No longer mincing words on the obvious…
At least five retired generals
have turned down the position of war “czar,” according to CBS’s David Martin. He adds that the search for a war coordinator “is a confession that in the fifth year of the war in Iraq, the Bush administration still has not figured out how to harness all the agencies of the U.S. government into a [...]
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I’ll bet Dana Perino really wishes Tony Snow didn’t get sick. These are rough times in the White House Briefing Room…
Perino ‘Defends’ Email Statements: I Didn’t Lie, I Just Had No Idea What I Was Talking About
In this afternoon’s press briefing, the White House press corps confronted spokeswoman Dana Perino about her previous misstatements regarding the White House’s use of RNC email accounts. On March 27, Perino claimed that there were only a “handful” of staffers with such accounts. Today, Perino claimed that her earlier statement was made despite her ignorance [...]
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You’d better be sitting down for this one.
White House lost FIVE MILLION e-mails, CREW reveals
FIVE MILLION e-mails were lost by the White House according to a just released report from CREW called "WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White House Emails and the Violations of the Presidential Records Act." FIVE MILLION…that’s insane. As I explained in the post below, Bush staffers have been already been using [...]
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If this trend continues……
From the latest James Carville and Stan Greenberg strategy memo: "The Democratic advantage in party identification has reached 8.0 points, reflected in our 4,500 interviews conducted from December to March. That compares to 3.5 in the month leading up to the 2006 election upheaval — and compares to an average Democratic advantage of only 2.0 points at the beginning of the last election cycle. This is a new period with a wholly new landscape. Further, independents now [...]
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Remind me to watch for the details on this Monday. How can the White House continue to backpeddle on Climate Change, if its own military is seeing a problem?
A blue-ribbon panel of eleven retired three-star and four-star admirals and generals will release a report in Washington on Monday (April 16) looking at how changing global climate may present serious threats to U.S. national security and to American armed forces at [...]
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Man, it’s really not a pretty picture for the Administration when they can’t get even their base behind their plans. The "extending Iraq deployment" idea is, of course, being roundly criticized by the left, but it’s also getting some harsh response from the right:
For awhile now, I knew that combat tours in Iraq/Afghanistan were going to be extended. There are some "secrets" in the military that are hard for anyone to keep. Though "low friends in high places" helps.
Yesterday, we were greeted to the following joyous news: ALL active-duty soldiers serving or going [...]
Tags: Iraq War, Deployment, Extensions, U.S. Army, Soldiers
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When THESE folks are becoming quickly disillusioned with the U.S. Military, you can safely say that something’s broken and somebody needs to fix it.
Highest Percentage OF West Point Grads Leave After Required Service Since ‘77
Recent graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point are choosing to leave active duty at the highest rate in more than three decades, a sign to many military specialists that repeated tours in Iraq are prematurely driving out some of the Army’s top young officers. According to statistics compiled by West Point, of the 903 Army officers commissioned upon graduation in 2001, nearly [...]
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I don’t often agree with Michelle Malkin, but she makes a darn good point about the Imus situation. If we’re gonna nail him for what he said, don’t we need to deal with the contemporary music scene, too? Note her warning – to make her point, she’s quoting lyrics and they do deserve a Warning.
Imus vs. the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks Chart(language warning)
My syndicated column this week: THE CULTURE OF "BITCHES, NIGGAS, AND HOS" Let’s stipulate: I have no love for Don Imus, Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson. I repeat: A pox on all their race-baiting houses. Let’s also stipulate: The Rutgers [...]
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Talk about flip-flopping. There’s no better example right now than our President…
‘What a difference a day makes’
On Tuesday, in a fairly significant speech before an American Legion post, the president offered a couple of sweeping criticisms of the Democrats’ policy towards the war. The first insisted that the Dems’ approach may have an adverse impact on troop rotations. “Congress’s failure to fund our troops will mean that some of our military families [...]
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An absolutely stunning development (although we probably shouldn’t be surprised) in the story about the Bush Administration "secondary" email system, apparently used to avoid the security and record keeping of the White House system. Now it seems the Bush Administration can’t find most of the emails on the second system! Oh, boy! That’s not sitting well with the Congressional leaders who asked to see them!
Waxman: "This is a remarkable admission that raises serious legal and security issues"
The White House said an effort was underway to see whether the messages could be recovered from the computer system, which was operated and paid for by the Republican National Committee as part of an effort to separate political communications from those dealing with official business. "The White [...]
UPDATE: Oh, Patrick Leahy ain’t happy, either. As noted by Daily Kos:
The 18-minute gap and the Saturday Night Massacre, all rolled up into one
We’ve broken the "L word" barrier: "Leahy: Bush Aides Lying About E-Mails…WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush’s aides are lying about White House e-mails sent on a Republican account that might have been lost, a powerful Senate chairman said Thursday, vowing to subpoena those documents if [...]
UPDATE 2: Looks like Leahy made his point:
Senate Panel Authorizes Subpoenas
It’s been a busy day at the Senate Judiciary Committee: A U.S. congressional panel investigating the firing of federal prosecutors authorized subpoenas on Thursday for e-mails the White House has declared may be missing. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, [...]
Tags: White House Email, Republican National Committee, Henry Waxman, Missing Email
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How many times? How many times will we let this continue?
U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION ALTERED FINAL REPORT ON ‘VOTER FRAUD’ FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES
Guest Blogged by Arlen Parsa with additional reporting by Brad Friedman. The New York Times reports today that a governmental report on the so-called dangers of "voter fraud" was manipulated to reflect the Bush Administration’s claims rather than their own panel’s findings. The Times obtained two copies of the report on voter fraud, the first of which [...]
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No longer mincing words on the obvious…
At least five retired generals
have turned down the position of war “czar,” according to CBS’s David Martin. He adds that the search for a war coordinator “is a confession that in the fifth year of the war in Iraq, the Bush administration still has not figured out how to harness all the agencies of the U.S. government into a [...]
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Whew! I knew Lee Iacocca had moved away from the GOP, but I didn’t realize how STRONGLY he’s upset with the Bush Administration. Actually, "upset" doesn’t even come close to explaining his feelings. Read on, for some truly amazing quotes, via the Democratic Daily blog…
Lee Iacocca: “You Can’t Call Yourself a Patriot If You’re Not Outraged”
Although Lee Iacocca was an outspoken Bush supporter in 2000, he did make a break with the Bush Administration in the 2004 election, by backing John Kerry. Iacocca said at the time that his decision to endorse Kerry was made “not as a partisan but as an unabashed patriot.” Well, Lee Iacocca is speaking up [...]
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I’ll bet Dana Perino really wishes Tony Snow didn’t get sick. These are rough times in the White House Briefing Room…
Perino ‘Defends’ Email Statements: I Didn’t Lie, I Just Had No Idea What I Was Talking About
In this afternoon’s press briefing, the White House press corps confronted spokeswoman Dana Perino about her previous misstatements regarding the White House’s use of RNC email accounts. On March 27, Perino claimed that there were only a “handful” of staffers with such accounts. Today, Perino claimed that her earlier statement was made despite her ignorance [...]
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BREAKING NEWS: MSNBC Reports CBS has fired Imus from his radio gig. There’s a bit more information here, in the CBS News story.
Now, read the background from earlier today…
I got an email today from somebody who wondered why I hadn’t been posting much about the Don Imus situation. Beyond the basic information, I’ve honestly been a bit conflicted by all that’s been happening. My first reaction was to align with Imus, respecting his long tenure on the air and the fact that I have a couple of very funny albums of his work from back in the 1960’s and 1970’s. It’s tough to lose respect for someone you’ve long admired. I guess I should have opened my eyes, and paid closer attention, long ago. There’s a bigger picture about how all of this could impact broadcasting in general. There are issues being raised about the "fairness doctrine". The snowball effect could mean massive changes in the direction of radio (and TV) in America. That, however, is a topic for future days and future posts. For now, consider this excellent post from Booman Tribune:
Was it really nine years ago? What have I been doing with my life? Bob Herbert dug up an old 60 Minutes transcript (Times Select), and it ended Don Imus’s television career. "In a “60 Minutes” interview with Don Imus broadcast in July 1998, Mike Wallace said of the “Imus in the Morning” program, “It’s dirty and sometimes racist.” Mr. Imus then said: “Give me an example. Give me one example of one racist incident.” To which Mr. Wallace replied, “You told Tom Anderson, the producer, in your car, coming [...]
UPDATE: Along those same lines, read this from Capitol Hill Blue
Some claim the firing of Don Imus by MSNBC is a free speech issue. It’s not. Free speech has nothing to do with whether or not Imus lost his job with the cable news channel and it will have nothing to with the final CBS Radio decision on his future. Free speech is a right that a government can or cannot grant. Free speech is not about the right of a highly-paid shock jock [...]
UPDATE 2: Making up for lost time, more thoughts from another blogger who broadens the horizon a bit…
Don Imus is another in a long line of knot headed celebrities who’ve put their own well-paid backsides in a sling. They exercised their First Amendment rights, while completely ignoring the accompanying responsibility to refrain from saying something terminally stupid. Critics of the I-Man – where “I” apparently stands for “Idiot” – have every right [...]
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The New York Times wrote this:
The total failure of Bush’s war in Iraq — four year later
The NY Times editorial page looks at Iraq four years later: "Two months into the Baghdad security drive, the gains Mr. Bush is banking on have not materialized. More American soldiers continue to arrive, and their commanders are talking about extending the troop buildup through the fall or into early next year. After four years, the political trend is even more discouraging. There is no [...]
BEFORE this happened:
Explosrion Rocks Iraqi Parliament, 2 Killed
A bomb rocked Iraq’s parliament building in the heavily fortified Green Zone Thursday, killing at least two lawmakers in a stunning security breach in the third month of a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown on violence in the capital, officials said. At least four other people were [...]
UPDATE: The Chicago Tribune says it’s not just the embassy that’s rocked by the explosion. And, by the way, that wasn’t the only Baghdad Blast today.
Baghdad blasts may rock Washington too
Posted by Frank James at 9:34 am CDT The Iraqi insurgency exploded its way back to the top of the news with two audacious acts—the bombing within the heavily fortified Iraqi Green Zone of the Iraqi parliament and another explosion which destroyed much of a historic bridge over the Tigris River that connected sections of Baghdad. The bombings underscore the mounting difficulties facing the Bush Administration and the U.S. military in combating an insurgency which studies the routines and [...]
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You’d better be sitting down for this one.
White House lost FIVE MILLION e-mails, CREW reveals
FIVE MILLION e-mails were lost by the White House according to a just released report from CREW called "WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White House Emails and the Violations of the Presidential Records Act." FIVE MILLION…that’s insane. As I explained in the post below, Bush staffers have been already been using [...]
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If this trend continues……
From the latest James Carville and Stan Greenberg strategy memo: "The Democratic advantage in party identification has reached 8.0 points, reflected in our 4,500 interviews conducted from December to March. That compares to 3.5 in the month leading up to the 2006 election upheaval — and compares to an average Democratic advantage of only 2.0 points at the beginning of the last election cycle. This is a new period with a wholly new landscape. Further, independents now [...]
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Remind me to watch for the details on this Monday. How can the White House continue to backpeddle on Climate Change, if its own military is seeing a problem?
A blue-ribbon panel of eleven retired three-star and four-star admirals and generals will release a report in Washington on Monday (April 16) looking at how changing global climate may present serious threats to U.S. national security and to American armed forces at [...]
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Man, it’s really not a pretty picture for the Administration when they can’t get even their base behind their plans. The "extending Iraq deployment" idea is, of course, being roundly criticized by the left, but it’s also getting some harsh response from the right:
For awhile now, I knew that combat tours in Iraq/Afghanistan were going to be extended. There are some "secrets" in the military that are hard for anyone to keep. Though "low friends in high places" helps.
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