Category Archives: Rampant Cronyism/Corruption

Are cronies in charge? Are their friends getting richer? Are poor performers given awards and promotions in spite of their failures? Are leaders averse to admitting failure? Do leaders fine tune their responses to redefine what a failure is? Are potential problems denied initially and redefined as more detail comes to light? Are non-campaign funds being laundered into campaign coffers or private accounts of supporters of the war against the enemies? Are government ethics committees being restructured and the rules modified to protect the guilty? Are corporations making false claims about profit and destroying employee futures? When will the laws be changed to protect corporations from any law suits? When will the Executive branch become the only branch of government with power? When will Washington, D.C. become The Corporate Headquarters of the United States? How fare is too far?

Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism

“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”
Libertarians are stealthily taking over America.
Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.

 

Bad Deeds for 2-05-2008

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Jim Vogas

Bill Kristol Says White Women Are a Problem – From the February 3 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.’s Fox News Sunday: BILL KRISTOL: Look, the only people for Hillary Clinton are the Democratic establishment and white women. The Democratic establishment … Continue reading →

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Neocon Noble Lies – 2 Years Worth Now Documented For All to See

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Andy Hailey

From a 2005 article in Looking Glass News by John Walsh, here are some excerpts on Noble Lies as a primary tool of the neocons: All governments lie as I. F. Stone famously observed, but some governments lie more than … Continue reading →

  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=181" target="_blank" title="The neocons that President Bush has in his inner circle of friends and staff.">Bush’s Administration - Neocons Everywhere According to Bush and Rumsfeld</a>
  • Related NPR Stories: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18319248" target="_blank" title="e report includes an online database that allows readers to search by phrase, person and subject.">Group: 'Orchestrated Deception' by Bush on Iraq</a>
  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/15935" target="_blank" title="Many neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz are disciples of a philosopher who believed that the elite should use deception, religious fervor and perpetual war to control the ignorant masses.">Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception</a>
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Bad Deeds for 1-22-2008

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Jim Vogas

White House Threw Out Clinton E-Mail Archiving System; No Reason Given – In 1994, after a federal court ruled that the White House must preserve e-mails under the Federal Records Act, the Clinton Administration instituted a custom archiving system known … Continue reading →

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The Authoritarian’s Enabler – The Federalist Society

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Andy Hailey

In early November, 2007, I wrote, “I believe this nation will only survive as a republic by upholding all the extraordinary and very thoughtful measures our Founding Fathers of the late 1700s established in our Constitution. I also believe, as … Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/16/113841/69/393/419638" target="_blank" title="The rhetoric does not match up with the reality">The Federalist Society's Real Judicial Agenda</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0003.landay.html" target="_blank" title="The Federalist Society">The Conservative Cabal That's Transforming American Law</a>, <a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=20" target="_blank" title="Tracking the migration of sponsored conservatives into the George W. Bush administration">The Conservative Movement Moves In</a>
  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=246" target="_blank" title="GWB's administration is crawling with right-wing demagogues">The Bush Administration Aided by AEI, CSP and Pat Robertson’s Lawyers</a>
  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/dfiles/file_148.pdf" target="_blank" title="The Lawyers Who Are Shaping The Bush Administration’s Decisions On Legal Policies and Judicial Nominations">THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY - From Obscurity to Power</a>
  • Related NPR Stories: <a href="http://wamu.org/programs/dr/10/02/04.php#29448" target="_blank" title="The Birth of the Unitary Executive">Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State</a>
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Bad Deeds for 11-28-2007

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Jim Vogas

Texas Oilman Was At Center of Corruption in Iraq Oil for Food Program – Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt Jr. paid millions of dollars to Iraqi officials to get an unfair share of contracts connected to the oil-for-food program, which ran … Continue reading →

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The Power of Our Republic – Are We The People Squandering It?

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Andy Hailey

I believe this nation will only survive as a republic by upholding all the extraordinary and very thoughtful measures our Founding Fathers, of the late 1700s, established in our Constitution. I also believe, as they did, that “we the people” … Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers" target="_blank" title="The normal division of branches is into the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial.">Separation of Powers</a>, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/13/k-street-project/" target="_blank" title="If You Don’t Know About the K Street Project, You Don’t Know Jack">The K Street Project</a>
  • Related Web Site: <a href="http://uselectionatlas.org/" target="_blank" title="Also results for governors and senators">David Leip's Atlas of U. S. Presidential Elections</a>
  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.progressiveu.org/011043-the-unitary-executive-s-violation-of-the-separation-of-powers" target="_blank" title="The Bush administrations attempt to acquire nearly unlimited power in the Executive branch is a violation of the Constitution and of the separation of powers principle it is based upon.">The Unitary Executive’s Violation of the Separation of Powers</a>
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Single-Party Systems – Common Goals For Authoritarians and Osama bin Laden

Posted on July 28, 2007 by Andy Hailey

The Republican Plan for Permanent Control of U.S. Karl Rove, the Authoritarian’s Architect, has already brought the authoritarian single-party state to Texas. He has also brought the national Republican Party and its authoritarian membership very close to the same goal. … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Audio Report: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/71907ThomHartmannInterviewsPaulCraigRoberts" target="_blank" title="Air America">Audio Interview of Dr. Paul Roberts on The Authoritarian's Architect's recovery plan</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/rams/document.ram" target="_blank" title="BBC Audio on an article published in November 1934 in the New York Times">Planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen</a>
  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=134" target="_blank" title="Did the 2006 election get their attention?">Don’t Let The Authoritarians Distract You - They Still Want a Single-Party State and all it’s trappings</a>, <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=90" target="_blank" title="How much more of this abuse can our system of government take?">Unitary Presidency, Dysfunctional Congress and Judicial Petitions - Is It to Late to Stop the Redacting of the Constitution?</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807" target="_blank" title="The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government.">Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/bin-ladens-new-weapon-of_b_153216.html" target="_blank" title="If bin Laden were smart, he'd disband his terrorist cells, and instead buy ad time on radio and TV stations.">Bin Laden's New Weapon of Mass Destruction</a>
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Bad Deeds for 7-25-2007

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Jim Vogas

Gonzales Can’t Explain Why He Granted Authority to Cheney and His Chief of Staff and Counsel to Intervene in Justice Probes – Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) questioned the Attorney General about the independence of the Justice Department and communications with … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 7-17-2007

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Jim Vogas

Bill O’Reilly Smears Daily Kos and Jet Blue – Bill O’Reilly accused the well-respected liberal blog Daily Kos of being a hate-filled website and ambushed the CEO of Jet Blue airlines for sponsoring the Yearly Kos convention. O’Reilly called Daily … Continue reading →

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Karl Rove – The Authoritarian’s Architect and “Bad Barrel” Builder Par Excellence

Posted on July 6, 2007 by Andy Hailey

Let’s start with this quote from John Dean’s Conservatives Without Conscience, “But Karl Rove has all the credentials of a right-wing authoritarian, and if he has a conscience, it has hardly been in evidence …. He is conspicuously submissive to … Continue reading →

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