It's not quite Fitzmas, and it's a different agency that's investigating, but there may be a new holiday to celebrate if this inquiry goes where I think it's going: Political Briefings At Agencies Disclosed – washingtonpost.com Such coercion is prohibited under a federal law, known as the Hatch Act, meant to insulate virtually all federal workers from partisan politics. In addition to forbidding workplace pressures meant to influence an election outcome, the law bars the use of federal resources — including office buildings, phones and computers — for partisan purposes. The administration maintains that the previously undisclosed meetings were appropriate.…
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TomPaine.com – GOP's Cyber Election Hit Squad Exposed Did the most powerful Republicans in America have the computer capacity, software skills and electronic infrastructure in place on election night 2004 to tamper with the Ohio results to ensure George W. Bush's re-election? The answer appears to be yes. There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004 , Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website—which gave the world the presidential election results—was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts…
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The Blog | Laurie David and Sheryl Crow: Karl Rove Gets Thrown Under the Stop Global Warming Bus | The Huffington Post We reminded the senior White House advisor that the US leads the world in global warming pollution and we are doing the least about it. Anger flaring, Mr. Rove immediately regurgitated the official Administration position on global warming which is that the US spends more on researching the causes than any other country. We felt compelled to remind him that the research is done and the results are in (www.IPCC.ch). Mr. Rove exploded with even more venom. Like…
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The Progressive Gap Senator Bernie Sanders is frustrated. He believes there is a gap between the American people who are increasingly embracing progressive values and what's going on in Congress. "The American people are way, way ahead on matters of the economy, war, global warming," he says, over coffee with a small group of reporters. Well, the polls quoted are interesting, but one of them boasts only a 2% majority for progressives on an issue. If only this were true, that people in this country are much more progressive than our current elected leaders. There would be hope for the…
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Rove, celebs have heated debate | Chicago Tribune Here's this week's hot topic on the liberal/conservative punditblogs: Sheryl Crow picks a fight with Karl Rove. She tells him "You work for me." He tells her "No, I work for the American people." Um, dude, you told her to her face that you don't think she's an American. This is the root problem that the neoconservatives have foisted on the rest of our country – they think they're more American than the rest of us.
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Vermont Senate: Impeach the President | Chicago Tribune MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont senators voted Friday to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, saying their actions have raised "serious questions of constitutionality." The nonbinding resolution was approved 16-9 without debate — all six Republicans in the chamber at the time and three Democrats voted against it. Yet another non-binding resolution – let's have a binding one next time!
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Clinton Ducks Answer on Whether Homosexualty is Immoral – The Caucus – Politics – New York Times Blog It's not that she is pro- or anti- gay rights; it's that she won't give a simple yes or no answer to a tough question. I hate that. Shit or get off the pot, lady… especially if you're courting votes and financial backing from gays and their friends/family.
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OpenCongress – H.R.342 Among the many useful pieces of information at the new OpenCongress.org website: a bill to rename a federal building in Cape Girardeau MO the "Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. Courthouse." It's apparently named after a male relative who was a judge or something in Missouri, but still: ew.
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Rutland Herald: Rutland Vermont News & Information Six of the eight recently fired United States Attorneys told Congressional committees that they believed they lost their jobs because they wouldn't play partisan politics in their handling of high profile political corruption cases. Some also claimed they'd been threatened by the Justice Department not to go public with their complaints. Nine American servicemen were killed in action Iraq. More than 100 Iraqi Shiites making a religious pilgrimage were killed by suicide bombers. At least 200 were injured. Seriously wounded soldiers told Congress about the neglect, bad housing and bureaucratic nightmares they suffered…
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I already knew this, but it bears repeating: Our view of God, strict or nurturing, divides us – Nashville, Tennessee – Saturday, 03/03/07 – Tennessean.com A battle of two moralities is roaring in this country — really, a battle between two views of God — and it explains nearly everything, and nearly everyone ignores it. An unspoken conflict of attitudes toward parenting — Strict Parent model vs. Nurturing Parent — shapes the showdown between conservatives and liberals across the board, whether at worship, in Congress or on the Iraq war. [tags]God, Nurturing Parent, Strict Parent, liberals, conservatives[/tags]