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According to one article I read this morning..RR's name was mentioned 19 times last night. Thats quite a bit for a president who's reign ended roughly 20 years ago.
But the Repub's also wanted their cake and to eat it as well. All of them calling for lower taxes yet a robust military....
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From TomPaine.com some words of wisdom about the Republicans and their quest to hold onto the Oval Office.
Robert L. Borosage is the co-director of the Institute for America's Future. This article was first published in the Chicago Tribune.
As Republican contenders for the presidential...
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From MSNBC:
The Democratic-controlled House failed Wednesday to override President Bush’s veto of an Iraqi war spending bill with timetables for troop withdrawals.
The 222-203 vote, far short of the two-thirds majority needed for a veto override, occurred just ahead of a White House...
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On May 3rd @ 5pm pacific time, 10 GOP candidates will appear at the first Republican debate of the 2008 presidential campaign. Streamed live on politico.com, aired nationally on MSNBC and hosted by The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Politico visitors will have an exclusive opportunity to ask...
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The military man who was running the Iraq War Show for over two years got kicked upstairs to the Army Chief of Staff. Now, I don't know about you, my dear reader, but I think Casey did a very lousy job running the War.
He has stated to the press and his own 'people' that he doesn't want to...
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He writes a drive-by hit on Bush and the big Dick Cheney. He whines, he points his pudgy finger at the White House that they have tossed him under the bus. Where is their loyalty he cries?
But, he also took the hit for Bush when it all came down about the yellowcake and those 16 little words...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Randall Tobias, head of the Bush administration's foreign aid programs, abruptly resigned Friday after his name surfaced in an investigation into a high-priced call-girl ring, said two people in a position to know the circumstances of his departure.
It was Tobias' own...
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From CBSNews:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has already answered the questions she has been subpoenaed to answer before a U.S. congressional committee and suggested she is not inclined to comply with the order.
Rice said she would respond by mail to questions from...
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Washington, DC -- In an April 25 Politico op-ed, Tom DeLay (R-TX), the disgraced former House majority leader, claimed that philanthropist and progressive financier George Soros funds Media Matters for America -- a claim The Politico corrected in today’s print edition, stating, “A...
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From MSNBC:
WASHINGTON - A defiant Democratic-controlled Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require the start of troop withdrawals from Iraq by Oct. 1, propelling Congress toward a historic veto showdown with President Bush on the war.
The 51-46 vote was largely along party lines,...
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That is a quote by John Edwards' campaign manager David Bonior. Tonight Edwards will be calling for Karl Rove to be fired.
Does anyone actually believe Bush will follow Edwards advice? I think everyone, regardless of party affiliation will say no.
The email continues:
"New...
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From the Chicago Sun-Times:
PROVO, Utah -- Some students and faculty on one of the nation's most conservative campuses want Brigham Young University to withdraw an invitation for Vice President Dick Cheney to speak at commencement this month.
Critics at the school question whether Cheney...
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From MSNBC:
In rapid succession, congressional committees Wednesday ramped up their investigations of the Bush administration by approving a subpoena for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and granting immunity to a key aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
By 21-10, the House oversight...
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The speaker at today's lunch meeting was Moira Brennan of the California Clean Money Campaign. This young lady, relatively speaking, was very passionate about campaign funding reform. She drove up from Santa Monica to address the group of about 30. This is an idea worth...
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From the LAT:
WASHINGTON — Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for...
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It takes place in S.Carolina @ 3:30pm on MSNBC. Thats a dumb time imho. It is also only the Democrats.
At least We can hear their thoughts and ideas on some of the issues from their own yaps.
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This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that follows the errant ways of our current administration..but just the same..the newest wrinkle in spying on American's without due process or a warrant:
The administration says it wants to make the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — or FISA...
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The story of John Trudell runs from reservation,to Alcatraz,through grief and hope~it is the story of us all.A mans life is expressed in 54 minutes,rich with images,words,sound and emotion. Comments from Robert Redford,Kris Kristofferson,Bonnie Raitt,and others illuminate the...
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Because we already have one..actually two if you count the Decider-in-Chief and Robert Gates. In 1947, the Truman administration changed over from a Secretary of War to the Secretary of Defense. This law also saw the beginning of the Dept of Defense (DoD) and the creation of the Joint Chiefs of...
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The White House "lost" five million e-mails, including (very likely) specific ones asked for both by Special Prosector Patrick Fitzgerald and Congressional committees
http://www.citizensforethic...
How could this happen? Well, one explanation involves Karl Rove personally...
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From WaPo:
The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people...
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Opponents of California's physician-assisted suicide bill say more than 500 residents a year would commit legal suicide if the bill passes.
And if it is passed, other states would likely follow suit, according to a story today in USA Today.
"Absolutely, other states would...
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The word Theocracy is derived from the two Greek words Qeo/j(Theos) meaning "God" and kra/tein (cratein) meaning "to rule." Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater USA believes in a Theocratic form of government. Besides Blackwater USA, he is also the Vice President of the...
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There are quite a few folks talking about religion, belief systems, God and Jesus this weekend. I do not attend a church, I am wary of organized religion, not having found a church that has a pastor like my beloved Pastor Dave in San Diego. He did not mix politics with his Sunday sermon's and I...
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Well Newt Gingrich said it was. Here is his quote:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich equated bilingual education Saturday with "the language of living in a ghetto" and mocked requirements that ballots be printed in multiple languages.
"The government should quit mandating...
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I don't know how this will turn out, but it is what it is. From a press release today by the CA. Dem. Party:
California Senate President pro Tem Don Perata unveiled legislation that would make California the first state in the nation to call on President Bush to immediately withdraw all U.S....
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Obama's total is in, a cool $25 Million. Both Obama and Hillary raise the most of all contenders for President. From Politico.com:
In the much-watched first quarter of presidential fundraising, the Democratic candidates raised more than twice as much as their Republican counterparts, a huge...
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Last summer, it was determined that SCOTUS would hear a case entitled Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, 05-1120. The ruling was handed down this morning. Its not good for BushCo, but it IS good for the environment and individual states rights.
The lawsuit was filed by 12 states...
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During the final days leading up to the Deadline for State Representatives to present legislation there is a flood of bills presented. One of those bills was AB 1581. This was the last bill presented by 32nd district representative Jean Fuller and is intended to...
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On March 14th 2007 at 5:30 p.m. there was a fund-raiser put on by Jean Fuller for Assembly 2006. Presumably, this fund-raiser was to help the 32nd District Representative put a little money in the coffer for her forthcoming re-election campaigns (if anyone runs against...
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I rarely get stirred up by politics because there are so many other, more interesting, things to think about but this one has me in a state of - "Say What?!"
According to the American Motorcycle Association (AMA), former South Dakota Governor Bill Jankolow sped through a stop sign in...
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Here we go! Just as I predicted(along with about a million other conservatives), the Democrats are already pork barrelling bills just as they derided the Republicans for doing since 1996 and and breaking the promise the Dems made not to do it themselves while stumping for the last elections....
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The trade bargo and traveling ban against Cuba is hurting the American people. People should have the right to travel to any place in the world they want, and you're taking that right away from them with the traveling ban. Lifting the embargo would be beneficial to both countries,...
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From MSNBC:
WASHINGTON - A suspected Saudi terrorist told a military hearing that he was tortured into confessing that he was involved in the bombing of the warship USS Cole, according to a Defense Department transcript released Friday.
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi national of Yemeni...
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Today the Committee sent a formal request to former White House aide Susan Ralston to appear for a deposition on April 5th. The deposition is part of the Committee’s investigation, begun last spring, into lobbying contacts between lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House.
Cspan has...
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From Waxman's Oversight Committee website:
The Committee has formally requested Secretary Rice to testify before the Oversight Committee on April 18th regarding the Administration’s claims that Iraq sought uranium from Niger, White House treatment of classified information, the...
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From Politico:
Republicans across the country are warning that increasing public discontent toward President Bush, the Iraq war and the GOP brand in general threatens to send the party's 2008 campaign planning into a tailspin.
Already, the problems are having tangible effects. Some of the...
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Some highlights:
"The decision makers in this case were the attorney general (Alberto Gonzales) and the counsel to the president (then Harriet Miers). I and others made staff recommendations but they were approved and signed off on by the principles." -- Kyle Sampson, former chief...
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This was the response of Ms. Doan when asked about the powerpoint presentation that Scott Jennings, Karl Rove's right hand man, held at the GSA in January. The subject was about helping the Republicans win the next election .
She must be a Reaganite no? Doesn’t matter, its still a...
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This gets curious-er and curious-er each day.
WASHINGTON - Monica Goodling, a Justice Department official involved in the firings of federal prosecutors, will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings, citing Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said...
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The excuse is they didn't get the right visas. I think they never meant to come and after the 15 British service personnel were captured by Iran..it rings true even more so.
The UN is debating more sanctions against Iran. That was the purpose of the visit..to add their pov to the issue. The...
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Today is World Water Day..um..OK..Whatever. It seems that anymore everything has its own day so I guess water may as well jump on the bandwagon. What brings this up is a pic/blurb I saw in the paper today that said one sixth of the worlds population has no access to clean water according to the...
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How much are California tax payers paying their elected officials? The answer to this question can be found at www.dpa.ca.gov/jobinfo/ElectedOfficersSalaries.shtm . All Legislators in the State Senate and Assembly receive an annual salary of $113,098. Since 2005 Lawmakers have received a...
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Assembly Bill 1503 claims to “discontinue the use of unhealthy fried foods and trans-fats in order to receive a 6 cent increase (from 15 to 21 cents) in the state reimbursement rate for free and reduced-priced meals.”(Quote found on Assemblywoman Jean Fuller’s Assembly Web page)...
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Shortly after Freshman Assemblywoman Jean Fuller was sworn into office she was already enjoying one of the publics most loathed politician perks… expense-paid trips to interesting yet irrelevant places. The assembly orientation that Jean Fuller attended must have neglected to...
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(More notes from the Association of Health Care Journalists national conference near Los Angeles.)
If it can be done in California, it can be done anywhere.
When it comes to guaranteeing health coverage for all residents, that’s the stance being taken by the federal government on...
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Citizens' Against Government Waste puts out a report each year on the earmarks..pork aka special interest amendments..that fill our bills and laws passed each year by the Congress.
You can read through it here. Their summary follows:
The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW's annual...
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From Politico:
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote Thursday on whether to issue subpoenas to 14 current and former administration officials, including White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, John Bresnahan reports.
Judiciary...
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The Republicans finally gave in and allowed the debate to commence. By a vote of 89-9, the Senate spent all morning debating the issue. You can watch it on Cspan tomorrow, its over for today. Forty Republicans, 47 Democrats and two independents voted to begin debate, while nine Republicans...
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As the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war looms large this coming week, the anti-war activists are in full protest gear. Marches will once again be held all over the US Saturday to show our outrage at the war in Iraq and the people that put us there. Since these patriots are willing to...
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