motherjones.com - 12/8/2008
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Washington Dispatch: A new GAO report says he inherits a federal government rife with waste, fraud, and mismanagement. By Jonathan Stein December 8, 2008 The Department of Homeland Security and Department of Agriculture have no plan to work together in the event of a food-borne disease ...
openleft.com - 12/3/2008
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openleft.com —
Looking through recaps of last night's defeat in
the Georgia Senate election, I agree with a lot
of what Matt , Kos and Nate Silver have written. Matt argues that it the country hasn't shifted so far to the left that a progressive has a decent shot ...
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A Way Forward For Republicans
prospect.org - 12/6/2008
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prospect.org —
NOONAN GETS A POINT. Peggy Noonan 's columns
are typically rambling disquisitions about her social life among
elite Republicans and how she feels about that, and today's offering is no exception -- we get to hear about McCain's quiet dignity, how Bush ...
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TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
washingtonmonthly.com - 12/6/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
HOMELAND.... Concerns about the name of the Department
of Homeland Security were raised briefly in 2002, but
it was relegated to a semantic afterthought in the midst of a broader debate. I was pleased, then, to see Peggy Noonan bring...
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Homeland
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Progressive Breakfast: "Build Baby Build" Calls Grow Louder
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... Cleaning Up The Mess: Mother Jones' Jonathan Stein reports on a new General Accountability Office report which amounts to ...
The Answer is "No"
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Someday, you might encounter someone -- a hopeless naif, or someone who spent most of this decade living off the grid, or perhaps someone recovering from an infestation of brain parasites -- who will ask, "Isn't there anything George Bush didn't knock into a cocked hat? Anything at all?" The answer, of course, will be "No." Here's my favorite, but you really could select at random: GAO investigators found that information technology security is so poor at the Department of Agriculture that its operations are "seriously" jeopardized. They also ...
Mission Accomplished
Balloon Juice —
Tim is fond of pointing out that Republicans love to point out how terrible the government is, then they work really hard to get elected and prove their point. Via LGM, the next chunk of evidence:
The Department of Homeland Security and Department of Agriculture have no plan to work together in the event of a food-borne disease outbreak or terrorist attack. The Department of Defense’s security clearance process takes so long it jeopardizes classified information. The EPA’s chemical risk assessment program is ...
Bush Has Not Kept Us Safe
The Republic of T. —
... in the wake of the Bush administration. Jonathan Stein at Mother Jones, goes even further, taking apart a GAO report that details “a federal bureaucracy that is rife with mismanagement, inefficiency, and faulty communication practices—all of this combining to jeopardize both the nation’s health and security.” ...
Weighing Obama
The Reaction —
... for those in the administration that may be having a little trouble coming up with good things to say about Bush's self-designed fairytale legacy. Meanwhile, the GAO released a 150 page list of Bush engineered horror stories that will be confronting the incoming Obama administration when they take office. [ ...
Can You Count All the Way Bush Has Messed Up?
David Corn —
... I know, I know. Most of this will not come as a surprise to anyone who has not been in a coma for the past eight years. The Government Accountability Office, as we reported recently at Mother Jones, has put together its own list. Chronicling the damage of the W years is an important job. And, alas, it won't be over any time soon. ...
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