Did You Know - Lots of Bushie Troubles

What do Scooter Libby, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Paul Wolfowitz and J. Steven Griles all have in common? They're all on the list of Bush appointees who've gotten themselves in trouble in the Boston Globe. Click here to read the article...

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Did You Know - Abusing Taxpayer Money

I don't care who it is - abusing taxpayers money is abusing power.

The following is from Examiner.com - click here to read the whole article...

WASHINGTON - Congress is keeping Andrews Air Force base plenty busy this year ferrying lawmakers all over the globe at taxpayers’ expense. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi took his wife, nine Democrats and two Republicans - Reps. Dan Lungren of California and Mike Rogers of Alabama - on a whirlwind tour of the Caribbean last week. After stops in Honduras and Mexico, they stopped in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the delegation stayed at the five-star Caneel Bay resort.

In a separate trip to the Caribbean last week, Rep. Eliot Engel of New York squired his wife and four Democratic members to Grenada and Trinidad.

All told, the military flew at least 13 congressional delegations to various destinations during the Easter recess -- at an estimated rate of $10,000 or more per flying hour.

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Video - John McCain

The presidential hopeful sings "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys "Barbara Ann."

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Did You Know - No Drug Negotiations

I guess it's all in the perspective - do we allow big business to set the rules of governance because we can't survive without them? Or do we do everything we can to protect the average folks who are powerless against the wealth and control of big business? The major confrontation between Democrats and Republicans comes down to this argument. Forget "big government" and "higher taxes" - the real difference is over who are the primary recipients of the governments largesse.

The following is from Free Internet Press - click here to view the source...

A pillar of the Democratic political program tumbled today when Republicans in the Senate blocked a proposal to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for millions of older Americans, a practice now forbidden by law.

Democrats could not muster the 60 votes needed to take up the legislation in the face of staunch opposition from Republicans, who said that private insurers and their agents, known as pharmacy benefit managers, were already negotiating large discounts for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Did You Know - CYA

Is there something for the Bush administration to cover up? Is there Executive privilege for information passed by the White House outside of official channels? President Bush looks to be more crooked than Lombard Street in San Francisco. Don't you wonder how he can look at himself in the mirror without crying?

The following is from the McClatchy Washington Bureau - click here to read the whole article...

President Bush's lawyers told the Republican National Committee on Tuesday not to turn over to Congress any e-mails related to the firings last year of eight U.S. attorneys before showing them to the White House.

Democrats and Republican critics of the administration said the move suggests that the White House is seeking to develop a strategy to block the release of the non-government e-mails to congressional investigators by arguing that they're covered by executive privilege and not subject to review.

Did You Know - Free Speech Dies

The days of free speech are over - the government is a private entity owned by the Bush administration. From Seattle PI - click here to read the whole story...

DENVER -- White House officials can exclude dissenters from taxpayer-funded appearances by President Bush without violating the protesters' rights, according to lawyers for volunteers who helped eject three people from a hall where Bush was to speak.

"The president may constitutionally make viewpoint-based exclusionary determinations in conveying his own message," the attorneys said in a filing last week. "So in following the instructions of the White House and carrying out its viewpoint-based exclusions, Casper and Klinkerman did not violate any of plaintiffs' constitutional rights."

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Did You Know - Breakdown of Iraqi Government

The following is from AFP - click here to read the whole article...

Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr pulled his six ministers out of Iraq's beleaguered coalition government on Monday as he pushed his demand for a rapid withdrawal of US troops from the country.

The Shiite hardliner -- who has not been seen in public since October -- was angered last week when street protests failed to persuade Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to set a timeline for American forces to go home.

Sadr's bloc is the largest single political group in Maliki's fragmenting coalition, but the prime minister will be able to cling to power if he keeps the support of smaller Shiite and Kurdish groups.

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Did You Know - Bush Involved with Prosecutors

Did President Bush take a hand in removing some of the nations Federal Prosecutors for political reasons? We'll probably never know the whole story because Bush couldn't tell the truth if he wanted to. Lying is built into his system. But, there's some evidence he knew what was going on. The following clip is from the ABQ Journal - click here to read the whole story...

Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was fired after Sen. Pete Domenici, who had been unhappy with Iglesias for some time, made a personal appeal to the White House, the Journal has learned.

Domenici had complained about Iglesias before, at one point going to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before taking his request to the president as a last resort.

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Did You Know - Losing the War

Violence continues across Iraq, despite the surge, with death tolls as high as they've been at any time during the war. The following is from the McClatchy Bureau - click here to read the whole article...

KARBALA, Iraq - Two months into the U.S.-led Baghdad Security Plan, at least 289 people were killed and injured across Iraq on Saturday, including 36 dead in a car bomb attack in the holy Shiite city of Karbala. The carnage of a crowd teeming with women and children set off an angry mob of hundreds against the governor and police.

Bodies littered the street and body parts were found as far as 160 yards from the site of the explosion. Three buses of passengers were charred and storefronts lay in shambles.

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Did You Know - Walter Reed Report

After a while you begin to ask yourself, "Is there anything the Bush Administration does that's RIGHT?"

The following is from the Washington Post - click here to read the entire article...

A top-level Pentagon review panel has concluded that Walter Reed Army Medical Center should be closed as soon as possible, following revelations of poor care that the panel blamed on a "perfect storm" of failed leadership, flawed policies and overwhelming casualties.

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