BUZZFLASH MAILBAG

Subject: 2008 Election

How responsible for the sickness faced by NYPD and NYFD people is Rudolph Giuliani? Start writing about this, aside from his own distorted personal life.

BLUE STATE JUKEBOX
by Tony Peyser

If the words alone don't work in most writing, the end result won't either. But there are a few exceptions.

I learned this years ago when I read a play Sam Shepard wrote with Joseph Chaiken called "Savage/Love & Tongues." I could not get into it at all. But when I saw the filmed version of the play, I got it and loved it. The words only came to life when you heard how they were supposed to be read.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

House Democrats blasted the Bush Administration today for not fully funding checked baggage screening for passenger airplanes. A non-partisan report developed by the government and private experts concluded that at least $435 million is necessary to purchase and maintain Explosive Detection Systems, but Republicans are proposing only about $150 million in funding. "That won't even get us to the 5 yard line," said House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie Thompson.

A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW

I was lucky enough to have been inside a network program, managed by the top news division in television, NBC news, and I could see the corruption, the timidity, the news suppression day by day from the inside. It was something breathtaking to behold.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

The House Judiciary Committee today rejected Bush's excessive, unconstitutional military tribunal proposal, 17-20. The bipartisan vote mirrored the recent rebellion of moderate Senate Republicans over the same bill.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Amy Branham

Twelve days ago my husband and I embarked on a journey to Washington, D.C. It was our plan to see the city and to participate in Camp Democracy. Our trip turned into something far different than what we had originally planned. This is about our trip, what I found, personally, that was important to me, and what I have taken away from this trip.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

The Democratic "Truth Squad" of progressive House Democrats has released a report showing that pharmaceutical industry profits have skyrocketed since the Republican Medicare drug plan went into effect at the beginning of this year.

BUZZFLASH MAILBAG

Subject: Bush's Abilities

My grandmother had an expression that pretty much describes George W Bush’s ability to run the country:

“He couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if it had a hole in the toe and the instructions written on the heel.”

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

The Bush Administration's decision to reduce EPA funding and eliminate several scientific research libraries has been challenged by Democratic House Ranking Members Bart Gordon, John Dingell, and Henry Waxman in a letter to the GAO. "We have grave concerns of this plan on the EPA's ability to protect the environment, and we question whether the plan will actually save the government money," they wrote.

NEWS RELEASE

DNC: BUSH CRONIES: UNQUALIFIED BUT WELL CONNECTED

Washington, DC - On Sunday, the Washington Post chronicled how the Bush Administration's pattern of rewarding unqualified political cronies with jobs has hindered the Iraqi reconstruction efforts. These GOP allies were given jobs based on their political service in campaigns not their experience or expertise in the respective areas of reconstruction including security, health care and finance. This is just the latest example of the Bush Administration's continued practice of putting their party above the needs of the American people. Over the past five years, the White House has installed Bush cronies in all corners of the government, regardless of their qualifications, with serious, sometimes harmful consequences as a result.