Bad Deeds for 9-10-2007

California Republican Party Passes Resolution Endorsing the Dirty Tricks Initiative to Steal the 2008 Presidential Election – The measure, if passed, would dictate that California divide up its electoral college votes by congressional district — resulting in the Republican theft of at least 20 electoral votes in November’s general election, the equivalent of Ohio. Can you believe that they have the gall to call it the “Presidential Election Reform Act”? If this passes, Democrats will have to win Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida or some other tough combination of states in order to win the White House. Sign the petition to stop this dirty trick.

Surge Has Worsened the Lives of Iraqis – According to an ABC News, the BBC and the Japanese broadcaster NHK national survey, “More Iraqis say security in their local area has gotten worse in the last six months than say it’s gotten better, 31 percent to 24 percent, with the rest reporting no change. Far more, six in 10, say security in the country overall has worsened since the surge began, while just one in 10 sees improvement. More directly assessing the surge itself – a measure that necessarily includes views of the United States, which are highly negative – 65 to 70 percent of Iraqis say it’s worsened rather than improved security, political stability and the pace of redevelopment alike.” Iraq Hearings Watched Closely in Baghdad

The Media’s Blind Repetition of Bush’s Iraq Lies Continues – The media’s failure to ask tough questions helped President Bush get us into Iraq. Now, it’s happening again–blind repetition of Bush’s Iraq lies. This past week, CBS News anchor Katie Couric reported from Iraq. Rather than asking tough questions to Bush and Gen. David Petraeus, Couric asked softballs and then repeated White House talking points–over and over again. Bush’s troop escalation is failing miserably, but Couric’s viewers got the opposite impression. Our nation can’t afford lapdog journalism; we need strong watchdog journalism. Watch the video exposing Couric’s bad reporting.

Since Daniel Cooper Was Appointed Head of the Veterans Benefits Administration, the Number of Veterans Waiting on their Disability Claims has Increased from 325,000 in 2002 to 600,000 Today – Is Cooper doing his job? Apparently he doesn’t think that is important. He’s made a video for Campus Crusade for Christ in which he plainly spells out where his priorities lie. In the video, Cooper says of his Bible study, “it’s not really about carving out time, it really is a matter of saying what is important. And since that’s more important than doing the job — the job’s going to be there, whether I’m there or not.”

Not Only Do We Not Know What Happened to the 5-Million White House E-mails, We Don’t Even Know the Identity of the Company That Was Responsible for Archiving Them – At the May briefing, the White House staffers also reported that an unidentified company was responsible for daily audits of the e-mail system and the e-mail archiving process. “Mr. Roberts was not able to explain why the daily audits conducted by this contractor failed to detect the problems in the archive system when they first began,” wrote Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. During the May briefing, Emmet Flood, special counsel to the president, said he would consider the requests for a copy of the analysis presented to the White House counsel and for the identity of the contractor, Waxman’s letter added. In response to court orders in the case, the White House disclosed last week that it has located nearly 3,500 pages of documents about problems with its e-mail system.

Regards,

Jim