Dick Cheney
Diane Feinstein: Yet More No-Change Change
First Hillary Clinton got to run our foreign policy. Now Diane Feinstein gets to oversee our intelligence agencies. This is change?
December 16, 2008 | Read More
The Obama-Cheney Administration?
Dick Cheney will be out of office in a month. But when it comes to presidential powers, he’s probably going to be with us for a long, long time. If you don’t believe it, just ask him. He’ll tell you.
December 15, 2008 | Read More
More On Governor Graft
Indicted Gov. Rod Blagojevich is a foul-mouthed pig. But what’s really vulgar about him is that he’s the norm, not the exception in today’s politics.
December 10, 2008 | Read More
Outsourcing Our Economy
A spoof column announces that we are officially outsourcing economics policy to Asia. It’s a funny idea, but disturbingly close to reality.
December 8, 2008 | Read More
Where’s Our Harry Truman?
During World War II, then Senator Truman waged a nonstop battle against defense contracting fraud and saved the country $15 billion (in 1940s dollars). In honor of Veteran’s Day, we thought we’d ask: are there any Harry Trumans in Congress fighting today’s war profiteers?
November 11, 2008 | Read More
Blood Stocks
Slate highlights a study this morning that shows U.S.-led coups didn’t just benefit connected multinationals. They also made unknown government insiders a ton of money.
October 28, 2008 | Read More
Pigs Fly? The Pentagon Cuts A Bloated Program
Last week, something truly bizarre happened in Washington. The Department of Defense actually trimmed a wasteful military contract. But this is the Pentagon we’re talking about. Weapons systems never die. They just get re-bid. And defense contractors like Boeing are already lining up.
October 20, 2008 | Read More
Paulson: The Anti-Midas
As soon as Paulson finished his speech today, the market absolutely flatlined. If fell faster than one of Dick Cheney’s duck hunting partners. Within ten minutes or so, it was in negative territory. By the closing bell, it was 150 in the red. That’s a 270 point drop in about a half an hour.
October 8, 2008 | Read More
Reason #97: Iraq Veterans - Out in the Cold
Politicians and government blowhards love to crow about supporting our troops. But it appears that this “support” only applies as long as the troops are fighting and dying overseas. When it comes to effectively treating and rehabilitating soldiers and veterans here at home, our government agencies could not be a greater disgrace. The scandals erupting in 2005 over deplorable conditions at the Walter Reed Medical Center were just the tip of the iceberg.
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Don Rumsfeld took us into Iraq thinking they could run this war on the cheap, and one area where they skimped the…
August 28, 2008 | Read More
Reason #92: A Planned Disaster - Downsizing the Army to Pump Up Corporate Profits
Rumsfeld and Cheney had planned for a long time to start a “revolution in military affairs.” To them, this meant massively reducing the size of America’s standing army and developing small, high-tech battalions which could be air-lifted to trouble spots to take care of business, either secretly or in the open. But as Colin Powell pointed out before he became Secretary of State, this special-forces approach was exactly the wrong way to invade a country like Iraq. Saddam Hussein, too, predicted that Iraq would absorb the invaders and they’d get picked off one by one.
But Rumsfeld went ahead and downsized…
August 28, 2008 | Read More
