I had an interesting thought. The Republicans are constantly saying they want tort reform tied to healthcare. They have constantly argued that one of the reasons our healthcare costs are so high is because of malpractice suits against doctors. So, why not make the doctors federal employees, thus giving them the shield of protection? And […]
Just a couple of months ago the LGBT community was in an uproar over the Obama administration’s defense of DOMA. Now that is changing: The Obama administration distanced itself Monday from legal arguments it had made earlier this summer, taking pains to remove and renounce language that had outraged advocates in the gay community in […]
Not really, but if this happened to John McCain the right would be screaming for just that: Barack Obama’s aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has […]
Using government services for political purposes? This is the sort of fascism that George Bush has created in America.
So this White House sez: The head of the federal agency investigating Karl Rove’s White House political operation is facing allegations that he improperly deleted computer files during another probe, using a private computer-help company, Geeks on Call. Scott Bloch runs the Office of Special Counsel, an agency charged with protecting government whistleblowers and enforcing […]
The AP has the dirty: The White House acknowledged Thursday it has conducted about 20 briefings recently for federal agency employees on the election prospects of Republican candidates _ the sort of meetings that sparked an investigation into whether Bush aides engaged in illegal political activity. An independent investigative unit, the U.S. Office of Special […]
A little, unknown federal agency called the “Office of Special Counsel” is preparing to investigate Rove. The LA Times gives us this description of the OSC: Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in […]