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Finally! Something I can agree with McCain on.

It was Aug. 29, McCain’s 69th birthday, and on the tarmac, Bush presented his old political rival with a cake. The two posed, holding the cake up for cameras, and within seconds, went their separate ways. The cake, melting in the 110-degree Arizona heat, was left behind, uneaten.

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I wasn’t invited:

Bush tweaks candidates at correspondents’ dinner
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush poked fun at his potential successors Saturday night, expressing surprise that none of them were in the audience at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner.
“Senator McCain’s not here,” Bush said of GOP nominee-in-waiting John McCain. “He probably wanted to distance himself from [...]

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This is bullshit. Out government and everything that touches it sucks! We, as everyday citizens, must follow rules. If we break the rules, we are punished. Why doesn’t our government operate this way? It used to!.. sorta.
If contractors can’t stay on budget or time-table, then fire their asses and replace them… simple as that!

GAO Blasts [...]

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Is New Orleans an incompetency magnet or what?!
Ripped from their homes from a destructive hurricane and a shoddy levee system, forced to survive on their own with little to no help. FEMA finally shows up with their massive incompetency and their toxic death-trap trailers… and now this:

Katrina Victims May Have to Repay Money
NEW ORLEANS (AP) [...]

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From TPMMuckraker:

EPA Chief Slow Walks CO2 Rule
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson will not be rushed, no sir. We gave you the rundown earlier this month of how Johnson had managed to ignore a landmark Supreme Court ruling. The EPA could no longer avoid taking a stance on whether greenhouse gases were covered by the Clean Air [...]

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“Republicans sharply limited Democrats’ influence“?
I think the word they should have used here is ‘annihilated’. And with good reason. If Republicans had maintained their majority in ‘06, there wouldn’t have been much difference this past year. Oh, maybe a lot of time would have been saved on investigations - that ultimately went no where! Sure, [...]

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It’s about sick children of poor families. And the majority of the public supports expanding this program. Yet the republicans are clearly still in the race for president. If for nothing else this administration has done in it’s seven years in power, what kind of sick, twisted mind could vote for a party that spends [...]

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While the politicians espouse a rhetoric designed to preserve their reputations and their political power, our soldiers die.
-Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez

How’s that for telling it like it is?! Of course these are the reasons. It’s common knowledge that this war will continue on past the ‘08 elections. Little Georgie refuses to admit to making [...]

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By Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus
The Washington Post
This adds fuel to the fire from Question Girl’s post down below. This article is from the Washington Post that ran yesterday.

Just after 9 a.m. on Aug. 29, a group of U.S. airmen entered a sod-covered bunker on North Dakota’s Minot Air Force Base with orders to collect [...]

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From USA Today:
Financial records at the Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are so disorganized and inconsistent that they cannot be audited fully, making them subject to waste, fraud and abuse.
That’s the conclusion of an Associated Press review of the two departments’ files.
In 1997 Congress ordered that outside auditors must examine federal agencies’ books. But [...]

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