’re at a point now when the security situation depends as much on the reconciliation process and on the strengthening of (government) ministries,” Rumsfeld told reporters. “Success in those areas will determine […]
Here is a real sign of the pending doom for the Republicans this mid-term election: The chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee accused U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte’s office on Thursday of downplaying the significance of chemical weapons finds in Iraq. Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican, said in a letter to Negroponte […]
So how do the Democrats respond when it is one of their own in a criminal investigation? Simple: Add political banishment to the list of problems confronting Rep. William Jefferson (news, bio, voting record), ensnared in a bribery scandal that fellow Democrats hope to turn to their election-year advantage. “Democrats are determined to hold a […]
This is a nice defeat for the GOP: Senators voted Thursday to reject a Republican effort to shrink taxes on inherited estates during this election year. GOP leaders had pushed senators to end the tax once and for all. It disappears in 2010, under President Bush’s first tax cut, but rears up again a year […]
The Republicans have once again said “fuck middle America” and spent their time giving tax breaks to the rich: The Senate gave final approval Thursday to a $70 billion election-year package of tax cuts that will extend lower rates for investors and also save billions for families with above-average incomes. The Senate passed the measure […]
Well Bush and his cronyism has totally destroyed a federal agency and that is messed up: The nation’s disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of multiple government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded. Crippled by years of poor leadership and inadequate funding, the […]
It looks like there is dissent amongst the GOP ranks Raw Story is reporting: At least four Republican members of Congress are calling on the House Republican leadership to hold a floor debate on the Iraq war, and are holding a press conference today, RAW STORY has learned. The GOP members will announce that they […]