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added 2007 Tue Jun 26 7:00:00 by unknown user
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added 2007 Fri Jun 15 5:36:47 by bubba2
"If Congress increases VA funding above the President's request and does not offset this increase with spending reductions in other bills, the President will veto any of the other bills that exceed his request until Congress demonstrates a path to reach the President's topline of $933 billion." This is Bush politics at its dirtiest!
added 2007 Tue Jun 12 6:48:00 by .Santa
The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled yesterday that the president may not declare civilians in this country to be "enemy combatants" and have the military hold them indefinitely.
added 2007 Mon Jun 11 12:31:10 by TheVisionary
Taking the numbers as what they are, he's lost his distributors at least $35 million in production costs alone (not to mention marketing) but he just signed a new deal with Freestyle Releasing. On top of that he has not one, not two, but three movies in production and one has a budget of $60 mil. How does he do it!?
added 2007 Fri Jun 8 9:08:53 by Aidenag
Members of the House Armed Services Committee have requested millions of dollars in federal earmarks for companies that have contributed thousands of dollars to their reelection funds, according to a review of funding requests made publicly available for the first time.
added 2007 Wed Jun 6 18:08:10 by WaterBlogger
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well, this video on the new Wellness Water Filter is really informative. Not just about the filter, really, more about water and our need for good clean water.
added 2007 Wed Jun 6 18:08:10 by WaterBlogger
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well, this video on the new Wellness Water Filter is really informative. Not just about the filter, really, more about water and our need for good clean water.
added 2007 Wed Jun 6 8:31:45 by Aidenag
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy angrily threatened Tuesday to issue subpoenas "if the White House continues to stonewall" his panel's investigation into fired U.S. attorneys, and he said he was "deeply troubled" by what he called White House efforts to "manipulate the Department into its own political arm.
added 2007 Wed Jun 6 8:31:45 by Aidenag
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy angrily threatened Tuesday to issue subpoenas "if the White House continues to stonewall" his panel's investigation into fired U.S. attorneys, and he said he was "deeply troubled" by what he called White House efforts to "manipulate the Department into its own political arm.

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added 2007 Wed Jun 6 6:33:40 by Aidenag
House Democrats are expanding their investigation into ties between jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House and have contacted several Abramoff associates recently about testifying to Congress.
added 2007 Wed Jun 6 6:33:40 by Aidenag
House Democrats are expanding their investigation into ties between jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House and have contacted several Abramoff associates recently about testifying to Congress.
added 2007 Wed Jun 6 6:33:40 by Aidenag
House Democrats are expanding their investigation into ties between jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House and have contacted several Abramoff associates recently about testifying to Congress.
added 2007 Wed Jun 6 6:33:40 by Aidenag
House Democrats are expanding their investigation into ties between jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House and have contacted several Abramoff associates recently about testifying to Congress.
added 2007 Mon Jun 4 1:23:41 by lenseview
Amusing pic; twisted caption. But also reflective of common 'improving on nature' suburban landscaping trend. 1 person's creative landscaping "art" is another's (silly, tasteless) landscaping blight.
added 2007 Sun Jun 3 16:00:46 by TechnologyExpert
After promising unprecedented openness re: Congress' pork barrel practices, House Democrats are moving in the opposite direction as they draw up spending bills for the upcoming budget. Democrats are sidestepping rules approved their 1st day in power in Jan. to clearly identify 'earmarks' - lawmakers' requests for specific projects for their states.
added 2007 Sun Jun 3 16:00:46 by TechnologyExpert
After promising unprecedented openness re: Congress' pork barrel practices, House Democrats are moving in the opposite direction as they draw up spending bills for the upcoming budget. Democrats are sidestepping rules approved their 1st day in power in Jan. to clearly identify 'earmarks' - lawmakers' requests for specific projects for their states.
added 2007 Sat Jun 2 3:57:58 by Aidenag
In the past year, lawyers for President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney directed the Secret Service to maintain the confidentiality of visitor logs, declaring them to be presidential records. The decision made the logs exempt from a law requiring their disclosure to whoever asks to see them.
added 2007 Fri Jun 1 21:18:06 by lenseview
Fun juxtaposition of elements, incongruity. Also pretty different, interesting for a suburban lawnscape.
added 2007 Thu May 31 15:57:04 by lenseview
Lawn lions. Sculptures. Majestic protectors, sentries...and looking out for number 1. An amusing 'imagining.'
added 2007 Tue May 29 4:25:33 by lenseview
Homeowners who know what they want...and grass or lawn isn't it....Pretty amusing, and gray.
added 2007 Mon May 28 7:15:22 by y_soitenly
President Bush has declared that the 3.5% pay raise for the troops proposed by Democrats as being "unnecessary" but requested the legislature to make the President's tax cuts for the rich permanent, actions that have earned the administration the wrath of unions.
added 2007 Sat May 26 3:46:55 by ameliog
Congressional leaders have neglected to remind the nation what the Constitution says. They have allowed the president to reframe the Constitution, usurping their power for himself.
added 2007 Thu May 24 2:20:46 by populist
Both Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his former chief of staff Kyle Sampson approved a plan to bypass the Senate and install Karl Rove-protege Tim Griffin as U.S. attorney in Arkansas.
added 2007 Wed May 23 18:53:05 by STONERS
Decrying near-record high gasoline prices, the House voted Tuesday to allow the government to sue OPEC over oil production quotas.
added 2007 Tue May 22 14:33:33 by STONERS
After weeks of refusing to back down to President Bush on setting a timetable on Iraq , House Democratic leaders face having to explain to their party's rank and file why they've now relented.
added 2007 Tue May 22 1:54:38 by lenseview
Comical pic & twisted caption. Realtor signs...same company...different interests or just confused?
added 2007 Mon May 21 22:51:31 by Wil
As the subpoenas mount and the administration continues to signal that it will stonewall, what happens when Congress, the irresistible force, meets the White House, the immovable object? Former general counsel to the House Charles Tiefer explains.
added 2007 Sun May 20 9:33:59 by Aidenag
As attorney general, John D. Ashcroft was the public face of an administration pushing the boundaries of the Constitution to hunt down terrorists, but behind the scenes, according to former aides and White House officials, he at times resisted what he saw as radical overreaching.
added 2007 Sat May 19 8:28:37 by bubba2
It's worth noting that President Bush's threat to veto a 3.5 percent pay raise for U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan came just two days before Armed Forces Day (May 19), the "single holiday for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their patriotic service in support of our country."
added 2007 Sat May 19 5:26:41 by Aidenag
It doesn't much matter whether President Bush was the one who phoned Attorney General Ashcroft's hospital room in 2004. It matters however, whether the president was willing to have his aides try to strong-arm him into overruling the DOJ's legal views. It matters whether the president, once that failed, was willing to proceed with a program.