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Daily Archives: May 5, 2006
Will Goss get a medal of freedom?
May 5, 20062:07 p.m.
I doubt if anyone is shedding any tears over the resignation today of Porter Goss as CIA director. President Bush described Goss’ term as a transition. That’s true. But Goss was more than just a placeholder at an agency hurt by intelligence failures and a torture scandal in Iraq. Goss also replaced some top CIA experts with GOP politicos. And most recently, he has been trying to track down the person who leaked to the media the existence of secret prisons (but hasn’t seemed very upset about the administration leaking the name of one of the CIA’s undercover agents).
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
Does Bush have Fox News to thank for presidency?
May 5, 200612:09 a.m.
Democrats complain about the U.S. Supreme Court making George W. Bush president. But two economists think that the “fair and balanced” Fox News network also played a big role. The economists estimate that Fox News convinced 3 percent to 8 percent of its audience to shift and vote Republican in the 2000 election, Richard Morin reported in his Washington Post column. In Florida, which Bush won by fewer than 600 votes, the economists estimate the “Fox effect” produced more than 10,000 additional votes for Bush.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
Breaking up is hard to do, especially of the lobbyists and the lobbied
May 5, 200612:07 a.m.
The measures in the lobbying bill that passed the U.S. House Wednesday — with the votes of Reps. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, and Jerry Moran, R-Hays — are fine as far as they go, including requiring more disclosure from lobbyists about their contributions and more disclosure from lawmakers about spending earmarks. Both issues badly need more sunlight. But neither the House nor the Senate, which passed a version earlier, has shown itself entirely willing to give up the biggest sources of ethical problems — the meals, trips and other goodies that lobbyists give to lawmakers, and the porky spending projects that lawmakers can seem to be giving to lobbyists. Even with more accountability and transparency, the relationship between the lobbyists and the lobbied will remain too close for the American people’s comfort.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
How much health care can we afford?
May 5, 200612:03 a.m.
“We have so much available that we can’t afford to give it to everyone,” William Plested, president-elect of the American Medical Association, said about our nation’s health care system. Plested (in photo), a California surgeon who graduated from Wichita East High School in 1954, told The Eagle editorial board Wednesday that at some point, society and legislatures will need to decide what medical services to provide to patients who can’t afford to pay for their own care. We must find a balance, he said, between not providing any care and providing anything they want.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
Dubious, bogus and utterly phony headlines
May 5, 200612:01 a.m.
ARENA OPTION D TO FEATURE BLUE ROOF; Effort to Add ‘Pizzazz’ Met With Public Skepticism
KANSAS LEGISLATURE APPROVES BUILDING WALL AROUND PHELPS COMPOUND; Easier Way to Keep Them From Protesting
Posted by Randy Scholfield
