AFP — US President George W. Bush’s approval rating plunged to a new low of 26 percent, making him the least popular US president since Richard Nixon, a poll released on Thursday found. The Newsweek magazine poll showed that 26 percent of Americans, just over one in four, approve of the job Bush is doing,…
David Edwards and Muriel Kane, Raw Story Stephen Colbert commented Wednesday on the 4th Circuit Court’s recent ruling that President Bush cannot “indefinitely detain civilians, even if he calls them ‘enemy combatants.’” “I can agree with this ruling and support the president,” Colbert commented, “because I support his ability to ignore this ruling. He has…
By Dan Froomkin, Washington Post The House Oversight Committee is demanding that Vice President Cheney explain himself. Is his office part of the executive branch? Part of the legislative branch? Or is Cheney suggesting that as far as federal rules are concerned, his office essentially doesn’t exist? The issue at hand is Cheney’s insistence that…
Michael Roston, Raw Story A Democratic Congressman who is helping to lead the investigation into the firing of 8 US Attorneys by the Justice Department made it clear he was contemplating contempt charges if the White House ignores subpoenas that were issued by the House and Senate Judiciary Committees last week. “Both the House and…
