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ProgressiveDem: Monthly Archives for April 2009

Check It Out for Thursday, April 30th

Obama Deliberately Avoids Addressing Certain Issues at 100 Days Press Conference

Arlen Specter Proves To Be a DINO Almost Immediately After Immediate Defection to "Blue Dog" Dems

GOP House Bigots Tell Blatant Lies Against Bill (Which Passed) to Protect Victims of Anti-Gay Crimes

Chrysler Forced Into Bankruptcy by Hedge Funds

Check It Out for Wednesday, April 2nd

100 Days: Mixed Bag; Actions Don't Match Rhetoric and Political Expediency Cancels or Dilutes Many Promises of Change

Workers Memorial Day Little Known by Americans Outside Organized Labor

Did Inexperience or Embedded Bushite Holdovers Cause Air Force One Fleet Flyover Panic in NYC?

Obama Administration Smacked Down by Federal Appeals Court for Using Bushite Claim of "State Secrets"

Specter Becomes Another DINO, Harry Reid and the Democrats Gave Away the Store for Zilch

Check It Out for Tuesday, April 28th

No Surprise Corrupt Bush Regime Ignored Warnings of Mortgage Fraud Epidemic

"Clean Coal"; No Democrat Should Be Spouting That Blatant Lie

Change in Complete Arctic Ecosystem Great Cause for Alarm

Needless Deaths Caused by The Politics of Inhumanity

Check It Out for Monday, April 27th

Senate GOP Members Stripped House Dem David Obey's Pandemic Preparation From Stimulus Bill

Cars, Unions and Health Care Hypocrisy

Advice About the Situation in Pakistan From Someone Who Actually Knows the Country

Another Legacy of the Criminal Bush Regime: Longer Food Bank Lines in the 21st Century

Check It Out for Friday, April 24th

Interesting New Question About the Jane Harman Kerfuffle

Bushite Torture Advocates Expose Their Dishonesty, Lack of Logic and Intelligence

The Bovine Excrement Bailout Policies of Bushite Thieves, Benanke and Paulson, Continued by Tim Geithner

GOP Right Wing Hypocrisy of Bigotry and Hatred Drives Outrage at DHS Report About Terrorist and Extremists Groups

Reagan DOJ Prosecuted Law Enforcement Officials for Waterboarding and the Criminal Bush Regime's Torture Policies Claimed Another Victim

Guaranteed Pensions for Years of Work May Become a Thing of the Past, Thanks To the Criminal Bush Regime

Check It Out for Thursday, April 23rd

Woodenheaded Tim Geithner's Plan: Enrich the Wealthy Few and Keep Wall Street's Destructive Status Quo

Insanity Reigns Among the G20 and in the IMF

American Electorate Voted for Change and Does Not Deserve a Dismissive Attitude and Broken Promises From President Obama

Short Cuts

Report by Senate Intel Committee Shows Bush's Cabinet Level Torture Team Approved Waterboarding

Check It Out for Wednesday, April 22nd

More on the Health Care Front

As the Bush Torture Crime Unravels, the Monstrous Evil of the Criminal Bush Administration Is Exposed

Lobbying Reform a Myth; "Pay to Play" Remains The Rule

NATO Allies May Use "Universal Jurisdiction" to Pursue Bush Officials on Torture

Totalitarian Bush Regime of Torture and Other High Crimes Stain the US and Our History

Check It Out for Tuesday, April 21st

Afghanistan Reports Sound Like a Replay of US's Iraq Failures

Obama's Call For Spending Cuts Must Not Result in Cutting Social Security or Medicare

Grassroots, Progressive Americans Should Refuse to Allow the Democratic Party or Obama to Take Them For Granted

Check It Out for Monday, April 20th

Immoral, Unethical, Obscene Elected Officials the Same Whether on Capitol Hill or in Kabul

While Obama Administration Abrogates Its Responsibilities Under the Law, Others Show Respect and Belief in the Law

Bushite Liars: CIA, Hayden, Mukasey Still Spew Lies About Waterboarding in the Face of The Truth

Obama Gets High Marks at Summit of the Americas

Obama's Health Care "Reform" May Not Include a Public Plan Option

Check It Out for Friday, April 17th

Aging Water System Infrastructure Endangering Cities and Communities Throughout the US

FISA 2008 Amendments Weakened Surveillance Safeguards Led to NSA "Over Collection" Spying On Americans Orgy

Bush Torture Memos: The Worst of Times...; The Best of Times...Torture Memos Released by President Obama

Catchy Title Gets It Correct "Rich Rob Us, Republicans Drive Get-Away Car"

Check It Out for Thursday, April 16th

Air Strikes and Artillery Barrages in Iraq Killed Mostly Women and Children

Are US/NATO Troops Dying To Protect Afghan Government's "Legal" Denigration of Women?

US Finally Takes Baby Steps to High Speed Rail Transportation That Is The Norm in Other Countries

Vatican Nixing Obama's Choices for Ambassador to the Holy See Because of Abortion Views?

Obama's Speech On The Economy a Mixed Bag and Troubling In Many Ways

Straight Out of Orwell: Bailed Out Financial Perps Try to Kill Employee Free Choice

Tea Baggers: Recreating the Absurd Tea Party of Alice in Wonderland with Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey the White Rabbit and Mad Hatter

The Bush Legacy of US Income Inequality Is Obscene; Tax Fairness Is The Issue

Social and Economic Justice Leaders of the Next Generation Take Action Now

Check It Out for Tuesday, April 14th

Spain Upholds Its Duties Against War Crimes While Obama Administration Defies Treaty

Executive Order on Cuba a SOP Distraction From DOJ's Horrible Series of Anti-Constitutional Moves

Pentagon Budget Increases While World War II Weapons Detritus Killing Civilians in North Africa

Taking a Spring Break

Obama Administration: Ignore Anti-Social Security Elites Promoting Cuts, In Effect, Defaulting on Government Bonds

Obama's DOJ Headed by Eric Holder Apparently an Extension of Bush-Ashcroft-Gonzalez-Mukasey Department of Tyranny

Hypocrites on Capitol Hill Covered by Government Funded Insurance Work Against the Same Coverage For All

American Crew Members' Union Provided Training Helped Them Overcome Pirates and Re-Take Ship

Check It Out for Wednesday, April 8th

President Obama and His DOJ Pissing on the Constitution and the American People

Small Towns Victims of the Financial Crisis Caused By a Corrupt Financial System Supported by Corrupt Bushite Regime

Deja Vu All Over Again, and Again: Drone Attacks in Pakistan Killing Civilians and Creating Blowback

Head of Congressional Oversight of TARP Panel To Issue Negative Report On Obama's Administration Approach to Financial Crisis

Obama's Solicitor General to Defend Banks Racist Lending Practices in Supreme Court

Check It Out for Tuesday, April 7th

Newt Gingrich, Warmongering Republican Blathers About "Lasers Missiles"

Obama Hinted That He Faced A Much Different Europe than Roosevelt or Kennedy

Bush CIA Torturers Assisted by Medical Personnel: Another Shameful and Inhumane Legacy

Obama FDA Proactive with Food Safety; Ends Bush Era Corporate Protection That Caused Illness and Deaths

SecDef Gates' Pentagon Deep Budget Cuts: Real or Smoke and Mirrors

Corporate America Will Make Phony Pledges To Get Stimulus Money

Check It Out for Monday, April 6th

Obama's DOJ Continues to Protect Bushites, This Time Their Egregious Wiretapping Violations

Netanyahu's Female Cabinet Members Lose Cabinet Posts: Digitally Removed From Official Photo by Ultra Orthodox Jewish Newspapers

Bush Presidencies' Disrespect for Our Military Fallen to Cover Up Harsh Reality Reversed by the Obama Administration

Obama Hits Home Run In Turkey; Confronts Right Wing Anti-Islam Zealots at Home

Palm Sunday Tale About the Roman Catholic Hierarchy or Whited Sepulchers In Action

GOP: the Obstructionist Party of No Integrity

Geithner's Treasury Department A BIG Part of the Economic Problem

Geithner and Summers, Dishonest, Dishonorable and Despicable Members of the Obama Administration

Welcome to Obama's War; NATO Leaders Say No To More of Their Combat Troops in Afghanistan

Obama Is Beginning to Sound Like a Cold War Hawk

Check It Out for Friday, April 3

Congressional Progressive Caucus Finally Flexes Some Muscles; Let's Hope Not Just For Show

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