“Remember when I said I would reform California’s government? I lied.”
Back when he was campaigning against Gray Davis in California’s gubernatorial recall election, Arnold Schwarzenegger made an awfully big deal about Davis’ fundraising efforts and ties to special interests. Roll tape from August 2003 :
“”The people should make the decisions rather than special interests,” said [...]
Democrats = Animals
Many wonder what it will take to restore social civility to Washington, to get Republicans and Democrats mingling again. Rock-ribbed Republican Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, proffered a solution, telling us that Democrats must accept the finality of their powerlessness. “Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in [...]
“You’ve been punked.”
One of the things that I was looking forward to had John Kerry won the election was the inevitable discovery that various federal agencies (most notably Treasury and Labor) have been playing games with economic data.
Kerry didn’t win, and the Producer Price Index (PPI) numbers look fishy:
U.S. producer prices shot up 1.7 percent last month, [...]
Amateurs.
Wake me up when there’s a street called “Ass-Fucking Blvd.” Until then, get busy cutting my taxes and making church attendance mandatory. What kind of Republicans are you anyway?
Isn’t it wonderful when our elected officials act like spoiled children? Take the Republicans in Congress, for example. They have majorities in both houses. They have a re-elected president they can count on for support. They pretty much have the ability to pass any legislation they choose. But, occasionally, they run into rules that get [...]
After yesterday’s post on the shake-ups at the CIA, it’s not exactly a surprise to see something like this :
Porter J. Goss, the new intelligence chief, has told Central Intelligence Agency employees that their job is to “support the administration and its policies in our work,” a copy of an internal memorandum shows.
“As agency employees [...]
Following Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Secretary of Education Rod Paige and Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman are stepping down from President Bush’s cabinet. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham is said to be next.
With Powell’s status (along with John McCain and somehow Rudy Guilliani) as the Republican [...]
When Republican congressman Porter Goss was tapped by the Bush Administration to replace the embattled George Tenet as the Director of the CIA, many people wondered if Goss could keep his personal politics out of what has traditionally been a non-partisan position. Of course, Goss said that there was nothing to worry about.
“I have made [...]
You don’t have the right to say the word “rights”:
WUNC-FM recently informed Ipas, a Chapel Hill-based international women’s rights and health organization, that the phrase “reproductive rights” in the group’s on-air announcement could be interpreted as advocating a particular political position. The station required Ipas to use “reproductive health” instead.
Somehow the change in wording was [...]
