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When Bush’s Social Security road show pulled into Kentucky Thursday, the president suggested that opposition to his privatization plan was based on the notion that some minorities can’t be trusted with their own money.
Read moreWithout a doubt, Tom Delay is most likely one of the most corrupt politicians to ever walk the halls of the Capital. I?d been wondering why the Republicans had been going out of their way to protect him, but now the light is dawning.
Read moreChildren held by the U.S. Army at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison included one boy who appeared to be only about 8 years old, the former commander of the prison told investigators, according to a transcript.
Read moreI was gravely disappointed in your recent vote to join the Republican?s in passing the Bankruptcy Bill. I suspect the answer to my questions is found in the fact that you have received over $30,000 in campaign contributions from the credit card industry over the past six years, but just for good measure, I?ll ask them anyway.
Read moreSenators yesterday expressed dismay and outrage over the fact that no senior Pentagon officials have been held accountable in the rampant cases of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Read moreA Feb. 5 memorandum from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeldcounsels support for a plan to transfer hundreds of suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to prisons in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen.
Read moreSpeaking in Alabama yesterday, President Bush repeated a familiar claim: “We’re fixing the deficit.” It doesn’t matter how many times he says it ? it’s still not true. In fact, the president’s most recent proposed budget would make the federal deficit much worse.
Read moreSpreading like wildfire, a cancer is infecting this country, devouring the flesh of our society and threatening to turn what was once the greatest nation on Earth into a rotting corpse of political corruption, greed and abuse of power. That cancer is Bus$hCo.
Read more“Oxymoron” is a fun concept many of us learned in high school that means a pair of words that contradict each other ? you know, like “jumbo shrimp.” I’m sorry to say it, but under the current administration, “Republican leadership” has become the new oxymoron.
Read moreIsn?t this just grand, the home of free speech, liberty, tea parties, redressing of grievances, and other inalienable rights (but, as I should point out, no rights for aliens), the greatest generation, Atomic Bombing, B-52?s, and today we?re scared sh*tless of bad words and tits.
Read moreThe Republicans are now the governing body of the US, and they do have an agenda. If Democrats can make Bush fumble in 2005 by defeating the pinnacle of the anti-social Republican agenda, it’d go along way to crashing the Republican party’s hold on majority power.
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