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We Americans live in a tumultuous time. We Democrats, liberals and progressives live with this tumult in a state of fury and frustration. How are we supposed to not punch through dorm room walls as the President and his administration destroy the country’s future with its insane deficit and ridiculous foreign policy? continue reading...EPA
In the News with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson: “Bush backs allowing relaxed air quality rule.” As reported by John Heilprin (The Associated Press) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Friday October 14, 2005 Stephen Johnson, with the full backing of his boss... continue reading...Department of Energy
The Bush administration’s energy policy, especially the Energy Policy Act of 2005, undermines environmental and consumer production; it includes provisions that violate the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Water Act for the sake of oil and gas drilling.... continue reading...The Drug Czar
In the wake of September 11th and the emergence of America’s new internal security apparatus, the Department of Homeland Security, many of the other executive departments have faded into the background. Not least among these is the Department of National... continue reading...Department of defense
Defending America? On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States of America was shocked by terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Both Twin Towers were destroyed and thousands of innocent lives lost. In the aftermath of disaster,... continue reading...Commerce Department
In one of his usual, and recently infamous, moves of cronyism, in 2001, Bush nominated his longtime friend and the man that apparently helped wean him off the bottle, Donald Evans, to the position of Secretary of Commerce. Although Evans,... continue reading...Secretary of State
When Colin Powell first arrived to head the State Department in 2001, he was widely viewed as a moderate buffer to the predominantly neoconservative foreign policy team assembled by President Bush. There was genuine hope among Democrats, as well as... continue reading...Homeland Security
Homeland Insecurity? After a disaster as big as the September 11th attacks, it was easy to see that America was in need of something major. For this reason the Office of Homeland Security was created. At face value it seemed... continue reading...Secretary of Treasury
“While the Administration was passing tax cut after tax cut for the wealthiest members of our society, it was also denying funding to many programs that desperately needed it; plans aimed at repairing and strengthening levees and dams along the Gulf Coast. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, this irresponsibility is absolutely unforgivable. After signing his tax cuts into law in 2001, Bush cut by half of one billion dollars allocations for the Army Corps of Engineers. Less than 2 weeks after the tax cuts were instituted, House Republicans stripped $389 million in disaster relief money from the federal budget. Busy with his wars, Bush apparently decided that disaster relief and dam maintenance were inconsequential, unimportant programs.”-Ryan Haddad, Secretary of Treasury continue reading...