I assure you nothing that has happened in the last two weeks will change his [President Bush's] commitment to nominating first-rate talent like John Roberts and Sam Alito.
Dick Cheney, speaking to the Federalist Society national convention yesterday.
[Added to Senator Mitch McConnell's assertion that Republican cooperation with Democrats in the next Congress os predicated on giving "the president's judicial nominees an up-or-down vote" in this lame duck congress, this pretty much amounts to a declared strategy of demonizing the Democrats for the next presidential election]
Okay, you're disgusted that federal secrecy seems to be growing faster than the mold on your civil rights. But how, pray tell, to describe the problem, to quantify the phenomenon so that others may see the problem?
Speaking of health care cons, try this out for size: more and more Americans are traveling abroad to have expensive surgical procedures done, because the cost is far lower even with the travel costs added in.
Even I was amazed at this, and perhaps, US Airways get the Watching The Watchers Chutzpah Award for 2006, with their hostile attempt at buying up Delta.....
The government computes two measures of "poverty" for various purposes. The main one is the "poverty threshold" which is the measure to which we refer when we talk about whether more or less people are in pverty today than at some prior time.
Cute and snarky all at the same time, but what else does one expect from the crime family, of course? Former Prez Bush, the Chimpster's papa recently lashed out at we bloggers...
The "Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction" has uncovered several instances of fraud, embezzlement, and other efforts to redirect money from Iraq reconstruction projects to the pockets of a passel of sleazos.
For all those who say, "what's it hurt to bring religious beliefs into the realm of government?"
What does a powerful group of corporate interests do when they see their interests threatened? You really need to ask?
They come up with their own rather questionable "solution" to the problem that has caused the threat to them, one which guaranties that they will remain powerful, successful, and rolling in profit.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy....They claim to be super-patriots but would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
Henry Wallace, then Vice President, in the April 9, 1944 NY Times.
