During the Clinton Administration, our Committee took 140 hours of testimony in hearings and depositions to examine whether President Clinton mishandled his Christmas card list. After photographs revealed the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the House held only five hours of perfunctory hearings in the Armed services Committee to investigate the abuses and their origins.
Representative Henry Waxman, in a 2005 letter to Representative Tom Davis, Chair of the House Committee on Government Reform.
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This unseemly circus and its clowns in Congress can't go away fast enough and with enough dishonor and disgrace to suit the circumstances. Their place in America's history is secure: They will go down as the worst administration and the worst Congress we've ever had. Period.
They deserve to lose both the House and the Senate on Nov. 7, and the White House in 2008. They bullied their way into a war that they thought would be a slam-dunk and then so bungled things that the only superpower left in the world has been humbled and hobbled in a world that they've made more dangerous for us.
Joe Galloway, long time war correspondent, in a column posted on military.com.
The business/corporate community in this country is extremely well organized and obviously well heeled. It guards its interests, at the expense of the rest of us, night and day, 24 hours a day, 365.25 days a year. So if you thought the Sarbanes-Oxley law, or the incredible corruption revealed in the stories of Enron, Global Crossing, and more than a dozen other gigantic corporate rip-offs, had permanently changed the regulatory landscape, guess again.
Although quite happy to ignore the real possibility of massive electoral fraud via manipulation of electronic voting and vote-counting machines, not to mention the disqualification of eligible voters via bogus "scrub" lists, conservatives have been up in arms over claimed armies of ineligible voters casting ballots. In fact, several states have "tightened" registration and/or ID requirements for voters. And the tighter the requirements, the fewer eligible people vote.
Now comes a bipartisan report to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission which finds "little evidence" of this type of vote fraud.
A slew of "attack ads" has hit airwaves across the nation as rival candidates seek to claw back points in the polls. And one key theme has emerged in many of them. It is not Iraq. Or terrorism. It is sex.
Paul Harris writing in the London
Observer, and noting that "Most, but not all, the advertisements are Republican campaigns attacking Democrats, who appear poised for a historic victory."
Frank Luntz is the guy who guides the Republican distortion of language in order to "frame" issues the way that will make the public accept the frequently destructive and bizarre ideas that the Republicans offer up on how to run this country. Recent experience shows that he has played a large role in helping run the country into the ground by using semantics to artificially create support for policies that are adverse to the interests of a huge portion of the populace.
Last night I dragged myself and my head cold over to the local Junior High School for the last pre-election rally for Independent Senate candidate Bernie Sanders and a host of Democratic candidates running for federal or state-wide office.
Poor old Rush Slimeball. Do we need doctors now to remove his foot from his mouth?....
I dearly love the political ads being hurled about as of late; if not about race, fear and corruption, the Rethugs still spout about how good the economy.....isn't...
But underneath it all I'm left with something I can't get past. Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, as I said, had no problem at all in speaking about me and my family on the floor of Congress. Yet she can't bring herself to even look at me. She has to seek help from the police to have me removed from a public debate.
It's crystal clear that Marilyn Musgrave not only can't admit she's wrong, she can't even face the consequences of her own actions. She must believe that if she runs away fast enough or surrounds herself with enough people who tell her she's great, it never happened.
Michael Schiavo, describing the actions of Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave who, during a debate with her opponent in Ft. Collins, Colorado, tried to have Schiavo removed from his front row seat next to the debate timekeeper, then, when that failed, insisted that the timekeeper be moved to another seat so she wouldn't have to see Schiavo when she looked at the timekeeper.
