(49) Oversight & Reform

IMPEACH THE S.O.B.

Attorney General Mukasky is refusing to enforce Congress’s subpoena to compel Josh Bolton and Harriet Miers to testify before congress.
Speaker of the House Pelosi plans to seek a court ruling to force their testimony.
Frankly, this is absurd. Congress is a co-equal branch of our government. Every child learns this in civics class, though […]

Posted by michael on March 1st, 2008

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Sen John McCain and the company he keeps….

While most of America seemed to focus on the New York Times story yesterday linking Sen. “Saint” John McCain with a flirtatious lobbyist (If you somehow missed that story you can it read it here .
But aside from opening the door on the issue of Sen McCain’s hypocrisy when it comes to lobbyists […]

New York Times sends a Valentine to the Bush Administration

Time to Vote Contempt
“Alberto Gonzales may be out, but the country is still waiting for a full accounting of how he and his White House patrons cynically politicized the Justice Department. Congress is rightly asking questions about the actions of yet another United States attorney: New Jersey’s Christopher J. Christie. The House also needs […]

Posted by michael on February 14th, 2008

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As if things weren’t bad enough for the GOP

Looks like the criminal element inside the GOP is beginning to cash out. Could this be the tip of an iceberg of improprities coming to light?
Top House Republicans were told in recent days that a former employee of their campaign committee may have forged an official audit during the contentious 2006 election cycle and […]

This used to be called treason, right?

London Times drops the third shoe (and still NO mainstream media in the US hears it)

The FBI was monitoring Turkish diplomatic and political figures based in Washington who were allegedly working with the Israelis and using “moles” in military and academic institutions to acquire nuclear secrets.

The creation of this nuclear ring had been assisted… […]

US blacks see ‘financial apartheid’ in subprime crisis Jan 27 AFP

This item supports the point :
RickyD from Brooklyn made earlier – that the subprime crisis is impacting significantly on the African American community.
AFP reports:
“People of color are more than three times more likely to have subprime loans,” concluded the organization United for a Fair Economy in a recent report which estimated that minorities […]

McCain’s Fiscal Mantra Becomes Less Is More Jan 26 New York Times

Dismissed as something of a light-weight on economic issues, Sen. McCain moves quickly to clarify that he is as big a supply-sider as George Bush.
With recession fears mounting, Republican candidates have increasingly focused on the economy in recent weeks. This presents challenges for Mr. McCain, who has already angered some primary voters with his stances […]

Sen. Barack Obama: Sir Galahad or Kid Galahad?

When Senator Hillary Clinton lobbed the slum-lord grenade at Sen. Barack Obama during the South Carolina debate last Tuesday most of us had never heard of this “Rezko” character.
What is instructive here was the way in which Senator Barack Obama parsed his official response the next day.
Sen. Obama distanced himself from Rezko by saying that […]

The BIGGEST story of the year….so far

A little over two weeks ago, the Times of London ran the most comprehensive article on the case of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds to date, an article for which Ms. Edmonds (the most gag-ordered individual in US history, or so they claim) provided new evidence, effectively breaking the court orders for the first time.
It […]

Kucinich Starts New Impeachment Drive

New York Times reports:

Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio may get excluded from Democratic presidential debates, as he has been recently, but no one can deny him the floor in the House.
And today Mr. Kucinich took to the floor to fire off his latest salvo at the Bush administration: his plans to introduce Articles of […]