WaPo: "Rep. Tom Davis, center, with Rep. Henry Waxman, right, practiced his delaying technique."
WaPo: "Rep. Tom Davis, center, with Rep. Henry Waxman, right, practiced his delaying technique."
* Defending administration officials' ability to lie to Congress.
* Voting against shareholders right to veto Enron- and Exxon-like CEO sweetheart deals. Jim Webb voted for this bill.
* Covering up the military's embellishment of the Jessica Lynch rescue, including the military's editing the video so it would look like a scene from "Black Hawk Down."
* Voting against military readiness in the the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act. Jim Webb voted for this bill.
* Informing Chairman Waxman that by investigating lies and corruption he was "like a highbred horse without a bridle." Whoa.
According to Center for Media and Democracy:
During last week's hearing before the House Government Oversight Committee, the committee's senior Republican member, Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, argued in his opening statement that the Lynch rescue was exaggerated by the media, not by the military. It is certainly true that the media did embellish the story, but the story itself was created by the military. No embedded journalist accompanied the raid, and the green night-vision footage of Lynch's rescue was shot by soldiers. As Robert Scheer later noted, "The video was artfully edited by the Pentagon and released as proof that a battle to free Lynch had occurred when it had not."
In fact, Command Central issued the photos and videos on Lynch, and told the press the less-then accurate story of her capture and rescue.
According to Politico:
"[Davis's] remarks coincide with a coordinated assault by Republicans in the House, criticizing Waxman on a range of topics because of his determination to question Rice, one leadership aide said.
You might say Tom Davis makes Wolfowitz money grab for his girlfriend look like amateur hour.
For the Big Dig the company paid off the state Secretary of Transportation to overlook their cost overruns. Let's see who they pay off in Fairfax County.
Wolfowitz. Heh. Apparently his lawyer was threatening to reveal other sweetheart deals in Wolfie got ousted from the den. (I would not be surprised if there were tons of similar deals.)
But wait. Isn't the President of the World Bank supposed to root out corruption, like sweetheart deals. You mean his attorney is threatening the Bank with Wolfie doing what he's paid for?
I see our local GOP congressmen voted against extending hate crimes protection.
As you know, the Justice Department is now investigating whether former DOJ employee Monica Goodling broke the law by screening DOJ job applicants for party affiliation. Let's not forget that two weeks ago TPMmuckraker's Paul Kiel ran an article on Bradley Schlozman in which a former DOJ employee said on the record that Schlozman had asked him a potential job applicants party affiliation before deciding whether to grant him an interview. That sounds like pretty much exactly the same thing.http://www.talkingpo...
To think a friend of mine was bugging me to get involved with the Federalist Society years ago.
And if it's not corruption it's cronyism: http://thinkprogress...
New HHS deputy secretary is Bush's former debate prepper.Tevi David Troy's main qualifications: Troy had primary responsibility for debate preparation in President Bush's re-election campaign.