Two-and-a-half years and 2,100 deaths and NOW they come up with a plan.


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Rep Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) resigned after pleading guilty to taking bribes. Just two months ago, he made a list of Congrssmen most deserving of an investigation.


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Buy a hybrid, get money from Uncle Sam -- maybe even your boss.


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With the President's poll numbers in the cellar, no politicians want to be seen with him -- fearful the bad numbers will rub off.

Even the President's dog appears to be avoiding him these days.


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Voters have suddenly started rejecting tax cuts. Whatever will politicians promise us instead?


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Your tax dollars are paying for a documentary of Alaskan road work.

[This podcast originally appeared as a print posting at WatchingWashington.com on August 29, 2005.]


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Your tax dollars are paying for a bumper crop of pork projects and benefits for big business.


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President Bush used his Veterans Day speech to play politics. He claims that critics of the Iraq War had the same evidence as he did leading up to the war. But that's not entirely true.

So the President wound up using the standard strategy to lift his poll numbers -- apparently unaware that the blame shifting is probably largely to blame for his falling numbers.


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MSNBC's Hardball tracks the administration's selling of the Iraq War.

The War to End all Wars was six wars ago.


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Figures from the Census Bureau on veterans in the US.


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Free food can be expensive for taxpayers


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Cattle are getting a free lunch at taxpayers' expense.


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US health care gets bad reviews in a new international survey.


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A Congressman favors using your money to study water saving urinals. A company in his home distict stands to make millions at your expense.


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The Army National Guard has left a lot of equipment behind in Iraq. That's making it harder for them to do their jobs at home.


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It may have taken FEMA a while to help with Hurricane Katrina. But now that the agency's there, they're handing out money right and left -- some of it to people who don't even qualify. And that's costing you millions.


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