California has had hackers attempt to break the security on their e-voting machines in order to test how reliable they would be, and therefore, the trustworthiness of the resultant votes. They all failed.

Under the guise of “updating the FISA Act of 1978 to bring it up to date with technology”, the Bush administration is attempting to entrench in law its warrantless domestic spying program. The administration still contends that the President has those powers, and that it’s inherent in the Constitution!

Do the people in the Middle East not know the term “playing both sides”? The President is preparing to give the Saudis an arms deal worth $20 billion over ten years, and of course Israel is not happy about that. So the President is also preparing to significantly increase our aid to Israel as well, to the tune of $3 billion a year, which is $1 billion a year more than they’re currently getting.

The amendment to the DHS Bill for money appropriated for the Real ID program was tabled (49 - 45), a big set back for the Real ID program.

When it comes right down to it, to be rebuked by Gorbachev has to sting. Of course, since Bush doesn’t seem to realise that the rest of the world (and the vast majority of the US) think that the US is on the wrong course, it’s just another headline.

Boston.com has an excellent editorial about what Bush’s successor will have to face, and why it will be that President, and not this one, who faces reality.

It seems that some of our Congressmen may actually have some backbone. They’ve told Bush they wouldn’t appropriate any more funding without a plan for removing the troops from Iraq prior to his leaving office.

While that in and of itself is nothing new (nor any less relevant for repetition), he is dead on about Bush’s trying to scapegoat Hillary.

Thankfully, Congress had enough sense to stop him.

Here’s a Washington Post article looking at George Bush’s failures through the “punditry” of Bill Kristol, a neo-con whose predictions are coming back to bite him.

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