From the proposed bailout: Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency. Do we really trust the administration that brought us Katrina and Iraq to handle this problem with the actual […]
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 […]
I can’t think of a better way to describe this: Amid indications that more people may have died or been harmed after being given a brand of the blood thinner heparin, federal drug regulators said Thursday that they had found “potential deficiencies” at a Chinese plant that supplied much of the active ingredient for the […]
According to director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, it is so the telecom companies can survive: “It’s true that some of the authorities would carry over to the period they were established for one year. That would put us into the August, September time frame. However, that’s not the real issue. The issue is liability […]
Tonight was excellence in broadcast journalism. Instead of playing the waiting game until the heat got to high, like Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann took the bull by the horns and made an on air apology tonight. The apology wasn’t for something Keith did, but rather for something Lawrence O’Donnell did. Last night on Countdown O’Donnell […]
Of course the White House thinks their study is not credible: The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal White […]
The party of life – unless it involves corporations. Then the true meaning of the GOP comes out; the party of greed: Seven House Republicans have urged Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) to postpone a hearing about Blackwater USA until the State Department and a separate commission report on the most […]
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 […]
That is what he told reporters yesterday. I guess the response would be “strong” when you consider Bush’s response on 9/11/01 after hearing the phrase “the country is under attack” So how much should we be applauding the U.K. government on this? First off – the Brown government had only been in power for 18 […]
House panel plans hearings on misinformation surrounding Tillman, Lynch cases A U.S. House committee announced Tuesday it would hold hearings on misleading military statements that followed the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch in Iraq. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said an April […]