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Category Archives: Republican Corruption

Consequences, or the lack thereof

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

It’s not that I disagree with the Day’s call for Lou Deluca to resign. I just find it hard to understand why our crusading local newspaper finds it so easy to see that consensual blowjobs or mafia hits merit removal from office, while premeditated wars of choice apparently don’t. What kind of country do we […]

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They write letters

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

I’ve been spending a little quality time reading the Libby Letters. You can download the full text here at the Smoking Gun, where they’ve also posted them in order of despicableness, starting with Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, and Paul Wolfowitz and John Bolton. With friends like those… I loved Wolfowitz’s opening: I am currently serving, […]

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Investigative Failures

Thursday, May 24, 2007

I’ve said before that the Congressional committees should hand their investigations over to people who know what they’re doing. We got a lot of juicy tidbits from Monica yesterday, but the fact is that they didn’t lay a glove on Rove or the crime syndicate that runs this country. Kevin drum makes the point today: […]

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More Republican hypocrisy

Saturday, May 19, 2007

A few days ago I wrote about Republican hypocrisy, that if you wanted to know what a Republican was doing, just listen to what he condemns. Here’s more proof of a particularly slimy variety. I should add, by the way, that I have stolen all of this from the linked stories, but I think it’s […]

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I detect a pattern

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

There appears to be a common disease among Republicans, a sort of compulsive hypocrisy. It seems that if you want to figure out what crimes your favorite Republican is committing, take a look at what he’s condemning. Some of my favorite examples: Newt Gingrich rises to power condemning an allegedly corrupt book deal. He is […]

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Building bridges

Monday, May 14, 2007

Alaskans sure do like bridges. Frustrated in their attempt to build one bridge to nowhere, they are not attempting to build a bridge to almost nowhere: n 2005, Congress defeated the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” earmark spearheaded by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), which would have spent $200 million connecting mainland Alaska to an island home […]

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Liars, Liars

Thursday, May 10, 2007

This story is all over the internets, but I can’t resist linking to it to. Read this great article by Murray Wass from the National Journal. It’s impossible to cherry pick a quote, there’s just too much there, but this gives a flavor of it: The Bush administration has withheld a series of e-mails from […]

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Now that’s more like it

Monday, April 30, 2007

Tony Snow is back, and he’s showing Dana Perino how it’s done. You may remember that I recently remarked that Dana just wasn’t a very good liar, an absolutely necessary skill for anyone chosen to be press secretary for this administration. Today Tony shows how it’s done, by claiming that Bush never made a connection […]

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Hard to believe but true: Gonzales even worse than we thought

Monday, April 30, 2007

In any sane world this should be the final nail in Gonzales coffin: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales signed a highly confidential order in March 2006 delegating to two of his top aides — who have since resigned because of their central roles in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys — extraordinary authority over the hiring […]

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Another installment of “Things you couldn’t make up”

Saturday, April 28, 2007

From Thinkprogress: Former U.S. AID director Randall Tobias, who resigned yesterday upon admitting that he frequented a Washington escort service, oversaw a controversial policy advocated by the religious right that required any US-based group receiving anti-AIDS funds to take an anti-prostitution “loyalty oath.” Aid groups bitterly opposed the policy, charging that it “was so broad […]

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