http://www.opednews.com Kucinich will move to refer in his quest to get hearing before Committee on the Judiciary A single Article of Impeachment of President Bush, which alleges that Mr. Bush sent the nation to war under the false pretenses, will be brought to the floor of the House this afternoon. Its sponsor, U.S. Representative Dennis [...]
Archive for July 15th, 2008
15 Jul
Fannie, Freddie and the Threat of Economic Meltdown
By Paul Krugman, The New York Times. Posted July 15, 2008. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the headlines, with dire warnings of imminent collapse. How worried should we be? And now we’ve reached the next stage of our seemingly never-ending financial crisis. This time Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the headlines, [...]
15 Jul
Congress overrides Bush veto of Medicare bill
July 15, 2008 A beaming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gavelled the Medicare veto override vote to a close, announcing that it had passed, “the objections of the president notwithstanding.” Only forty-one Republicans stuck with the president to uphold the veto; 383 members voted to override it. It now heads to the Senate. UPDATE (6:25): The [...]
15 Jul
Rescue or Respite?
The Fannie-Freddie bailout, Day One. Tuesday, July 15, 2008; Page A18 The Washington Post YOU MAY NOW exhale. As of yesterday’s market close, both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were still alive. Investors snapped up $3 billion in Freddie Mac bonds; the firms’ stock prices sank only about half a buck each, in contrast to [...]
15 Jul
The Energy Reality We Face
Tom Dispatch posted 2008-07-15 14:13:38 Tomgram: Dilip Hiro: The Energy Reality We Face Last week, after hitting $146 a barrel, the price of crude oil took a sudden, two-day, $9 plunge, based in part on comments by Iranian President Ahmadinejad that an attack on Iran was unlikely and on a mid-Atlantic turn north by Bertha, [...]
15 Jul
The Pickens Plan
The Pickens Plan America is addicted to foreign oil. It’s an addiction that threatens our economy, our environment and our national security. It touches every part of our daily lives and ties our hands as a nation and a people. The addiction has worsened for decades and now it’s reached a point of crisis. In [...]
15 Jul
Bush For Sale
americanprogressaction.org ETHICS In February, Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, TX announced that the university will be home to President Bush’s $200 million library. The announcement has been met with widespread protests from faculty, administrators, staff, and even Methodist ministers. The library will sponsor programs designed to “promote the vision of the president” and “celebrate” [...]
15 Jul
The Outlaw Presidency
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Monday, July 14, 2008; 12:47 PM Another major book chronicling the descent into lawlessness of the Bush presidency is out this week. This one is by Jane Mayer of the New Yorker, and it’s called “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into [...]
