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As the U.S. government’s budget deficit tops $2.2 TRILLION, Bush made the following statement at the signing ceremony for the credit industry relief bill (known in Congress at the Bankruptcy Reform Bill): “Bankruptcy should always be a last resort in our legal system. If someone does not pay his or her debts, the rest of society ends up paying them.”
Read moreSeems the Governor of California has a good excuse when he screws up. According to a story on MSNBC: Blaming
Read moreOK, so we know that Tom DeLay isn’t all that fond of crazy activist judges like, say, the seven Republican appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court who went along with the “murder” of Terri Schiavo.
Read moreAccording to Josh Marshall, the Rev. James Dobson, DD (Doctor of Divinity, or Daffy Duck, or both) claims to smell the odor of a burning cross drifting from our nation’s highest court. James Dobson compares the “men in white robes, the Ku Klux Klan” to the “black-robed men” on the Supreme Court.
Read morePersonally, I’m getting a little tired of all this making fun of conservatives. When you think about it, they deserve a lot of respect.
Read moreSixty years after his death we should be raising a toast to F.D.R. and his progressive ideas. And we should take that opportunity to ask: How in the world did we allow ourselves to get from there to here?
Read moreThere is no comment I can make that can serve as an appropriate repsonse to what DeLay said in this interview. Tom DeLay is, once again, deficient in both scholarship and intent.
Read moreToday’s news – “Martinez aide wrote memo on Schiavo” – is really yesterday’s news with Mel. ‘Ole Mel keeps getting into trouble, yet skates by by blaming others. Mel, is he a poor, innocent dupe, an empty suit, or both?
Read moreWell, the 601 page summary of the $10 million 14-month study on the intelligence failures surrounding Iraq is now published. Wow, what a bonanza of information. For our $10 million, we find out that the data on arms in Iraq was flawed. We know that. When we got over there, we didn’t find any.
Read more“What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security…”.
Read moreThe following comment was posted on the DailyKos blog in response to a post about the Terri Schaivo case. I found it to be an excellent summary of circus-like attitude that has developed around this whole situation.
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