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WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 - The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday that the limited Congressional briefings the Bush administration has provided on a National Security Agency eavesdropping program violated the law.In a letter to President Bush, the representative, Jane Harman of California, said the briefings did not comply with the National Security Act of 1947. That law requires the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to be "kept fully and currently informed" about the spy agencies' activities. ...Ms. Harman wrote in her letter that the law allowed briefings to be limited to the eight leaders only in...

Pierce Brosnan has attacked President Bush for starting "a savage war" in Iraq and harming the environment - reports The Mirror. The former Bond star said: "I have nothing against Republicans but this government has made decisions which we are to suffer the consequences of for a long, long time. "You want to have faith in your leaders but it's very hard to have faith in President George W Bush." He added in another interview: "Look at what he's done to the environment and this savage war that has started." The Irishman admitted he risked a backlash like other stars...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 04, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi Statement on President Bush’s Comments on the War on Terrorism Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to President Bush’s comments on the war on terrorism: “Based upon his comments today, it is apparent that candor was not one of President Bush’s New Year’s resolutions. He spoke of Iraq and Afghanistan as ‘major fronts’ in the war on terrorism, but it was his war of choice in Iraq that removed the focus from Afghanistan and the real war on terror....

The Manhattan cabaret musical revue "Bush Is Bad" will get some thematic company in January with the launch of "Bush Wars, A New Musical Revue." The production at Off-Broadway's Collective: Unconscious opens Jan. 22, 2006, following previews from Jan. 12. Bush Wars is billed as "a compassionate counterattack on what its creators view as the disgraceful agenda of the Bush administration." "Told through 16 musical parodies and dozens of costume changes, Bush Wars sinks its talons into everything from Dick Cheney (literally in bed with the oil companies) to the Supreme Court's 'right hand turn' and from 'Republican training school'...

Some D.C. Democrats are demanding an investigation -- impeachment even -- in the wake of last week's New York Times' story about the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping on international calls and e-mails from suspected terror players to Americans. The shriller they get, the more President Bush looks like a strong leader who is willing to stick out his neck and take the heat to protect the American people. As The New York Times reported, several officials credit the NSA eavesdropping with uncovering a plot by Iyman Faris to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge. The paper also reported that the...

Last Friday, the National Security Archive, a research institute and library located at George Washington University that collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, celebrated its 20th anniversary. Former PBS host Bill Moyers gave a speech to the attendees that evening in which, as has been typical for him, he didn’t have very nice things to say about the Bush administration. The full text is too long to do justice to the breadth of Moyers’ antagonism towards this White House, but some of the lowlights are: “It has to be said: there has been nothing...

My blood is boiling! These human lice simply have no shame at all. How they can spew this flatly anti-American bilge is beyond me. Only tune in if you have the stomach for it...You have been warned! -Toonces

Harry Reid, Carl Levin and Jack Reed were propped up on Wednesday morning to try to stop the gaining momentum of President Bush rallying the country behind the troops and the mission in Iraq. If you witnessed the mess, you already know they failed. It was depressing to watch, and resembled a funeral. If this is the Democratic leadership that is set to fight the message of victory, they are in a lot of trouble. Who would line up to follow these three and their absolute depression and defeat?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to President Bush's speech on Iraq at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington: "I am pleased that Iraq appears to be moving towards democracy, as indicated by tomorrow's upcoming election. However, democracy is not the reason that President Bush gave for invading Iraq more than 1,000 days ago. President Bush asserted that Saddam Hussein presented an imminent threat to the security of the United States, a threat that could only be reduced by going to war. The president was wrong. "How much...

President Bush to give 4th in a series of speeches on Iraq and the war on terror.

DNC: Bush Fails Again With Latest Iraq Speech 12/12/2005 5:14:00 PM To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Karen Finney of the Democratic National Committee Staff, 202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney issued the following release on President Bush's latest speech on Iraq today and his failed, stay-the-course strategy: "Democrats applaud the Iraqi people on their upcoming historic elections and urge all Iraqis to go to the polls. While it is imperative that the Iraqi people be able to govern and protect themselves so our troops can come home, elections are not enough....

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Thursday that President George W. Bush "doesn't recognize the realities on the ground" in Iraq, noting the general heading the operation in Iraq has suggested the large U.S. presence is part of the problem in the two-and-a-half year war there. In a live interview on NBC's "Today" show, Kerry said that Gen. George Casey, who is the U.S.' top commander in Iraq, told Congress that the large number of U.S. troops there helps support the notion of occupation and prevents the willingness of Iraqi troops "to stand up." "I think...

Democratic Response to President Bush's Speech     Click!     The Democratic members of the House and Senate applaud the President for addressing people of the United States today, however, I have to say we're disappointed with what he said, or possibly what he did not say.     The President offered no new information or insight about the situation in Iraq, and the American people deserve the truth.     On the other hand, if during the course of the speech he did offer some new information, I must say I'm disheartened by what I heard, and that it's obvious we need a new approach...     ...unless...

Sen. Barbara Boxer, a persistent critic of President Bush, lambasted the administration Tuesday for being in such disarray on Iraq that she argued the war effort is fast disintegrating into "a disaster'' for Americans at home and the troops abroad."Every day, there's another message. ... They don't seem to know what they're doing,'' she said during a news conference in San Francisco. "We are in a mess because they have no plan, and now it seems they don't even talk to each other. ... What's happening there is not working; it's a disaster.''

DNC: Dean on Bush's Failed Iraq Policy 11/30/2005 12:28:00 PM To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Karen Finney or Mark Paustenbach, 202-863-8148, both of Democratic National Committee WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Nearly three years after the war in Iraq began and two years after the capture of Saddam Hussein, President Bush finally promised that today he would put forward a plan for success. Instead, he sent a clear message to the American people that all they can expect from him is more sloganeering. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement today on President Bush's failed...

Pelosi: ‘The President Has Dug Us into a Deep Hole in Iraq; It Is Time for Him to Stop Digging’ Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi held a news conference today in response to President Bush’s speech on Iraq. Her remarks are below: "What we heard today was a commitment to the status quo – a status quo that is not working. "The ‘Plan for Victory’ backdrop against which the President appeared at the Naval Academy today was no more accurate than the ‘Mission Accomplished’ backdrop he used over two and a half years ago on the USS...

Congressional Democrats are criticizing President Bush's speech on Iraq, saying he failed to detail a strategy for the eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops. Congressional Democrats say Mr. Bush's address did not offer a realistic assessment of the situation in Iraq, nor did it offer a plan for the future. In his speech at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, the president highlighted progress in the training of Iraqi security forces. He said as Iraqi forces gain experience and the political process advances, the United States will be able to decrease its troop levels. But he rejected setting a timetable...

WASHINGTON, Nov 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush's speech this afternoon in Arizona on immigration: "What we need is not another photo-op, but real leadership. Democrats have worked hard, over the opposition of Republicans, to provide additional resources to the vital task of keeping America safe. Real border security, however, cannot be accomplished in isolation; it must be accompanied by bipartisan and comprehensive immigration reform. "As we have learned from the President's previous forays to Jackson Square and the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, photo- ops cannot substitute for action...

In recent days two Hollywood liberals have gone on vicious rants against President Bush and conservatives. "To send people off to die for a lie -- I swear I never thought I'd see that again in my lifetime," Rob Reiner told a New York Times reporter for a Sunday profile. Reiner claimed "It's beyond impeachable. If we had just one house of Congress, this man would be impeached." Reiner exclaimed: "To me, the death of people at somebody's hands over the stupidity of this man is astounding!" In a Friday piece on the Huffington Post blog, actor John Cusack asserted:...

I was wrong. Almost three years ago we went into Iraq to remove what we were told -- and what many of us believed and argued -- was a threat to America. But in fact we now know that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction when our forces invaded Iraq in 2003. The intelligence was deeply flawed and, in some cases, manipulated to fit a political agenda. It was a mistake to vote for this war in 2002. I take responsibility for that mistake. It has been hard to say these words because those who didn't make a...