My Blog In the Washington Post

From the "shameless self-promotion" department, I wanted to show folks this Washington Post story about my blog (here's the original post the story was based on)...it's depressing that, until that point, barely any media attention had been paid to the potential Bush-Riggs-Saudi connection...but it is encouraging that all of the collective efforts to expose the truth are starting to seep into mainstream news coverage.

RNC Outsourced Fundraising/Get-Out-The-Vote Operations

We knew they supported shipping American jobs overseas, but this is a whole new level:

According to the Hindustan Times of India, over a 14 month period in 2002 and 2003, the fund-raising and vote-seeking campaign for the Republican Party was done, in party by two call centers located in India. According to the report, the Republican National Committee sent the India operation its voter database and used 125 staff there to "solicit political contributions ranging between $5 and $3,000 from thousands of registered Republican voters." While the contract for running the campaigns was originally awarded to Washington-based Capital Communications Group, "for cost and efficiencies gains, the company outsourced the work to HCL Technologies that in turn sent it offshore."

Bush Touts Programs He Is Trying to Cut

Am away in California for a business trip, but wanted to post this article...this story has been written in snippets over the last four years, but the NY Times really put it all together. In short, the White House has made an art out of trumpeting programs it is trying to gut:

"For example, Justice Department officials recently announced that they were awarding $47 million to scores of local law enforcement agencies for the hiring of police officers. Mr. Bush had just proposed cutting the budget for the program, known as Community Oriented Policing Services, by 87 percent, to $97 million next year, from $756 million. The administration has been particularly energetic in publicizing health programs, even ones that had been scheduled for cuts or elimination. Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, announced recently that the administration was awarding $11.7 million in grants to help 30 states plan and provide coverage for people without health insurance. Mr. Bush had proposed ending the program in each of the last three years."

See the full article here.