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Lay conviction vacated

David — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:31:30 -0500

A federal judge vacated the conviction of Kenneth Lay. The Enron founder was convicted on 10 counts of fraud and conspiracy in May and died in July.

Citing a two year old 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, the judge said that "a
defendant's death pending appeal extinguished his entire case because he hadn't had a full opportunity to challenge the conviction and the government shouldn't be able to punish a dead defendant or his estate," according to Associated Press.

However, this ruling allows weeping Linda, Lay's obnoxious wife best known for going on the Today Show sobbing that ...

Republican of the Week: Lester Crawford

David — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:22:36 -0500

Two months after being nominated to head the Food and Drug Administration in 2005, Lester Crawford resigned. He has now been charged with conflict of interest and lying about stock he owned.

Senior employees of the FDA are prohibited from owning stock in companies they regulate. But why should a rule like that stop a Bush appointee?

According to the New York Times, he was told to sell stock he owned in a dozen companies when he became a deputy commissioner in 2002.

He sold stock in drug companies Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Pfizer, Medtronic and Boston Scientific but kept ...

Breaking another treaty

David — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:46:06 -0500

The Bush regime will go down in history as the first and only administration in United States history to routinely break treaties.

The Geneva Convention. The nuclear test ban treaty. The Strategic arms Limitation Treaty. All have gone out the window under Bush. The excuse? September 11. "Everything has changed.

The only thing that has changed is that we have a president who never met a treaty he liked. Now another treaty goes out the window.

After the War of 1812, the United States signed a treaty with Canada. The United States and Canada agreed to disarm on the Great ...

ABC/Washington Post poll confirms earlier poll

David — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:37:49 -0500

Following the CBS/NY Times Poll, an ABC/Washington Post poll confirms the trouble Republicans are in.

Asked: Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president? Do you approve/disapprove strongly or somewhat?

Bush received his second worst rating since coming to office. 60% disapprove. Of those, 48% strongly disapprove. Of the 39% who approve, only 23% strongly approve of his performance.

In this poll, the disapproval rating hit 65% only once, in May of this year. But at that time, the strongly disapprove was only 47%.

On all individual items, Bush a majority ...

Sept 11? Again, we were right

David — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:51:49 -0500

On September 11, we were questioning on the air whether Bush and Cheney were in involved. We concluded that at the very least, they had information and let it happen. How else could you explain Bush sitting in a classroom reading a children's book while the country was apparently under attack?

Over the next week, Bush's support rose to almost 90%. We were vilified for suggesting Bush-Chney complicity.

Now, a CBS/New York Times poll shows that 57% of americans believe bush had information that he did not act on.

And again, we were right.