Your Government at Work

In case you don't subscribe, Truthout is distributing a couple of great articles today -- one on Bush-Cheney, the other on Abramoff-DeLay. Actually, the latter should read Abramoff-DeLay-Reed-Shelton (yes, religious right meets political right).

It's a long read, but well worth the time. After all -- it's your government at work!

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Frank Rich: It's Bush-Cheney, Not Rove-Libby
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/101605Z.shtml

Asked repeatedly about Mr. Rove's serial appearances before a Washington grand jury, the jittery Mr. Bush, for once bereft of a script, improvised a passable impersonation of Norman Bates being quizzed by the detective in "Psycho." Like Norman he stonewalled. What makes Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation compelling, whatever its outcome, is its illumination of a conspiracy that was not at all petty: the one that took us on false premises into a reckless and wasteful war in Iraq. That conspiracy was instigated by Mr. Rove's boss, George W. Bush, and Mr. Libby's boss, Dick Cheney.

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How the Abramoff-DeLay Machine Worked
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/101605Y.shtml

Lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his team were beginning to panic. An anti-gambling bill had cleared the Senate and appeared on its way to passage by an overwhelming margin in the House of Representatives. If that happened, Jack Abramoff's client, a company that wanted to sell state lottery tickets online, would be out of business. But on July 17, 2000, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act went down to defeat, to the astonishment of supporters who included many anti-gambling groups and Christian conservatives.