shorter paul wolfowitz

if the public knew we were hyping the Iraq threat then we wouldn't have been able to invade

InSecure Flight

DHS redefines their own standards for incompetence.

Tens of thousands mistakenly matched to terrorist watch lists

Wake up, America.

Say what?

Lawyer Says Foxy Brown Is Deaf

liar

the list grows

justice denied

Pre-Katrina Arrestees Languish in System

"knowingly"

The Bush administration lied to America to justify their invasion as a matter of policy

I found the post-war plan for Iraq!!!!!!

actually, that's a lie, there wasn't a post-war plan for Iraq. But researchers did find this weird cat-looking thing the other day.

Lying, cheating and stealing their way to the...

bottom.... A portrait of America's Grand Ole Party

DeLay: Respect Mah Authoritah!!!

Well, it was supposed to be "Happy Republicans-Tell-DeLay-to-Fuck-Off Day"... Unfortunately, House Republicans gave Mr. Money-Laundering Conspirator a 1 month stay of execution, but his squirming today is pretty funny.

"There is no leadership election, and there is no scheduled leadership election, and there can't be a leadership election until a vote of the conference removing me from office," DeLay, a Republican, told reporters today at the U.S. Capitol. "I'm still the elected majority leader." [more from Bloomberg]

That sounds awfully similar to another psychotically-arrogant dictator in today's news.

"I've absolutely had it with the dishonesty"

"Dieb-Throat", a Diebold insider on his own company's penchant for lying, and choosing Diebold's corporate interests over a fair and auditable election system. More at Raw Story.

GOP: the party of "values"

Why does it seem like the Republican Party is America's largest crime syndicate? Jam-packed with criminals, liars and hypocritical gay man-whores... these guys are being outed, forced to resign, indicted and/or locked up at a rate that shames even big city drug lords. Mayor James West...

...the Spokesman-Review newspaper reported that West was a closeted homosexual who visited gay chat rooms using his city-owned laptop computer and offered internships and other favors to young men he hoped to have sex with. West, a former Boy Scout executive and sheriff's deputy, was elected mayor in 2003 after serving more than two decades as a Republican in the state Legislature, where he voted against gay-friendly bills.

James "America Hater" Tobin...

A federal prosecutor yesterday described James Tobin as the linchpin in an "evil scheme" to jam Democratic phone banks across New Hampshire on election day in 2002.

Tobin, a former New England campaign chairman for President Bush, faces up to 19 years in prison and $1 million in fines on four counts stemming from the 2002 incident. His trial began yesterday in U.S. District Court in Concord and is expected to last up to eight days.

Two men have already entered guilty pleas for their roles in the phone jamming: Charles McGee, who was the executive director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee at the time of the 2002 election, and Allen Raymond, then head of a Virginia-based Republican consulting firm. McGee served a seven-month sentence in federal prison; Raymond has been sentenced to five months but has not yet served his time.

Katrina's Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America

a report from the Brookings Institute on poverty and disasters. From the lede:

This paper argues that the conversation should focus special attention on alleviating concentrated urban poverty—the segregation of poor families into extremely distressed neighborhoods.

among the report's conclusions:

• Overall, nearly 50,000 poor New Orleanians lived in neighborhoods where the poverty rate exceeded 40 percent.
• Areas of concentrated poverty are not confined to New Orleans.
• These neighborhoods did not appear by accident.
• A large body of research has demonstrated that concentrated poverty exacts multiple costs on individuals and society.
• With a set of smart policy tools and a booming economy, progress was made in the 1990s towards reducing concentrated poverty in America.
• Congress should consider several policy options to put the nation back on track towards alleviating concentrated poverty, by supporting choice and opportunity for lower-income residents in distressed neighborhoods.

9/11 commissioners to DHS

You either don't know or don't care about effectively doing your jobs... You have made it abundantly clear that you are all incompetent. [paraphrased]

fire donald rumsfeld

seriously. No, I mean... seriously. And, would you please get around to firing Wolfowitz while you're at it? In fact, maybe its time to clean out all of the civilian wannabes in the Pentagon. Fire them all for failure to adequately perform the core functions of their jobs. I'm so sick and tired of Bush administration dumbasses (including McFlightsuit himself) delivering jingoistic ramblings to entirely-sympathetic audiences in a seemingly-endless effort to cover for monumental fuck-ups that, with a little planning and preparation, could have been avoided.

some company you keep there Mr. McCain

stumping for Santorum?!? Shame on you.