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Week of April 13, 2008
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Reorganization Handbook
Media Myths of McCain
Over the next 30 days, we will highlight the 10 most significant "Media Myths of McCain" advanced in press coverage of the Arizona senator. From his status as a "maverick" and "straight-talker" to his supposed independence from lobbyists, this site will detail the realities hiding under the surface of the media's coverage. The next media myth, that "Just about all you need to know about John McCain's character is that he showed courage as a prisoner of war in Vietnam," will be released on Thursday, April 10th.
John McCain is a maverick. John McCain is a straight-talker. John McCain doesn't do things just because they're politically expedient.
Yarmuth Launches Initiative to Bring Louisville Experiences to Congress
“Voice of the People” encourages Louisvillians to submit stories, experiences for the
House Floor and Congressional Record
Tuesday,
Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) launched an initiative to help the people of
Louisville p
articipate
more directly in the Congressional process. “Voice
of the People” encourages constituents to send Congressman
Yarmuth their personal experiences regarding the economy, the war in Iraq,
healthcare, gas prices, or other issues that matter to them. The Louisville
lawmaker will read selected stories on the House Floor, where they will be
aired live on C-Span and entered into the Congressional Record to become a
permanent part of American history.
“Too often, the voice of the average American gets lost among the politics of the day” Yarmuth said. “Voice of the People will bring the personal stories of our community directly to our leaders in Washington, ensuring that the House of Representatives remains the people’s house.”
Those wishing to participate in Voice of the People can submit a story, experience, or opinion on Yarmuth’s website at www.Yarmuth.House.gov.
Gap Between America’s Rich and Poor Worsened in Past Two Decades by Mike Hall
The gap between the wealthiest and the rest of us grew significantly during the past two decades, leaving lower- and middle-class families at more risk during the current economic downturn/recession confronting the nation, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) finds.
The report says that lower- and middle-income families are much more vulnerable to rough economic times and income loss because they have higher debt loads and are seeing the value of their homes plummet while wealthier families are likely to have savings and other assets to ride out the storm.
In nearly every state in the nation, the rich continue to get richer, the middle class barely treads water and the poor get poorer.
The analysis, Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, measured and compared income trends among the highest- middle- and lowest-income families from the late 1980s, the late 1990s and the mid 2000s. It found income inequality—now at record levels—began growing more quickly in the 1980s, slowed somewhat in the 1990s and accelerated after 2001, the beginning of the first Bush recession.
The report notes that despite recent years of economic prosperity, lower- and middle-income families have reaped few of the gains. Average incomes for those in the bottom fifth of the income scale fell by 2.5 percent and rose just 1.3 percent for those in the middle fifth. Who did well? The top fifth saw their incomes rise 9 percent.
Jared Bernstein, EPI senior economist and co-author of the report, says:
Before the recent downturn hit, our economy was generating solid income gains. The problem was that high levels of inequality meant these gains failed to reach middle- and low-income families, whose living standards stagnated or even declined. As we head into an economic downturn, these families are ill prepared to weather the storm.
Incomes were calculated using U.S. Census Bureau figures and adjusted for inflation and other factors.
Families in the top fifth have an annual average income of $132,131, about two-and-a-half times more than middle-income families ($50,434) and nearly seven-and-a-half times the $18,116 families in the bottom fifth earn a year.
The current disparity is greater today than during the 1980s, when income for the wealthiest was slightly more than twice that of middle-class families and six times that of the lowest-income families.
Elizabeth McNichol, a senior fellow at CBPP and report co-author, says:
Raising inequality raises basic issue of fairness and harms the nation’s economy and political system. It dampens economic prosperity as incomes stagnant for tens of millions of average Americans and it threatens to widen the nation’s political cleavages, generating more cynicism about political institutions.
Growing income inequality is due to both economic trends and government policies, the report says.
Wages and salaries grew faster for those at the top of the income scale. Various factors explain growing wage inequality including long periods of higher-than-average unemployment, globalization, the shift from manufacturing jobs to low-wage service jobs, immigration, the weakening of unions, and the declining value of the minimum wage.
Those in the highest reaches of the income scale also reaped the benefits of the growth in the stock market through income from interest, dividends, and the sale of assets such as stocks.
States with the biggest increases in income disparities since the late 1980s are Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Alabama, New York, Kentucky, Maryland, Kansas, New Jersey and Washington State.
The states with the largest gaps between high-income and middle-income families are Oklahoma, Mississippi, California, New York, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana and Virginia.
With the Bush administration resisting any new efforts to assist families struggling with the mortgage and foreclosure crisis, rising unemployment, soaring fuel prices and other economic dangers, Pulling Apart offers several ways states can address income inequality.
Specifically, states can close the budget gaps that the downturn has caused without widening income gaps. For example, states can avoid raising sales taxes and fees that hit low-income families hardest, and rely more on income taxes. Or, they can enact or expand tax credits to low-income taxpayers to offset the impact of regressive tax increases.
State policy makers can also bolster the safety net in order to improve economic opportunity for those struggling to make ends meet. States can:
- * Update unemployment insurance systems to better reflect today’s workforce.
- * Extend the amount of time workers receive benefits during an economic downturn.
- * Raise the state minimum wage and index it for inflation.
- * Maintain or improve support services such as transportation, child care and health coverage.
BIG-SPENDING GEORGE, Posted by Jim Hightower
George W likes to pose as the Texas president – in the rough-hewn, rancher model of Lyndon Johnson.
However, George isn’t actually a Texan – he was born in Connecticut, went to an East Coast prep school and to Ivy League colleges, and he summered in Kennebunkport at his family's oceanfront estate. Nor is he a rancher, as Lyndon was. Yes, George bought a ranchette to boost his cowboy image when he decided to run for president, but this “cowboy” has no cattle and is even afraid of horses – that’s not quite a “tall-in-the-saddle” president like Johnson.
Yet, there is one area where George W has stood taller than the real Texas president: federal spending. LBJ was derided as a big-spending liberal, but he was tight-fisted compared to Bush. While George is now trying to pretend that he’s a small-government fiscal conservative, federal spending in his administration has grown by 5.3 percent a year, nearly a full point higher than the rate of increase in the Johnson years, and more than double the annual spending growth under Democrats Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
Of course, the Bush White House takes no responsibility for anything negative, so it’s now trying to blame the billions of dollars that it's dumping into his “war on terrorism” for distorting Bush’s spending numbers (maybe the Bushites don't remember that LBJ had a war to finance, too, since so few of them actually served in it). But Bush spending is not just about his mismanaged wars. He has also hiked budgets in most agencies, with a disproportionate share of the increases going to privatization of government, corporate welfare, and right-wing ideological boondoggles.
So, now that we hear free-spending George W suddenly posing as Mr. Frugal and demanding that Congress hold the line on spending, remember that no president has spent more of your tax dollars and gotten so little for it as he has.
“Claims of frugality aside, Bush is biggest spender since LBJ,” Austin American Statesman, October 28, 2007
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The
stakes in the 2008 elections have never been higher. By electing
Democrats in November 2008, we can create good, high-paying jobs;
improve education; make health care affordable and accessible to
all; and create new opportunities for all Kentuckians. But this
change won't happen unless you get directly involved - starting
right now.
DAILY GRILL
"The surge is doing what it was designed to do. ... [T]he surge is
working." -- President Bush,
3/27/08
VERSUS
"At least a dozen people were killed in Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City
on Wednesday, despite vehicle bans aimed at preventing unrest from spreading
on the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad."
-- Reuters,
4/9/08
Quotes of the Day
Senate Republicans last night blocked a proposal to extend the FISA wiretapping law for another 30 days because Democrats oppose granting immunity for telecommunications companies. "It's time for us to get serious and protect the companies that protect us," Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said.
Recent Senate Votes
None this week
Recent House Votes
Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act - Vote
Passed (308-116, 7 Not Voting)
The House voted to authorize $50 billion between 2009 and 2013 to help
fight the international spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Rep. Ron Lewis voted YES
Rep. John Yarmuth voted YES
United States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act - Vote
Passed (412-0, 18 Not Voting)
The House unanimously reauthorized funding for the U.S. Fire Administration
in the amount of $293 billion over five years.
Rep. Ron Lewis voted YES
Rep. John Yarmuth voted YES
HUMOR
"All three presidential candidates appeared on 'American Idol.'
It was interesting. Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell looked at
them and said, 'Wait, there's a black guy, a woman and a cranky white guy.
You stole our formula!'" --Conan O'Brien
"A new TV commercial for
Hillary Clinton says she has, quote, a spine of steel. A spine of steel.
When he heard this, John McCain said, 'Oh yeah, well, I've got a titanium
hip.'" --Conan O'Brien
"After Governor Bill Richardson switched his support from Hillary Clinton to
Barack Obama last week, an angry
Bill Clinton said, 'Five times to my face he said he would never do
that.' Wow, so he looked you right in the face and lied to you. What's that
like?" --Seth Meyers
"McCain
came out this week with a list of 20 possible running mates. He would not
reveal the names of all of them, but he said they all share certain traits,
like knowing CPR. He said he wants someone who is ready take over on day
two." --Bill Maher
"According to the insiders,
Condoleezza Rice has been actively lobbying to be John McCain's vice
presidential candidate. That would be interesting, don't you think?
Condoleezza Rice, John McCain. Kind of like ebony and ornery." --Jay Leno
"Big shake-up in the Hillary Clinton campaign. This is huge. Yesterday --
true story -- Hillary Clinton's top adviser abruptly left her campaign. When
he heard about it, Bill Clinton said, 'Wait, we can leave?'" --Conan O'Brien
"This week's issue of US Weekly has the spouses of the
presidential candidates. For instance, Michelle Obama. She wrote an article
called 'Vote For My Husband,' and it's her take on why people should vote
for Barack. On the next page, there's another one; it's called 'Vote For My
Wife' written by former President Bill Clinton. He gave her a hell of an
endorsement. He said, 'I believe my wife Hillary would make a better
president than any of my other girlfriends.'" --Jimmy Kimmel
"Former presidential candidate
John Edwards announced this week he will not accept the nomination for
vice president. That's what he said. He will not accept the vice
presidential nomination. To which the cashier at Wendy's said, 'You want a
frosty with this, mister? People are waiting.'" --Jay Leno
"John McCain is now crisscrossing the United States campaigning. Or, as
they're calling it, Antiques Roadshow." --Jay Leno
"The Clintons just released their tax returns to the public. It turns out
that over the past eight years, they've donated over $10 million to charity.
When they asked Bill Clinton why he gave so much money to charity, he said,
'She's a really good dancer.'" --Conan O'Brien
"Poor Hillary. She went on my friend Jay Leno's show last night. She's still
trying to put that whole Bosnia sniper fire thing behind her. She said,
'It's been so long since I've been pinned down by anyone.'" --Bill Maher
"In case you forgot, taxes are due next week. You know, we all hate paying
taxes, but the truth of the matter is without our tax money, many
politicians would not be able to afford prostitutes." --Jimmy Kimmel
ECONOMY -- ECONOMIC CRISIS HITS BIG
BUSINESS, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: Last month, the New York Times
reported that the banking and housing crises had moved "from
Wall Street to Main Street" and was beginning to affect "communities
that seemed insulated." Now the country's economic crisis is
taking a toll on the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Last year, the
MBA was "thrilled to sign a contract to buy a fancy new headquarters
building in downtown Washington." Since then, however, the group "has fallen
on tough times as many of the subprime mortgages dispensed by some of its
members proved dicey." The MBA is now finding it "harder than it imagined to
pay its own mortgage," forced to make cuts to "expenses across the board."
Roll Call reports today that members of Congress have also become "vulnerable
to the financial woes" of the banking sector. "All told, tumbling share
prices for more than a dozen of the most troubled banks and investment
houses, which last week continued to write off record numbers of bad loans,
may have cost 51 Members as much as $13.2 million in stock value during the
past 15 months."
ADMINISTRATION -- CHERTOFF FACES LEGAL
CHALLENGE ON WAIVING LAWS TO BUILD BORDER FENCE: Last week, the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it would
use its authority to bypass several laws and regulations that could
impede its progress to build a fence on the southern border between the
United States and Mexico. The authority comes from a 2005 law, which also
stripped courts of the right to review the decisions made by DHS
Secretary Michael Chertoff -- in effect granting "the executive branch
more of the sort of unilateral power the Bush administration has so
often claimed for itself." The Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club
sued Chertoff last year over his decision to
suspend 19 environmental laws to build the fence through a national
conservation area in Arizona. "Fourteen House Democrats, including
eight committee chairman, said yesterday that they will file a brief
supporting" the legal challenge to Bush's fence plans. Ironically, even as
Chertoff announced he would ignore numerous laws to proceed with the fence,
he declared last week, speaking of illegal immigration, "there's
no excuse for not complying with the law as it's been set forth."
ADMINISTRATION -- DOJ OFFICIAL TO TESTIFY
ON CONTRACTOR RAPE CLAIMS: Former KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones
testified to the House Judiciary Committee last December that she had been
gang-raped by co-workers while working in Iraq and noted how "there
has been no prosecution after two and a half years." Absent from the
hearing was a representative from the Department of Justice (DOJ), a fact
that Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) called "an
absolute disgrace," adding that he was "embarrassed" by the
Department. In "an
apparent reversal of policy," DOJ will send Sigal
Mandelker, a senior appointee in the criminal division "to answer
questions before Congress on the
investigation and prosecution of alleged sex crimes in Iraq and
Afghanistan." According to Mandelker's prepared testimony, which was
obtained by AP, the DOJ "has
not prosecuted any cases involving sexual assaults against civilians who
work for contractors in Iraq or Afghanistan, despite a law giving it that
authority."
IRAQ -- PENTAGON FORCES McHENRY TO REMOVE VIDEO DETAILING INSURGENT ATTACKS: On Friday, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) posted a video on his website from his March 22 trip to Iraq. "Shot in the Green Zone, it showed McHenry gesturing to a building behind him and saying that one of 11 rockets 'hit just over my head.'" McHenry also named two other places struck by the rockets. On Monday, a veterans group called VoteVets.org accused McHenry of giving away intelligence information that could have aided organizations targeting Americans. On a posting online, VoteVets sharply criticized McHenry, noted that the information could be used to "kill Americans in the Green Zone" in the future. "Unfortunately, only two days after," VoteVets' Brandon Friedman observed, "more rockets rained down on the Green Zone -- this time killing two U.S. soldiers and wounding 17 in the most damaging attack on U.S. forces in the Green Zone since last year." The Pentagon has now agreed with VoteVets and told McHenry that he cannot re-air the video.
Think Fast
Tomorrow on Capitol Hill, Gen. David Petraeus "is expected to call for halting troop reductions that began in December for about six months to assess the security situation." Petraeus's recommendation "would keep about 140,000 troops in Iraq -- 10,000 more than before the surge of troops last year."
USA Today reports that "[t]he percentage of recruits requiring a waiver to join the Army because of a criminal record or other past misconduct has more than doubled since 2004." Since October, "13% of recruits have entered the Army with conduct waivers" compared to 11% for all of last year.
Last year, Congress adopted strict ethics rules "requiring members to disclose when they steered federal money to pet projects." Lawmakers, however, are still relying on "soft earmarks," in which they direct "billions of dollars to favored organizations by making vague requests rather than issuing explicit instructions to government agencies in committee reports and spending bills."
Government auditors are investigating the $2.6 billion Veterans Affairs employees charged to agency credit cards last year, which included "hundreds of thousands of dollars in government credit-card bills at casino and luxury hotels, movie theaters, and high-end retailers such as Sharper Image and Franklin Covey."
$4 million: The cost of extending Vice President Cheney's Secret Service protection for six months after the Bush administration ends. Because federal law grants protection only to the president and his family, "[e]xtending Cheney's detail would require a directive from the president or a joint resolution of Congress."
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) may be called to testify on behalf of Deborah Palfrey, who was "accused of running an upscale Washington prostitution service." Randall Tobias, a former senior State Department official, was also named a possible witness.
A congressional investigation has found that Julie Myers, the nation's top immigration enforcement official, "ordered the destruction of photographs of an office Halloween party" that showed her with "a white agency employee dressed as a black detainee." Myers had reportedly ordered the photos removed from a digital camera in a "'coordinated effort to conceal' her role in awarding one of the top costume prizes to the employee."
A federal investigation has concluded that Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) 2006 own re-election campaign was to blame for the crash of its Web site "the day before Connecticut's heated August 8 Democratic primary." In December 2006, Lieberman campaign spokesman Dan Gerstein claimed, "Our Web site consultant assured us in the strongest terms possible that we had been attacked," blaming supporters of challenger Ned Lamont.
A new GAO audit "found widespread abuses in a purchasing program meant to improve bureaucratic efficiency" with "[f]ederal employees [having] used government credit cards to pay for lingerie, gambling, iPods, Internet dating services, and a $13,000 steak-and-liquor dinner." The audit said that "nearly half the 'purchase card' transactions it examined were improper."
"In a major shift of policy," the Justice Department "has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years." Instead, the companies "have avoided the cost and stigma of defending themselves against criminal charges with a so-called deferred prosecution agreement, which allows the government to collect fines and appoint an outside monitor to impose internal reforms without going through a trial."
"Oliver Stone's new film, W, portrays George Bush as a foul-mouthed, dried-out drunk with a baseball obsession and a difficult relationship with his father." Bush, to be played by actor Josh Brolin, is depicted as "as a party animal living in the shadow of his esteemed father before he uses religion to turn his life around." His new purpose in life? To "achieve the presidency ahead of his brother Jeb, who was being groomed for high office by his father."
INTERESTING
A house divided
Even with an infant daughter asleep in their home and two adorable dogs snoozing cat-like on their couches, all's not peaceful in the Bailey household these days.
Mike
and Kelly Bailey, both 33, are evidence of the common wisdom about religious
converts; both raised in solidly Republican households, the two have
embraced their new political identity as Democrats like they have something
to prove. Both voted for George W. Bush in Colorado in 2000, and have since
repented for what they see now as a political sin by throwing themselves
into Democratic activism in their adopted home of Louisville.
Mike Bailey has worked as a local volunteer coordinator for MoveOn.org; the two regularly attend the progressive political discussion group, Drinking Liberally; both have been active with other local Democratic campaigns and are frequent attendees at Democratic functions and fundraisers.
On a recent evening at their home in Clifton, a muted television tuned to CNN churned through incessant images of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as the couple talked of a new development in their domestic life: political warfare.
Or rather, they demonstrated it. Mike Bailey introduced the discord as a "presidential primary truce which is civil," and talked of watching debates "in respectful silence. No cheering for your side! No rubbing in a particularly good shot! If good sportsmanship is not observed, a bit of marital strife can rear its ugly head."
But with the rhetoric heating up as the primaries have dragged on, good sportsmanship is not always in evidence. After an hour of studiously respectful discussion of their differences of opinion -- each spouse laid out insightful and informed reasons for their positions -- Mike Bailey hinted at a different kind of rhetoric that erupts when guests are not around.
"She has said to me on several occasions, 'You just wouldn't vote for someone who doesn't have a penis.' "
"You've never given me an honest reason why you you're for Obama, other than electability!" Kelly insisted.
"Electability, the way he runs his campaign, he's inspiring, and the fact that here's a candidate who can actually write his own speech!"
Kelly turned to the one neutral party in the room, as if any fair and unbiased observer could see through her husband's arguments. "There's no meat here. Are you hearing the meat?" she asked me, before turning back to her husband.
"Honey, you do know that President Bush was inspirational to you, too?"
"I think she's the better knife fighter." Mike was now addressing me, too.
"That's right!" Kelly cried. "Ninja warrior!"
Mike now addressed the entire room: his wife, me, the sleeping dogs, and all the inexplicably Clinton-aligned Democrats in the nation, listening in on this definitive battle going on in their living room. "He's not some babe in the woods who's all about hope and inspiration! He knows how to do things in a way that's more palatable to a lot of people."
Kelly Bailey now tried a different tactic, claiming her husband wouldn't sling a stinging barb her way "because he doesn't really believe in Obama."
"I think I've made my arguments in favor of Obama in the same tenor as the campaign," Mike said coolly.
"DEMOCRATIC DIVIDE," declared CNN's onscreen headline. A split screen pitted Hillary Clinton's visage against Barack Obama's, behind the equally impassioned faces of the Baileys.
Make-up or mutiny?
Like nearly all the Democrats I spoke to, and the candidates themselves, Tricia Lister and Scott Morris and Mike and Kelly Bailey agreed that they are far more united than divided when it comes to policy. But the ongoing Democratic primary race has tested soft spots among Democrats across the country: the clamor for historical firsts, suspicions of racial and gender bias, the attraction to and distrust of inspirational rhetoric and idealism, suspicion and acknowledgement of the ugly realities of political maneuvering. SOURCE
The U.S. House of Representatives, this afternoon, told President Bush there will be no Fast Track for his flawed U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). By a 224–195 vote, the House removed Fast Track’s 90-day deadline for an up or down vote on the deal.
The vote will delay consideration of the deal indefinitely, probably until Bush leaves office in January.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says the time limit should be lifted because Congress and the president should be focusing their energy on the needs of America’s working families as the economy staggers toward a recession, not on the flawed trade deal. REST OF STORY
Buy American Mention of the Week
None this week
Not much good news for America's Working Families this week.
VIDEOS
McCain Revealed: The Briefing Book
Oil Industry Apologists Declare ‘We Like Oil,’ ‘Be Thankful,’ ‘Don’t Blame Oil’
Congressman McHenry Violates OPSEC; Endangers Troops
The Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous… And Foreclosed
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