The number 1 issue Congresspeople heard from voters over Memorial Day was corruption. So let's get those GOP corruption diaries going if we want to win the House and Senate this Fall.
This is a BIGGIE. Although it is well known that $9 billion in Iraq reconstruction money was never accounted for, it was thought an Inspector General named by the Congress for oversight would produce some kind of audit on the $9 billion, not to mention the $12 billion in cash supposedly sent to Iraq straight from the Federal Reserve.
Bush, however, whipped up a "signing statement", one of those 750 Presidential findings that was revealed in April by the Boston Globe, which neutered the audit by declaring anything to do with the Pentagon a classified security issue!
The GOP Congress enabled Bush all the way on this outrageous signing, essentially covering up the likely theft of the urgently needed Reconstruction Fund.
Now no one is "Following the Money"...
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