Sam Boyd

The awesome new nonprofit online investigative reporting newspaper The Washington Independent has a great piece you really should read on massive problems in the CDC caused by, you guessed it, a Bush appointee:

Besides E. Coli the bread and butter of this blog has been our nation's crumbling infrastructure. Decades of neglect from conservatives have caused infrastructure catastrophes from bridge collapses to sinkholes and cost untold billions.

Last week we brought you the story of Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao who replaced pictures of DoL projects in hallways with photos of herself.

Example five bazillion of failed military contractors getting what they so richly don't deserve (via Think Progress):

The USDA issued a recall over the weekend for 143 million pounds of beef produced over the last two years by a California company which, the USDA has recently learned had not been properly reporting "downer" cows--those too sick to stand.

Keeping track of Bush Administration scandals is difficult, in part because there are so damn many of them. For example, there's now an entire website dedicated to the various failings of Secretary of Labor (and wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell) Elaine Chao. There's defiance of congressional oversight:

So let's say you're head of the Washington Republican Party (and really, who amongst us hasn't been?) and you're a supporter of John McCain. He's winning your state's caucus as the votes come in and most of the votes are in, and things look good. But Mike Huckabee is getting awful close. Why not just stop reporting the vote? If McCain is ahead, he'll stay that way and who'll notice?

A willful inability to govern well is a hallmark of modern conservatism.

The awesome new nonprofit online investigative reporting newspaper The Washington Independent has a great piece you really should read on massive problems in the CDC caused by, you guessed it, a Bush appointee:

Besides E. Coli the bread and butter of this blog has been our nation's crumbling infrastructure. Decades of neglect from conservatives have caused infrastructure catastrophes from bridge collapses to sinkholes and cost untold billions.

Last week we brought you the story of Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao who replaced pictures of DoL projects in hallways with photos of herself.

Example five bazillion of failed military contractors getting what they so richly don't deserve (via Think Progress):

The USDA issued a recall over the weekend for 143 million pounds of beef produced over the last two years by a California company which, the USDA has recently learned had not been properly reporting "downer" cows--those too sick to stand.

Keeping track of Bush Administration scandals is difficult, in part because there are so damn many of them. For example, there's now an entire website dedicated to the various failings of Secretary of Labor (and wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell) Elaine Chao. There's defiance of congressional oversight:

So let's say you're head of the Washington Republican Party (and really, who amongst us hasn't been?) and you're a supporter of John McCain. He's winning your state's caucus as the votes come in and most of the votes are in, and things look good. But Mike Huckabee is getting awful close. Why not just stop reporting the vote? If McCain is ahead, he'll stay that way and who'll notice?

A willful inability to govern well is a hallmark of modern conservatism.