Karl Rove expands his domestic hegemony over the Dubya White house.
Category: The Dubya Era
Card-carrying members of the public library.
Armed with the Patriot Act (what a wonderfully Orwellian name) signed by Dubya last October, the FBI begins scouring libraries to check “terrorist” reading habits. Good news for your local Barnes and Noble, I suppose, who’ll probably be selling a lot more copies of The Anarchist’s Cookbook from now herein. I’d love to see a sample list of what books make the FBI’s red flag list.
Trickle to a Flood.
“You have so tortured this law, it’s beyond silly,” Let the gutting commence. By a vote of 5-to-1, the FEC approves exemptions in McCain-Feingold that already have the interest groups smiling. This is not good.
Corporate Malfeasance.
Frank Rich wonders aloud if all the recent hem-hawing about the Watergate anniversary might be better spent monitoring today’s Imperial Executives. (Thanks, Tim.)
Idiot Savant.
Maureen Dowd on Dubya, our Philosopher King.
Off the reservation?
Is John Ashcroft becoming a liability to the Bush White House as well as a national embarrassment?
That didn’t take long.
Only a year after Dubya’s tax buyoff, the government is in deep.
Trouble ahead.
Paul Krugman worries aloud about Rovian economic policy, while Tom Oliphant preps for an economic train wreck.
Lobbyists Strike Back.
The “feeding frenzy is over,” according to Phil Gramm, and corporate lobbyists are breathing a sigh of relief. The impetus stalls for post-Enron corporate reform in Congress.
Ashcroft for Guns.
The lost NRA Ad.