AP Politics: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay urged colleagues Wednesday to "stand on principle" and ignore the media in a farewell speech to fellow Republicans...."
Kind of like Charles Manson calling for serial killers to stay civil when doing what they do. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Reuters: Top News: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - Conservative author Ann Coulter sparked a storm on Wednesday after describing a group of September 11 widows who backed the Democratic Party as millionaire "witches" reveling in their status as celebrities.
She's a bitch who makes her money by being an extremist. Take her for what she's worth, a pet to extremists on the far right. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CBS News: CBS Evening News: "The injured correspondent was talking "animatedly" as she was wheeled aboard the C-17 military jet for the eight-hour flight to the Washington area. Doctors say she has a long recovery ahead, but the prognosis is promising."
She's just another member of that godless liberal media, right? What's all this fuss? Must be a liberal conspiracy in here somewhere. Just because journalists risk and maim and die right along with our troops to bring us the liberal drivel about the war, doesn't make them heroes, right? -- Words from the right wing -- -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
THE D.C. EXAMINER EDITORIALIZES that Bush and the Congressional Republicans should shelve the Marriage Amendment in favor of actually doing, you know, their jobs. And, unlike me, they actually support the idea. This is really shaping up as another ham-handed political effort that's likely to prove a debacle.
I agree. This amendment political strategy for votes in November, has backfire written all over it. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "Harvard-affiliated researchers said Tuesday they have begun efforts to create stem cells by cloning human embryos, joining the ...
Reuters: Top News: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday said it asked federal regulators reviewing the proposed merger of two telephone giants to investigate a report they gave customer calling records to a U.S. spy agency.
CNN: Politics: "It's the political mega-theme of the moment: Republicans want to gin up their unhappy base for the midterm elections by pounding away on hot-button social issues, like gay marriage and flag burning."
Reuters: Top News: "A study of identical twins by researchers in Britain and the United States suggests family environment has little influence because nearly half of a person's propensity to be self-employed, or entrepreneurial, is due to genes.
This puts a serious damper on the Republican rhetoric that getting ahead is a matter of brains and hard work. But, then, their rhetoric about anyone can be wealthy in America was always over the top anyway. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
New York Times: International News: "Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld also questioned why Russia and China would allow Iran to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization."
Seems everytime Rummie opens his mouth these days before reporters, Condi gets a headache. Time for a Laurel and Hardy quote: "This is another fine mess you have gotten us into". -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "White House shows new willingness to listen to opinions that are at odds with its stated positions."
Its way, way too late for this turn of the leaf. It's like a prisoner executed for his wrong deeds, pleading at the Pearly Gates for another chance at life. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CNN: World: "Four incidents have sparked allegations that U.S. troops killed civilians. As an investigation cleared troops involved in deaths in Ishaqi, the U.S. Marines said eight Marines were jailed for an April incident in Hamandiya."
Independent: World News: " The great grandson of the Apache leader Geronimo has appealed to the big chief in the White House to help recover the remains of his famous relative - purportedly stolen more than 90 years ago by a group of students - including the President's grandfather.
Reuters: Top News: "In a White House Rose Garden announcement, Bush praised Paulson's lifetime of business experience and said he had the ability to explain complicated economic concepts in clear language. The president made clear that Paulson would be pursuing long-standing White House economic policies.
This ought to be good for some laughs. Watching Paulson play Pat trying to explain the logic of tax cuts for the wealthy while the nation's deficits and debt and reach Himalyan heights. Bush's lame duck strategy appears to window dress the policies which the majority of Americans now oppose. Will it work? Doubtful at this late stage of the lame duck's career. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
BBC: World: "The number of Guantanamo detainees on hunger strike increases and now involve 75 inmates, the US says."
The world wants Guantanamo shut down, Blair wants it shut down, a majority of Americans want it shut down, Congress wants it shut down. Mr. President, Shut Down Guantanamo Bay and put its residents on trial or let them go. Abu Ghraib may be your biggest regret, but, Guantanamo Bay's prison facility is our nation's 2nd and should be yours too! It stands as a contradiction to every word out of your mouth about justice, rule of law, and humane treatment. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Slate Magazine: "The Los Angeles Times leads with revelations that the selective release of criminals to ease overcrowding in L.A. county jails has led to some prisoners serving more time than others convicted of the same crime; critics charge the policy is discriminatory and illegal."
AP Politics: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- Asked to describe his attitude in his last few months in office, Sen. Mark Dayton cited a line from the 1960s song "Me and Bobby McGee." "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose," he says...."
AP Politics: "HONOLULU (AP) -- Hawaii politicians are scrambling to gather enough votes in Congress to pass a bill that would grant Native Hawaiians a degree of self-government and possibly a share of the land ruled by their ancestors...."
Reuters: Top News: "Frist, whose comments follow an uproar over the search, said he reviewed the Constitution's requirement on separation of powers and called the FBI's execution of a search warrant on Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson's office "OK."
It was legal. IT WAS NOT OK. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies' products.
"If we are going to have a Ministry of Propaganda, let's at least put it on the budget and call it what it is. Many of us have known it exists since 2002, but getting authorities to look into it has taken years to bring about. But, it appears finally, our Ministry of Propaganda under the sponsorship of our fuhrer Bush and his Republican minions, is finally coming to light. Amen! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Reuters: Top News: "The New York Times on Saturday became the latest media outlet to report that the former Commerce Department secretary and long-time Bush friend from Texas was a leading contender to succeed John Snow, who has indicated he wishes to step down by early July.
Not even Snow can live with Bush's tax cuts and keep a straight face with these deficits. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "The constitutional showdown that followed the FBI's search of a congressman's office came down to this: The House threatened budgetary retaliation against the Justice Department. Justice officials raised the prospect of resigning.
Yep, that's a Constitutional check and balance crisis alright! Bush has nullified the Congress hundreds of times with his signing statements. But, he forget to sign one that took away their control of the purse strings for his Executive Branch. One helluva an oversight, wouldn't you say? Kinda like the WMD oversight. Or the oversight of the fact that not all Iraqis would welcome us with flowers and open arms. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "Bush Intervened in Fight Over FBI's Congressional Raid After Justice Officials Talked of Quitting"
I say, let them quit and good riddance. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "New York Sen. Hillary Clinton Getting Re-Election Bid Under Way With 18-Minute Video"
Careful of the bleeding heart critics, there, Hillary. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "Treasury Secretary John Snow Signals to White House He Is Ready to Resign"
Someone should have mentioned this to the President before he responded to inquiries that he has not heard of this. Kind of makes the President appear as the last one to know, kind of like Katrina. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CBS News: "The Senate has easily confirmed the nomination of Gen. Michael Hayden to be the new director of the CIA. He'll be the first active duty or retired military officer to run the spy agency in 25 years."
He will be gone in 2009, if not before. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "Justice Department Says House Speaker Hastert Not Under Investigation in Corruption Probe"
CNN: Politics: "House Speaker Dennis Hastert is demanding a "full retraction" of an ABC News report that he is being investigated in connection with the Jack Abramoff corruption probe."
ABC News: Politics: "Al Gore Is Campaigning for the Environment, Not Political Office, for Now"
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "Motorists in Sioux Falls where the streets are laid out sensibly and the traffic enforcement is strong are the nation's safest ...
A place in America where the laws are actually enforced. My God! We should move our capitol to Sioux Falls. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
AP Politics: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the latest White House personnel changes, the editor of a conservative magazine will replace Claude Allen, the domestic policy adviser who left in February amid a shoplifting investigation...."
Yep, spin, spin, and more spin, (propaganda in previous parlance) is precisely what the President sees his need to be. Why else would he hire an editor to advise on domestic policy. I wasn't aware wordsmithing was a major qualification for American domestic policy. Learn something false every day following the White House. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Reuters: Top News: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI failed to follow up on numerous warning signs that one of its most highly paid informants was a suspected Chinese spy and that she had a nearly 20-year affair with her FBI handler, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said on Wednesday.
C'mon, be fair. The FBI was busy tracking down pot smokers and infiltrating Quaker religious groups deemed threats to our national security for speaking out against the war in Iraq. They were busy with our leader's priorities of the day. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CNN: Politics: "Read full story for latest details."
Appropriate! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CNN: Politics: "Read full story for latest details."
Bush doesn't want to be confused by the facts. But, then, it doesn't take anything as monumental as a fact to confuse Bush, does it. A cool day in summer is enough to short-circuit his perceptions of global warming. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
AP Politics: "BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama Democrats should get rid of a candidate who denies the Holocaust and another who has advocated killing illegal immigrants, activist Al Sharpton said Monday...."
If the allegations are true, I would have to agree with Sharpton. That smarts! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "Thieves Steal Personal Data of 26.5 Million Veterans After Burglary at VA Worker's Home"
As a veteran, this really chaffs my hide. How can we even talk about homeland security when we can't even secure our government's own data? -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CBS News: "Candice Hardwick, 15, led about a dozen demonstrators Monday in a march to her school in Latta, S.C., protesting its ban on clothing inspired by the Confederate flag. She says it's a fashion choice that honors her ancestors."
Would she favor fashion based on Nazi Swastikas in black, red and white? It would after all, be just a fashion statement, right? -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CBS News: "Authorities say two Saudi men who boarded a school bus full of children and gave conflicting reasons why they were there have been arrested and are being held without bail."
AP Politics: "NEW YORK (AP) -- Arizona Sen. John McCain received a cantankerous reception Friday at the New School's commencement, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs and a student speaker mocked him as he sat silently on stage...."
CBS News: CBS Evening News: "Law enforcement agencies have closed methamphetamine labs across the U.S., but Bill Whitaker says the crackdown hasn't stopped the growing use of meth. Mexican drug cartels are flooding the U.S. with the deadly drug."
ABC News: Politics: "Democrats Ask Bush to Produce New Intelligence Estimate on Iran"
Reuters: Top News: "HOUSTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush has long opposed making English the country's national language, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Friday, the day after the Senate voted to do so."
Damn. And I was opposed to it too! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CBS News: "The world's busiest border crossing reopened following a nine-hour closure that occurred after federal authorities shot and killed the driver of a car headed for Mexico, officials said."
We are killing folks for leaving, but, catch and releasing them in the U.S. for coming in illegally? Something here is just too weird! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "Bird flu will hit the United States it's only a matter of time and not all states are ready to respond to the deadly virus, the ...
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Well, I have been putting it off, but, this weekend we will be stocking up the freezer, a few boxes of masks and rubber gloves, and tons of canned goods. Forewarned should mean ready, right? -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "Tension over illegal immigration is contributing to a rise in hate groups and hate crimes across the nation, according to the ...
Proof America's KKK and John Birch sentimentality is still alive and well. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CNN: Politics: "Read full story for latest details."
This from the man who said we had more than enough troops for a quick resolution in Iraq. Forget it Rummie, no one listens to you anymore. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CNN: Politics: "Conservative Republicans gathering to talk about the upcoming elections normally would be a welcome event for national party leaders. But not this year."
Reuters: Top News: "And a second study showed that women who have been slapped, kicked or otherwise abused were four times more likely to report severe depressive symptoms and three times more likely to report fair or poor health.
CNN: Politics: "Trying to navigate the political minefield of immigration reform in a televised address to the nation Monday night, President Bush called for a "comprehensive" approach to solve "a matter of national importance.""
Yeah, let the illegals come across, and then grant them citizenship. See! We can be welcoming and make the laws fit too! Brilliant Mr. President. Absolutely Brilliant. Now, can we finally legalize marijuana so the rest of us can be legal too? -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Estimates range from 7 million to 20 million, depending on the source.
Thanks for narrowing that down for us. Now we know how many we are up against. Not! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CBS News: "The Army is warning soldiers and their families that a new film about an Iraq war medical unit may trigger mental health problems for some who view it. "Baghdad ER" shows a graphic view of Iraq through the eyes of trauma doctors."
Thanks for the warning. But, Iraq is a mental health problem for all of America these days. The majority of us want to be rid of it. How do we do that Dr. Bush? Get rid of our Iraq mental health problem, that is? Perhaps impeachment in 2007 would do the trick. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
Reuters: Top News: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Monday declared the U.S.-Mexico border was broken and he would deploy up to 6,000 National Guard troops there, but he said millions of illegal immigrants should be given a chance to become citizens.
Let's see, either the border just got broken last night, or, President Bush, 4.5 years after 9/11 has decided he should finally do something about our unsecured borders. No, wait, he said, our borders have been unsecured for more than 40 years. So, I guess the illegal immigration problem finally woke him from his stupid, make that stupor, to recognize that if illegals can come across the border at will, so can terrorists. In a race with a tortoise, the tortoise would win! -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "BellSouth said in a statement that it doesn't contract with the National Security Agency to supply customer calling information.
I called my local phone company, Guadalupe Valley Telephone Cooperative, and they assured me they don't give out our phone records, either. But, given the secrecy of it all, can we believe them? How does a citizen verify that their records have not been turned over to the government. How does one verify that their telephone carrier is telling the truth when the government says that information is secret? -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "Presidential Aide Karl Rove Blames Iraq War for Bush's Low Approval Ratings"
What's this sudden penchant for the obvious? -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "Bush to Send As Many As 6,000 Troops to U.S. Border With Mexico to Help Stop Illegal Immigration"
Yeah, but they won't stop, detain, or return a single illegal alien. And Bush calls this securing our border. What a joke. The President, I mean. The only thing he appears good at is making others laugh at him. Ha, Ha, Ha! Funny man, Mr. President, you missed your calling by a few universes. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
AP Politics: "NEW YORK (AP) -- After telling an audience that young people today "think work is a four-letter word," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said she apologized to her daughter...."
My wife who trains corporate employees questions the need for an apology. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
CBS News - 60 Minutes (SUN): "Once powerful entities claiming one in three Americans as members, unions are now fading. But as Lesley Stahl reports, maverick leader Andy Stern is trying to lead a comeback with his Service Employees International Union."
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "The fate of President Bush's CIA nominee could hinge on how he justifies domestic eavesdropping programs that some lawmakers contend are illegal and started without congressional approval.
CNN: Politics: "Sen. John McCain on Saturday said Americans should argue about the war in Iraq."
No, Americans should end this war, Sen. McCain. The argument is with you as a war hawk and your proclivities to use military might first, diplomacy afterward, like we have done in Iraq. However, I won't call you a traitor, because you are not. How about asking your party to halt calling those opposed to the war, traitors who give aid and comfort to the enemy. Last I checked, Americans were not giving aid and comfort to the Republican party, according to the polls. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
ABC News: Politics: "What Would Harry Truman Say About This Group of Legislators?"
He would probably say, Vote Out Incumbents for Democracy. It's what I would say in his "show me" shoes which kicked out those who couldn't. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.
