What the dunderheads running your goverment are doing wrong
mal·fea·sance  (m l-f  z ns) n. Misconduct or
wrongdoing, especially by a public official.
[Anglo-Norman malfaisance, from Old French malfaisant, malfeasant, present participle of malfaire, to do evil, from Latin malefacere; see malefactor.] |
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle
( ... malfeasance, too, evidently. )
Bush's Domestic Spying Scandal:
The Trust Gap -- NYT
Conservatives Condemn Domestic Spying
Breaking the Law? Here are the Facts
The Art of Saying Nothing -- NYT
The Wire-Tappers that Couldn't Shoot Straight -- Frank Rich
Mere Incompetence:
A Stumble a Day ... -- NYT
GOP Governors Say Bush's Missteps Hurting ... -- AP
Republicans brand Katrina response a national failure -- Guardian
US Reducing Safety Penalties for Mine Flaws -- Common Dreams
Competence Problem: "Yadda, Yadda, Yadda ..." -- Molly Ivins
"The Wack-Pack" -- William Rivers Pitt
Simply Crazy:
"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap." -- Ronald Reagan
Deja Vu All Over Iran -- Robert Dreyfuss
War with Iran? -- F. William Engdahl
Blair 'convinced Bush' not to bomb al-Jazeera studios ... in Quatar ... our Ally?!? -- news.scotsman.com
The leak and Bush's obsession with al-Jazeera -- The Observer
The List goes on ...
Former Congressman Gets Eight-plus Years -- AP
Boehner's Empire resembles Delay's -- ABC News
GOP Tries to Outrun Scandal -- L. A. Times
The Missing Meetings -- John Dickerson, Slate
Abramoff could implicate 60 lawmakers -- WSJ
CA Rep. Cunningham pleads guilty, resigns ...
Report Ties Cheney to CIA Leak
"What's with the Delay Indictment?" -- Laura Rozen
Spin Doctoring
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"That's the third time I've said that. I'll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." -- George W. Bush, May, 2005
"What Bush was told about Iraq" -- Murry Waas
"The Phony War against the Critics" -- Michael Kinsley, Washinton Post
"A False Balance" -- Paul Krugman, NYT Select
"Think of it as a harmonic convergence" -- Molly Ivins
"Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt ..." -- Frank Rich, NYT
"Bush Team warned of Intelligence Doubts" -- NYT
"Remember that Mushroom Cloud?" -- NYT
"Ending the Fraudulence" -- Paul Krugman, NYT
"A Case of Presidential Fraud" -- TomDispatch.com
"Colonel Finally Saw Whites of Their Eyes" -- Dana Milbank
"The Gulf between Rhetoric and Reality" -- Dan Froomkin
Secrecy and Covering Tracks
"If they can get
you asking the wrong questions, they don't have
to worry about the answers." --
Thomas Pynchon
US launches drive to plug leaks -- Reuters
Thousands of Cases kept Secret -- AP
The Phony War Against the Critics -- Michael Kinsley
Bush's War on Professionals -- Sidney Blumenthal
(History: Still secret -- Tonkin Gulf Report) -- NYT Scott Shane
Bush Administration Moves to Eliminate Open Government -- Project Censored
Worse Than Watergate -- John W. Dean
Feds Unable to Search Own Anti-Terrorism Database -- EFF (... heaven help us if they can't even find an individual record!)
Comments
"The Iraq War Runs Through It" -- Sydney Schanberg
"Leading by (Bad-)Example" -- Thomas Friedman
"Fall of the Rovean Empire?" -- Sidney Blumenthal
Bill Maher's Open Letter to Bush
"Bush Breaks First Commandment of Governing" -- Molly Ivins
"In the Beginning, There Was Abramoff" -- Frank Rich (NYT subscrip.)
"Bush Administration Paradox Explained" -- Robert Reich
"The Broken Constitution" -- Nat Hentoff
How to Fix this Mess:
Clean Up Washington and Public Citizen
"It's a Fine Mess that Bush has gotten us into" -- Molly Ivins