Jane Hamsher blogging today asks: Will Salazar Let BP Wait 20 Years To Compensate Gulf Fishermen? What she is referring to is the 20 years it took for compensation to come out from the Exxon-Valdez spill. The problem is this wasn’t because of the executive branch or any administration. Jane even states the reason for […]
Image via Wikipedia Last month the White House, under the direct instructions of President Obama, scrapped the old, expensive system the White House’s website ran on and moved towards the freely available open source platform Drupal, which also powers this site. In a Drupal meet up in D.C. last night, the White House tech team […]
It looks like the Texas House is not all too happy with Rick Perry and his talking of leaving the union, so they gave Perry his own secession – the removal of his office from the state budget: House members virtually wiped out Gov. Rick Perry’s office budget Friday in order to help veterans and […]
This is legislation we really need passed, and Waxman is considering it: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who has primary jurisdiction over the executive branch, is considering legislation to eliminate Karl Rove-type advisers in future administrations. The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hints broadly that such a bill could ban the use […]
Finally there is something I can agree on with the Supreme Court. They have refused to review the Justice Department’s appeal on the raid of Rep. William Jefferson’s office. That leaves a lower court’s ruling that the raid was unconstitutional intact. Don’t get me wrong on this – I firmly believe Jefferson is corrupt and […]
Bush gave one of his little speeches today about FISA. Usually I just ignore these things, as they are so painful to watch. Today though, some things really stuck out at me. Any companies that assisted us after 9/11 were assured their cooperation was legal and necessary You assured them it was legal? Anyone with […]
This White House isn’t even human: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) revealed on Friday afternoon that the White House and Pentagon were holding up a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation into the friendly fire death of former professional football player and Army Corporal Patrick Tillman. “[T]he Committee wrote to White House Counsel Fred Fielding […]
This will be so much fun: The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney’s office Wednesday for documents relating to President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program. Also named in subpoenas signed by committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., were the Justice Department and the National Security Council. The four parties have until […]
I had a feeling the news of Cheney’s saying he is not part of the executive branch would start a fire storm. I just had no idea it would be this big. Rahm Emanuel is showing a pair and ready to really go after Cheney in a way that sounds perfectly legal: Following Vice President […]
Then the Democrats need to start the subpoenas and date him to try and claim “executive privilege”. Sorry – that applies to the “executive” branch – a branch Cheney is not part of under his own “rules”. Let’s see how the administration argues it’s way out of that one.