Young voters were the only age group that backed John Kerry on Election Day. Yesterday, it seemed Bush got his revenge on those of them in college. A change in eligibility for Pell Grants to be announced Thursday by the Department of Education would cut some 90,000 students from the rolls of recipients and affect […]
I had forgotten how much the Bush gang loves the week before Christmas, when media interest is tepid, Americans’ attention is focused elsewhere, and they can pull stunts like these. The Bush administration issued comprehensive new rules yesterday for managing the national forests, jettisoning some environmental protections that date to Ronald Reagan’s administration and putting […]
The ongoing wild card in the Social Security fight remains skeptical congressional Republicans. In early December, it was Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, former chairman of the House Republican campaign committee, who said he knows of about 30 House Republicans, including him, who are already inclined to oppose Bush’s Social Security plan. A week ago, […]
Bush is a failure when it comes to job performance and governing, but he and his gang of merry political advisors are tremendous campaigners. They’re tireless, savvy, and not afraid to abandon the truth when it means getting ahead. A couple of weeks ago, U.S. News & World Report said the Bush team would focus […]
On Oct. 8, during the second Bush-Kerry debate, the president made it sound like drug reimportation, which is widely popular with the public clamoring for more affordable prescription medication, could be right around the corner. “And we’ve just got to make sure, before somebody thinks they’re buying a product, that it works. And that’s why […]
I’ve got your “compassionate conservatism” right here. In one of the first signs of the effects of the ever tightening federal budget, in the past two months the Bush administration has reduced its contributions to global food aid programs aimed at helping millions of people climb out of poverty. With the budget deficit growing and […]
Speaking of polls, these results just don’t make any sense. Most Americans say they’re at least somewhat confident about the safety of prescription drugs sold in the United States, according to an Associated Press poll taken at a time when several popular medications have been linked to increased risk of heart attack and stroke. […] […]
The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll on domestic policies, in particular Social Security, will probably be viewed as bad news for the White House. Bush needs people to believe that the system in “in crisis” right now and that his plan to gut the program is necessary to save it. That’s clearly not where the […]
The ACLU has fed the papers more information. The Bush administration is facing a wave of new allegations that the abuse of foreign detainees in U.S. military custody was more widespread, varied and grave in the past three years than the Defense Department has long maintained. New documents released yesterday detail a series of probes […]
There are really only two constituencies that will benefit from Bush’s goal of privatizing Social Security: far-right ideologues, which oppose the existence of the program on philosophical grounds; and Wall Street, which stands to receive a windfall of Americans’ retirement money. With this in mind, it’s not surprising that financial firms are gearing up for […]