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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Quick hits

Privatization is coming back, and the Republicans will use some back room tactics to bring it to the Senate floor. Nice to see the GOP willing to corrupt the rules for their benefit like they did with the Medicare bill.

Indictments are handed down in Texas. TRMPAC gets one.

Oh, and we're running out of funds to rebuild Iraq, so much so that we've had to stop building infrastructure like water treatment plants. Guess it's time for more appropriations and an even bigger budget deficit.

I'll be back with more if I get a chance.