The two party system???? Remember Lee Iacocca, the VP at Ford credited with the birth of the Mustang, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from their death throes, and the owner of the famous quote “Lead, follow, or get out of the way”? He has a new book, and here are some excerpts. Lee Iacocca [...]
Archive for July 29th, 2008
29 Jul
Screening For ‘Loyal Bushies’
Center for American Progress JUSTICE Yesterday, the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and Inspector General (IG) released the findings of their joint investigation into “allegations of politicized hiring by Monica Goodling and other staff in the Office of the Attorney General.” The report found that Goodling and other senior Justice Department officials violated [...]
29 Jul
Sen. Reid Thwarted On Bundle Of Bills
GOP Sides With Coburn on Spending Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has placed holds on dozens of bills over the past two years, citing objections to wasteful spending. (By Melina Mara — The Washington Post) By Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 29, 2008; Page A03 Senate Republicans yesterday blocked consideration of 35 [...]
29 Jul
A poisonous mix in today’s wars
By H.D.S. Greenway The Boston Globe July 29, 2008 BACK IN the days when the Indochina wars were on everyone’s mind, a droll newspaperman, Martin F. Nolan, observed that “when the American people have to know when a country’s rainy season is, we are already in too deep.” I remembered that recently when I read [...]
29 Jul
Another Blow To Justice
By Jamie Gorelick Tuesday, July 29, 2008; Page A17 The Washington Post Another stunning report has documented the bold and illegal influence of politics at the Justice Department over the past eight years. For decades, Republican and Democratic attorneys general had protected from political influence the hiring of career prosecutors and administrative judges. There was [...]
29 Jul
A Torture Paper Trail
By Eugene Robinson Tuesday, July 29, 2008; Page A17 The Washington Post I still find it hard to believe that George W. Bush, to his eternal shame and our nation’s great discredit, made torture a matter of hair-splitting, legalistic debate at the highest levels of the U.S. government. But that’s precisely what he did. Three [...]
