Bushies at it again ...

The NY Times article about how Olberg was vindicated in blowing the whistle on the Student Aid Scandal, depicts an end run around the regulations and purposeful negation of oversight which cost taxpayers at the very least hundreds of millions of dollars, and benefitted companies such as Nelnet, one of the biggest contributors to the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2006.

When is enough enough? All of this stuff is a lot more serious than a lie about a blow job. And this type of malfeasance has been repeated over and over and over: the Iraq War that was started on a lie for the fattening of corporate pockets via profiteering and the end runs around oversight on war contractors, the Department of the Interior's firing those who provided the most successful oversight on Oil Company Royalties that were to be paid for drilling leases on federal land, the gutting of OSHA rules, the rape of the EPA library and many of the environmental protection regulations put in place by earlier administrations, the continuing debacle of Farm Subsidies that put US health at risk and raise the Medicare bill we all pay, the lack of significant oversight of agencies responsible to protect the public interest such as the FDA, the FCC, and FEMA, etc, etc, etc.

And the Republican Party needs to REALLY LOOK at all this or their demise is imminent. Talk about tax and spend, and it's all going in pockets of corporations out of the pockets of hardworking US taxpayers. If all this corruption and double dealing were to stop tomorrow, and oversight on all government agencies were to be reinstated with a vengeance, I venture to say that the deficit (which was nonexistent at the end of the Clinton Administration) would be slashed significantly within a matter of months. For the Republican Party, after the actions of the Bush Administration, to repeatedly cast the Democrats as profligate spenders is the ultimate example of hypocrisy.

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Submitted by bladderq on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 9:08pm.

Can't argue w/ much of what you wrote but:

"the Iraq War that was started on a lie for the fattening of corporate pockets via profiteering and the end runs around oversight on war contractors"

My take on this war is that it was personal. "My Daddy didn't finish it (w/ Rumfly & Channie) & YOU (Sadman) tired to kill my Daddy & I'm from Texas (by way of CT) & we don't cott'n your kind in my town."

Of course the 1st Gulf War wasn't finished the way WE all might have wanted because it was a war fought with an International CO-olition. Unlike this one which was fought by a cowboy shoot from the hip mentality.

The 2nd War is being fought even with the disregard that the No-Fly Zone was working. The Kurds in the north were safe, as were the Shi' in the south. The "Oil for Food" could've been made to work. ETC.

When Clinton lied...No one died. AND everyone went home Happy...probably even Hillary.

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buckwheat: mostly true

Submitted by dollaradayandfound on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 8:24pm.

All that part of yours about end runs around Halliburton payments, gutting of agencies that protect citizens, etc., is pretty well true. It IS REPUBLICAN philosophy, however, and the voters knew it last time. There are no small farmers anymore much, so the lack of control on the big corporations who "farm" explains the lack of control.
I'm not certain though about the conniving done to get into war only for Halliburton. Oil, oil, oil, oil, and protecting Saudi Arabian oil had more to do with it. And pride.
We could have prevented Saddam any further conquests at the place we had him at invasion time.

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You're Right Buckwheat

Submitted by Git Real on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 7:09pm.

It is a joke that Republicans talk about Democrat spending when in fact they spend like a bunch of Democrats.

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yep...

Submitted by Yo on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 12:06pm.

largest government EVER and GROWING... it's one of the biggest mythes in the demo/repub finger parade.

Dubya has my props for his sheep... they follow and even contradict themselves over his continuous changing platforms... he makes a mistake... ignores it like it never happened... GENIOUS!...

...sadly I'm simply jealous... wish I had some oil...

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Hey Yo Ho

Submitted by Git Real on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 1:33pm.

Thanks for the information. That'll really help us out.

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