Funny. A few months back he was claiming he had no idea what K Street was. UPDATE: I missed this part: Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum has joined a conservative... [More]
January 9, 2007
January 18, 2007
Republicans Halt Ethics Legislation
What do the line item veto and anti-corruption legislation have in common? Nothing. Unless you are Mitch McConnell, I suppose: Senate Republicans scuttled broad legislation last night to curtail lobbyists'... [More]
Crisis At The SBA
What happens when the man tapped to run the Small Business Administration “does not have experience running a small business?” You'll never guess....... [More]
As Ohio Goes...
From Salon In a Cleveland courtroom this morning, a prosecutor is arguing that three Cuyahoga County election workers "rigged" a preliminary recount of ballots cast in the 2004 presidential election... [More]
January 20, 2007
Heckuva Job... (Updated)
Shock and surprise... the White House played politics with its response to Katrina. Says who? Says Brownie Brown told a group of graduate students Friday that some in the White... [More]
January 23, 2007
Putting The Fitz In Fitzmas
Opening arguments in the Scooter Libby trial began today, and wow... Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald most definitely is not playing around. Here's how ThinkProgress summarizes what we know so far:... [More]
January 25, 2007
Scooter Libby Is Toast
Libby's defense is toast. And I do mean toast. First Vice President Cheney's former public affairs director shreds Libby's supposed timeline. Then, the CIA official who used to provide daily... [More]
January 26, 2007
Separation of Powers
Talk about getting to the point... The Bush administration has employed extraordinary secrecy in defending the National Security Agency’s highly classified domestic surveillance program from civil lawsuits. Plaintiffs and judges’... [More]
January 27, 2007
Goldilocks Covers the Libby Trial
Slate's coverage of politics has always been good, but their work on the Scooter Libby Trial is downright exceptional. For me, the daily summaries provided by AP aren't quite detailed... [More]
Yet Another Example of What Lack Of Congressional Oversite Brings
This time, its a $24 billion Coast Guard project. The Coast Guard's newest cutter, the flagship of a $24 billion plan to modernize the nation's coastal fleet, suffers from significant... [More]
January 31, 2007
In Your Name
More torture. More lies. More innocent lives destroyed. All in your name... These men were captured by bounty hunters nearly five years ago. They are in all likelihood innocent of... [More]
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