We hear Bush saying how he will get rid of earmarks all the time. Well that doesn’t look like the case so much: But Bush hesitates to exercise his authority. Surely he doesn’t fear challenging a Congress that trails him in public approval surveys. House Republican Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., has reportedly warned administration officials […]
Well it turns out that happened because the Bush White House decided to scrap a working archive system President Clinton put in to install their own: For years, the Bush administration has relied on an inadequate archiving system for storing the millions of e-mails sent through White House servers, despite court orders and statutes requiring […]
A lot of people are praising Obama for how he handled the pressure last night from Clinton. I was thinking the same thing at first, but then I got thinking long term. Would Obama’s unity message cut it against a Republican contender? I doubt it. I had bits and pieces gong through my head as […]
Ralph Nader is going to decide soon if he wants to hand the White House to the Republicans again. Can’t he just stay home? How about going back to being a consumer advocate – something we really need?
That seems to be what is being said by Bush’s latest budget cuts: The Bush administration will cut counterterrorism money for police, firefighters and rescue departments next year, but not by as much as it originally proposed. Next month the White House will request $2.2 billion to help states and cities protect against terrorist attacks […]
I almost forgot about Freedom Watch. It shows how effective they have been. When a group of former White House aides formed a political advocacy group called Freedom’s Watch last summer, its initial wave of ads featured battered Iraq war veterans pleading for support for President Bush’s “surge” of troops. Last month, the theme changed […]
Bush is calling for $145 billion economic stimulus package. President Bush on Friday called for about $145 billion worth of tax relief and other incentives to stimulate a sagging economy and fend off a possible recession. He said a growth package must include tax incentives for business investment and “direct and rapid†tax relief for […]
Factual statement by Henry Waxman, but also one that comes as no surprise: e chairman of a House committee said a White House spokesman’s statements Thursday in the controversy over missing e-mail conflict with what congressional staffers were told four months ago. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., scheduled a hearing and challenged the White House to […]
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 […]