How Convenient

It’s a tie!  Kind of.

Report on Iraq Progress Shows Mixed Results

The White House report released today shows progress on eight benchmarks, unsatisfactory progress on another eight and [...]

Outside analysis?

Expert: Iraq not meeting Bush’s benchmarks in any major area

Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, one of Washington’s top national-security experts, is less impressed with the situation on the ground in Iraq than the authors of the White House’s progress report released today. In an assessment of how Iraqis are doing on the benchmarks, Cordesman writes: [...]

Now, it gets political:

Obama Slams White House Iraq Report

Tags: Iraq Progress Report, White House

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Bush and The Reporters

Today’s installment. It wasn’t a pretty picture…

Bush Dismisses Iraq Critics: ‘War Fatigue’ Is Affecting Their ‘Psychology’

Today in his press conference, a reporter asked President Bush why he is “so resistant” to a “change of course in Iraq,” even though that’s what the American public is “clamoring for.” Bush dismissed the reporter’s question, stating that he isn’t surprised “that there is deep concern amongst our people,” but ascribed it to “war [...]

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Skipping Out On Congress

Who’s gonna be in the most trouble over this one?

Hard-Hearted Harbinger of Haggis

Harriet Miers fails to show up for today’s Congressional hearing, even to assert privilege. As Josh Marshall pointed out yesterday, not only can Miers be held in contempt of Congress, but by telling her to not show, George W. Bush may have committed a felony. Mustang Bobby (directly below this post) has [...]

Tags: Harriet Miers, Congressional Hearing, Contempt of Congress

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Another Shot at Moore

This time, it’s Presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee.  And, this time, it’s kinda personal..

Huckabee takes personal shot at Michael Moore.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee “sharply criticized Michael Moore” and his new documentary SiCKO, suggesting that the filmmaker adds to the nation’s health care crisis by being overweight: “Frankly, Michael Moore is an example of why the health care system costs so much in this country. He clearly is one of the reasons that we have [...]

Waiting for Moore to counter punch.

UPDATE:  Arkansas Times notes the responses.  From both sides.

Backatcha Huck — UPDATE

Tags: Michael Moore, Sicko, Mike Huckabee

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Carlson Couldn’t Ask For More

Tucker Carlson is settling into his new "live" 6pm EDT timeslot on MSNBC.  It doesn’t get much better than this for opening-week fireworks on the telly!

Liberal Activist Goes Cuckoo on Carlson: ‘You Preppy Punk!’

There’s surely some deeper lesson to be drawn from the tantrum liberal activist Michael Rectenwald threw on yesterday’s "Tucker." But in the meantime, for sheer entertainment value it’s hard to beat Rectenwald’s display of purple-faced apoplexy. Rectenwald is the man behind the left-wing "Citizens for Legitimate Government," whose mission [...]

Tags: Tucker Carlson, Michael Rectenwald, Citizens for Legitimate Government

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Good Work

Honestly good work on the part of government investigators.  Not so "good work" on the part of Homeland Security and the NRC. We, at times, are our own worst enemy.

Undercover Investigators Get Nuclear License For Radioactive Materials With No Hassle

Undercover Congressional investigators set up a bogus company and obtained a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in March that would have allowed them to buy the radioactive materials needed for a so-called dirty bomb. The investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, demonstrated once again that [...]

Tags: Dirty Bomb, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Government Accountability Office

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Ain’t Gonna Happen

But it is, as the author suggests, a novel idea.

A Novel Solution To This Executive Branch Nightmare

Recent polls indicate that President Bush’s approval rating has dropped to a record low of twenty-seven percent. Our devious vice-president, Dick Cheney, is embroiled in brewing scandals related to the replacement of eight U.S. District Judges and the Libby pardon. (sorry commutation) Therefore, I think I have both a practical and novel solution to [...]

Tags: Bush Administration, Cheney, Pelosi, Rice

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Stick A Fork In It

The McCain campaign appears to be all but history.

John McCain’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week Continues

If his lockstep support of President Bush and this foolish war won’t sink him, or his blowing through all the money he’s raised, well, violating federal criminal law and Senate ethics rules just might: "About 3 p.m. Tuesday, Senator John McCain ducked off the Senate floor, entered the Republican cloakroom and took out his mobile phone. Just hours after accepting the resignation of his two top campaign aides, he was making a conference call to his top fund-raisers to urge them to keep up the fight. The call, however, may only have [...]

So, should you care about that phone call?  Well…

Why I care about McCain’s campaign call controversy

This almost certainly sound like a minor campaign flap, but let’s take a moment to consider the bigger picture. About 3 p.m. Tuesday, Senator John McCain ducked off the Senate floor, entered the Republican cloakroom and took out his mobile phone. Just hours after accepting the resignation of his two top campaign aides, he was making [...]

Tags: McCain, 2008 Campaign

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Happy Days

Are here again.  al-Qaeda is stronger than ever. And the terrorism predictions are fast and furious.  At least from the Right..

No one should look forward to terrorism

About a month ago, Dennis Milligan, the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, sounded pretty excited about the prospect of domestic terrorism. “At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. [...]

Tags: Terrorism, Chertof, Milligan, al Qaeda

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At It Again

Bob Woodward doesn’t back down.  He’s still digging dirt on the Bush Administration.

All lies, all the time: the Bush administration on Iraq

Bob Woodward, whose reporting, or “reporting,” depending upon the circumstances, has long proven a reliable measure of establishment Washington’s rectal temperature, has a revelatory story in Thursday’s Washington Post describing the utterly pessimistic testimony of CIA director Michael Hayden to members of the Iraq Study Group during a session in November of last year. Hayden [...]

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He Should Know

Honestly, this man should understand Iraq.  My money’s on HIS analysis.

Military spokesman absolutely wrong about al Qaeda in Iraq

[NOTE FROM JOHN: AJ is a former Department of Defense civilian Intelligence Officer who was decorated for his recent civilian service in Iraq.] The Post reports that the chief spokesman for the U.S. military yesterday called al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) "the principal threat" to Iraqis. This is, quite simply, completely and totally false. Anyone who claims that the [...]

Tags: Iraq War, al-Qaeda in Iraq, Bergner

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The Slide Continues

New numbers. New lows.

Bush Approval Sinks to Nixon Levels

President Bush’s approval level slipped to 26% in the most recent Harris Interactive survey. The rating is the lowest of his presidency and matches President Richard Nixon’s lowest approval rating in Harris polls taken during [...]

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Bad News Comes Early

It’s not yet Friday the 13th (at least it wasn’t as I posted this Thursday evening), but this post at Shakesville has already ruined the evening for me.

The Things They Witnessed

Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian interviewed 50 Iraq combat veterans to learn, through the troops’ perceptions and experiences, how the military occupation has affected ordinary Iraqis. The results are very disturbing: … These combat veterans, some of whom bear deep emotional and physical scars, and many of whom have come to oppose the occupation, gave vivid, [...]

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Why, Oh Why

I guess the pressure is getting to be too much..

Another Sex Scandal for the GOP

Bob Allen is a Republican State Representative from Merritt Island, Florida. He’s a volunteer with the local little league and a donor to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida. He was arrested yesterday after offering to perform oral sex on an undercover police officer in exchange for twenty bucks. Titusville police were at Veteran’s Memorial Park on East Broad Street on a burglary detail when they noticed an unshaven man acting suspicious, going in and out of the restroom three times, said Lt. Todd Hutchinson. An undercover officer [...]

Tags: Bob Allen, Oral Sex

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How Convenient

It’s a tie!  Kind of.

Report on Iraq Progress Shows Mixed Results

The White House report released today shows progress on eight benchmarks, unsatisfactory progress on another eight and [...]

Outside analysis?

Expert: Iraq not meeting Bush’s benchmarks in any major area

Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, one of Washington’s top national-security experts, is less impressed with the situation on the ground in Iraq than the authors of the White House’s progress report released today. In an assessment of how Iraqis are doing on the benchmarks, Cordesman writes: [...]

Now, it gets political:

Obama Slams White House Iraq Report

Tags: Iraq Progress Report, White House

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Bush and The Reporters

Today’s installment. It wasn’t a pretty picture…

Bush Dismisses Iraq Critics: ‘War Fatigue’ Is Affecting Their ‘Psychology’

Today in his press conference, a reporter asked President Bush why he is “so resistant” to a “change of course in Iraq,” even though that’s what the American public is “clamoring for.” Bush dismissed the reporter’s question, stating that he isn’t surprised “that there is deep concern amongst our people,” but ascribed it to “war [...]

Tags: News Conference, Press Conference, George W. Bush, Bush Administration, Iraq War

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Skipping Out On Congress

Who’s gonna be in the most trouble over this one?

Hard-Hearted Harbinger of Haggis

Harriet Miers fails to show up for today’s Congressional hearing, even to assert privilege. As Josh Marshall pointed out yesterday, not only can Miers be held in contempt of Congress, but by telling her to not show, George W. Bush may have committed a felony. Mustang Bobby (directly below this post) has [...]

Tags: Harriet Miers, Congressional Hearing, Contempt of Congress

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Another Shot at Moore

This time, it’s Presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee.  And, this time, it’s kinda personal..

Huckabee takes personal shot at Michael Moore.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee “sharply criticized Michael Moore” and his new documentary SiCKO, suggesting that the filmmaker adds to the nation’s health care crisis by being overweight: “Frankly, Michael Moore is an example of why the health care system costs so much in this country. He clearly is one of the reasons that we have [...]

Waiting for Moore to counter punch.

UPDATE:  Arkansas Times notes the responses.  From both sides.

Backatcha Huck — UPDATE

Tags: Michael Moore, Sicko, Mike Huckabee

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Carlson Couldn’t Ask For More

Tucker Carlson is settling into his new "live" 6pm EDT timeslot on MSNBC.  It doesn’t get much better than this for opening-week fireworks on the telly!

Liberal Activist Goes Cuckoo on Carlson: ‘You Preppy Punk!’

There’s surely some deeper lesson to be drawn from the tantrum liberal activist Michael Rectenwald threw on yesterday’s "Tucker." But in the meantime, for sheer entertainment value it’s hard to beat Rectenwald’s display of purple-faced apoplexy. Rectenwald is the man behind the left-wing "Citizens for Legitimate Government," whose mission [...]

Tags: Tucker Carlson, Michael Rectenwald, Citizens for Legitimate Government

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Good Work

Honestly good work on the part of government investigators.  Not so "good work" on the part of Homeland Security and the NRC. We, at times, are our own worst enemy.

Undercover Investigators Get Nuclear License For Radioactive Materials With No Hassle

Undercover Congressional investigators set up a bogus company and obtained a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in March that would have allowed them to buy the radioactive materials needed for a so-called dirty bomb. The investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, demonstrated once again that [...]

Tags: Dirty Bomb, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Government Accountability Office

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