Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The latest USA Today/Gallup poll published today shows that “Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama’s standing has been significantly damaged by the controversy over his former pastor,” and the issue raises “questions for some voters about the Illinois senator’s values, credibility and electability.”
The erosion of support among Democrats and independents raises the stakes in Tuesday’s Indiana and [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Polls, Presidential Primaries
Posted on September 22nd, 2006 by Dave from Princeton
Surprise, surprise. I’m shocked. SHOCKED I SAY!
Yet another goverment program finally comes to light that the Bush administration and GOP have totally politicized and used as nothing more than as means to enrich themselves by using their currently unbridled power to steal money from our country, directing our tax dollars to their crony backers. They always get big kickbacks of course. Though the GOP refers to them as donations by supporters to their party and candidates.
A scorching internal review of the Bush administration’s billion-dollar-a-year reading program says the Education Department ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted.
The government audit is unsparing in its view that the Reading First program has been beset by conflicts of interest and willful mismanagement. It suggests the department broke the law by trying to dictate which curriculum schools must use.
It also depicts a program in which review panels were stacked with people who shared the director’s views, and in which only favored publishers of reading curricula could get money.
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Filed under: Bush, Education, Religion, Spirituality, Republicans
