So Many Crimes, So Little Time

During the week of the second anniversary of Katrina a lot of bad news for Republicans has managed to break through the propaganda barriers and coverup yes-men of the MSM. Blogger Randall T. provides a link-filled recap in Signs of hope amid the disgust.

Randall cites pundit Brent Budowski about Senator Larry Craig’s guilty plea to soliciting gay sex in a public restroom, speaking pointedly to the hypocrisy issue that has loomed so large over the last six and a half years. A link to Greg Palast’s bombshell revelation about what Bush knew and when he knew it came just in time for the anniversary of the drowning of New Orleans.

There are more great story links and even a couple of goodies for conspiracy buffs. Check it out!

Links:

Randall’s Blog

The Hill Pundits Blog

Greg Palast: Hurricane George

Witnesses in Army Trial Killed

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“Suffer the little children…”

President Bush promised in July to veto legislation reauthorizing and expanding the decade old State Children’s Insurance Program [SCHIP] to include about 3.3 million more children in addition to the 6.6 million already enrolled, and expanding eligibility requirements. The bill had bipartisan support on the Hill, but Bush objected on philosophical grounds.

The philosophy is well known by now – Grover Norquist’s vision of shrinking government until it’s small enough to “drown in a bathtub.” Which might seem hypocritical coming from the man responsible for the largest increase in government since the New Deal, but we’re not supposed to notice that. This is the man who glibly sells our children’s economic future to China at the rate of $10 billion per month ($3,800 per second) just to keep his war of aggression going against the nation of Iraq. So it can’t really be about cost…

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Sick to Death: Health Care in America

For the nearly 50 million Americans who have no health insurance and cannot get it, for the dozens of millions more who have inadequate insurance, and the millions more whose health care needs are routinely denied by for-profit insurance companies, relief can’t come too soon.

Many are hoping the next President will tackle problems too long ignored by the Bush administration, and most concerned Americans realize that only the Democratic candidates are taking the issue seriously. Republicans seem to be unanimous in their “More of the Same” philosophy, as well as cuts in funding for services to the poor in order to pay for the war in Iraq while ‘privatizing’ national security to firms like Haliburton and Blackwater with no-bid contracts.

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I’ll Gladly Pay You Tuesday…

They called it “Trickle-Down” economics. It was a magical time of new capitalistic ideas and new collaboration between legislators, executive agencies and the Federal Reserve, a new way of managing the flow of money and the creation of wealth in a new and expanding ‘world order’.

It was brave, it was foresighted, it was designed to take America into uncharted territories as undisputed leader of an increasingly designed and aligned world… and it was doomed to fail.

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