by Will Lester WASHINGTON - Evangelicals, Republican women, Southerners and other critical groups in President Bush’s political coalition are increasingly worried about the direction the nation is headed and disappointed with his performance, an AP-Ipsos poll found.
The growing unease could be a troubling sign for a White House already struggling to keep the Republican Party base from slipping over Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, Gulf Coast spending projects, immigration and other (...)
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Poll: Key Groups in Bush’s Political Coalition Grow Worried About Direction of Nation
8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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How the Neocons Took Over
6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsOctober 5, 2005
Liberal Guilt? How the Neocons Took Over By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
[Editors’ Note: The CounterPunch editors, of course, are the French Revolution’s most enthusiastic defenders in America. A medallion of Robespierre adorns Cockburn’s BBQ pit, while a print of Saint Just hangs above St. Clair’s smoldering Macintosh. Neither of them had much use for liberals. Just ask Danton.—AC/JSC]
Balint Vazsonyi was a concert pianist and a historian. A person who had tasted life both (...) -
Conservatives lose more faith in their president
6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsIn the White House Rose Garden yesterday, President George W. Bush was confronted with the sort of question that 10 months ago, upon his re-election, would have made people gulp in astonishment. "Are you still a conservative?" he was asked.
The president replied jauntily: "Proudly so." But, after five years of opinion polls showing that he has been the most divisive and partisan of presidents - garnering 15 per cent approval from Democrats, compared with more than 80 per cent from (...) -
War-Hawk Republicans and Anti-War Democrats: What’s the Difference?
6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
12 commentsby Cindy Sheehan
The past week in DC found me in many offices of our elected officials: Senators, Congresspersons, pro-war, "anti-war," Democrat, Republican. With a few notable exceptions, all our employees toed party lines.
Thanks to those who met with me, because, except for Sen. Barbara Boxer, (D-Ca), I was not their constituent. And I believe the Republicans who met with me, whether they knew it or not, were breaking with their leader on this, since he was too cowardly to meet with (...) -
BUSH’S SUPREME COURT BETRAYAL
5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
When a political party supports a candidate for President, it is done with the expectation that, should a vacancy occur on the US Supreme Court, said candidate will appoint judges that embody the political philosophy of his party. Few actions by a President can have as lasting an effect as the judges they put onto the court.
George Bush has had an exceptional opportunity to reshape the court, appointing not only a Justice, but a Chief Justice as well. But Bush has betrayed his own (...) -
Dems/Iraq = Bush/Vietnam = AWOL
4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Yesterday I thanked the 6 House Democrats—Lee, Conyers, Woolsey, Grijalva, McKinney & Waters—who joined 300,000 of us at the antiwar march/rally/concert last weekend. We do appreciate it.
Today I want to ask the obvious follow-up question, which several commenters also raised—where were the rest of the House & Senate Dems?
There are 202 House Democrats, plus 1 Independent, plus several nonvoting House Dems. Plus, there are 44 Senate Democrats, plus 1 Independent.
A grand (...) -
Miers Led Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages For Defrauding Investors
4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsIn case anyone thought Harriet Miers wasn’t a corporate-shill-in-White-House-clothing, take a gander at how Miers did her best Ken Lay impression while heading a major Texas corporate law firm. That’s right, according to the 5/1/00 newsletter Class Action Reporter, Miers headed Locke, Liddell & Sapp at the time the firm was forced to pay $22 million to settle a suit asserting that "it aided a client in defrauding investors."
The details of the case are both nauseating and highly (...) -
Tex. grand jury indicts DeLay on new charge- money laundering
4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
A Texas grand jury indicted Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering Monday, less than a week after another grand jury leveled a conspiracy charge that forced DeLay to temporarily step down as House majority leader.
Both indictments accuse DeLay and two political associates of conspiring to get around a state ban on corporate campaign contributions by funneling the money through a political action committee to the Republican National Committee in Washington.
The RNC then sent (...) -
The usual suspects
4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
The usual suspects
October 3, 2005
The Bush administration hesitantly walked another step closer to collapse last week with the admission that Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff Scooter Libby was the second senior administration official to have disclosed the identity of Valerie Plame, former CIA officer involved in a covert operation to provide intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, to the press, in this case Judith Miller of the New York Times. Libby now joins White House (...) -
Texas grand jury today indicted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering.
4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentOct. 3, 2005, 5:34PM
DeLay indicted on money laundering charge Associated Press
AUSTIN - A Texas grand jury today indicted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering.
A different grand jury whose six-month term ended last week indicted him on a conspiracy charge, forcing DeLay to temporarily step down as House majority leader.
Both indictments accuse DeLay and two political associates of conspiring to get around a state ban on corporate campaign contributions by (...)