The indictment of the House majority leader, Tom DeLay, should have been an opportunity for Republicans to show the nation that they are ready to turn the page on the abuses of big-money politics and lobbyist pandering. At a minimum, you’d think the party would want to demonstrate that it had moved beyond Mr. DeLay’s philosophy that Congress should feel free to break the bank with out-of-control spending and tax cuts for the wealthy as long as it made G.O.P. contributors happy.
But no. (...)
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The Wrong-Way Congress
3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Bush is Falling, But the Democrats are Sinking Faster
2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
7 commentsBy RALPH NADER
You would think that with all the troubles surrounding George W. Bush and the Republican leadership in Congress from the life-costing bungling of Hurricane responses to the deepening quagmire in Iraq to the front page stories of corruption, self-dealing and national security leaks you would think th Democrats would be in the ascendancy.
Not so. The polls are plummeting for George W. Bush on a whole variety of questions, including the key approval rating being at a (...) -
Spineless, Tired and Uninspired. What Opposition Party?
2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Dave Lindorff
Iraq War going to hell, with U.S casualties approaching 2000 dead and 25,000 wounded, at a cost of $200 billion and rising.
Poverty in America on the rise in a period of supposed economic growth.
Republican Party a cesspool of corruption.
White House being investigated for outing undercover CIA agent.
Abortion rights under serious threat, with the Supreme Court being packed with right-wing judges.
New Orleans, just drying out from disastrous flood, being raped (...) -
Buying of News by Bush’s Aides Is Ruled Illegal
1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsBy ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush’s education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert (...) -
Democrats: ever deeper into the ooze
30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
With each month that passes, the Democratic Party seems to have touched bottom. Then it promptly sinks even deeper into the ooze of cowardice and irrelevance.
While Interstate 45 from Galveston to Houston was clogged with evacuees fleeing the wrath of Hurricane Rita, there was a similar jam on the beltway round Washington, D.C., as Democrats fled the city on the eve on the Sept. 24 antiwar rally, panic-stricken lest their presence in Washington might somehow be construed as endorsement (...) -
Former Republican Education Secty:"If You Wanted to Reduce Crime You Could Abort Every Jewish Baby"
30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 comments[Oops, that’s Black baby. Isn’t this a hate crime? If the fool had said Israeli however , he’d likely create a furor and do jail time. But he said Black which is no problemo in Amerika, right?]
"You Could Abort Every Black Baby in this Country" by Congressman John Conyers Thu Sep 29th, 2005 at 11:43:28 PDT
Former Republican Education Secretary, Bill Bennett stated on his radio program yesterday that, "if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - abort (...) -
Walter Wolfgang: ’We have been lied to about the war. I dared to speak the truth’
30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
17 commentsBy Walter Wolfgang
My case is not important. But what happened to me when I was ejected from the Labour conference - simply for a one-word protest during Jack Straw’s speech this week - tells us there is something deeply wrong with the culture of our Government under Tony Blair.
We have been lied to about the war. But not only that. The party has been manipulated so that it has not been allowed to discuss the issue properly.
Indeed, the Labour leaders have got so nervous of criticism (...) -
What Opposition Party?
30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsIraq War going to hell, with U.S casualties approaching 2000 dead and 25,000 wounded, at a cost of $200 billion and rising.
Poverty in America on the rise in a period of supposed economic growth.
Republican Party a cesspool of corruption.
White House being investigated for outing undercover CIA agent.
Abortion rights under serious threat and civil liberties on the chopping block, with the Supreme Court being packed with right-wing judges.
New Orleans, just drying out from (...) -
Democrats Who Voted For Roberts
30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
8 commentsHere’s the 22 Democrats who just minutes ago voted to confirm John Roberts Jr. to be the next Chief Justice on the United States Supreme Court:
Max Baucus (D - MT)
Jeff Bingaman (D - NM)
Robert Byrd (D - WV)
Thomas Carper (D - DE)
Kent Conrad (D - ND)
Christopher Dodd (D - CT)
Byron Dorgan (D - ND)
Russell Feingold (D - WI)
Tim Johnson (D - SD)
Herb Kohl (D - WI)
Mary Landrieu (D - LA)
Patrick Leahy (D - VT)
Carl Levin (D - MI)
Joseph Lieberman (D - CT) (...) -
Employers Will Be FORCED To Provide Immigrant Health Insurance?
28 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsRepublicans Require Health Insurance for Immigrants Only
September 28, 2005 By Gene C. Gerard
Next month, Congress will consider an immigration reform bill introduced by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ). A component of the bill would require employers to provide health insurance to all workers who are registered immigrants. To be sure, immigrants who lawfully enter the country to work, and who pay taxes, should have access to health insurance. But this bill is poorly (...)