Today, Nancy Pelosi released the following statement regarding U.S. citizens in Lebanon having to pay for evacuations: Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on news reports that American citizens who are trying to leave Lebanon must agree to repay the U.S. government for the cost of their evacuation: […]
The WaPo has an interesting article today regarding the mid-term elections: There’s probably no way congressional Republicans can lose this fall, no matter how unpopular President Bush is or how unhappy the voters are with the war in Iraq. That’s the prevailing view in Washington today. But it’s wrong. If history is any guide, we’re […]
And now you can forget Poland. This shows how Bush’s “staunchest allies” think of him now: ONE of America’s main allies, Poland, believes so many mistakes were made in the war in Iraq that any military intervention in Iran would be highly unlikely and the world would have to learn to deal with Iran having […]
There is a really interesting article in the Kansas City Star today, which talks about some state candidates that have recently dropped the Republican Party and joined the Democrats. In this article, they highlight three candidates who have recently made the change and give the reasons why. What is interesting is the reason two of […]
It is amazing what our military has become since Bush took over as Commander in Chief. A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed “large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists” to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization. […]
It is amazing what our military has become since Bush took over as Commander in Chief. A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed “large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists” to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization. […]
This is the final proof that Joe Lieberman does not care about the Democratic Party: Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is to announce today he will petition for a place on the November ballot as an “independent Democrat,” giving him a chance to stay alive politically should he lose an Aug. 8 primary for the Democratic […]
Here is a real sign of the pending doom for the Republicans this mid-term election: The chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee accused U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte’s office on Thursday of downplaying the significance of chemical weapons finds in Iraq. Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican, said in a letter to Negroponte […]
The Democrats are pwning the Republicans in the debate over Iraq. Nancy Pelosi is providing videos of it via her YouTube page. In this post is the video of Rep. Louis Slaughters speech, of which I am a big fan, tearing into the Republicans. She is hitting them on the corruption of the contracts and […]
This story appeared yesterday in the U.K.’s Independent and is very disturbing: Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or […]