This is a very interesting development that I am sure Bush is working on blocking: The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to end the Bush administration’s ability to unilaterally fill U.S. attorney vacancies as a backlash to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ firing of eight federal prosecutors. Gonzales got a morale boost with a phone call from […]
You think the White House would have learned something last November, but obviously that is wrong: The president with the fewest vetoes in more than a century, George W. Bush is poised to make up for lost time as congressional Democrats move legislation the White House says is unacceptable. In the past week alone the […]
Funny how Bush always says that the historian’s will judge him in the future and they will judge him as being a great leader and visionary. What makes it so funny is the fact that during his first year in office (two months after 9/11) he issued an executive order protecting Presidential records: Overturning the […]
It appears that way: Banana company Chiquita Brands International said Wednesday it has agreed to a $25 million fine after admitting it paid a Colombian terrorist group for protection in a volatile farming region. The settlement resolves a lengthy Justice Department investigation into the company’s financial dealings with terrorist organizations in Colombia. In court documents […]
Yesterday Bush said he was seeing “remarkable progress” in Iraq because of his surge. Yeah – remarkable progress on the day 9 U.S. soldiers were killed along, with over 140 Iraqi’s. So if things are going so well then why are we increasing the surge by 33%? The number of U.S. troops needed to carry out President […]
I am sure everyone has heard the news that the Taliban bombed a U.S. base in Afghanistan, where Dick Cheney was staying. The Taliban then released a statement that they were targeting Cheney. With all this news, there is a key question that isn’t gaining that much attention. Take this line: “This shows how much […]
All the arguments last year over the warrentless wiretapping, and all the spin by wingnuts to say it is legal has now come to an end: President George W. Bush has decided not to reauthorize the controversial domestic warrantless surveillance program for terrorism suspects and to put it under the authority of a secret special […]
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 […]
It sure as hell looks like it: U.S. forces in Iraq raided Iran’s consulate in the northern city of Arbil and detained five staff members, a state-run Iranian news service said. The U.S. soldiers disarmed guards and broke open the consulate’s gate before seizing documents and computers during the operation, which took place today at […]
I guess it is if you are a Democrat, but Republicans seem to be ok with it (from Raw Story): An economist who once served as President Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of the Treasury compares President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler in a column at the libertarian website Anti-war.com. “Bush is like Hitler,” Paul Craig […]