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    More Bush III – More Change We are Not Getting

    Obama Blocks Dick Cheney FBI Notes Release

    Transparency?

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    The Day Hank Paulson Lied

    Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that there is a pattern with Congress passing legislation that the American people do not want and know is not in their interest?  First they kick it around a little and then have a vote or two that fails to pass the proposed bill.  Then they tweak the bill a little while some of the Congresspeople [...]



    fratto opens his mouth and removes all doubt

    From Roll Call this morning:

    The White House today is drumming up extraordinary pressure on Congress to approve its plan to enact a $700 billion mortgage bailout fund, suggesting the markets cannot wait much longer and dispatching Vice President Cheney and other top officials up Pennsylvania Avenue to jawbone lawmakers.

    But Bush himself continues to do little to explain his plan, and he has refused to be [...]



    is there any question

    that Henry Paulson gave up his position at Goldman Sachs in order to be in the position to take the economic reigns at precisely this moment in history, to be able to bail out the system – at taxpayer expense – that he helped bankrupt?

    Why would the man known as “The Hammer” give up CEO compensation of $38 million a year (making in two days [...]



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    As of today, I’ve been at this three years, with more than 1,800 posts over at my place, just over 1.64 posts a day.

    While my cynical husband wonders what good all my blathering has done, I can point to one small benefit: my mental health has been – at least somewhat – preserved, in spite of the worst BushCo can do.

    The last month [...]



    Cenk Uygur, “REAL patriots died to get us those rights”

    Apologies to Cenk for copying his whole post below but this cluster f@#k is too important to ignore:

    The Republicans and Barack Obama Are Going to Give Into the Terrorists

    The Republicans, and most of the Democrats, are about to surrender some of our rights. Today they are set to give away the Fourth Amendment to Osama bin Laden.

    Real patriots died to get us those rights. Real [...]



    When your spouse cheats on you

    Good article over at OpEd News about the state of our country. An analogy of our current state of affairs comes to mind of the spouse (i.e. we Americans) who refuses to acknowledge that his/her mate is unfaithful (i.e. our government’s illegal and immoral Iraq occupation and the lies supporting the occupation). The cuckolded spouse makes up all kinds of excuses and rationalizations [...]