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Who Will Get Rich from Katrina?

It seems if one has White House connections, one may receive reconstruction contracts: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA…

Finger Pointing

Ariana Huffington deserves a lot of praise as she notes: So the White House is for time management and against “finger-pointing” — a two-talking-points-for-the-price-of-one She continues by nailing Michael Chertoff….

Finally, a Plan

The Bush administration has finally put together a plan to deal with the Katrina crisis, reports the New York Times: White House Enacts a Plan to Ease Political Damage WASHINGTON,…

Sliming Larry Johnson

…Schmitt v. Johnson in its proper context: This is “slime and defend” at its best. Joe Wilson said some stuff that was politically inconvenient for the White House. So the…

GOP on Social Security Reform: Waffling and Lying

…the system’s problems…Administration officials said that while price indexing is something the White House is seriously considering, the president has not decided yet to push it. White House officials are…

Another $70 Billion

…and how much would be other countries is an open question.” The OMB: The White House projected Friday that postwar Iraq will not require long-term U.S. aid, in part because…

The Source of Bush’s Budget Assertion

white. However, Bush didn’t pull his figures out of thin air. The exact phrasing of his statement was “Non-homeland, non-defense discretionary spending was raising [sic] at 15 percent a year…

Tomorrow’s Debate and the Employment Numbers

…as little as 100,000. Kash noted earlier the White House “job memo” that the Payroll figures are underestimating recent job growth by an amount near 300,000. At the end of…