Bang the Drum

rants and ramblings of a political junkie

Entries Tagged ‘George Bush’

George Bush’s 18-minute Gap

White House E-Mail Lost in Private Accounts
The White House acknowledged yesterday that e-mails dealing with official government business may have been lost because they were improperly sent through private accounts intended to be used for political activities. Democrats have been seeking such missives as part of an investigation into the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
The [...]

Musings on Music, Religion and Politics

“…Lord, there’s danger in this land
You get witch-hunts and wars
When church and state hold hands”*

Music is the place I go when I feel profound sadness, joy, confusion or anger. Someone once told me that people are either drawn to music for the lyrics or the melody, but rarely both. Not so for me [...]

Artifice, Brutality and Innocence

Deep in the nightWhile madmen sit up building bombsAnd making laws and barsTheyre gonna slam free choice behind us
Last night I dreamed I saw the planet flickerGreat forests fell like buffaloEverything got sickerAnd to the bitter endBig business bickeredAnd they call for the three great stimulantsOf the exhausted onesArtifice, brutality and innocenceArtifice and innocence
Oh these [...]

Healthcare: Caremark Profits Rose 15% in 2006

An illustration of why PBMs are such wonderful cash cows for the insurance boys:
For the year ended Dec. 31, Caremark reported that its profit grew 15 percent to $1.07 billion compared with profit of $932 million in 2005. Caremark’s revenue grew 11 percent in 2006 to more than $36.7 billion from revenue of nearly $33 [...]

Policy, Priorities and Management

Margaret Chiara was commended for carrying out Bush policy on firearms prosecutions in one batch of documents used to build the case to fire Carol Lam, yet in the end, it didn’t matter — she was also fired for political expediency. They can’t even come up with a reason for her dismissal that makes [...]

“A Go for the US Attorney Plan”

Tell me again that there was no orchestrated plan to push out US Attorneys? C’mon, Bush.

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