Thursday, June 22, 2006

Thursday, June 22, 2006
New EPA study finds Bush is wrong about cause of gas price increase by John in DC - 6/22/2006 10:27:00 PM
I guess Bush won't be able to repeal those environmental protection laws like his rich donors wanted you to. Do Republicans have any agenda other than giving the country away to their corporate donors? Oh, that's right: gay marriage.More from AP:
"Boutique" gasoline blends to help states meet clean air rules are not a factor in higher prices as President Bush has suggested, says a draft of a study ordered by the White House.Although often cited as a reason for volatile gasoline prices, so-called "boutique fuels" have not caused unusual distribution problems or contributed to price increases, the report concludes.The review was conducted by a task force headed by the Environmental Protection Agency and involving representatives from the 50 states as well as the Energy and Agriculture departments.Facing growing public outrage over soaring gasoline prices, Bush ordered the study on April 25 in a speech in which he attributed high gas prices in part to the growth of special fuels."We ... need to confront the larger problem of too many localized fuel blends, which are called boutique fuels," the president told a renewable fuels conference, adding that this has produced "an uncoordinated, overly complex set of fuel rules" that "tends to cause the price to go up."But the task force found otherwise, according to its report to be released possibly as early as Friday.

Yes, how convenient by John in DC - 6/22/2006 09:52:00 PM

I just don't believe a thing this administration says any longer.
Seven people were arrested Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S., including the FBI office here, a federal law enforcement official said.And they just happened to arrest them today. Uh huh. What's the matter? A good Orange Alert just doesn't get out the vote like it used to?

Are US intelligence agencies trying to influence the US election? by John in DC - 6/22/2006 08:55:00 PM
You remember yesterday when Rick Santorum and another House member were trying to con the country into believing we found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and we didn't. Well, now we know that the report Santorum and the House member based their lie on came from the George Bush's top spy, National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.Why Bush's top intelligence guy chose this week, right in the middle of a congressional Iraq debate intended to help the Republicans in this fall's elections, to release this "news" that we supposedly found WMD in Iraq, is anyone's guess. But it sure smacks of an attempt by the US intelligence community to influence the US domestic elections in favor of the Republcans, and that is an incredible breach of trust and law.At what point does George Bush stop treating America like some kind of personal banana republic?

Iraq war supporters speak out by John in DC - 6/22/2006 06:57:00 PM
One of them posted this in our comments today:
Lets face it, muslims are dirty, vile disgusting satan worshipers. The only thing they know is force. We must take all embedded reporters out of the front lines. finding those who killed the 2 American soldiers is simple. Drag 100 women and babies into the streets., kill one baby with a head shot, and say all will die if you do not tell us who killed these men., If nobody speaks up, torture the women and kill all babies , We must ask ourselves are these muslims really human, or just a disease upon the earth that should be eraddicated.Yes, great impact this war is having on our country. Thank you George Bush, and the Republican Congress, for continuing to insist that the war in Iraq is going a-okay and we should remain there until the next decade.

Ann Coulter loses it during radio interview by John in DC - 6/22/2006 05:38:00 PM
Wow, she's always been a bit nutty, but I always thought it was mostly theater. But this radio interview by WERS's David Goodman and WERS 88.9 FM Boston, to be aired this weekend, is simply unsettling. We first got a whiff of something weird going on with Ann during her recent Today Show interview, and now this. She just doesn't sound quite all there.

Rumsfeld decides to cut and run from Iraq by John in DC - 6/22/2006 04:55:00 PM
Gotta love them. The week that Bush and the Republicans in Congress yell and scream about how we simply cannot withdraw a single US service member from Iraq, ever, the Pentagon now is considering withdrawing some men from Iraq - though it's clearly only a few and being done for political purposes.Still, how hypocritical, and transparent, can you get.