The headlines have been pummeling the Bush Administration this weekend:
- A U.N. report found that Halliburton stole $208 million from the Iraqi government, and the U.S. government should repay it.
- The Administration planted Ken Tomlinson as the head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting specifically to turn it into a Neo-Conservative mouthpiece. Apparently, he proceeded to spend a lot of CPB’s money on partisan activities, push polls, and ghost employees who were cronies of the Bush administration.
- The Administration used information it knew had been discredited in its argument that Iraq trained Al Qaeda operatives in the art of chemical weaponry.
- There is a visible audit trail tracing Iraqi prisoner abuse back to Vice President Cheney’s office.
- Bush ordered entire White House staff to a special ethics class
- At the request of the Administration, the Senate passed $35 billion in domestic spending cuts, voting almost entirely along partisan lines. The spending cuts included knocking nearly 300,000 off food stamps, 40,000 children off school lunch programs, and other significant cuts to student loans, Medicaid, and child support enforcement. According to Senate Majority leader Bill Frist, next up is Bush’s $70 billion tax cut.
And then there were the several stories of riots, violence and massive protests that dogged Bush during his visit to Argentina…
- A U.N. report found that Halliburton stole $208 million from the Iraqi government, and the U.S. government should repay it.
- The Administration planted Ken Tomlinson as the head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting specifically to turn it into a Neo-Conservative mouthpiece. Apparently, he proceeded to spend a lot of CPB’s money on partisan activities, push polls, and ghost employees who were cronies of the Bush administration.
- The Administration used information it knew had been discredited in its argument that Iraq trained Al Qaeda operatives in the art of chemical weaponry.
- There is a visible audit trail tracing Iraqi prisoner abuse back to Vice President Cheney’s office.
- Bush ordered entire White House staff to a special ethics class
- At the request of the Administration, the Senate passed $35 billion in domestic spending cuts, voting almost entirely along partisan lines. The spending cuts included knocking nearly 300,000 off food stamps, 40,000 children off school lunch programs, and other significant cuts to student loans, Medicaid, and child support enforcement. According to Senate Majority leader Bill Frist, next up is Bush’s $70 billion tax cut.
And then there were the several stories of riots, violence and massive protests that dogged Bush during his visit to Argentina…
posted by isaacjosephson at 11:16 AM
1 Comments:
... and don't forget the "secret" prisons where Al Queda prisoners were taken so we could even more flagrantly ignore the Geneva Convention rules. Those are great news, too.
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