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Ex-defense contractor drops hints of another major corruption scandal. - Friday, November 28th, 2008

Mitchell Wade, the corrupt former lobbyist who plead guilty in 2006 to bribing former Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA), is reportedly assisting “the government in investigating five other members of Congress,” according to a memorandum filed on Wednesday. The 42-page sentencing memo filed by Wade’s attorneys says that the other unnamed members are under investigation for [...]

ThinkFast: November 28, 2006 - Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

At a “First Amendment awards dinner,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) said yesterday “the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism.” He said a “different set of rules” may be needed to limit “terrorists’ ability to use the Internet and free speech.”
The president-elect of the Christian [...]

ThinkFast: November 10, 2006 - Friday, November 10th, 2006

Unnamed White House officials say that President Bush is aware of Defense Secretary nominee Robert Gates’ “critique of current policy and understood that Mr. Gates planned to clear the ‘E Ring’ of the Pentagon, where many of Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s senior political appointees have plotted Iraq strategy.”
Meanwhile, “Rumsfeld’s abrupt resignation from the Pentagon the [...]

ThinkFast: Election Day Edition - Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Running Election Day news and commentary from ThinkProgress:
– 1:34 AM ET: “MO SEN: Bill Kristol, on McCaskill’s new lead in MO: ‘It’s hard to believe that that lead’s not going to increase. I believe now that Missouri is going to go Democratic. … If you had to bet right now, you’d have to bet on [...]

109 Reasons To Dump The 109th Congress - Monday, November 6th, 2006

Tomorrow is Election Day. Find your polling place HERE. Digg this post HERE
We need a new Congress — here’s why:
1. Congress set a record for the fewest number of days worked — 218 between the House and Senate combined. [Link]
2. The Senate voted down a measure that urged the administration to start a [...]

ThinkFast: October 13, 2006 - Friday, October 13th, 2006

President Bush made his first appearance with Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) last night since the Foley scandal erupted. “I am proud to be standing with the current speaker of the House who is going to be the future speaker of the House,” Bush said.
“With our intelligence on North Korea so uneven, the doctrine of pre-emption [...]

ThinkFast: August 28, 2006 - Monday, August 28th, 2006

Former President Jimmy Carter called Tony Blair “compliant and subservient” to President Bush. “I think that more than any other person in the world,” Carter said, “the prime minister could have had a moderating influence on Washington. He has not.”
“The majority of U.S. service members charged in the unlawful deaths of Iraqi civilians have [...]

Harris: ‘It’s important to me, so submit it.’ - Thursday, May 4th, 2006

The Orlando Sentinel reports today that former senior members of Rep. Katherine Harris’ congressional staff say they initially rejected corrupt defense contractor Mitchell Wade’s $10 million appropriation request last year “but reversed course after being instructed by Harris to approve it.” Wade had spent up to $2,800 entertaining Harris at one of Washington’s most expensive [...]

ThinkFast: March 1, 2006 - Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

ThinkFast is a new feature of ThinkProgress. (It’s still a work in progress – let us know what you think.)
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales “clarifies” his February 6 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. A letter to the committee from Gonzales suggests “the Bush administration’s warrantless domestic surveillance operations may extend beyond the outlines that the [...]

Katherine Harris Plays Dumb - Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Defense contractor Mitchell J. Wade pled guilty yesterday to election law fraud, among other charges for making illegal campaign contributions, including $32,000 in illegal contribution to Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL).
Katherine Harris claims she had no idea there was anything amiss when she received the contributions. In a statement she said the incident “demonstrates the perils [...]

Breaking: Novak Explodes Live on CNN - Thursday, August 4th, 2005

Just now on CNN’s Inside Politics, in the midst of a ho-hum discussion about Katherine Harris’ Senate race:
Novak: Just let me finish what I’m going to say, James, please. I know you hate to hear me —
Carville: He’s got to show these right-wingers that he’s got a back bone, ya know? Wall Street Journal [...]

Katherine Harris accuses newspapers - Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

of doctoring photographs to make her makeup look bad during the 2000 recount.

States Step In Where Congress Fails - Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

The same congressional session that aims to bring us the elimination of the Estate Tax and the dismantling of the Section 8 voucher program for families on the edge of homelessness (in some perverse way, I suppose these two policies fit hand in hand…”Estate for me…The Street for you!”) is probably not going to bring [...]