RK ARCHIVE - Bush and Rove negotiate $450 million Slush Fund.

How in the world has this not set the blogosphere (and then the late to the party MSM) on fire?

Get this....in a trade negotiation between the USA and Canada $450 million will be funneled directly to the Bush Whitehouse to do whatever it wants with the money with no congressional oversight.

This is a 450 million dollar slush fund that Rove can use to steal our election....the Canadians have already described it as such.

The Dems in Congress better find their spines and speak up next week in outrage. This will either backfire in Rove's face or cost us the elections.....

This is a bi-partisan issue so I hope everyone, Democrats, Republicans, Greens, Independents will contact their reps and senators and ask them to take action to correct this asap. The Bush admin should have to account for this outrageous behavior.

Comments

Speak loud (VA Breeze - 9/4/2006 1:00:32 AM)

Many of the posts said September 1 was the date the money would be moved-has it been moved to the White House accounts? This is insane! I guess Bush does think he is King. We better gear up to make sure this info shows up all over the place.

Thanks for posting this (pitin - 9/4/2006 2:37:44 AM)

I had missed this in the first go round.

It's late, so I'm gonna do some more checking tomorrow and have a better comment, but this is good stuff.

Softwood Lumber Agreement and September 1 deadline (lambert - 9/4/2006 2:17:55 PM)

The text of the SLA says that the "meritorious initiatives" to which the $450 million will go must be "determined" by September 1, not "published" by September 1.

Still, it seems strange that Bush doesn't want to use this for PR.

We're looking into why the ***crickets*** on the $450 million, but no results yet.

It's a genuine slush fund...forget the PR (mosquitopest - 9/21/2006 4:28:33 PM)

They don't have to account to anyone or tell anyone where the money goes or how it is spent....that's the problem....It's another precedent and technically it's illegal...but yeah Gonzalez is going to make this prez follow any laws?

Buzz...Buzz...

October surprise (VA Breeze - 9/21/2006 4:44:16 PM)

Is this money part of the October surpise that Rove is promising?