BREAKING - Rove and Jennings Subpoenaed (updated with link)
Thu Jul 26, 2007 at 09:07:41 AM PDT
Sorry for the short diary - Senator Leahy has just issued subpoenas on the floor of the Senate.
Please tune into C-Span 2 for live speech, he is laying it all out for the entire country to hear how the Bush Administration has exceeded the boundaries of law and ignored the Constitution.
It is well past time to restore the Constitution.
How to counter Republican thuggery
Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 05:34:33 PM PDT
While reading
Mike Stark's excellent diary about his interaction with G. Felix Allen, in the comment section
daulton suggested a list that any of us aggrieved by Republican intimidation could have sent to that candidate's office. From that commment, I thought it would be helpful to flesh out some tools that we can use as a counter-offensive.
Follow me after the break.
MTBE liabilty protection off the Energy Bill! (Rove-Free)
Sun Jul 24, 2005 at 07:30:50 PM PDT
This is one that I have been watching closely - whether the interests of MTBE manufacturers (many located in Delay's (R - $$) district.
As reported tonight in the Boston Globe:
WASHINGTON --House and Senate conferees abandoned giving makers of the gasoline additive MTBE liability protection against environmental lawsuits on Sunday, removing the major roadblock to enactment of broad energy legislation.
Why is this important? See the flip.
Propagannon: The Reid smear campaign
Thu Feb 17, 2005 at 11:46:10 PM PDT
Who is Harry Reid?
Other than the Minority Leader in the Senate, the man is one our best hopes in the fight against the Right Wing Tyranny. I met Harry Reid at a NDN event and came away not only impressed with this man, but an ardent supporter. During his short time as minority leader, there have been some things that he has done that I suspect have made some new fans here.
If you'd like to learn more about him, this is a good place to start. Meanwhile, we have some work to do in watching the repugs attempts to "Daschle" him.
Email CBS to keep up the fight.
Sat Sep 25, 2004 at 08:43:32 AM PDT
I have gotten hold of the following email list of every CBS affiliate that the LGF crowd is astroturfing. Well, it's time that we show a little love as well. Cut, paste in the cc or bcc and fire away!!
I have already emailed my support.
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Bush's quiet "abstinence only" policy
Thu Aug 12, 2004 at 11:55:38 AM PDT
In a quiet move, Bush has shown how far his head is up his ass. As we all know, the christian right believes that the only people that should have sex are hetero-, married couples (and of course, only for procreation.)
Further attempting to create a fundamentalist, facist nation, BushCo has swung the big stick of funding and revised CDC policy which specifies that:
These new regs require the censoring of any "content" -- including "pamphlets, brochures, fliers, curricula," "audiovisual materials" and "pictorials (for example, posters and similar educational materials using photographs, slides, drawings or paintings)," as well as "advertising" and Web-based info. They require all such "content" to eliminate anything even vaguely "sexually suggestive" or "obscene" -- like teaching how to use a condom correctly by putting it on a dildo, or even a cucumber. And they demand that all such materials include information on the "lack of effectiveness of condom use" in preventing the spread of HIV and other STDs -- in other words, the Bush administration wants AIDS fighters to tell people: Condoms don't work. This demented exigency flies in the face of every competent medical body's judgment that, in the absence of an HIV-preventing vaccine, the condom is the single most effective tool available to protect
This is yet ANOTHER reason among the vast many that Bush and the fundamentalist neo-cons are the most dangerous group of men to ever hijack this country. The damage they are doing is far reaching - much beyond the international and environmental damage they so witlessly sell is not enough; they need to extract a human toll on those they consider immoral.
Last I checked, only God (whichever you chose to pay homage to) is supposed to pass final judgement. Here on Earth, we are suppose to accept and forgive.
It's the results, stupid!!
Fri Jul 30, 2004 at 12:40:52 PM PDT
So here we are off to the races and the preznit tells the country that "results matter." Well I wonder if in the progress of Starving the Beast (a republican favorite) that the already underfunded military would watch
more dollars they could have used for armored hummers burn up:
Bloomberg News
Halliburton Co. has lost $18.6 million of government property in Iraq, about a third of the items it was given to manage, including trucks, computers and office furniture, government auditors claim.
The auditors couldn't account for 6,975 of 20,531 items on the ledgers of Halliburton's KBR unit, according to a report by Stuart Bowen, auditor for the coalition provisional authority inspector general.
Halliburton is providing services to U.S. troops under a contract that has generated $3.2 billion in revenue so far.
"This occurred because KBR did not effectively manage government property," Bowen wrote. "As a result, we projected that KBR could not account for 6,975 property items from an inventory of 20,531 valued at $61.1 million."
Thankfully, at lease The Hon. Henry Waxman (D. CA) is on it. The investigation found that Halliburton's "cost plus" contract has determined new and innovative ways of dealing with minor maintenance issues:
A former "convoy commander" told us that Halliburton removed the spare tires from its brand-new $85,000 trucks. When one of the trucks got a flat tire, Halliburton would abandon or torch the truck.
Can you imagine that? Halliburton's approach to fixing a flat tire is to buy a new truck.
Cheney and Co. need to not only be run out of Washington, they need their heads on sticks. Or at least investigated for the seditious act of war profiteering.
I am going to go throw up now....at least the tast in my mouth will improve.
Once again, Republican connections are thicker than values!
Wed Jul 28, 2004 at 10:59:37 PM PDT
How very Rethugnican of the Department of Homeland Security to install a
disgraced judge to head an even more invasive program in the patriot act:
W. Stephen Thayer III, who left New Hampshire's high court in 2000 under a deal with prosecutors, is now serving as deputy chief of the Transportation Security Administration's Office of National Risk Assessment......
In return for Thayer's resignation, McLaughlin agreed to drop plans to indict him. In a public report, McLaughlin criticized Thayer for participating in deliberations on a case he was recused from. He also said he would have sought felony or misdemeanor charges against Thayer for allegedly trying to influence the choice of a judge to hear his wife's appeal of their divorce and threatening fellow justices if they allowed his conduct to be reported to judicial oversight groups.
Why am I so surprised when yet another criminal has been welcomed home by this white house? Or even more surprised that a person of very questionable ethics is put in charge of something having to do with sensitive material. This week has given me hope that things can get better, I only hope the damage done to our ship from the way its been run aground can be repaired.
Shame on Lizzie Dole
Wed May 19, 2004 at 09:32:06 AM PDT
This morning during the Armed Forces Committee hearings, Sen. Dole referenced 4 slain contractors from her home state in addition to Nick Berg before asking what the Armed Forces were doing to protect these "unarmed civilians" that were doing "God's work" in Iraq to help along the recondstruction process. She also called them heros. I would suggest that Sen. Dole owes the American public an apology for using known security contractors (i.e. mercenaries) as an example of how the U.S. armed forces are not doing enough to protect unarmed American civilian workers.
