Topic: bush administration

Thanks to Jim Webb and others and despite opposition by John McCain and the Bush Administration a strong new GI Bill passed.

from raw replay: MSNBC’s Alex Witt talked to Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff about a new proposal by the Bush administration to use satellites for domestic surveillance. Isikoff told MSNBC, “The Homeland Security Department is talking about expanding the program to use military satellites really, for domestic purposes. They say the primary driver is natural disasters - like the recent...

One of the things that makes me sure I will vote for Obama rather than anyone else is his attitude toward the "accomplishments" of the Bush administration. He plans to review all Bush's executive orders and remove any that he thinks are unconstitutional. I hope this will mean that the first thing *Bush* did in office -- removing funding to family planning clinics overseas and here that also...

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A towel […] is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can […] wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft...

I mentioned last November that the USDA under the Bush administration was simply mad for lifting the ban on Canadian beef. Because... Well because they have mad cow disease up there and their...

I'm neither a psychologist nor a mind reader, so it's impossible for me (or any one else for that matter) to divine the motives behind the Bush Administration's ill-advised and illegal invasion of Iraq. We can, however, after considering the evidence, exclude the putative motives for the war --weapons of mass destruction, removing an imminent threat to America, Saddam's support for the terrorists...

Two phrases that should not be allowed anywhere near each other: Bush administration and bioterror research.

Somebody smart once warned that you shouldn't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. That may explain the Bush administration and torture....

Those who believe that Steny Hoyer "caved" to the Bush Administration are mistaken. He "caved" to the Telecom Firm interests, and "caving" may not really be the operable term. Really, I've known this coming as for the past few months, even after the House scuttled this, Hoyer had been making noises insisting that a "sensible compromise" was, indeed, "possible". Hoyer being the Democratic...