John Marburger, Bush’s science advisor, says he did not recommend wiping out eight pages of global warming testimony by the head of the CDC, Julie Gerberding, on Oct. 24. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., informs Mr. Marburger that the White House had blamed him for deleting the pages. The more you keep repeating a comment the truer it becomes.

Stalled legislation, aimed at speeding up cheaper generic drugs, keeps those drug-runs to the north miserably ongoing. Powerful Washington lobbies for drug companies spend millions to keep low-cost prescriptions out of the hands of the sick that need them - to live. Only in America.

A second attempt in a month to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which dictates when the government must obtain court permission to carry out electronic eavesdropping, comes up for a vote today. It seems the chief reason Bush and republicans dislike this version is that it does NOT grant immunity to the large telecoms that aided and abetted Bush in his illegal eavesdropping on American citizens. The Senate Judiciary Committee was to work on its own spying bill. The Senate Intelligence Committee’s version contains an immunity provision for telecoms. Because criminal acts shouldn’t be limited to just our government.

Democrats are known for “tax and spend”, whereas republicans “borrow and spend”. Is there any real difference? Well, yes, there is. There’s no interest accrued on monies raised from taxation. Considering that the Bush administration has borrowed billions from countries such as Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, and Mexico, the interest alone will take years to pay back.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., suggests that we “roll back the Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest, the people making over $200,000 a year, close some tax loopholes, including benefits for oil companies, and [start] withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq“.

But that makes way too mush sense, doesn’t it?