If you missed Morning Joe, Mort Zuckerman was on and had a very grim outlook for our financial future. The Freddie and Fannie bailout, while necessary, will cost tax payers millions. Detroit is worse off. He is predicting GM and some other manufacturers like Chrysler to merge, and maybe a foreign automaker to buy out […]
Time to reopen that investigation now that Scott McClellan has admitted Bush authorized the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity. I know what the right wing spin will be; “Well he’s the President, he can declassify what he wants, when he wants”, but them why the big investigation? Why not come out and say “I did […]
Good to see one Republican demanind accountability: The Government Accountability Office should “initiate a full and thorough investigation” of allegations that the firefighting systems at the new U.S. Embassy complex under construction in Baghdad have potential safety problems, a senior lawmaker said yesterday. Rep. Frank R. Wolf (Va.), ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee panel […]
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 […]
Just now breaking – the man behind coin-gate here in Ohio, and former Bush fundraiser, has been sentenced to at least 18 years in prison for cheating Ohio tax-payers out of millions. Of course Bush will most likely pardon him before he leaves office. The crime family must stick together!
The hero. The idol. The man they set up on a pedestal for the entire conservative movement is now implicated in the Jack Abramoff scandal: Five conservative nonprofit organizations, including one run by prominent Republican Grover Norquist, “perpetrated a fraud” on taxpayers by selling their clout to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Senate investigators said in a […]
Another big breach in one of our government computers: For the second time in two weeks, Social Security numbers and other personal information of Navy personnel have been discovered on an Internet site, triggering an investigation. The Navy said Friday that information on more than 100,000 naval and Marine Corps aviators and aircrew was on […]
Well the Plame case has taken a very interesting turn: A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded “National Intelligence Estimate” on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of […]
Whenever you see Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman giving an interview, you can be certain of one thing. At some point he will work in a statement that the Democrats have no vision. This is no shock from a product of the smearster himself – Karl Rove. Today in a Senate committee hearing, Senator […]
On Monday, Al Franken talked to David Phillips, an ex state department employee who knows a thing or two about Iraq. In 1998 when the United States first decided that Saddam was going to have to be removed from power eventually, the government started preparing for how to deal with post-war Iraq. The State Department […]