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  • Bill Frist, The Former 2008 Presidential Candidate
    27 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    It’s one thing to lie in politics. It’s another to be caught in a lie. Bill Frist has been caught in a lie. His political future is over. The immediate question is, can he survive as Majority Leader?
    The Tennessee Republican claims he wasn’t privy to any inside information leading up to the sale of his stock in Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the country’s largest for-profit hospital chain founded by Frist’s father, Thomas, and brother, Thomas Jr., weeks before (…)

  • Top Democrats Flee Peace Protests
    27 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I have been thinking for a while now that the Democrats really should sit down and consider changing their mascot from a donkey to a marmot. A rodent really is more emblematic of their provincial habits than a donkey could ever be. Think about it. Just this past weekend, antiwar rallies were held across the country, and the Democratic leadership was nowhere in sight. They had high-tailed it out of there. They hid in their holes and were afraid to be seen.
    In all fairness, a few elected (…)

  • An Open letter to Howard Dean.
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This letter is in response to one sent by the DNC regarding the Roberts confirmation for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (original letter posted below my response.)
    Dear Mr. Dean,
    Although the Roberts confirmation is indeed an important issue, I think a much more important issue is voter fraud. What went down in Ohio on Nov 3, 2004 and after, is a frontal assault on our cherished Democracy. Why did Kerry concede and why did only 47 house reps led by John Conyers, and one Senator, (…)

  • The GOP’s Fiscal Policies Turned a Natural Disaster into a Man-Made Catastrophe
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Republicans like to brag that, as a political party, they are more fiscally responsible than their Democratic counterparts. Well, thanks to President Bush’s four years in office that theory can now take up residence in the urban legend department.
    If anything, Bush’s tenure as president proves that the Republican tax cuts (which everyone knows truly benefits the wealthiest one percent), drastically slashing funds in the federal budget for much needed improvements to the (…)

  • Amid Many Fights Over Qualifications, a Bush Nomination Stalls in the Senate "NY Times"
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM and STEPHEN LABATON
    Published: September 24, 2005
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 - Faced with accusations that the Bush administration is stocking the government with unqualified cronies, the Republican chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is holding up the nomination of a lawyer with little background in immigration or customs to head the law enforcement agency in charge of those issues.
    Democrats have seized on the political fury (…)

  • Running on the Right to Vote
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Running on the Right to Vote By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective
    Thursday 22 September 2005
    There are two kinds of people in American politics today: those who know our basic right to vote and have every vote counted is imperiled, and those who have no idea such a basic right is at risk.
    Those who know our voting rights are at risk - from electronic touch-screen voting machines that use unverified software, offer no paper ballots, transfer data via modem to hackable (…)

  • Information on the results of the early national elections in Germany of 18 September, 2005
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    These elections have been called by the German Federal President on the initiative of chancellor Schröder one year before the term of the red green government ended. Confronted with a dramatic fall in popularity and a long series of lost lander elections because of his neo-liberal economic and social policies, its brutal dismantling of the German welfare state, the chancellor took what he saw as the last chance to receive the voters’ mandate to stay in power. SPD and Greens made their (…)

  • New Venezuelan Parliament Focuses on Socialist Project
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Caracas, Sep 19 (Prensa Latina) The governing Bloque de Cambio (Bloc of Change) formalized the socialist nature of the National Assembly as polls closed for Venezuelan parliamentary elections on Monday.
    President Hugo Chavez referred to the strategic importance of the legislature to start strengthening the process "toward socialism" by 2006.
    Chavez fully trusts in the overwhelming support of most Venezuelans supporting the social policy effective since 1999 to improve the distribution of (…)

  • New Zealand election stalemate exposes deep social divisions
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Braddock
    Provisional results from Saturday’s New Zealand elections have put neither of the two major parties, Labour or National, in a position to form a government. The incumbent Labour Party leads by a narrow margin of 23,000 votes with 218,000 special votes still to be counted. As it stands, the result gives Labour 40.7 percent of the vote (50 seats) and National 39.6 percent (49 seats). Both would need to stitch together a shaky coalition with more than one of the minor parties (…)

  • German election : a clear rejection of right-wing policies
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Schwarz
    The result of the election for the German parliament (Bundestag) on Sunday can be interpreted in only one way: policies based on welfare cuts and the re-division of social wealth to benefit the rich have met with bitter resistance from the German population and been vigorously rejected.
    Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had arranged the early election in order to create a stable parliamentary majority for the implementation of his thoroughly unpopular program of (…)