And, sadly, some of these folks in Congress have learned to do a really good job of it. That’s why it’s such a pleasure to see a bit of good reporting blow the lid right off the scam.
And They’ll Greet Us With Flowers…
It seems like Sunday in the Park with McCain was rife with wingnut alternate reality. Glenn Greenwald catches a dilly from Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), who said it was "like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime." From Pence’s own website: The merchant almost refused to take my money. He kept touching [...]
Tags: Mike Pence, John McCain, Iraq War, Baghdad Market
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
Oh, yes. This will be a good one. And a good test to see how far the Dems will push the issue. I’m thinking they’re in it for the long haul.
Lawyer to Dems: No No No No
In a four-page letter today, the lawyer for Justice Department official Monica Goodling again rebuffed Democrats’ efforts to hear her testify. Responding to a letter from House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) yesterday, Goodling’s lawyer John Dowd pulled no punches, [...]
Tags: Monica Goodling, John Conyers, House Judiciary Committee
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
So, that means it’s time for some White House fun and games. Happens darn near every time, doesn’t it?
BREAKING: Bush names Swift Boat funder as ambassador.
AP reports: “President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox’s nomination. … Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation, Bush withdrew the nomination last month. On Wednesday, with Congress out of town [...]
Tags: Sam Fox, Ambassador to Belgium, Recess Appointment
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
"Mother Jones" magazine says Apple may have pulled the wool over your eyes, by building in a relatively short life-span for the battery.
Ten Thousand Songs in Your Pocket, Ten Thousand Years in a Landfill
Let’s call it iWaste: Apple has sealed a battery with a shelf-life of 13 months in every iPod, forcing you to buy a new model every year. How to avoid dumping your iPod, and other electronics, into America’s growing landfills [...]
Tags: iPod, Apple, Battery Life
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
Remember where you read it first. Via Wonkette…
Happy Good Friday! U.S. Attack On Iran Just One Day Away
We saw this story on Sunday and blew it off — those wacky Associated Press and Jerusalem Post reporters and their April Fools jokes! — but might as well post it now: The U.S. will start bombing Iran on Friday, “from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on April 6.” Hooray! This comes from Russian military officials talking to Russian journalists. Russia has spies everywhere, especially [...]
Tags: Iran War, Good Friday
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
Bob Geiger has an interesting analogy about the power struggle between George W. Bush and Nancy Pelosi. Perhaps her parenting skills are simply better.
Pelosi Simply Being A Good Parent To Bush
When my young son comes to the point on Saturdays when he’s supposed to do his chores — and believe me, he’s hardly in a forced-labor camp — he sometimes needs adult guidance in how to get the job done. He complains, he procrastinates, he gets overwhelmed by the tasks at hand until I step in and provide direction. Hey, he’s nine years old. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is doing much the same thing with George W. Bush when it comes [...]
Tags: George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Bob Geiger
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
And we’re seeing some really excellent analysis of the President’s speech/news conference of yesterday. Apparently, its taken that long for some of the critics to pick their collective jaws up from the floor and ask, "Did he really say THAT?"
‘Extraordinary cynicism even by his considerable standards’
Slate’s Fred Kaplan listened to the president’s press conference yesterday and heard “statements of extraordinary cynicism even by his considerable standards.” The Democrats, he said, are “more interested in fighting political battles in Washington than providing our troops what they need”—a remarkable accusation, given his administration’s tardiness in supplying those troops with adequate armor and its [...]
Tags: George W. Bush, Iraq War, News Conference, Fred Kaplan
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
American workers are depressed, and getting more so, of you buy the research presented today by a new coalition of unions. It’s also a fairly small sample, and limited by job description. Still, the numbers are dramatic.
New Poll Reveals Global Economy’s Impact on Working America; Rising Anger and Anxiety Over Corporate Behavior, Government Inaction
Economic conditions for workers are deteriorating so dramatically in the new American economy that an overwhelming majority, nearly 70 percent, now say that basic security — not opportunity — is their number one concern, according to a new survey released today. The finding is a stunning reflection of the anxiety, anger and demand for action rising in [...]
UPDATE: As long as we’re talking to depressed people, it ain’t only the union folks….
82 percent:
Number of Americans who “say the world is becoming more dangerous for the United States and its people, with 48 percent saying ‘much more dangerous.’” Seventy-three percent “say the United States is not doing a good job as a leader in creating a [...]
Tags: American Workers, Unions, Economy
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
There’s a lot of chatter today about Hillary’s 26 million dollars and Obama’s 25 million dollars. What’s it all mean? Chris Bowers, writing at the MyDD blog, says we’re in for a fun ride, as political watchers. And he snags some numbers to make his point.
A Three-Way Campaign Emerges
…Exciting times ahead. Already, we have massive rallies, over 200,000 donors, big momentum changes–the energy we will see over the next nine months will break all records [...]
Tags: 2008 Presidential Campaign, Obama, Clinton, Edwards
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
Rudy Giuliani trying to win votes in Iowa. I know, it’s a long way out from the caucuses, but he should be able to generate more attention and excitement that THIS.
Giuliani Campaign Uses Visual Tricks To Make Audiences Appear Larger
The couple hundred people listening in the high school gymnasium gave him a polite but hardly rip-roaring reception. A partition divided the gym to make it appear better attended than it was. Dozens of those who showed up didn’t look old enough to vote. Handmade signs hung from a blue curtain behind the podium. Just before the candidate took the stage, a few in the audience tried to start a "Rudy, Rudy, Rudy" chant. It was [...]
Tags: Rudy Giuliani, Iowa
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
It’s just so sad. New Orleans is still struggling. Why? I expected a slow recovery, but this is absolutely ridiculous.
Live, from NOLA
Scout and Athenae from First Draft went down to New Orleans this past weekend with a group of First Draft readers to gut a house with ACORN. They documented the trip, so the rest of us could see what it’s like there now. Athenae comments: “One of the things that continues to shock me is just how silent the streets are. I compared it to the day after a [...]
Tags: New Orleans, NOLA, Hurricane Katrina
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
We’ve just always got to be stirring up trouble somewhere, don’t we?
Because we need the cold war again?
Great. Just great. "The Bush administration has begun to step up its efforts to build a controversial missile defense system in Eastern Europe, launching a public push in recent weeks to counter bitter opposition in Russia and to overcome fears of a new arms race elsewhere on the continent. The move, coming ahead of a major NATO meeting on the project this month, could escalate a [...]
Tags: Missile Defense System, Russia, Arms Race
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
And, sadly, some of these folks in Congress have learned to do a really good job of it. That’s why it’s such a pleasure to see a bit of good reporting blow the lid right off the scam.
And They’ll Greet Us With Flowers…
It seems like Sunday in the Park with McCain was rife with wingnut alternate reality. Glenn Greenwald catches a dilly from Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), who said it was "like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime." From Pence’s own website: The merchant almost refused to take my money. He kept touching [...]
Tags: Mike Pence, John McCain, Iraq War, Baghdad Market
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
Oh, yes. This will be a good one. And a good test to see how far the Dems will push the issue. I’m thinking they’re in it for the long haul.
Lawyer to Dems: No No No No
In a four-page letter today, the lawyer for Justice Department official Monica Goodling again rebuffed Democrats’ efforts to hear her testify. Responding to a letter from House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) yesterday, Goodling’s lawyer John Dowd pulled no punches, [...]
Tags: Monica Goodling, John Conyers, House Judiciary Committee
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
So, that means it’s time for some White House fun and games. Happens darn near every time, doesn’t it?
BREAKING: Bush names Swift Boat funder as ambassador.
AP reports: “President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox’s nomination. … Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation, Bush withdrew the nomination last month. On Wednesday, with Congress out of town [...]
Tags: Sam Fox, Ambassador to Belgium, Recess Appointment
Powered by Qumana
Categories: Uncategorized
