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POPSHealthcare: Compassion and cost-cutting go together "Mr. Bush claimed to be against excessive government expenditure. So what did he do to rein in the cost of Medicare, the biggest single item driving federal spending? Nothing. In fact, the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act drove costs up both by preventing bargaining over drug prices and by locking in subsidies to insurance companies"
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POPSSet a new framework for the torture debate For apparently people were being tortured after the invasion of Iraq to coerce stories of an Al Qaeda involvement there before the invasion, for the purpose - not of intelligence - but of exonerating the Bush Administration.
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POPSU.S. Foreign Policy Caused the Taliban Problem
The Taliban responded to Bush’s demand by asking him to furnish evidence of bin Laden’s complicity in the 9/11 attacks. Upon receipt of such evidence, they offered to turn him over to an independent tribunal instead of the United States. Bush never explained why the Taliban’s conditions were unreasonable. After all, as federal judges in the Jose Padilla case, the Zacarias Moussaoui case, and many others have confirmed, terrorism is a federal criminal offense. Thus, while it’s not unusual for one nation to seek the extradition of a foreigner to stand trial for a criminal offense, it’s just as reasonable for the nation receiving the request to be provided evidence that the person has, in fact, committed the crime. Venezuela is currently seeking the extradition from the United States of a man named Luis Posada Carriles, who is accused of bombing a Cuban airliner over Venezuelan skies, a terrorist act that succeeded in killing everyone on board. Venezuela and the United States hav
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POPSBush vow, 2003: US will prosecute torture, cruelty In a proclamation on UN day supporting victims of torture, Bush vowed to prosecute any such acts. The CIA called the White House to complain, having been authorized by Bush to do what he was publicly promising to prosecute.
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POPS"Top 25 Five Censored News Stories" # # 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid # # 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs # # 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror # # 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer
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POPSAmount Obama received from AIG: Zero! Employees of AIG - a different matter - gave quite a bit, but not as much as they gave Bush in 04. And the #3 winner from AIG employees in 08? John McCain. If you contributed to the campaign of a public official at your work, would it be accurate to say that the company you work for made the contribution?
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POPSObama announces changes in auto emissions regulation Directs regulators to reconsider applications from CA and 13 other states to set their own stricter rules. Directs implementation of 2007 fleet improvement law ignored by Bush admin. I just heard on NPR: "Obama has done more for the environment in one week than Bush did in eight years."
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POPSUN torture officer: US must prosecute Bush, Rumsfeld "the United States has a clear obligation” to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld. He noted Washington had ratified the UN convention on torture which required “all means, particularly penal law” to be used to bring proceedings against those violating it."
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POPSHow Bush altered Appalachian landscape "And this here is what hell looks like to me on Earth," Gibson says on a rainy winter day. Bill Raney of the West Virginia Coal Association says having a friend in the White House — President Bush — has been great for coal.
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POPSBUSH PARDONS OSAMA BIN LADEN Satire by David Rees - and very funny ... "William Kristol insisted the pardon made sense." And no, wingers, I don't hate GWB. But if we ignore the consequences - not only of his questionable competence, but also of his inflexibly ideological outlook, we'll find ourselves having to dig out of this hole all over again some day. We must not forget.
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POPSDid Bush keep us safe? Jon Stewart offers a useful analogy: the babysitter, the toddler, and the basement. Not a video clip - see text after photo.
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POPSBush: Delusional to the end "if there was any value in the speech it was this: it should remind us of the importance of refusing to allow this delusional revisionism to stand."
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POPSIs Bush Olmert's bitch? Some think so ... The USA, about to agree with the world on a UN resolution partly written by Secretary Rice, is stopped in its tracks by a phone call from Ehud Olmert to GWB. He gloats over Israel's power.
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POPSDawn Johnsen, Yoo opponent, nominated for Yoo's job Highly critical of John Yoo, the Asst Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, who wrote legal opinions justifying Bush abuses. She insists it's the OLC's duty to restrain the President from illegal activities. Her position is, in fact, stronger than Obama's.
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