As some of you bloggers have noted, the Bush administration got nailed again by the Government Accountability Office for violating a ban on covert propaganda. This one was for the U.S. Department of Education having paid commentator Armstrong Williams to promote the No Child Left Behind Act. The department also violated the law by producing and distributing packaged news stories to local TV stations with fake reporters touting the virtues of NCLB. The Department of Health and Human Services got busted last year by the GAO for a similar fake-news scam promoting Medicare reform. Instead of spending tax money trying to con the public, what if the administration used that money to actually fund its programs?
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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Phillip
If they used the money to fund those programs, it would be a waste of money. Those programs don’t work and they know it.
Build a better mousetrap and people will beat a path to your door.
They just want the money. Which is all they ever wanted.
Disbanding that agency and using what pilfer to help taxpayers take care of local schools is the ansewer. Always has been.
I actually agree with Ed. Since the NCLB Act was written by Senator Ed Kennedy and schools don’t want to be accountable to the Federal Government but want Federal dollars, just disband the Department of Education and give like a flat payout to every school to do what they want.
OH NO, tell me it isn’t so. Did they ever really fund NCLB legistlation? Just a Dubbya promise with no substance.
It was a smoke and mirrors bill and campaign to make the administration look like they cared about education.It was designed to boost approval ratings and win a second term.The administrations problem is that they do things in the moment and don’t think about the future consequences. In this case it ultimately made them look like fools and they got in trouble for doing it, which will lowers their approval ratings.But they got what they wanted out of their propoganda, and that is all they care about.Do their approval ratings mean anything anymore? No! They got their second term and now it is a free-for-all.
OMG! Team Bush LIED about something. Boy, that’s one for the history books!
So now we get to see how the “party of responsibility” take their punishment like the “adults in charge” that they claim to be.
(Kicking and screaming like three-year olds before nap time . . .)
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ID–
You forgot about the Clintons’ selling cocaine to have Vince Foster killed.
The problem with all those investigations? None of them resulted in legal rulings against the Clintons.
I believe that you have to be proven guilty before you’re actually guilty, don’t you?
Or at least before the PATRIOT Act, that is . . .
Oh, and you know what else, ID?
Clinton’s not the president anymore. You can’t keep blaming him for everything that goes wrong.
Uhhh…Bush may be a total nimrod, but he’s not been found guilty of anything either.”I believe that you have to be proven guilty before you’re actually guilty, don’t you?”Past prezs are always up for booting: it’s an american pastime.There are going to be shannigans going on in every presidency. Ain’t no big thing.
“the Bush administration got nailed again by the Government Accountability Office for violating a ban on covert propaganda”
You’re correct that this isn’t a criminal violation, but it is a violation of gov’t regulations.
And they were found guilty.
The president has almost unlimited access to the media. If he has to send fake news releases and make commercials to sell a program to the people, then something’s wrong with the program!
Bush may not have been found guilty because he hasn’t been caught yet. Right now the left is having fun catching him in all of his lies. And ID, perhaps you should get your news from some place other than Fox. If you look up all of those you will see that they were all dismissed because the right had no evidence (none, 0, zip) or they were lies (there is that word again) the Bush administration told to try and make Clinton look bad. It is easier for Bush to try and make Clinton look bad than to be compared to him by actually doing a reasonable job running the country.
Are we better off now than we were 5 years ago?Maybe if you were already wealthy & or one of Bush’s buddies.
If I was one of Bush’s buddies I would be running FEMA or getting ready for my confirmation hearings.
Mister K, you’re not qualified until you trash science, the environment and a few other staples of everday life.Besides, why would you want to spend your days testifying before a grand jury when the weather’s been so nice?