And Bush loves it: Lawmakers say they will push ahead with a presidential commission designed to root out waste and fraud in military contracts despite President Bush’s concerns that it could usurp his authority. Bush signed into law on Monday a wide-ranging defense bill that includes instructions to create a commission to investigate defense contracts […]
That is from article 2, section 2 of the United States Constitution. Here is the full text: He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of […]
That’s the day Dennis Kucinich is planning on introducing articles of impeachment against Bush. He is also going after Pelosi: He also fired a volley at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California who has maintained that impeaching Mr. Bush is not on the table for Congressional Democrats. “If impeachment is off the table,” Mr. Kucinich […]
It is far beyond time for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to go. They are a joke as leaders. Here is their latest caving to the administration: Senior Democrats have decided that holding a controversial vote on the contempt citations, which have already been approved by the House Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation […]
The Huffington Post’s front page this morning couldn’t sum it up better: The top article from today’s WaPo has a little gentler headline: Key Setbacks Dim Luster of Democrats’ Year Having been a close follower of politics for over 25 years, I keep thinking back to 1995. Bill Clinton was in the White House and […]
That is exactly what war monger in chief Bush said today. Let’s look at that logic from our President, and applying it to other countries. Germany – They could let Nazis take back over the country Russia – They could restart the cold war UK – They could try to put us back under their […]
When our Congress lets someone act like a king long enough, then they start thinking they are one: The Bush administration is losing patience with Gordon Brown over Iran, with senior American diplomats frustrated by his reluctance to declare bluntly that the Islamic state must never be allowed nuclear weapons. Hey Bush – perhaps they […]
Worse President Ever! Meanwhile, Bush reached an unwelcome record. By 64%-31%, Americans disapprove of the job he is doing. For the first time in the history of the Gallup Poll, 50% say they “strongly disapprove” of the president. Richard Nixon had reached the previous high, 48%, just before an impeachment inquiry was launched in 1974. […]
Perhaps we should ask Rush: In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top American commander called the Bush administration’s handling of the war incompetent and warned that the United States was “living a nightmare with no end in sight.†In one of his first major public speeches since leaving the […]
Today’s New York Times has an article explaining how torture became a method of interrogation for this administration: When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent†in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations. But soon after Alberto […]