Appropriations

The New Bush

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

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Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

We knew Bush wasn't "smart." And now we know Palin isn't either. But can Dems find a way to show why all these sorted facts matter?

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Dems Expected To Pass Billions In New War Funding

Politico | Martin Kady II | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is rapidly pulling together a carefully orchestrated plan for what looks to be the last Iraq war supplemental be...

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Why I Was Right About Iraq

Jane Smiley | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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Jane Smiley

Being against the Iraq War wasn't hard -- it was easy. The Iraq War made no sense, even as a wish. To wish for a war on someone else's soil is to wish death and destruction on others.

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4,000 and Counting...

Tom Andrews | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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Tom Andrews

Even the reduction of violence promoted daily by Bush and the Iraq war apologists lacks credibility.

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From the Streets to the Suites

Tom Andrews | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

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Tom Andrews

In a presidential debate in 1980, President Ronald Reagan asked American voters: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" On the fifth anni...

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GWB moves one step closer ...

Mark Kleiman | Posted 01.31.2008 | Home

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Mark Kleiman

... to a claim of dictatorial powers. Now he says that he can spend appropriated funds for purposes that the Congress has specifically forbidden. Ar...

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No Budget? No Paycheck.

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

President Bush has been proven wrong in some big and spectacular ways this week. But while he continues to channel his foreign policy advice from Plu...

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Michael Roston

House Spending Chairman Obey On Bush War Funding: Are You Serious?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics

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President Bush today rolled out further details about his supplemental budget request to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As he announced it, B...

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