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There's sweet irony in the GOP collapsing after it followed the wishes of
the Wall Street Editorial Board. In this case, we had blind idiots leading the
blind. Thank god all Americans aren't as dumb or pig-headed as the Wall Street
Journal.
May 15, 2008
If there is such a thing as a useful election defeat, then Tuesday's
Republican loss in a special House election in Mississippi would qualify. Maybe
this thumping in a heretofore safe GOP seat will finally scare the Members
straight, or at least less crooked.
Democrats won with 54% of the vote in a district that a Republican won with
66% in 2006 and that President Bush carried in 2004 by 25 points. It was the
GOP's third special election loss this year, and it has Democrats predicting
that November will be another rout of 2006 proportions. Oklahoma's Tom Cole,
who runs the National Republican Congressional Committee, captured the GOP
reaction when he declared that "There is no district that is safe for
Republican candidates."
The death of the GOP can be directly attributed to conservatives (especially
conservative Christians). Bush gave them everything they wanted and it didn't
work.
May 14, 2008
Rep. Tom Davis wrote a 20-page treatise (see earlier note) assessing the
state of the Republican Party as we head into the summer and presented it to
House GOP rank and file this morning. Davis, who is retiring, is rumored to be
interested in finishing his term as the head of the GOP House campaign arm.
We are hearing a lot today from Republicans and their concern about their
"brand," and Davis takes it to another level in his memo; "a congressional GOP
brand tied to George Bush is struggling"; "...deep seeded antipathy toward the
president, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures and, in some areas,
the underlying cultural differences that continue to brand our party."
And the kicker, "the Republican brand is in the trash can...if we were dog
food, they would take us off the shelf."
California's budget deficit has risen from around $13 billion to $15.2
billion under Schwarzenegger. The media talking heads who pushed his candidacy
will never point out he failed miserably. How could he succeed? He cut
taxes.
May 14, 2008
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday
proposed borrowing on future lottery sales to eliminate a massive deficit in
the state's spending plan and avoid unpopular cuts to the school system, state
parks and prisons.
The $144.3 billion budget plan for the fiscal year that begins in July is a
byproduct of a slowing state economy. Tax revenue has been falling far short of
what California needs to keep pace with spending, leading to a $15.2 billion
shortfall.
"Our crisis is real, and it is very serious," Schwarzenegger said during a
news conference at the Capitol.
The centerpiece of Schwarzenegger's budget relies on a plan to make the
state lottery more lucrative and thus more attractive to potential
investors.
Just so you understand how stupid it is to cut taxes. This stimulus package
will create massive new debt that we'll pass to the next generation. It's not a
tax cut, but instead a tax increase. Deficits are unpaid taxes PLUS
interest.
May 13, 2008
"There'll be a big rise in the deficit over the next couple of months," said
David Sloan, a senior economist at 4Cast Inc. in New York. "At least half of
the fiscal deterioration is going to come from the stimulus package." Sloan
said this year's gap will swell to more than $400 billion from $163 billion in
fiscal 2007.
Yet another hole in the once shining armor of conservative tax cuts. If tax
cuts worked, wouldn't we have $9 trillion of surpluses instead of $9 trillion
of debt?
May 13 2008
WASHINGTON -- With turmoil rocking financial markets and housing woes
slowing the economy, corporate tax revenues are falling and leaving big holes
in the federal budget.
The Treasury Department reported Monday that corporate income-tax revenue
over the first seven months of the fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, was $171.1
billion, 14.7% lower than during the same period a year earlier. Meantime,
government outlays rose 7.3%, to $1.7 trillion, and the federal deficit
ballooned to $152 billion, 88% higher than the same period last fiscal
year.
"The budget picture is growing darker and is set to get much darker in the
next few months, as the impact of the tax rebates hit the government's bottom
line," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com, a research
firm. The Internal Revenue Service last month began delivering payments to
taxpayers in a bid to stimulate the economy, but the lion's share of those
payments will be made in May, June and July.
Reagan left office with a falling dollar and so will Bush. They also have
one other thing in common - an explosion of debt under their watch. While some
will try to defend their legacies we should recall Reagan and Bush couldn't
have done anything if they supported conservative principles such as balancing
the budget.
May 6, 2008
Zhou's 85 percent stake in the company now known as GSP North America is one
example of how the weak dollar and weakening U.S. economy have made the United
States a bargain for overseas companies shopping for investments.
In 2007, acquisitions in the United States by foreign ventures hit $407
billion, up 93 percent from the previous year, according to Thomson Financial.
The top countries investing were Canada, Britain and Germany; the Middle East
and Asia -- especially China -- are quickly catching up.
After nearly eight years of lying to us about the "20th" hijacker, the
government finally admits it has no case and in fact, our most senior
government officials were all lying.
May 13, 2008
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at
Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called "20th hijacker" in the
Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday.
Mohammed al-Qahtani was one of six men charged by the military in February
with murder and war crimes for their alleged roles in the 2001 attacks.
Authorities say al-Qahtani missed out on taking part in the attacks because he
was denied entry to the U.S. by an immigration agent.
Conservative dogma holds a simple truth that has now been disproven. They
believe(d) that no matter how much debt they created Americans would give them
credit for a booming economy as long as they could say their tax cuts made it
happen. After accumulating more debt than any president in history the economy
still isn't budging.
May 12, 2008
Public disgruntlement neared a record high and President Bush slipped to his
career low in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll.
Eighty-two percent of Americans now say the country's seriously off on the
wrong track, up 10 points in the last year to a point from its record high in
polls since 1973. And 31 percent approve of Bush's job performance overall,
while 66 percent disapprove.
The country's mood -- and the president's ratings -- are suffering from the
double whammy of an unpopular war and a faltering economy. Consistently for the
last year, nearly two-thirds of Americans have said the war in Iraq was not
worth fighting. And consumer confidence is near its lowest in weekly ABC News
polls since late 1985.
Informed people know the surge failed and instead it was the ceasefire that
ended the slaughter in Iraq. McCain and Bush lied - the US media were
accompalices in that lie.
May 11, 2008
In announcing the deal, al-Sadr aide Sheik Salah al-Obeidi said the
agreement, "stipulates that the Mahdi Army will stop fighting in Sadr City and
will stop displaying arms in public. In return, the government will stop random
raids against al-Sadr followers and open all closed roads that lead to Sadr
City."
Al-Obeidi, who issued a statement from the southern Iraqi city of Najaf,
added: "This document does not call for disbanding al-Mahdi Army or laying down
their arms."
It's amazing how fast things have changed. Just a few months ago the US
military was caught lying about killing an al-Qaeda leader twice.
May 9, 2008
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military on Friday denied Iraqi government claims that
the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was captured and said a man with a similar name
had been arrested in the northern city of Mosul.
Iraqi authorities had announced Thursday that police commandos captured Abu
Ayyub al-Masri in a raid in the northern city of Mosul.
"Neither coalition forces nor Iraqi security forces detained or killed Abu
Ayyub al-Masri. This guy had a similar name," said Maj. Peggy Kageleiry, a U.S.
military spokeswoman in northern Iraq. She said no additional details were
being immediately provided.
The GOP has become the party that defends failure. If they spent as much
time doing the nations business as they spend explaining away their failures,
they'd actually be a competitive party. But as it is, the GOP is about as
worthless as a bowl of spit.
May 10, 2008
Guards for the security company were involved in a shooting in September
that left at least 17 Iraqis dead at a Baghdad intersection. Outrage over the
killings prompted the Iraqi government to demand Blackwater's ouster from the
country, and led to a criminal investigation by the F.B.I., a series of
internal investigations by the State Department and the Pentagon, and
high-profile Congressional hearings.
But after an intense public and private lobbying campaign, Blackwater
appears to be back to business as usual.
The State Department has just renewed its contract to provide security for
American diplomats in Iraq for at least another year. Threats by the Iraqi
government to strip Western contractors of their immunity from Iraqi law have
gone nowhere. No charges have been brought in the United States against any
Blackwater guard in the September shooting, either, and the F.B.I. agents in
Baghdad charged with investigating whether Blackwater guards have committed any
crimes under United States law are sometimes protected as they travel through
Baghdad by Blackwater guards.
Bush perfected the "Reagan" model. He spent like there's no tomorrow, cut
taxes, lied to the American people about threats to our national security and
bankrupted us with massive debt. It seems Americans have grown beyond the
GOP.
May 9, 2008
May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican
nominee, is struggling to attract money from some of the same industries that
helped bankroll President George W. Bush's record-setting fundraising.
Employees from the securities, construction, pharmaceutical and energy
industries, who accounted for about a tenth of Bush's money in 2004, are turned
off by his record and giving more to his Democratic rivals, Senators Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama.
Can you imagine any businessman who'd support any republican after what
they've done to the deficits, debt and the economy? Forbes Magazine tells us
the three best post WW2 economic presidents were Clinton, LBJ and Kennedy. Why
can't big business figure out the GOP is bad for business?
May 9, 2008
May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican
nominee, is struggling to attract money from some of the same industries that
helped bankroll President George W. Bush's record-setting fundraising.
Employees from the securities, construction, pharmaceutical and energy
industries, who accounted for about a tenth of Bush's money in 2004, are turned
off by his record and giving more to his Democratic rivals, Senators Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama.
The GOP gave conservatives everything they wanted; deficit causing tax cuts,
war for no reason and a country that doesn't respect the rule of law so now the
reap what they've sown over the past 30 years. RIP.
May 10, 2008
John McCain is planning to run as a different kind of Republican. But being
any kind of Republican seems like some sort of death sentence these days.
In case you've been too consumed by the Democratic race to notice,
Republicans are getting crushed in historic ways both at the polls and in the
polls.
At the polls, it has been a massacre. In recent weeks, Republicans have lost
a Louisiana House seat they had held for more than two decades and an Illinois
House seat they had held for more than three. Internal polls show that next
week they could lose a Mississippi House seat that they have held for 13
years.
It's become clear that the only reason republicans run for political office
is so they can reward their friends and harm their enemies. A free market
system that creates things that don't work? That's conservatism.
May 10, 2008
TUCSON, Ariz. - A second section of the government's heavily criticized
"virtual fence" is planned on the Arizona-Mexico border, and a third could be
tested near Detroit by the end of the year, a Boeing Co. official said.
A prototype consisting of nine movable towers across a 28-mile area
southwest of Tucson is to be torn down and replaced this summer because it
failed to perform as expected.
While the media spends months talking about when Clinton will drop out and
the "Wright" effect, Americans are looking for adults who live in the real
world.
May 19, 2008
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Americans' personal debt took a huge leap in
March, according to a report from the Federal Reserve released Wednesday.
The total debt held by individuals rose $15.3 billion from the prior month,
to $2.6 trillion. Analysts polled by Briefing.com had expected personal debt to
rise by only $6 billion.
The category of debt that includes credit cards, referred to as "revolving
credit," rose by $6.3 billion, while the category that includes fixed-payment
loans, such as student and car loans, jumped $9 billion.
May 8, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama stepped into a swarm of superdelegates this morning when
he visited the House of Representatives in the middle of a vote. Obama stayed
on the floor for almost half an hour visiting with both Democrats and
Republicans who looked completely star struck.
Even Speaker Nancy Pelosi left her weekly press briefing and made a beeline
for the House floor to say hello. And the Capitol Hill press corps surrounded
the House Chamber to catch him on his way out and fire questions about such an
unusual move for a presidential candidate, even if he is a senator.
The GOP had no problem with the Bear Sterns bail out or trillions of dollars
of debt to create the illusion of economic growth. It's time to treat
conservatives like 12-year olds. God knows they're incapable of being
intellectually consistent.
Impeachable Offense
May 9, 2008
WASHINGTON - Democrats' plans to help hundreds of thousands of homeowners
struggling with rising subprime mortgage rates and plummeting house values
could be sidetracked by President Bush's threatened veto and the backing of
many congressional Republicans.
Opponents of the plan say more prudent homebuyers and renters shouldn't be
called upon to bail out borrowers who gambled on ever-rising housing prices and
lost.
When a "special council" needs a "special council to investigate his crimes
you know you have a problem. At some point we have to wonder if there are any
decent people working for Bush.
May 7, 2008
WASHINGTON — The office of the official responsible for protecting
federal workers from political interference was raided by F.B.I. agents on
Tuesday as part of an investigation into whether he himself mixed politics with
official business.
The raid took place at the office of Scott J. Bloch, the head of the Office
of Special Counsel. Computers and documents were seized by agents trying to
determine whether Mr. Bloch obstructed justice by hiring an outside company to
"scrub" his computer files, The Associated Press reported. Investigators also
searched Mr. Bloch's home in suburban Virginia after obtaining a subpoena.
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Impeachable Offense
May 6, 2008
The White House acknowledged in a court filing last night that it no longer
has backup tapes of email from between March 1 and May 22, 2003, a period that
includes the beginning of the Iraq war.
Yesterday's filing (PDF) is the latest development in the ongoing White
House emails lawsuit, in which two non-profits, Citizens for Responsibility and
Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the National Security Archive (NSA), are suing
to force the administration to recover any missing emails and institute a more
effective email archiving system. (For the full story on the missing emails,
check out our missing White House emails index.) The filing comes on the heels
of several seemingly contradictory statements by administration officials about
whether the allegedly missing emails are available on backup tapes. The court
had asked the administration to clear up the confusion by clearly stating which
backup tapes it does and does not have for the period between March 2003 and
October 2005.
May 9, 2008
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- These days, more and more people are saying
"Charge it."
Finding themselves strapped for cash and unable to use their home as an ATM,
Americans are increasingly turning to credit cards to cover gas, groceries and
other living expenses.
But many find themselves struggling to pay the burgeoning bills at a time
when even the basic needs are growing costlier.
"Other sources of money for a lot of Americans are drying up," said Dick
Reed, regional counseling manager of Consumer Credit Counseling Service of
Greater Atlanta, who sees more clients with mounting credit card debts these
days. "Consumers just don't have a place to go to get money. They are digging
themselves into a deeper hole not only to pay for normal living expenses, but
to make minimum payments on outstanding debt."
Long before the MSM picked up on the housing crisis, we were there. Now it's
time to see when, where and how this ends. In the mean time it's also a good
time to pick up some very cheap property and make a fortune. And to think, you
don't need a government hand-out (tax cut, stimulus package etc.) to do it.
May 19, 2008
(Money Magazine) -- The housing implosion is nowhere near over. In 75 of the
100 top U.S. cities, prices are expected to fall in the next 12 months
according to Fiserv Lending Solutions.
The S&P Case/Shiller Home Price Index, which tracks 20 of the largest
housing markets, showed prices plummeting by 12.7% in the 12 months ending
February. That's the biggest fall since the index began tracking prices in
2000.
May 8, 2008
Miami, Fla.
12-month forecast: -24.9%
Median home price: $329,000
One year price change: -9.8%
Five year price change: 94.8%
Prices forecast to hit bottom:
April-June, 2010
Change in foreclosure rate: 370%
Government "of, by and for the people." What an interesting concept.
May 8, 2008
Riggs and Schwartz are foot soldiers in Barack Obama's 1.5-million-strong
army of campaign contributors. Dozens of Associated Press interviews with
donors, and an AP financial analysis show how contributions that make only a
soft ka-ching by themselves, arriving in increments of $10, $15 and $50, have
collectively swelled into a financial roar that has helped propel Obama toward
the Democratic presidential nomination.
Altogether, Obama's campaign has taken in an unprecedented $226 million,
most of it contributed online. His donor base is larger than the one the
Democratic National Committee had for the 2000 election.
May 9, 2008
Oil prices surged past $125 per barrel Friday on the eve of the U.S. driving
season as a weakening U.S. dollar drove investors to snap up commodities.
Light, sweet crude for June delivery rose as high as $125.12 a barrel in
electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange at midday before falling
back to $124.86 by early afternoon in Europe.
May 6, 2008
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is about to lead her party into a
major showdown over Iraq funding by violating two Democratic campaign pledges
in one fell swoop.
To the critics, whether anti-war activists or House Republicans, Pelosi has
made her feelings clear: Get over it.
This week's maneuvering over a $200 billion war spending bill has revealed
Pelosi self-confidently playing what she believes — with increasing
evidence — is a strong hand.
The military has a long history of interfering in our law-making process,
including previously denouncing any attempt to allows gays and lesbian to serve
openly in the military. To suggest they've always obeyed civilian authority is
revision.
May 3, 2008
With a national election looming, a cadet asked about the "don't ask, don't
tell" law and what would happen if someone took office who wants to change it.
"It's a law, and we follow it," Mullen said. Should the law change, the
military will carry that out too, he said.
"We are a military that is under the control of our civilian elected
leaders," he said. "It has served us well since we've been founded. That is a
special characteristic of our country and I would never do anything to
jeopardize that."
Impeachable Offense
May 6, 2008
WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs' top mental health official
said Tuesday he made a poor choice of words when he sent his colleagues an
e-mail about suicide data that started out with "Shh!"
Dr. Ira Katz, the VA's mental health director, told the House Veterans
Affairs Committee that the e-mail was in poor tone — even though the body
contained "appropriate, healthy dialogue" about the data.
May 5, 2008
More than 230 economists -- Democrats, Republicans, advisers to past
presidents and four Nobel laureates -- signed a letter today opposing proposals
by Clinton and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain to
suspend the 18-cent federal gas tax for the summer driving season.
"First, research shows that waiving the gas tax would generate major profits
for oil companies rather than significantly lowering prices for consumers,"
they wrote. "Second, it would encourage people to keep buying costly imported
oil and do nothing to encourage conservation. Third, a tax holiday would
provide very little relief to families feeling squeezed."
This is after Bush, McCain and the Pentagon said the surge was a success.
Liars!
Impeachable Offense
April 30, 2008
BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 1,073 Iraqis were killed across the country in
April, most of them slaughtered in fierce fighting between security forces and
Shiite militants, security officials told AFP Wednesday.
According to data collected by Iraq's interior, health and defence
ministries and made available to AFP, 966 civilians were killed in April,
followed by 69 policemen and 38 soldiers.
Thanks to the incompetence of Bush's Military that we're still in a war with
a country that has no military to speak of and we no where near winning the
war.
Impeachable Offense
May 4, 2008
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Its traditional wooden-balconied Shanasheel houses in ruins,
other buildings crumbling and muddied streets reeking of rubbish, Al-Batawin
neighbourhood in the centre of Baghdad is an abject picture of just how far the
rot has set in to the once-proud Iraqi capital.
Before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Al-Batawin's main thoroughfare
Al-Sadun Street bustled with restaurants, hotels, upmarket stores and -- most
famously -- medical centres.
April 30, 2008
WASHINGTON — Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of
freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs
special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls
the situation "embarrassing," and some members of Congress vow to fix it.
The requirement applies to former South African leader Mandela and other
members of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC), the
once-banned anti-Apartheid organization. In the 1970s and '80s, the ANC was
officially designated a terrorist group by the country's ruling white minority.
Other countries, including the United States, followed suit.
Going all the way back to the 2004 election Bush said the Iraqi Army was
well on its way to being trained and ready to take over. Another lie.
Impeachable Offense
May 4 2008
U.S. commanders in Iraq are for the first time seeking private contractors
to form part of the small military teams that train and live with Iraqi
military units across the country, according to a notice for prospective
bidders published last week.
The solicitation, issued by the Joint Contracting Command in Baghdad, says
the individuals that a contractor recruits -- who would include former members
of the U.S. Special Forces and ex-Iraqi army officers -- will be trained in the
United States with military transition teams (MiTTs) and shipped as a single
team to Iraq. The recruits will live on Iraqi military bases "under Iraqi
living conditions and participate with MiTT special operations and convoy
duties," the solicitation says.
Possible Impeachable Offense
May 4, 2008
ADEN, Yemen -- Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole
with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants
convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni
officials.
Jamal al-Badawi, a Yemeni who helped organize the plot to bomb the Cole as
it refueled in this Yemeni port on Oct. 12, 2000, has broken out of prison
twice. He was recaptured both times, but then secretly released by the
government last fall. Yemeni authorities jailed him again after receiving
complaints from Washington. But U.S. officials have so little faith that he's
still in his cell that they have demanded the right to perform random
inspections.
May 1, 2008
"Dead zones" containing too little oxygen for fish to breathe are growing as
global temperatures increase.
Warmer water dissolves less oxygen, so as temperatures rise, oxygen vanishes
from oceans. Marine biologists are warning that if dead zones continue
expanding, oceanic "deserts" could massively deplete marine life and fish
stocks.
Previous studies have shown that surface layers of the ocean can be depleted
of oxygen by pollution draining out from rivers, as in the Gulf of Mexico.
However the new study finds depletion at intermediate ocean depths, between 300
and 700 metres. There has also been evidence of oxygen depletion closer to the
sea bed in some regions, such as the Arabian Sea, but no one has looked before
in detail at intermediate depths.
Bush's Pentagon told us Iran was funding Iraq's militias. Bush and the
Pentagon lied.
Impeachable Offense
May 4, 2008
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq said on Sunday it has no evidence that Iran was
supplying militias engaged in fierce street fighting with security forces in
Baghdad.
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said there was no "hard evidence" of
involvement by the neighbouring Shiite government of Iran in backing Shiite
militiamen in the embattled country.
If you want to know why the US is so completely screwed up look at this list
of pundits from the UK. The right wing has filled the airwaves with demagog
while the Democrats have few household names in the top 50.
May 5, 2008
1. KARL ROVE
Dubbed the "architect" and "Bush's brain", Rove plotted to rise of George W
Bush and departed the White House after the disastrous 2006 mid-term elections.
Successful punditry is a combination of real political experience, intellectual
nimbleness, a provocative turn of phrase and a coherent point of view. Rove, a
Fox News commentator and contributor to Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal,
has all these qualities.
Democrats may protest that they would rather see him in jail than on their
television screens but they can't help noting what he says. Whether outlining
what the Democrats should do or outlining John McCain's rocky path to victory
(and McCain has followed his advice almost to the letter), Rove's take is
important and often surprising. Expect the name Rove to come up frequently on
the campaign trail – and in coverage of it.
2. CHRIS MATTHEWS
Motor-mouth MSNBC presenter of "Hardball" show, Matthews is a former Jimmy
Carter speechwriter and aide to Tip O'Neill when he was Speaker of the House.
He is believed to be contemplating running as a Democrat for the Senate in his
native Pennsylvania. His ratings are not the highest but Matthews punches above
his weight – and shouts above the hubbub.
With his infectious enthusiasm for politics, Matthews has pushed back hard
against what he sees as the cynicism of Hillary Clinton's campaign. Mocked for
saying that Barack Obama sent a "thrill up my leg" and accused by Clinton aides
of being a misogynist, Matthews has bounced back. Always part of the
conversation, his return to full-time politics would be journalism's loss.
May 1, 2008
Only 27% of voters have positive views of the Republican Party, according to
the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, the lowest level for either party
in the survey's nearly two-decade history.
Yet the party's probable presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, continues
to run nearly even with Democratic rivals Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary
Clinton. His standing so far makes for a more competitive race for the White
House than would be expected for Republicans, who face an electorate that
overwhelmingly believes the country is headed in the wrong direction under
President Bush.
Impeachable Offense
April 23, 2008
WASHINGTON - FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday recalled warning the
Justice Department and the Pentagon that some U.S. interrogation methods used
against terrorists might be inappropriate, if not illegal.
Mueller's comments came under pointed questioning by House Democrats
demanding to know if the FBI tried to stop interrogations in 2002 that critics
define as torture.
Impeachable Offense
April 29, 2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Cheated. Baited and switched. That's how veterans of
Iraq and Afghanistan say they feel about military recruiters who sold them on
how the GI Bill would benefit them.
Soldiers, Marines and airmen, speaking at a Capitol Hill rally Tuesday, said
they are not given enough funds from the bill to cover college expenses as they
were promised.
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