Party Of Nothing
A month after Congressional Democrats called their Republican counterparts’ bluff, demanding a GOP alternative to President Obama’s budget, they’ve still got nothing to offer. Not even good theater:
Thursday’s press conference given by House Republicans was expected to be the unveiling of the GOP budget proposal; but the document announced by Representative John Boehner(R-OH) turned out [...]
The Lost Art of the Apology
When a modern American public figure makes a stupid, offensive remark, standard damage control consists of defensive self-justification and insistence that no offense was actually given. It’s refreshing, then, to see President Obama able to come back from this faceplant:
During the first appearance of a sitting president on a late night talk show, President Obama [...]
Quote of the Decade
Bush White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer this week on Hardball:
“After September 11th, having been hit once, how could we take a chance Saddam might not strike again? And that’s the threat that has been removed, and I think we’re all safer with that threat being removed.”
Professional liars are how the meme lives on–professional liars [...]
Without A Net
The FDIC, which insures your bank deposits, was not allowed by Congress to collect premiums from banks for a decade:
WASHINGTON - The federal agency that insures bank deposits, which is asking for emergency powers to borrow up to $500 billion to take over failed banks, is facing a potential major shortfall in part because it [...]
Concerning Hereditary Principalities
If you thought the Bush Administration’s visible power grabs were excessive, take a careful look at what they planned. Formerly secret Justice Department memos are revealing the groundwork laid for suspension of further constitutional liberties, just on the president’s say-so:
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for [...]
No Loose Ends
It should come as no surprise that despite the alleged importance of terrorism, a lot of video footage of suspects’ interrogations has been destroyed:
The CIA acknowledged that it had destroyed dozens of tapes of interrogations with terrorism suspects in a letter filed by government lawyers in New York, where the American Civil Liberties Union has [...]
