Yellow Dog

APRIL FOOL'S!!!!!!!!

Today John W. Dean, Nixon's White House Counsel, told senators that Bush's illegal domestic spying is worse than Watergate. The man who himself spent four months in prison for the Nixon scandal spoke in support of the censure resolution introduced by Senator Feingold.

Feingold's measure would condemn Bush's "unlawful authorization of wiretaps of Americans within the United States without obtaining the court orders required" by the FISA act.

"If we in the Congress don't stand up for ourselves and the American people, we become complicit in the lawbreaking," Feingold, D-Wis., told the panel. "The resolution of censure is the appropriate response."

Bush is breaking the law. Time to restore "checks and balances."

John Dean Blasts Warrantless Eavesdropping - Yahoo! News

But to make "thousands" of errors in Iraq, as Condi Rice admitted to doing today, is just plain incompetent.

Here are Condi's exact words: "Yes, I know we have made tactical errors, thousands of them," a response to a question over whether lessons had been learned since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Too bad these thousands of tactical errors have led to thousands of lost US lives and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives. Oh well, everyone makes mistakes--usually just not thousands of them at a time.

Rice admits "thousands" of errors in Iraq - Yahoo! News

From a Dept. of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General Report, we learn that the DHS is now using our tax dollars to subsidize poor beleaguered...oil companies:

For example, a Fortune 500 refinery received a port security grant in round five totaling almost $1 million for fencing and surveillance upgrades at a refinery located in a major port. This company recently reported 3rd quarter net income in excess of $1.2 billion. We remained concerned about the absence of more specific guidance on security measures proposed by private companies that are capable of paying for them, and what measures they should pay for. (p. 21)

This is par for the course for the Bush administration. Just keep cutting programs for the poor and elderly and bitching and whining about how the victims of the Hurricane Katrina are too reliant on welfare to help themselves (yes, this is a popular "blame the victim" argument among Repugs), but don't even blink when you give $1 million to a Fortune 500 oil company that is netting $1.2 billion. That's corporate welfare. Government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.

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