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Nancy Pelosi famously denied Democrats had any responsibility for the financial crisis that we are dealing with right now.  She stills sticks with that fantasy.  However, I don’t think too many people believe her.  Today the Washingtonwatch blog listed the members of Congress who voted for the 2000 Consolidated Appropriations Act which allowed trading credit [...]

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Yesterday Bush vetoed the Iraqi pullout bill. In that bill, it had emergency spending for the military as well. That was both expected politically, and I expected it for bigger reasons. Spending will be done one way or another until a proper funding bill is presented. The war won’t stop [...]

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This document is too important to trust people to go look for it and read it. So, here it is in its entirety:

Now, this memo was requested by Rick Santorum. However, the members of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence could have had access to this information at any time since it’s been [...]

Tags: bill-frist, bill-young, Carl-Levin, daniel-innouye, declassified, dennis-hastert, duncan-hunter, harry reid, ike-skelton, iraq, jack-murtha, jane-harmon, john-d-rockefeller-iv, john-negroponte, john-warner, nancy pelosi, National Politics, pat-roberts, permenent-select-committee-on-intelligence, peter-hockstra, rick-santorum, ted-stevens, wmd

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