Repost: Today's Headlines From Capitol Hill Blue

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Topping today's Blue...

 

 

George W. Bush: An American Hitler -- In George W. Bush's petty,

pathetic, partisan world, laws he doesn't agree with don't have to be

obeyed, Congressional actions that differ from his political agenda

can be ignored and the Constitution of the United States is just a

" goddamned piece of paper. "

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8534.shtml

 

War on the cheap -- The Iraq war has been the war fought on the cheap -

not enough body armor, not enough armor on vehicles, not enough night

vision equipment.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8531.shtml

 

Stupid is as stupid does -- This is mindless thinkology that stands

conservative ideology on its ear. At the very moment that the

market-based incentive is working wonderfully, it is to be scrapped.

Perhaps angry prospective car buyers may turn away from the hybrids

and back to the guzzlers. That will hurt America's effort to cut

consumption of foreign oil -- a quest that has become a national

security imperative.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8532.shtml

 

Under Republican rule, rich get richer and poor stay poor -- In

absolute terms the poor are just as poor as they were a generation

ago, while a middle class family's annual share of the last quarter

century's worth of economic growth allows it to buy one extra tank of

gas every three months.

Meanwhile, in relative terms, both groups are far poorer: indeed,

compared to the rich, most Americans are now only half as well-off as

they were during the Carter presidency.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8533.shtml

 

Military secrecy fight stalls change in detainee rules -- Two years

after a prisoner abuse scandal rocked the U.S. military, officials are

still wrangling over how best to guide troops on the handling of

detainees to ensure that such mistreatment does not happen again.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8535.shtml

 

Senate votes to protect pork -- The Senate voted Tuesday to protect

home-state projects added by some of its most senior members to an

Iraq war and hurricane relief funding bill as the tide turned against

efforts by spending hawks to strip them out.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8537.shtml

 

Reid may filibuster judicial nominees -- The Senate's top Democrat on

Tuesday said he is considering a filibuster of two of President Bush's

judicial nominees, saying one may have been involved in the

administration's policy on torture and the other ruled in a case in

which he had a clear conflict of interest.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8536.shtml

 

Ginsburg: Republicans launch assault on federal courts -- Supreme

Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday that a Republican

proposal in Congress to set up a watchdog over the federal courts is a

" really scary idea. "

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8538.shtml

 

Senate promises action on immigration reform -- President Bush and

Senate leaders on Tuesday redoubled their efforts on immigration

reform, one day after a nationwide boycott riveted political attention

to the cause.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8530.shtml

 

Port security bill advances in Senate -- A far-reaching port security

bill that could eventually lead to screening of all cargo containers

headed to the United States was approved by the Senate Homeland

Security Committee on Tuesday.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8529.shtml

 

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