Deepwater is Deep Caca -- and Cheney's son-in-law?!

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Sunday March 25, 2007 · 6:50 PM PDT

2007/03/25 · 18:50

WaPo reported today about the Deepwater Revolving door and pay-to-play politics that jeopardizes the Coast Guard, Homeland security and border control. The story mentioned Phillip J. Perry.

The Perry family of McClean, VA has donated generously to the campaigns of crooks like Bob Ney, Randy Forbes, and Conrad Burns, as well as Tom DeLay's ARMPAC, and Tom Davis. The Perry family donations exceed $50,000.

What did the Perrys get for their money? Perry, formerly a lobbyist for Lockheed Martin, avoids oversight for the contracting out of the Coast Guard; Lockheed Martin is building boats that won't meet functional requirements. Perry got to go through the Deepwater Revolving Door. Perry, a son-in-law of Dick Cheney, was nominated to be General Counsel to the Department of Homeland Security from June 2005 until he left in February 2007.

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Tuesday March 06, 2007 · 9:05 PM PST

2007/03/06 · 21:05

Cross posted on Beltway Progressive and Raising Kaine.

Project on Government Oversight (POGO) today says:

Today House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry Waxman put to rest recent reports that GSA Administrator Lurita Doan may have been acting in good faith when she steered a $20,000 contract to an old friend. According to a release from Waxman’s office, "Ms. Fraser used her professional connections to advance Doan’s nomination to GSA and to provide personal favors, and that Ms. Fraser continued to provide services with the expectation of payment to Ms. Doan after she became GSA Administrator."

"Besides being caught with her hand in the cookie jar, Doan apparently urged her staff at GSA "to find opportunities to help Republican political candidates."

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Thursday March 01, 2007 · 10:27 AM PST

2007/03/01 · 10:27

Cross posted on Beltway Progressive

Now that global warming is confirmed by a near unanimous scientific consensus, and spinach and food safety and imports are at risk of terrorism, Bush found a new secret route to undermine public safety legislation.

A new Executive Order strips agencies of authority to regulate dangers unless it can establish market failure. It also puts a political appointee in each agency to oversee regulatory policies.

Thousands of Americans have died in Iraq-and more allies and civilians and contractors-and the Administration refuses to call it a failure. How many consumers will die before it will declare a "market failure"? Congress must act.

Read the testimony is here.

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Thursday February 22, 2007 · 2:11 PM PST

2007/02/22 · 14:11

Tonight on HBO, "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib."

Although I agree with all the outcry at the treatment of the detainees for their sakes, I also see we’ve lost focus on the fact that we are turning patriotic American soldiers into instruments of torture and then dropping them back into their communities, families, and Walter Reed Hospital, all ill-equipped to meet the psychological needs of these returning soldiers.

Tom Shales says

It could easily be argued that it was the torturers and not the tortured who suffered the most as a result of what happened at Abu Ghraib. The damage done to the reputation of the United States was critical and criminal, and the torture that occurred can be seen as but a symptom of a much larger corruption: the pursuit of the war itself and the fallacious "evidence" fed to the American people to justify it.

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Wednesday February 21, 2007 · 11:38 AM PST

2007/02/21 · 11:38

Cross posted on Beltway Progressive.

Do you have questions for the Republicans on the Iraq War

Now that our closest allies, the British, have announced they are phasing out their troop presence in Iraq, this war unquestionably belongs to the Bush administration and the Republicans who covered for them.

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Tuesday February 06, 2007 · 9:33 PM PST

2007/02/06 · 21:33

Tom Davis headed the Government Reform Committee since 1998. Despite allegations of torture, failure to provide adequate troop protective gear, waste, fraud, and missing packages of money called "footballs" used to "hand off," Davis issued no subpeonas and took almost no testimony on the issues related to the Iraq War.

Now that new Chairman Henry Waxman is holding a hearing, Davis is criticizing him for starting hearings so late. Then he undermined the Democrats newly established tip line.

Former committee chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., now the senior minority member ... criticized Waxman.

He said Waxman was rushing to "old judgments" in a hearing that was "old news."

Davis accused Democrats of trying to embarrass the administration.

Cross posted at Beltway Progressive

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Monday February 05, 2007 · 8:17 AM PST

2007/02/05 · 08:17

Surface Air Temperature Increase 1960-2060

NASA Home> Life on Earth > In Everyday Life

Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Henry Waxman charged another White House cover up, this time on global warming, when he said,

"We know that the White House possesses documents that contain evidence of an attempt by senior administration officials to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming and minimize the potential danger," said Waxman.

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Wednesday January 31, 2007 · 11:40 AM PST

2007/01/31 · 11:40

Fred Barbash has an excellent column in todays WaPo. He thinks the President's interpretation of the Constitution is a little fruity. Barbash exposes Bush’s fondness for cherry picking from the Constitution to support his exclusive War Powers. He quotes Scalia, yes, Scalia:

"Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences law or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principles, to accommodate it."

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Friday January 19, 2007 · 12:31 PM PST

2007/01/19 · 12:31

I started my first diary here when Tom Davis (VA-11) said he "never took a nickel" from oil companies." When he made that statement, he had taken over over $1.25 million from energy PACs.

Davis also turned the Government Reform Committee into a meaningless exercise, consolidating subpoena power in himself alone as Chairman, issuing fewer than 5 subpoenas during a period of unimaginable fraud and waste, and arranging for firms to hire his wife to coach them for any hearings he did have. He defended his inability to find his own balls while he was sitting on the pile of all that money by saying he held extensive hearings on the failure of oil companies to pay royalties for drilling in public parks. Yesterday, he voted against it.

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Thursday January 11, 2007 · 7:08 AM PST

2007/01/11 · 07:08

Updated with new title
Crossposted on Raising Kaine and MyDD
From The Hill News:

The National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) has named Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) to head up its executive committee for the 2008 election cycle, according to a release yesterday.

Tom Davis resumes the same sweet deal that put him in the middle of the Abramoff scandal and allowed him to funnel over $230,000 in campaign contributions to his wife in Virginia state races.

Tom Davis could also use the money himself. He is jockeying to take over Sen. Jim Webb's title as the state's junior senator.

Is it any wonder why Tom Davis voted against reforming campaign financing and lobbyist influence? Read more...

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Tuesday December 12, 2006 · 9:36 AM PST

2006/12/12 · 09:36

Dr. Gottleib was the man at FDA who stood in the way of scientific reviewers who said the advisory committee properly concluded that Plan B was safe and effective for Over The Counter (OTC) Use. The reason OTC is so important for this drug is that it is most effective within 72 hours of intercourse - that usually means before Sunday night!

At FDA, Scott Gottlieb, MD, Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs at the Food and Drug Administration announced today that he will leave the agency effective January 16, 2007, to return to the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based "think" tank, where he was previously a Resident Fellow prior to joining FDA.

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Wednesday December 06, 2006 · 9:10 PM PST

2006/12/06 · 21:10

Tom Davis promised to repeat having his Holiday Party paid for by Jack Abramoff, postal reform interests, Federal Telephone System bidders, and Iraq and Katrina contractors like IDS.

The donors were allowed to host 2005's lavish event in the Rayburn House Office Building. The invitation is here

A UPS spokesman didn't know how much that party cost but said they'd sponsor it again in 2006. A spokesman for Davis said he'd be happy to have lobbyists and contractors pay again next time.

Call Davis at 202-225-1492 and his Committee at 202-225-5074 and ask who is paying for his staff's party this year. More phone numbers are here.

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