Death Squads are Fabulous!

Political cartoonist Ted Rall presents, here, the next step in the neoconservative attack on the 50% of America that does not support them.

Molly Ivins: A Bounty of Bush Blunders

Molly Ivins asserts that "the White House should come to grips with the fact that it would do the country a huge favor if it paid attention to the bad news it's ignoring" and that you should "count your change when dealing with Bushies."

You can read her editorial here.

Top 11 Reasons Jeb Bush is Touring South Asia with Colin Powell.

About a week too late to be timely, buuuutt...

Top 11 reasons Jeb Bush is touring South Asia with Colin Powell.

11. Abject humiliation of Colin Powell now only a gubernatorial responsibility.

10. Needed cover to pick up a "package" from the family's Taiwanese paymasters.

9. When the US government spends $350 million, a Bush is always around to get a piece of the action.

8. Believe it or not, Jeb was in Asia to keep Powell from embarrassing himself!

7. Just happened to have a few thousand water-bottles marked "Jeb '08'" that might help in the humanitarian effort.

6. Use of a State Department plane enabled Jeb to pick-up an anniversary gift for Columba without having to bring it through customs.

5. Hoping to drink the last remaining drops of Powell's credibility while he sleeps.

4. Jeb does have conversational Spanish...

3. Millions are homeless and without food, potable water or a governor to hug them.

2. Neil said the prostitutes were great.

1. Jeb has no shame.

Tell Your Representatives to Investigate the Bush Administration's "Fake News" Addiction

From People for the American Way:

It's time for an intervention. The Bush administration has become addicted to taxpayer-funded, "fake news" propaganda.

News reports have revealed that the Department of Education used $240,000 of our taxes to hire Armstrong Williams, an ultra-conservative black columnist and talk-show host, to promote the controversial No Child Left Behind Act to his readers, viewers and colleagues in the media. Williams did just as the Department asked, and repeatedly failed to inform his audiences that his comments were bought and paid for with their own taxes.

This is not an isolated incident or simply bad judgment. The Government Accountability Office found last year that the Department of Health and Human Services violated two federal laws by producing propaganda videos touting Medicare's new drug benefits which were misleadingly packaged to look like news reports from independent journalists. Last week, the GAO announced that the Office of National Drug Control Policy had also potentially broken the law by using taxpayer dollars to produce similar "fake news" video segments.

Help restore accountability, ethics and financial sanity to our government.

Tell your members of Congress to call for a top-to-bottom investigation of the Education Department's contract and all similar schemes at other federal agencies. Americans shouldn't have to get their news wondering, "How much did the government pay them to say that?"

Go here.

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