Again and again and again with the Cannon Brothers

*Safavian, Abramoff, DeLay, Cunningham, etc.** etc. and … Cannon? Dirty politics is dirty politics no matter how well rehearsed your excuses are. From the AP wire today:Lawmaker helped brother’s lobby clients TED BRIDISAssociated Press “WASHINGTON...

Us and Them

“I’d rather be talking about this than all of the other things that Congress hasn’t done well,” one Republican congressional aide told AFP on condition of anonymity because of possible reprisals.”Weeks before September 11th, this is going...

Security Loopholes? What Loopholes?

Washington, DC – Today, when asked about “giant loopholes” in our nation’s security, President Bush asked the reporter for the “specific loopholes” they were referring to. [President Bush, 8/14/06] His comments came less than a week...

Social Security's Birthday

On August 14, 1935 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. Today this program is widely considered to be the most successful government program in the United States, lifting literally millions of seniors out of poverty and...