A Justice Department internal report concludes that “Senior aides to former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales broke Civil Service laws by using politics to guide their hiring decisions, picking less-qualified applicants for important nonpolitical positions, slowing the hiring process at critical times….” according to an article in today’s New York Times.
The primary bad guy appears to [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Yet more illegal behavior in the Bush White House!
Posted in Bush Law-breaking, Politics on July 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Bush is NOT Batman!
Posted in Bush Law-breaking, Media, Politics, tagged Batman on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some Wall Street Journal writer is trying to draw parallels between Batman and George W. Bush! Ha!
The fact that they are both fictional characters might be the only thing they actually do have in common. That and the fact that they both come from privileged backgrounds. Here are seven ways that George W. is NO Batman [...]
Bush administration malfeasance
Posted in Democratic Capitulation, Politics, Vermont on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year after Vermonters pushed hard for congressman Peter Welch to call for the impeachment of George Bush, Welch and the rest of Vermont’s congressional delegation asked us to be patient. The three issued this joint statement:
Currently, for the first time since President Bush has been in office, there are a number of investigations taking [...]
The AP’s hypocrisy
Posted in Media, Politics on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just read an excellent story over on Media Matters by Eric Boehlert. In it, Boehlert demonstrates beyond doubt that the Associated Press’s Ron Fournier calls a biased game. Fournier, the AP’s Washington, DC bureau chief, was caught red-handed “slapping the back” of his good friend Karl Rove. From Media Matters:
A July 14 proposed House Oversight [...]
Steny Hoyer’s “highest responsibility”
Posted in Bush Law-breaking, Democratic Capitulation, Politics on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I received an e-mail today from House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer in response to my concerns about the recent FISA legislation. I’ll print it in full at the end of this post* so you can read for yourself that it is a hollow crock of self-justifying nonsense. The fallacies and failings of this response are [...]
More evasion from Bush
Posted in Bush Law-breaking, Politics on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This AP story.
Bush White House evades responsibility yet again!
Posted in Military Maleficence, Politics on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Republicans and George Bush like to talk about personal responsibility, especially when it involves illegal imigrants and people who rely on welfare, but Bush and his administration have been exceptionally adept at evading responsibility for anything. We have another perfect example in this report from Congress about the incidents surrounding the death of Pat Tillman [...]
Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill
Posted in Democratic Capitulation, Politics, tagged Civil Liberties, FISA on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The title of this blog entry is the headline in this AP story. I have no doubt that one of the reasons the Democrats in the Senate (and earlier in the House) decided to support this awful measure is that they wanted to look strong on terrorism, especially in an election year.
This AP story has [...]
One more casualty of the Iraq fiasco
Posted in Bush Law-breaking, Democratic Capitulation, Politics on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Once more the consequences of Bush’s folly in Iraq are made evident with the continued deterioration of conditions in Afghanistan:
The respected military analyst Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies today released a briefing on Afghanistan that includes some charts, like the one above, that really give one pause. They show an [...]
Second-thought Safety
Posted in Environment, Politics on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
George W. Bush and the two presumptive nominees for president all want us to be willing to give up our civil liberties so that they can make us safe from terrorists. The threat of terrorism is real, but it is hardly the most significant threat to our safety. Here are a few ways we can [...]
