Category: 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
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House Dems Fail on Timetable, Still Looking for Scrotum
Goddamn this. Speaker Nancy Pelosi will present a plan to House Democrats for a war funding bill that won’t include a timeline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq but will feature benchmarks with consequences, according to Democratic leadership aides… Leadership aides said the benchmarks would be tied to Iraq reconstruction aid and would require President […]
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HOWTO: Bring Down the Republican Party
Via DailyKos: The story, of course, is election fraud. Gaming the electoral system from the inside. To unfairly favor republicans. Favors and promotions for those who go along. Demotions, firings and blacklisting of those who don’t. Nonexistent charges of voter fraud and threats or coercion for these charges to be investigated. Illegal redistricting. Petty lawsuits […]
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Mike Gravel on Constitutional Confrontations
(via Reddit) MotherJones.com | washington_dispatch: “What we need to do is to create a constitutional confrontation between the Congress and the president,” he says. “Most people have forgotten the Congress is more powerful than the president.” Never mind impeachment, Gravel says: “That’s a red herring right now. It would take over a year to screw […]
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Gonzales Could Be Jailed with Contempt of Congress
But the Dems will back off and wuss out probably: Attorney General Gonzales was served a subpoena with a deadline of May 15th, 2PM, to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee with documents required by the subpoena. Well, he didn’t show up, and no documents have been surrendered. Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter, ranking Judiciary […]
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$854 Millions in Katrina Aid Turned Down
WaPo reports on the millions of dollars of aid from other countries that was offered in the wake of Katrina: Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far for disaster victims or reconstruction, according to U.S. officials and […]
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Call Your House Reps: Floor Vote on Cheney Impeachment Tomorrow (Wednesday)
(Update below) Put up or shut up. Do you have a whole 2 minutes of your day to express your dis-satisfaction? Hell, you can do this on your way to get your afternoon latte. Go to http://house.gov, look up your Congress rep and tell them about the impeachment vote tomorrow. In an 18-page draft resolution, […]