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Since I’ve been critical of Tom Daschle before, it’s only proper I give him credit where credit is due. In a Senate floor Senate floor statement today, Tom blasted the Bush attack machine for its continuing insistence on putting the President above anything else. One part was especially well put: The purpose of government isn’t […] A continuing effect of the “war on terror” — the Bush Administration uses it to close the doors on public access to millions of documents. More and more of it looks like a “war on freedom.” And, unfortunately, that appears to be where the Bushies are most successful. (Via Behind the Homefront) U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, through the House Committee on Goverment Reform, has a neat new web site. It’s a database of specific misleading statments made by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and Rice about Iraq. According to the web site, the database “identifies 237 specific misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq made by these […] The abortion bill was defeated by one vote in the South Dakota Legislature. As I’ve said before, the problem here isn’t whether you’re pro this or anti that. What we were talking about doing was passing a law guaranteed to be challenged and which the cost was estimated to be no less than $500,000, a […] Late last month when Stephanie Herseth said she did not oppose a constitutional amendment defining marriage, I noted that part of what had to factor into her decision was the potential of a whispering campaign about her sexual orientation. Note this from today’s Argus Leader political column: “Someone has a push poll in the field […] |
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