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Thursday, February 9th, 2006
Accountability’s the name of the game here at Wonkette. That’s why we were so excited to learn about the President’s Management Agenda, in which government employees are obligated to prove that their programs are worth their cost to taxpayers. It comes, as all good Agendas do, with a handy website: expectmore.gov, wherein you can find the whole list of programs that ought to be “eliminated and/or trimmed back.” First Draft did the necessary research (we have a policy against visiting government websites that aren’t intended for children or that don’t feature human-animal hybrids) and found a fun sampling of the government programs we can clearly do without. Some unnecessary wastes of your hard-earned cash include: MORE »











By now you’ve probably seen the Drudge Report’s excerpt of a shocking expose inside the White House: Bush “has become isolated and feels betrayed by key officials.” Well, maybe he’s not so stupid after all, eh? The entire article restores our faith in the leadership of the country, seeing as how the charade of things being just fine really freaked us out. And another thing Bush appears to come around on: “The sources said Mr. Bush maintains daily contact with only four people: first lady Laura Bush, his mother, Barbara Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes.”