Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side, sat down with Bill Moyers on Friday to talk about the “atmosphere of intimidation” in the White House regarding the authorization of torture at Guantanamo. According to Mayer, some Justice Department lawyers were so scared of being wiretapped by their own government they actually developed a system of [...]
Archive for July, 2008
28 Jul
Public Opinion Snapshot: A Tale of Two Wars
Center for American Progress By Ruy Teixeira | July 25, 2008 Despite statements from the Iraqi government indicating that it supports a timetable for removing U.S. troops from Iraq, conservatives continue to assert that ?winning? the war in Iraq is essential to the war against terrorist networks, and committing to a timetable is therefore inconceivable. [...]
28 Jul
John McCain on Foreign Policy: Even Worse Than Bush
Cato Institute by Ted Galen Carpenter This article appeared in the July 2008 issue of Chronicles. Over the years, John McCain has acquired a reputation as a maverick Republican. Independents and even some Democrats who loathe George W. Bush’s foreign-policy record seem to believe that McCain would be a significant improvement. In several GOP primaries [...]
28 Jul
Caving To The Right On Affirmative Action
Center for American Progress On ABC News’s This Week yesterday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) about how “opponents of affirmative action” in his home state of Arizona are pushing a ballot initiative “that would do away” with the equal opportunity program. “Do you support that?” asked Stephanopoulos. “Yes, I do,” [...]
28 Jul
Senate’s ‘Dr. No’ Spurs Showdown Over Spending
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has held up bills worth at least $10 billion. (Melina Mara/twp) By Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, July 28, 2008; Page A01 Instead of a keepsake photo of a political hero or his family, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has a large framed picture next to his desk that [...]
27 Jul
The Blessings of Living in a ‘Mental Recession’
By Michelle Singletary Sunday, July 27, 2008; Page F01 When Sen. John McCain‘s campaign co-chairman and top economic adviser, Phil Gramm, said that Americans were suffering from a “mental recession,” I got hopping mad. I fumed because Gramm’s flippant comment was so harsh. Hadn’t he been reading the constant flow of reports about how bad [...]
26 Jul
Americans Say No to War with Iran: Will Washington Listen?
By Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine. Posted July 26, 2008. It’s time to deal with the threats of nuclear proliferation, extreme poverty and climate disruption. Two weeks ago, I was alarmed to learn that congressional Democrats were sponsoring Resolution 362, which encourages what amounts to an act of war against Iran. Today, there are more [...]
26 Jul
How Should the Next President Deal with the Bush White House’s Crimes?
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. Posted July 26, 2008. A debate between two progressive legal experts on the FISA bill and the idea of prosecuting of Bush and White House officials for criminal acts. Amy Goodman:The dominant role of corporations is one of a number of issues fueling skepticism around the 2008 campaign. Criticism has [...]
25 Jul
Your Health Care May Decide the 2008 Election
By Robert L. Borosage, Huffington Post. Posted July 25, 2008. McCain’s health plan will only work for the young, healthy and lucky. This could be the the issue that costs him the election. Now we’re in the presidential campaign’s silly season. The primaries are over; the conventions are yet to come. Americans are tuning out [...]
25 Jul
Kucinich Testifies on Abuses of Executive Power
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2008-07-25 18:13 WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 25, 2008 ) — Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) testified about President Bush’s culpability for leading the country to war today at a House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Executive Power and its Constitutional Limitations.” The full text of the statement follows: Our country has been at [...]
25 Jul
(McCain) — Saying One Thing, Doing Another
Center for American Progress ECONOMY Saying One Thing, Doing Another On Wednesday, the Tax Policy Center released a report finding large disparities between Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) public economic proposals and his advisers’ private assurances. After comparing McCain’s public economic policies with the “measured options outlined by his campaign,” the center concluded that McCain’s public [...]
25 Jul
Eight Reasons to Release Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Center for American Progress Energy & Environment A technician inspects a gauge on a meter station at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s Bryan Mound site near Freeport, TX. Selling a half million barrels of oil per day from the reserve would increase supply and reduce prices. SOURCE: AP/Energy Department By Daniel J. Weiss | July 14, [...]
