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31.1%, April 30, 2008. Driven largely by gas prices and Iraq war failures, Bush's approval rating (including half the undecided) hit a new low on election day. The plan to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq has lowered it again. Assorted scandals and continuing Iraq problems have driven his job ratings even lower. [See latest Bush poll graph.]

Not for attribution
Christopher Jensen, of wheels.blogs., has discovered that even the name of the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is off the record, background only, not for attribution; the communications office of the department can't tell that to reporters without permission from above.

"This makes for interesting dealings with the office charged with providing information about the nation’s top automotive safety agency. ... So, I will end the suspense about the boss’s identity. The administrator is Nicole R. Nason ... And it is she who put the big hush

on one of the government’s most important safety agencies," writes Jensen.

Never let the facts spoil the story
It isn't only scientific evidence that the Bush crowd is altering -- they rewrote the report on the lack of voter fraud to make it say fraud appeared wide spread.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
PAUL WOLFOWITZ,, president of the World Bank after leaving the George W. Bush administration, was rebuked by the Bank's ethics committee for violations of staff personnel policy, causing his resignation. The Bank's board found his high-handed management style incompatible with the consensual, process-obsessed style of the bank. Wolfowitz

was cutting off funding without consulting board members, ordering personnel reassigned without discussion, and, said the ex-general counsel, “He presumes that anyone who opposes him is incompetent or corrupt.”

I. LEWIS 'SCOOTER' LIBBY is not going to prison; Bush commuted his sentence, calling it "excessive." He does have to pay the fine of $250,000 -- at least for now he does. Meanwhile, the Wilsons are sueing Libby and half the White House.

JACK ABRAMOFF is serving a sentence of five years and 10 months at a minimum-security prison camp in Cumberland, Md., for defrauding

banks. The Go-To Man is gone.

... this is now. American military officials in Iraq did not keep track of guns issued to the Iraqi police because they "did not believe the rules applied to them." 505,093 weapons were given to the Iraqi police but only 12,128 serial numbers recorded. counting guns.

W.Kristol, P.Wolfowitz

Neocons are neither liberal nor conservative

The Neocon Agenda: They convinced Bush to try nation building in Iraq after Cheney brought them to power. Starting in 1997, they planned the Iraq War as a sequel to the Gulf War and used 9/11 as their excuse. What makes them tick? picture

Jack Abramoff

The Man Who Tried to Buy Washington

Abramoff, 47, is serving a sentence of five years and 10 months at a minimum-security prison camp in Cumberland, Md., for defrauding

banks of $23 million in his purchase of a Florida casino cruise line six years ago. Abramoff has also pleaded guilty in Washington to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials. He is to be sentenced in that case next year. The Go-To Man is gone.
Investigations also showed hundreds of contacts with and thousands of dollars spent on White House personnel, including NCAA tickets and other favors for Rove. Abramoff & Rove

While Katrina destroys New Oreans

Videos: Bush had clear warnings of Katrina

Katrina Dates and Times On August 28th, Bush was warned the chance of over-topping the levees was "obviously a very grave concern." Katrina was the 4th strongest Atlantic hurricane ever and New Orleans, slightly below sea level, is our most vulnerable city. Katrina struck at 6AM on the 29th. What did Bush do that day? Here are the White House photos.
McCain Birthday

El Mirage Country Club, Arizona

Rancho Cucamonga

Valerie Plame

Wilson exposed nuclear deception

Scooter Libby, while attempting to discredit Wilson, leaked to reporters that Valerie Plame, Wilson's wife, was a CIA agent. Richard Armitage, once a Deputy Secretary of State, also revealed Ms. Plame's identity to columnist Robert Novak. Revealing the identity of a CIA agent is a crime. The revelation seemed to be the administration's revenge on Wilson for disclosing that the Iraqi uranium purchase was fiction. Libby admitted nothing, but contradicted himself into an indictment for perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice. Armitage, who much later admited his share in the fiasco, has been ignored. convicted

Pentagon Spying The Pentagon is spying inside the U.S.
Since 9/11 the Pentagon has expanded its already questionable spying projects, deleting from the manual a few words that limited domestic wire tapping, using a "national security letter" that demands financial information (and secrecy), and saving the information "just in case" they need it later even if it is exculpatory.

Susan B. Ralston, a former aide to the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff who went on to work for the presidential adviser Karl Rove, has resigned from the White House in the wake of a report that she served as a conduit between the two men.

The IRS is outsourcing some tax collection
The private debt collection program is expected to bring in $1.4 billion over 10 years, with the collection agencies keeping about $330 million of that, or 22 to 24 cents on the dollar. By hiring more revenue officers, the IRS could collect more than $9 billion each year and spend only $296 million — or about three cents on the dollar — to do so, Charles O. Rossotti, the computer systems entrepreneur who was commissioner from 1997 to 2002, told Congress four years ago.


	This is now ...	Thoughts, facts, follies and foolishness

Budget Fantasy The 2006 budget contained $20 million “for commemoration of success” in Iraq and Afghanistan. The money has now moved quietly from the military budget

of FY 2006 to that of 2007.


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