from: MPPeace@yahoogroups.com Joseph Miller Yesterday Bush went around the Constitutional confirmation process and made a recess appointment of anti-regulatory zealot Susan Dudley as our country’s new “regulatory czar.” The following press release from OMB Watch (1) describes the implications of this new outrageous action, as does the link within the release to the 2006 report…
By David Swanson, afterdowningstreet.org Imagine a president who violates numerous laws that predate his presidency. Imagine that Congress redundantly and repeatedly re-bans that criminal behavior. Imagine a president who repeatedly throws out the new bans with signing statements and continues to violate the same laws. This is the heart of the matter of the Bush…
Sam Spencer, bluenc.com My friend Bill Jackson has been pretty much everything a man can be in politics – professor, blogger, congressional staffer, White House staffer, candidate, and most recently, the treasurer of my County Commission Campaign. He’s almost always been right on Iraq, from when we opposed the war together, to the wrong turns…
April 1st, 2007 “I had a ‘come to Jesus moment’ “, former Vice President Richard Cheney lamented as he was frog-marched away from the White House in leg irons and powder pink handcuffs by members of the Secret Service, the FBI and mercenary assassins from Blackwater on leave from Iraq. “What the hell was I…
