to the surprise of absolutely no one, some scammage has been alleged re: dubya's presidential library, to the effect of access granted to top white house aides in exchange for donations.
the white house also ignored the recommendations of its top climate advisers and refused to regulate greenhouse gases.
congress, meanwhile, bent over for bush and passed the telecom bill that makes it okay for the government to tap your phone calls & keeps you from being able to sue the telecom companies for helping.
while all of this was going on, the gulf of mexico's dead zone got even bigger, a lunatic shot some kids while they were swimming, another nutjob hacked a kid's head off on a bus, sen. ted 'i'll take it' stevens was nabbed for shilling for an oil company in exchange for us$250k in hooch (bet us the oil company gets in no real trouble at all), republican senators blocked an effort to subpoena white house docs on global warming, the epa ignored the everglades out of existence while the head of the epa refused to explain that his complete turnaround re: climate was due to being scared shitless by cheney.
and the beat goes on.
(what the hell, people - we take a week off to go see the police, do a little swimming, and take in a rennaissance festival or two and you let the whole country go to hell? you are so grounded!)
