The businesses of America have long been fans of a republican government. Startling tax breaks, deregulation, and lack of oversight are the basis for many a republican administration.
All of that typically leads America into either the poor house or the shit house. This most recent administration has managed to do both. As a [...]
In a not very surprising reaction to yesterday’s Supreme Court’s Boumediene decision, John McCain has stated uncategorically that this decision is "..one of the worst.." decisions ever. Why would he say something this inflammatory? Oh, right, because he’s a nasty Republican Bush clone.
He’d like nothing more than to deny these so-called terrorists the [...]
During a speech in Munster, Indiana on Friday, Obama responded to the criticism aimed at him for not following along with the other Republican candidates in calling for a suspension of the national gas tax.
Both the Clinton’s and McCain propose to eliminate the 18.4 cents-a-gallon federal gas tax as a short term [...]
In spite of veto threats from the lame duck idiot in the White House, the house of Representatives passed the FISA Amendments Act with a 213 to 197 vote last Friday. Choosing legality over cronyism, the House has send a strong massage to the Bush/Cheney administration that enough is enough.
We may just be able to [...]
From Boston.com, more reasons to dislike the current administration and call for impeachment.
Bush won’t yield on Justice choice
January 24, 2008
President Bush renominated Steven G. Bradbury as assistant attorney general yesterday, refusing to yield to Democrats who oppose a permanent job for the official who signed legal memos authorizing harsh interrogations for suspected terrorists. Bradbury [...]
Attempting to block the adoption of the new FISA wiretap bill which would grant immunity to the telephone companies that illegally tapped American citizens phones, Senator Chris Dodd needs your help.
It’s important that your lawmakers know how you feel about the the president, the vice president and the NSA casually defecating on your rights and [...]
A brilliant Op/Ed piece from my local Seattle Times:
Democracies don’t torture
By Robert Crawford Special to The Times
Torture has re-entered the public domain. From Attorney General Robert Mukasey’s equivocation about waterboarding at his confirmation hearings to the current controversy over the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes, [...]
I signed up for e-mail updates from Congressman Robert Wexler recently. Today I received the following e-mail which discusses additional lies coming out of the White House and being force fed to our Congressmen and mass media. I’ve posted it below. It’s worth a read if you are one of the three Americans who still [...]
I was reminded of this 2000 election campaign promise in a very articulate article by Tom over at OpenEducation.Net. This compelling piece explains how compounding of all of the lies and other unethical behavior on the part of not only our Commander-in-Chief but all of his political cronies and appointees, has put our teachers the [...]
Let’s see, what kind of workload is Mickey carrying right now?
The construction and implementation of Torture-Gate, a cover-up at the highest level of our government of the CIA torture of suspected terrorists. Read about it Here & Here
The continued obfuscation of the person or persons who exposed Valerie Plame Wilson as an operative of [...]
During the first two weeks in October out nations lawmakers tried to slip a bill through that would grant immunity from prosecution to the phone companies that collaborated with the NSA in the recent domestic spying. I posted on it HERE and HERE.
The response from the ordinary citizen was so strong that the bill was [...]
In direct violation of the Presidential Records Act, our President and his staff seem to have misplaced ten million e-mails. The Presidential Records Act is a post-Watergate law which requires the preservation of all presidential documents for the public record.
But apparently Bush and his posse have decided that their words and actions during [...]
Our 81st Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, will likely go down in history as the man who couldn’t recognize that waterboarding is torture. Mukasey is in Saint Louis today expecting to speak at the 2007 Project Safe Childhood National Conference, but what will he bring to the table?
If the man can’t recognize that waterboarding [...]
