Hot Headlines, September 2005 9/17-18/05: Vacation 9/16/05
Bush delivers a lead balloon speech
LEAKED: Politicizing Bush's Katrina Disaster -- Republicans Distribute Talking Points Prior to Speech
Senator Reid's statement in advance of Bush's address to the nation
OUR talking points!
• Reconstruction Redux
• Empty Claims on Homeland Security
• Bush Doesn’t Support Independent Panel
• State and Local Officials Blamed, Not Listened To
• All Levels of Government Met Their Match
• Emergency Planning a Low Priority
• Bush Pledges to Learn Lessons All Over Again
• Confronting Poverty
• Corruption Whistleblowers Punished
• Trailer Parks for Evacuees
• Reconstruction Redux
• Bush Undercuts Relief Workers
Bush's Address: Operation Deadbeat Dad | GOP Senator On Reconstruction Plans: "We Are Not Sure [Bush] Knows What He Is Getting Into" | Kerry's retort to Bush: Leadership isn't a toll-free number | Krugman: The New Anti-deal of cronyism and corruption to come
Rove -- Yes, Karl Rove -- is in charge of Post-Katrina rebuilding | The crony who prospered: Joe Allbaugh, Bush's good ol' boy pal hired Mike Brown to run FEMA -- now Brownie's gone and Allbaugh is living large | Some of the Uprooted Won't Go Home Again | The true face of capitalism: Hurricane Katrina blows off the mask | Rep. Nancy Pelosi: Let's Not Hide Behind Compassion - Let's Talk
Katrina: It's Journalists' Job To Play 'The Blame Game' | A Proposal for Dem Point Man on Katrina: Rep. Gene Taylor | Rep. Major R. Owens: New Orleans Survivors Become the American Haitians | Katrina firm cited in 'body dumping' | Incompetent reconstruction boss Rove replaces incompetent disaster responder Brown | From Superpower to Superchump | Brownie's Excuse? The Hurricane Made It Really Hard To Deal With the Hurricane | Katrina tax cuts pass House, Senate | Howard Dean: Katrina deaths are Bush's fault | Republicans try to justify whitewash vote | French Quarter to reopen soon | Like Senate, House Committee rejects independent Katrina commission, opts for partisan whitewash | Speculators Rushing In as New Orleans Water Recedes
The Pledge of Allegiance: It's a Socialist, Un-American Loyalty Oath
More FEMA bigs are bailing out
Reuters confirms "bathroom break" photo is for real
TRAITORGATE -- Rep. Maurice Hinchey Leads Broad Congressional Coalition Calling For Expansion Of Plame Name Leak Investigation | CIA leak lawyer told Intel chief: No docs | House Intelligence committee votes down Plame "resolution of inquiry" | Plame, "blame game" or the Downing Street memos?
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- John Roberts Goes Mum | "That, again, is a question I can't answer" | Roberts tries to appear to distance self from Scalia,Thomas | Coburn: "Tom Doesn't Know Anything About This Judiciary Stuff" | Dealing With Senator Tom "Nutjob" Coburn | Howard Dean on John Roberts
OH: redistricting on ballot
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- Bush on Bolton: 'Has the place blown up?'
QWAGMIRE -- Mosque bomb kills eight | At least two dead, 13 wounded as gunmen attack day laborers in Baghdad | House Dems unveil defense plan | With “Last Throes” Debunked, Rice Unveils “The Latte Defense” | Car bomb hits US military convoy in eastern Baghdad | Iraq Concerns Will Reverberate in Congress in Coming Weeks
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Weldon's latest claim: Atta Papers Destroyed in 1999 on Orders | Official: Osama given 'safe passage' | Revised Sept. 11 report contains new details | No evidence about Atta before 9/11, panel ex-members say
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- ACLU: Iraq abuse 'from the movies'
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY (see also TPM) -- Rep. Tom Reynolds to GOP legislators: abandon Social Security phase-out for the rest of this Congress
FOX WATCH -- Fun With O'Loofah | O'Reilly Says Many, Many, Many Of The Poor In New Orlesan "Were Drug-addicted" | Rupert Murdoch, Bending With the Wind--changes on the way at FOX News?
ELECTION THEFTS -- CT vote machines determined illegal | Homeland Security warned Diebold of electronic back door
$MIRKONOMICS -- The deafening - and dangerous - silence on Bush's irresponsible tax policy
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Time Warner And Microsoft In Talks Over AOL | Taxing windfall oil profits | NY indicts 8 former insurance executives
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- US poultry giant under fire after segregation scandal is revealed | "Yard Apes" associate vice president resigns!
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Energy poll: 80% want fewer SUVs | US Natural Gas Production Crippled For Months
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Mo. Governor Signs Abortion-Limiting Bill | Mass. lawmakers override veto of emergency contraception bill
TRASHING NATURE -- Study Shows Correlation Between Rising Ocean Temperatures And Near Doubling Of Hurricanes Over Past 35 Years 9/15/03
Best. Picture. EVER! Photographer snaps shot of Bush note to Condi: I gotta pee!
After Katrina, the country no longer believes in Bush the protector -- his presidency is ruined | Senate Republicans Kill Independent Katrina Response Investigation, Open Their Own Politicized Probe | It Was as if All of Us Were Already Pronounced Dead' | ACTION ALERT: Call the US Senate - Ask GOP Senators why they hate America | Some residents near New Orleans allowed to go home | Blanco wants feds to foot full bill for Katrina recovery | Dems Propose Tax Refunds for Katrina Victims | Timeline to disaster: Salon's hour-by-hour account of the worst natural disaster in U.S. history | Ignorance and abdication that amounts to madness | Woman fired after rescuing siblings from Mississippi | Mike Brown Watch....Special Edition | Some questions for Inerrant Boy | Mr. President, do you think God hates black people? | Michelle Pilecki: Feds Favored Fuel Over Help for Hospitals After Katrina | Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) should resign | Ex-FEMA Chief Tells of Frustration and Chaos | Bush's Katrina plan: "This will be Iraq all over again, with the same fetid mix of graft, zeal and hubris." | Republicans kill independent Katrina commission to protect Junior | Sensenbrenner to Katrina Victims: Drop Dead, Redux | Leon Fuerth on government shortsightedness | Eric Schmeltzer: A Warning From the Big Apple to the Big Easy | 80% Of Republicans Voting In Doonesbury Poll Say Bush Did A Bad Job | Katrina's Overall Death Toll At 659... | Bush Appointee Chertoff’s Failure | Katrina: Another Excuse for Bush’s Failed Ideology | Bush Admin. Wants To Segregate Katrina Evacuees Into Separate But Equal Schools | Over 50 evacuees have died in Texas | Rove coordinating PR-driven response to Katrina debacle | Bush Ignored Blanco, Reached Out To Barbour | Katrina’s Real Victim: The Last Four Days of Cheney’s Vacation | Fox Katrina timeline omits Democrats | Did the wrong guy resign? | Nurse: 'They left us to die. All of us.' | Congressman Bill Jefferson (D-LA-probe target) used Guard to visit home | No one could have predicted it? | Bodies raise new questions on storm aid | Bush to Request More Aid Funding | The president's new "accountability moment"
It's about the lies: Conservative columnist David Brooks, citing White House source, says "from Day One," the Bush White House "decided [their] public relations is not going to be honest"
Bush gives comedy routine at the UN - talks about ending subsidies
Federal Judge Pulls Plug On Stalinist Loyalty Oath Due to Unconstitutional Mention of Sky Being
TRAITORGATE -- Arianna Huffington: The Judy File -- The Times' Absolutism No Longer | House Republicans block bid for CIA leak data | Murray Waas on the GOP's policy of covering up treason
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Stealth Nominee John Roberts: Another Clarence Thomas? | Roberts's testimony alarms conservatives | Roberts' Softballs: Who's Pitching, Who's Catching? | Roberts Elusive, Wouldn't Budge | Why Dems Should Fight Roberts | Roberts: Unprincipled | Roberts' Lying Game | Roberts: Congress Can Trump Court Decision | Roberts and the Right to Privacy: Another Clarence Thomas?
DOWNING STREET MEMO -- Downing Street Secrecy
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Damon Wayans supports Operation Yellow Elephant
HOT POLITICS -- Kentucky Governor Fletcher (R)Ousts 9 Officials as Scandal Widens | Not a moment too soon: Sen. Trent Lott (R-Front porch) mulls retirement | Watch this: Tim Russert makes a fool of Ed Kilgore | Watch this! Howard Dean on Hannity and Colmes | Nation's largest grassroots conservative group turns on Bush, GOP | Turncoat MN mayor gets hammered | Anthony Weiner concedes NYC Democratic mayoral primary, urges unity | Bush to U.N.: Spread democracy, fight terror
QWAGMIRE -- Iraq edges closer to full-scale civil war after a wave of bombings kills more than 150 | Bombings kill 31 day after 160 die in Iraq | By 55%-36%, A Solid Majority of Americans Want to Get Out of Iraq | World leaders shake heads as reforms to check nuclear arms spread | Iraq Qaeda leader declares all out war
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Brits detain seven in pre-dawn raids | Mitt Romney's solution to the Muslim menace: wiretap mosques! | U.S. denies Bin Laden ill report | Pakistan says it nixed Qaeda base | While you're "taking
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Iraq slams U.S. detentions, immunity for troops
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Every Night, NY Times, Wash Post Swap Scoops For Next Day... | Arianna Huffington: Bleary-eyed in Chicago -- What's Up with the New York Times?
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Top CIA official to quit sooner as Porter Goss continues his mission to destroy our intelligence capabilities
ELECTION THEFTS -- Democrats add defendants to phone-jamming lawsuit
$MIRKONOMICS -- GOP reaffirms intent to cut the Paris Hilton tax
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Delta, Northwest File Bankruptcy
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Romanian School Using Former Headmaster's Skull To Teach Anatomy
Shocker: Sweeping hate crimes legislation passes | Following Michelle Malkin’s lead, Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-idiot) has called on officials to “reconsider” the crescent design of a memorial for 9/11
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Fuel price rise heralds a new breed of rustler
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Judge declares Michigan's abortion law unconstitutional
responsibility," Mr. President, take a gander at his global war on terrorism
GAY IN AMERICA -- Mass. Rejects Gay Marriage Ban | Shaq helps cops in gay bash arrest 9/14/05
Official Death Toll for Louisiana at 423, But No Count of Missing; Facility Owners Charged | Much Wider Damage to Levees Is Disclosed; Little or No Protection Revealed | Military censorship on our home soil! As bodies recovered, reporters are told 'no photos, no stories' | Did Dick Cheney demand that oil pipeline in Gulf get immediate aid? | Did Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA), whose house was raided as part of a corruption probe, use the National Guard to remove evidence from his house? | Firemen miffed that their mission was photo ops with Georgie, not rescues | Bush's New Orleans Vacation in pictures | Like they can be trusted: DHS Official Vows Investigation of No-Bid Relief Contracts | On Those Negligent Homicide Charges in Louisiana | Racism, resources blamed for bridge incident | FEMA Outsources Body Count to Firm That Settled Corpse Dumping, Desecration | Washington Post's E. J. Dionne Jr.: End Of The Bush Era | Right-wing Myths About Katrina, Debunked | What’s George Bush’s position on Roe v. Wade? (And why is this link in our Katrina coverage?) | New Orleans Mayor: "The City Is Bankrupt""We Have No Money" | Study Finds Reporters Information Requests Increasingly Stalled Since Katrina | Protesters deride VP Cheney as he visits Austin shelter | In Desperate Effort to Reverse Poll Meltdown, Bush To Address Nation on Thursday night from Louisiana | China will no longer hide disaster deaths
Bush Claims "Responsibility" for post-Katrina Debacle -- But Stops Short Of Acknowledging That He Or Anyone Else Made Mistakes... | Watch this: Bush's claim of "responsibilitude" | Taking "Full Responsibility" (Not) | “Responsibility”… with Qualifications | When Bush "takes responsibility," always look for the weasel words
FEMA's Chertoff delayed federal response to Hurricane Katrina | FEMA Requested Only 455 Buses To Rescue 20,000... Then Canceled Order | New Orleans: Dress rehearsal for lockdown of America | The Forever Elsewhere Management Agency | Democrats and Some Republicans With a Spine Press For an Independent Inquiry | Nonpartisan congressional research report finds Louisiana governor took necessary steps | Blanco hits FEMA over slow body recovery | John Kerry on Bush's claim of responsibility | Investigation Finds Red Cross Agreements With Homeland Security Prevented Rapid Katrina Response | Sen. Reid: Bush should have fired Brown | Red Cross volunteer says Katrina relief effort is unusually disorganized | Paper: Internal docs show feds 'bungled' Katrina response
TRAITORGATE -- Four House Committees vote of releasing CIA leak docs | Apparently only Clinton administration officials get punished for
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- John Roberts' ties to corporate America, and his potential for conflicts of interest, would be unprecedented for a sitting justice. Will the Senate notice? | John Roberts, Day 2: 25 Ways To Not Answer The Question | Roberts Vaguely States U.S. Constitution Covers Privacy Rights | Roberts Sidesteps Roe V. Wade, Concedes It Is 'Entitled to Respect' (Translation: He Wants to Kill It) | Why Roberts Must Discuss His Views on Privacy | John Roberts: Ignore Almost Everything I've Written | Kennedy Clashes With Roberts At Hearings | On Roberts: "The Answers May Be Misleading But They Are His Answers" | Coburn’s Hypocrisy A Crying Shame | Roberts Sidesteps Landmark Abortion Ruling
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! -- Operation Yellow Elephant recruits at the Sept 11 "Freedom Walk"
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- More DeLay associates indicted | Paper confirms DeLay met Texas prosecutor; Probe seen nearing end
COINGATE -- Democrats demand coin inquiry
HOT POLITICS -- NYC mayoral primary results: Probably headed for runoff | Grab for more power: Bush says he may need more power in disasters | Mass. GOP official accused of money-laundering for legal client | David Sirota: A Telltale Sign Your Party Lacks a Backbone | MT-Sen: Rasmussen poll | RI-Sen: Chafee getting squeezed | Frost: Run every district
QWAGMIRE -- Talabani Flip-flops, Say No Timetable for US Withdrawal from Iraq | Civil War in Iraq: Explosions Across Iraq Kill More Than 120 | Rumsfeld avoids specifics on cutting troops in Afghanistan | Arianna Huffington: Another Victim of Katrina: Media Coverage of Iraq | Commanders Ordered Not To Fire Gays Until War's End | Maybe it's not such a red state after all: Poll shows Floridians unlikely to join military | Byrd calls for U.S. pullout of Iraq | Feingold Wants All Troops Home By Dec. 2006 | Iraq still has no Constitution | Vote on Wednesday, Hearing and Rally on Thursday Challenge War | Pakistan forces find 'drone' in Al-Qaeda raid | Iraqi police say four Americans mercenaries killed near Basra | Musharaff Confirms Nuclear Exports by A.Q. Khan to North Korea
Retail Sales Plunged in August -- Before Katrina) | Stocks slump; investor fears | UN Report Comes Out "All Guns Firing" Against US, Shows Parts of US Are Part of Third World | Congress, Seeing Deficits and Disaster As Far As the Eye Can see, Delays Plans To Extend Bush's Tax Cuts
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- US Colonel Says bin Laden Ill | FAA Was Alerted on Al Qaeda in '98, 9/11 Panel Said | Did Bush refuse to answer whether or not he's prepared to handle a terrorist attack? | Report: ETA to announce ceasefire
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Michael Kinsley, Editorial Page Editor Of The LA Times, Forced Out | NYT tries to kill the Internet | This is what constitutes "breaking news"
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Intel Chief Negroponte Says U.S. Struggling To Expose Elements of Iraq Insurgency -- Could It Be Because Neocons Are In Charge?
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Group Accuses Wal-Mart Of Denying Minimum Wage, Requiring Overtime... | VW Seeks More Work for Less Pay | NW, Delta readying for bankruptcy | Wal-Mart sued over 'sweatshops' | Bankruptcy Laws: If They're Unfair To Victims of Katrina, They're Unfair To Everyone | Hardees loses $35k discrimination suit
INJUSTICE SCANDALS -- Justice Dept: Porn Higher Priority Than Terrorism | NYT: F.B.I. Found to Violate Its Informant Rules
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- U.S. Position In Education Falling Behind Other Countries
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Inventor Turns Dead Cats Into Cheap Diesel Fuel... | As LA Lights Go Out, Power Worries Rise: Doubts about system's integrity
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Russert ambush pays off: GOP's Kilgore won't answer abortion question
WEIRD SCIENCE -- Pro-business Republicans and the religious right have joined in a frighteningly successful campaign to undermine the claims of science
TRASHING NATURE -- Judge halts FEMA program to protect endangered species in Keys | Federal Judge Blocks Sequoia Forest Logging 9/13/05
Michael Brown, FEMA's Chief, Resigns... | Bush Was Not Aware That His Own FEMA Director No Longer Works For Him | New FEMA boss is "Duct Tape Man" | Brown Should Have Been Fired | FEMA may house evacuees for 5 years | FEMA and the Levees | How to profit from the coming hard times (after making sure that they're coming) ... | Black churches offer aid where FEMA can't | Insane Brit Hume: Governors Wanted FEMA To Be Incompetent | National Hurricane Center Director: We Had In The Advisories That | Brown had been planning to leave before Katrina | FEMA relief access is online -- but only works in security disaster Internet Explorer | Overkill: Feared Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans
45 bodies found in New Orleans hospital | NOLA.com Editor Says 'Times-Pic' Newsroom is Feeling eeling Post-Katrina 'Paradigm Shift' | Bush Denies Racial Component to Response | Bush lies about Katrina, uses "dodged the bullet" soundbite | The 25 Stupidest Quotes About Hurricane Katrina | The first 72 hours: Hoo-boy… | One of Team “Hate America” Tries (Badly) To Defend Himself | The toxic dangers | The Thunderdome: AmericaBlog's Kyle checks in from New Orleans | NRA slams New Orleans for confiscating guns... | Bush contacts got top Katrina posts | When Is Bush Going to Declare Bankruptcy Relief For People Devastated by Katrina? | After Levees Failed, Bush Had “A Sense of Relaxation” | Scores Of National Guard Troops Denied Leave From Iraq To Help Their Displaced Families | Cronyism continues with Katrina Contracts | President of Louisiana NAACP Calls for Shelters to Organize | Josh Marshall's updated Katrina timeline | New Orleans hospitals need patients, money | Bush Vows a `Sober Look' at Federal Katrina Response | So-called fiscal conservatives upset with spending for Katrina survivors | Media gets high ratings for Katrina coverage | Groups create Katrina insurance hotline as concerns rise over claims | Black activists charge racism in U.S. Katrina response | Casinos vs. churches as Mississippi rebuilds | Most Believe Bush Administration Lacks Katrina Plan | Bush: Congress Should Weigh Preparedness | No one dared tell Bush the truth | Senators rip White House Katrina 'spin' | Kerry heads South with planeload of hurricane relief supplies | Katrina Pushes Issues of Race and Poverty at Bush
News Media are Heeding a 'Call to Arms' | Geraldo Wants NY Times To Apologize After Reporter Claims He Elbowed Air Force Officer Out Of His Shot | Coulter peddled Katrina falsehoods on Fox, but the truth sneaked in -- "I don't know what the details are" | Conservative Clear Channel Radio Host Glenn Beck Calls New Orleans Survivors | Arianna Huffington: The GOP Finds the Silver Lining in Death and Destruction | Hinterlands Aren't So Hinter Anymore
How To Talk To Condi And Dick
TRAITORGATE -- Rove/Plame: Fitzgerald to lose his day job?
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- It's on: Battle begins in Senate on nomination of chief justice | Judicious Obama turns up volume | John Roberts's Sound Bite: Judges Are Just Umpires, Not Players | Roberts Isn't Doing Us Any Favors By Answering Questions | Bush met secretly last week with Federal Appellate Judge Priscilla Owen | Orrin Hatch flip-flops on questioning Roberts | Sen. Grassley to Bloggers: Please Stop Making Me Do My Job | Tom Coburn, GOP hypocrite | Tom Coburn ignored his fellow Senators, worked on pressing crossword puzzle | Senators spar over Roberts
CRIMES OF DeLAY -- DeLay Chief Of Staff Jumping Ship To Be Time Warner Lobbyist
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- U.N. summit burdened by disagreements over human rights, terror, John Bolton
HOT POLITICS -- Let's Make Sure President Bush Doesn't Survive Katrina | Democrats in N.Y. Mayoral race make final pitch for votes; runoff likely | Bush's support fades in Ohio heartland | Trench Politics: Understanding Bush's so-called "achievements" (including a few liberal initiatives) | Harris keeps them waiting, but Republicans don't mind | "Bush is in fact fidgety, cold and snappish" -- and sometimes has no idea what he is talking about | Reynolds v. Emanuel | Bush losing support among Republicans | Bush Approval Rating at All-Time Low (42% - WP/ABC poll) | Bush and his team have no vision, and no consideration for the future | ND-Sen: potential tough race | Bush has treated governing very seriously. Seriously in the sense that he is serious about destroying it | NJ-Gov: Big Corzine lead | Tabloid Tried to Suppress Schwarzenegger Videotape
QWAGMIRE -- Civil war in Iraq: Insurgents Shell Green Zone in Baghdad; Bounties on heads of Iraq government | More Fun News From "Freedom" March | Bush Support Eroding as Christians Condemn Iraq Involvement | Army Expects to Miss Goals for Recruiting | Huge bomb in Baghdad kills two | Deadly Baghdad restaurant blast | US warns Syria that 'our patience is running out' | Mom questions Army 'betrayal' (friendly fire, not enemy fire) | Fallujah a lesson in counter-insurgency | Iraq insurgents offer bounties for deaths (of Shiite top officials
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- L.A. Police Chief Dismisses Taped Threat | Orange County, Cradle of Terror (Props to Scoobie)
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- NBC’s Brian Williams Admits They’ve Been Deferring To Bush | Unprofessional: WaPo's Rathergate
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Colin Powell Being Colin Powell | Jersey FBI analyst charged with spying
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Delta Plans To File For Bankruptcy | Westar Executives Wittig and Lake Convicted of Fraud (and there's a DeLay connection)
RACISM AMERICAN STYLE -- Clownhall or Klanhall?
MORALITY MORONICS -- 11 children are found in alarm-rigged cages
ENERGY SCANDALS -- L.A. power outage blamed on worker | Veto Promise In Emission Rule Flap
HEALTH DEBACLES -- FDA knew of Guidant heart device failures | Frist says Katrina might cancel Medicaid cuts
GAY IN AMERICA -- Ban On Same-Sex Marriage Could Fail In Mass. 9/12/05
Standing among the wreckage of two national disasters, it is no longer possible to deny the plain truth: Bush and his administration are unfit to wield power
How Bush Blew It | Bush poses on military ship; plans sleepover | Republicans leave humans to drown, rescue dogs | Doctors in New Orleans euthanized dying patients | Bush's Katrina dawdling should offend conservatives | New Orleans Police Keep Public Trust, Private Pain | Cheney Calls Katrina an “Exercise.” | Katrina Leads a Lobbyist to Reevaluate His Priorities | Bush squandered post-9/11 goodwill | Gov. Blanco On August 29: "Mr. President, We Need Your Help" | Republican governance drowns in the bowl of New Orleans | Error in Newsweek story: Bush didn't know the Hurricane damage was bad until THURSDAY! | NY Times Gets It Wrong: Bush Waited Till Wednesday Before Ending Vacation | Landrieu criticizes blame-setting by Bush administration | Blanco says Louisiana had good response efforts, refuses to blame Bush | Saturday in New Orleans with Kyle, AmericaBlog's on-the-ground correspondent | Louisiana's 'big insurance gap' | Katrina Exodus Could Change Political Mix | Post-9/11 Master Plan For Disasters "Broke Down" With Katrina… Cooperation Among Agencies "Faltered At Almost Every Level, Right Up To The White House" | La. Senator Rips Bush Hurricane Response | Two Katrina survivors' experience: Police chase | Landrieu: White House 'piles on' local officials | Pickles whines incessantly | Wider Powers for U.S. Forces -- Using Katrina to undermine Posse Comitatus? | Bush's bodies | Katrina Exposes Superpower in Disarray | Leave A Message At The Tone: Gov. Blanco on hold | Bush performance problems bring death to thousands | Bayou fishing towns wiped from map | Emergency aid has arrived . . . in San Antonio | Pelosi Supports Anti-Fraud Commission on Katrina | General: Feds Won't Enforce Evacuation | Katrina victims plan 9/11 protest | Congress probes hurricane cleanup contracts | Chancellor Gordon Brown blames Opec for fuel crisis | "War on terror" diverted US resources from disaster prevention: experts
The lethally inept response to Hurricane Katrina revealed to everyone that FEMA is a shell of its former self | Louisiana official: FEMA slow on housing | Privatizing FEMA | Brown: Bwaaah! I’m the Victim! | FEMA Director Brown paid millions to Florida residents unaffected by '04 hurricanes to help Bush win majority of votes there | Average' past trails troubled FEMA chief Michael Brown | Mayors fault FEMA response: Bush to make 3rd trip to region
Team Bush: “Grab some black people” | Katrina Pushes Issues of Race and Poverty at Bush
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- Why Democrats Must Oppose Roberts | Specter: "A Little Too Soon For Gonzales" | Poll: Opinion Of Roberts Undecided | Specter To Skirt Roe Question
HOT POLITICS -- My Pet Narrative | Michelle Pilecki: Bursting the Bubble Around Bush | The "three-point plan" for a GOP comeback includes racism | Four Years Later | Bill Weld rights his position in race for (NY) gov | Watch this! Barack Obama on race in America | Is Rove losing his magic touch? | The Bubble | The reach of Rove? | A Perfect Time for Assessing Blame | Bush's Status With Blacks Takes Hit
QWAGMIRE -- NY Times coverage of the not-so-much-freedom march | What if you threw a wargasm and nobody came? Freedom march fizzles | Hundreds join Cindy Sheehan in rally against Iraq war | GOP war support showing cracks | Under Pressure, Rebels Abandon an Iraqi Stronghold | Insurgents escape U.S.-Iraqi sweep | Just nuke it | The Failed Capture of Bin Laden... 36 US Troops to His 1500+... | Iraqi politicians still can't agree on constitution | U.S. says more than 150 killed in Iraq raid | Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan | Qaeda Member Warns of Attacks
MILITARY TORTURE SCANDAL -- Destination Cairo: human rights fears over CIA flights
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- DC Unprepared For Attack, Would Result In The "Kind Of Chaos And Confusion Seen" After Katrina
The World According to Powerline | Rupert Murdoch Undercuts Son, Drives Him To Quit... Tells Number 2 "Don’t Listen To Lachlan" | Brownie should never have held his job. But so too with most of the press corps
WHAT A RUSH! -- Rush Limbaugh's Homepage: More Insanity
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- The bullies using Sept. 11 to threaten America's religious and moral freedom must be opposed with a stubbornness to match their own | The war of unintended consequences
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Georgia reintroduces racist poll tax
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Study: Stock market manipulated by US | Charity chief: U.S. 'awash with millionaires' that don't aid poor
OH, GOD! -- GOP Texas Gov. Perry Appearing With Minister Who Says God Sent Katrina to Punish Tolerance of Gays | FEMA-Recommended Charity Operation Blessing Gives Half Its Cas to Christian Broadcasting Company | Some parents express concern over Dalai Lama visit
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Price At Pump Over $3 A Gallon -- All-Time High | Orders from Washington Behind Deportation(Activist Against D. Cheney
TRASHING NATURE -- Prescott in climate swipe at US
GAY IN AMERICA -- Texas GOP governor says it's possible God sent Katrina to purge the gays
9/11/05
Baltimore Sun says it at last: Bush must go | The Fall Of George W. Bush, And How To Make It Happen
Breakdowns Marked Path From Hurricane to Anarchy | La. Senator Landrieu Returns to Capitol to Denounce Bush | Signs of Life Appearing in New Orleans' French Quarter | U.S. won't ban media from New Orleans searches; CNN rubs it in administration's face | Kerry savages incompetence of the Crawford Cowboy at Corzine rally | Meet Dr. Ben Marble, the physician who told Cheney to go f*ck himself | Cover-up: toxic waters 'will make New Orleans unsafe for a decade' | GOP's Katrina Agenda: "A Lot Of Opportunities To Experiment" With Deregulation, Vouchers, Corporate Tax Breaks, Faith-Based Funding | Bush Boy declares emergency in 9 more states | Iraq war hindering Katrina response | Administration Refuses To Acknowledge Reality: The National Guard Is Stretched Thin | Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts | Blackwater mercenaries are in New Orleans | Gretna's choice: block New Orleans evacuees | Dome director: Residents were failed | Police in New Orleans Suburbs Blocked Evacuees, Witnesses Report | German plane with aid turned back | Joe Allbaugh, Kenyon and SCI: buying access to federal contracts? | Gulf Coast beware -- there's more where Katrina came from | Rampant Cronyism: Bush Allies Secure Post-Katrina Rebuilding Contracts...... | Katrina Darkens the Outlook for Incumbents | Food stamp hell among New Orleans' victims | Red Cross calls for 40,000 volunteers | The nation takes to the blame game. | Clueless, Part 2: More inane Katrina comments from the right | Katrina: Bush's performance problem | Former Louisiana Senator John Breaux Feels He Shoulders Part of Katrina Blame | Disarray Marked the Path From Hurricane to Anarchy | National Guard Chief Admits Troops' "Expertise And Capabilities Could Have Been" Used Had They "Been At Home And Not In Iraq" | New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Continues to Speak Out | Rescuers collect dead, New Orleans slowly recovers | Katrina may cost as much as four years of war | National Guard Stretched Thin | Viral Outbreak Among 700 at Astrodome Contained | Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA): House Government Reform Committee will hold Katrina hearing this week
Michael "Drownie" Brown sent candid e-mail to family, whines and claims he's being picked on | Drownie Misrepresented His Professional Experience Under Oath | Bwaaah! FEMA chief cries foul over criticism | A FEMA Primer on previous honchos: a pattern emerges | FEMA arrives empty-handed and 11 days late in Mississippi town | Cheney backed removing FEMA boss from Katrina duty | Tim McVeigh's attorney says some none-too-flattering things about Drownie | Michael Brown: Made To Order Punching Bag? | Flashback: Drownie got friendly, brief confirmation, thanks in part to Joe Lieberman | White House feeds info to a reporter, ends up looking even more incompetent | Meridian, Miss. Residents, Evacuees Fed Up With FEMA | Drownie is merely a symbol of the problems at FEMA, experts say | FEMA: Cronies on the local level, too
Beleaguered Bush tries to evoke spirit of 9/11 - but who cares after Katrina? | So where's Osama, Georgie? | The Pentagon's 911 Freedom March to Totalitarianism | Terrorism could hurl Beltway into turmoil | "The Collapse Of The Rationale For The War Left Terribly Exposed Precisely What Bin Laden Had Targeted As The Critical American Vulnerability: The Will To Fight" | Bush pleads for 'spirit of 9/11' (read: mindless fealty out of fear)
WAR AGAINST JUDICIAL EXTREMISTS -- John Roberts' Conflicts Of Interest | Chief Justice Rehnquist's Drug Habit | Specter Will Not Ask Roberts to Take a Stand on Abortion | Roberts Rules | Is the White House scheming to put Gonzales on the court? | Roberts may be sidelined in some cases (if he's appointed, of course)
BULLY BOY BOLTON -- World summit on UN's future heads for chaos thanks to bully boy John Bolton
HOT POLITICS -- "Before or After?" | Bush's Poll Number sink again | Families Rally Against 9/11 Museum | 2005 = January 1965? (This time, though, it's the GOP set for the fall) | John Conyers rises to take on Bush
BUDGET MESS --
QWAGMIRE -- Revenge Killings Fuel Fear of Escalation in Iraq | Army Kept Truth of GI's Death From Family; Mother Protested in Crawford | Members of Guard unit weary of role in Iraq | Sheehan criticizes Feinstein over war | Base savings overestimated by $30 billion?
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- U.S. Envisions Using Nukes on Terrorists
MEDIA MONKEYSHINES -- Hacks on Parade: Roger Ailes eviscerates Jeff Jarvis
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- The Aristobureaucrats: Homeland Security is the dirty joke inside the government
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Barbara Walters interviews Colin Powell on the faulty Iraq intelligence
$MIRKONOMICS -- Fighting Poverty Is Hopeless? Only With Bush In Charge
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Alternative Fuel Stocks Skyrocketing
Sept. 4-10 | Aug. 28-Sept. 3 | Aug. 21-27 | Aug. 14-20 | Aug. 7-13
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