After a week of the Washington Post‘s series about Vice President Cheney, I guess I thought we’d about hit the bottom of a story. Then I read The Secret Campaign of President Bush’s Administration To Deny Global Warming in Rolling Stone Magazine. For the last several years, I’ve followed the news, combing it for evidence […]
Psychiatrists Top List in Drug Maker Gifts As states begin to require that drug companies disclose their payments to doctors for lectures and other services, a pattern has emerged: psychiatrists earn more money from drug makers than doctors in any other specialty. How this money may be influencing psychiatrists and other doctors has become one […]
Leaving No Tracks In Oregon, a battleground state that the Bush-Cheney ticket had lost by less than half of 1 percent, drought-stricken farmers and ranchers were about to be cut off from the irrigation water that kept their cropland and pastures green. Federal biologists said the Endangered Species Act left the government no choice: The […]
Cost Of Cheney’s Executive Office: $4.75 Million Reacting to the Office of the Vice President’s assertion that it is not an “entity within the executive branch,” Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) will introduce an amendment this week to cut off funding to Cheney’s office. Last night on MSNBC, he was asked how much money is spent […]
Another GOP senator urges pullout Sen. George Voinovich said Tuesday the U.S. should begin pulling troops out of Iraq, joining Richard Lugar as the second Republican lawmaker in as many days to suggest President Bush’s war strategy is failing. He said the Iraqi people must become more involved and "I don’t think they’ll get it […]
Senator Luger calls for a new strategy in Iraq Longtime Bush administration supporter Sen. Richard Luger (R-IN) gave a speech on the Senate floor yesterday in which he called for the Bush administration to change their Iraq strategy so that it meets up with U.S. interests. Luger warned his colleagues, “Unless we recalibrate our strategy […]
He’s not in the Executive Branch. He’s not in the Legislative Branch. He and I agree! He’s not part of our government! Let’s make it official…
Go back and read the Cheney articles in the Washington Post as if they were written about this man, David Addington – Cheney’s Brain.
The Washington Post Series makes clear how Cheney operates and explains how a quality of his that has been elusive works – persistence. He and Karl Rove share a quality. Just when you think you’ve got them stopped, or cornered, they both slide out the other side. They keep turning up and before you know […]