Why House Republicans Aren’t Worth Listening To Posted by Christopher Hayes, The Nation at 4:28 PM on January 27, 2009. Whenever John Boehner shows up on your TV, change the channel. Post Tools EMAIL PRINT 35 COMMENTS Share and save this post: Got a tip for a post?: Email us | Anonymous form PEEK RSS Feed [...]
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28 Jan
For Decades, Right-Wingers Have Pushed Paranoia and Xenophobic Politics and Called It ‘Moral Clarity’
By Sara Robinson, Campaign for America’s Future. Posted January 28, 2009. Conservatives live in a world of seething aggression that most progressives can’t even fathom. As he was prepared to slink off into the history books as arguably the worst president in American history, I actually sat down and watched George W. Bush speak. There [...]
28 Jan
Contact Your State District Attorneys To Prosecute Bush and Cheney
theteam@peaceteam.net The Best Way To Light A Fire For Federal Prosecutions of Bush And Cheney Is To Get Collateral State Actions Going After weeks and weeks of unbelievable work, we have completed compiling a database of the current contact information for every state district attorney, for EVERY county in the country. And we have put [...]
27 Jan
Road to Ruin: Twenty-Five People at the Heart of the Meltdown
Monday 26 January 2009 by: Julia Finch, Andrew Clark and David Teather, The Guardian UK Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan. (Photo: Reuters) The worst economic turmoil since the Great Depression is not a natural phenomenon but a man-made disaster in which we all played a part. In the second part of a week-long series looking [...]
27 Jan
America Needs a Job
Tuesday 27 January 2009 by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Columnist Recalling the Great Depression, Americans are deeply worried about loss of jobs. Today President Obama’s jobs creation plans are meeting with stiff resistance from congressional Republicans. (Photo: Dorothea Lange) The hardest work in the world is being [...]
27 Jan
The Effort to Roll Back Bush Policies Continues
President Obama, with transportation chief Ray LaHood and EPA chief Lisa Jackson, prepares to sign a memorandum. (By Bill O’leary — The Washington Post) By Dan Eggen and Michael D. Shear Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, January 27, 2009 President Obama announced a series of new policies yesterday intended to reduce fuel consumption and [...]
27 Jan
The CIA Vs. the Mullahs
By Reuel Marc Gerecht Tuesday, January 27, 2009 The Washington Post How good is American intelligence on Iran? With the clerical regime intimately involved in Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Iraq, with the mullahs quite probably on the verge of enriching sufficient uranium to make a bomb, and President Obama promising to use more diplomacy and [...]
26 Jan
Diplomacy returns
Editorial January 26, 2009 ONE IS CALLED a special envoy for the Mideast, the other a special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Whatever the titles bestowed on former senator George Mitchell and erstwhile diplomat Richard Holbrooke, their respective appointments send a heartening message that President Obama and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, are serious [...]
26 Jan
Obama aide won’t rule out more money for bailouts
Reuters.com Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:46pm EST 25 Jan 2009 By Emily Kaiser and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama‘s top economic adviser would not rule out on Sunday that more money may be needed to stabilize the U.S. financial system as a deep recession increases banks’ losses. Lawrence Summers, head [...]
26 Jan
Karl Rove Subpoenaed By John Conyers: ‘Time To Talk’
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | January 26, 2009 05:10 PM Read More: Conyers Rove, Conyers Rove Subpoena, Conyers Subpoenas Rove, John Conyers, Karl Rove, Politics News On Monday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued a subpoena to Karl Rove, requiring him to testify regarding his role in the Bush Administration’s politicization of [...]
26 Jan
Job-Killing Recession Racks Up More Layoff Victims
JEANNINE AVERSA | January 26, 2009 07:03 PM EST | Jeffrey Kindler, left, chairman and CEO of Pfizer, and Bernard Poussot, president, chairman and CEO of Wyeth, attend a news conference Monday, Jan. 26, 2009 in New York. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. is buying rival drugmaker Wyeth in a $68 billion cash-and-stock deal that could [...]
