Just go and watch. If you didnt’ see it already.
On “Countdown” Keith Olbermann talked with Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News about President Bush’s use of trumped up terror alerts to drown out the roar of scandals plaguing his administration. As the heat was turning up on Alberto Gonzales and contempt of Congress charges being brought against Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten, [...]
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Anybody surprised? And, I was born and raised in Iowa…
As a back drop to the presidential campaign, SurveyUSA has tracked President Bush’s approval rating in Iowa for more than two years. This month’s 28% approval rating is his lowest ever and coincides with [...]
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I’m calling it quits for the night shortly. Another busy day tomorrow. But, you just have to know this…
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So, they fire back.
(from MichaelMoore.com) Via Raw Story: Filmmaker Michael Moore revealed on Thursday’s “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno that the Bush Administration had served him with a subpoena regarding his recent trip to Cuba made as part of his new film, Sicko.Moore told the audience that he was notified of the subpoena backstage. “I haven’t even told my [...]
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Plain and simple. Here’s the bottom line.
A senior administration official tells U.S. News, “‘The real problem for Bush now is that it looks like he doesn’t have control over the government.’ … White House officials say [...]
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And because it’s Friday. And because it’s HOT!
If your fun tends more to the scientific, check this out.
The folks in charge of the Mt St Helens volcano cam have turned on their new high-definition camera. The image quality is vastly better than what came from the old camera. Volcano geeks [...]
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Well, now. Seems the White House finally figured out the blogosphere wields a bit of influence. So…
RAW STORY REPORTS: “The White House hosted a blogger conference call to discuss the issues surrounding the Bush administration’s use of executive privilege in the probe of the firings of eight federal prosecutors,” wrote Ed Morrissey, who produces the blog Captains Quarters. “The White House arranged the call based on a recommendation by this blog, in [...]
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Uh, except for one thing. They don’t have power. Electrical power. You won’t believe the twists in this one. Let me take you to Baghdad…
For some inexplicable reason, Republicans have been preoccupied for quite some time with Baghdad’s electrical supply, pointing to it as one of the good-news stories that Americans allegedly don’t hear about. The White House urged the media to cover it more a year ago; Tony Snow bragged about Iraq’s electricity-generating facilities; and then-House Speaker [...]
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Tony Snow just ain’t making much sense these days. My wife noted today that he’s starting to sound more and more like Scott M. Have at it. This is some good Friday night reading..
Today’s White House press briefing was a hoot. A few pesky reporters continued to push Tony Snow to rationalize what appears to be a fairly obvious lie from Alberto Gonzales. Q: Are you saying it was not about the wire-tapping that had already been acknowledged? Snow: I’m saying that acknowledged program, the program the president disclosed to [...]
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It continues to look worse and worse. I’ve been busy today with family matters (that’s what days off are for, right?), so posting tonight will be limited. But, you should know that the details in that Pat Tillman report continue to come out and they continue to absolutely horrible.
We know that Pat Tillman wasn’t the Toby Keith-listening, rah-rah jingoist that the image sold to us by the Administration after his death would have you believe. We know that Tillman believed the war in Iraq was "f***ing illegal" and we also know that he was a devot´ of the writings of Noam Chomsky. It only took three years for the rest of America to catch up with what Tillman knew when he was killed in 2004. But as horrific as the details of Tillman’s death have been up to now, it appears that his death bears all the earmarks of a deliberate murder — dare I say it? A hit on [...]
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A new dress code. Naturally.
Visitors to the White House are now affronted with a new kind of conservatism: a dress code. Facing stricter guidelines than at the Vatican, tour seekers are now subject to the following rules: no jeans, sneakers, shorts, mini-skirts, T-shirts and tank tops and, especially, [...]
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Simply shouldn’t be happening..
A NASA panel found that drunken astronauts were allowed to fly despite warnings about their alcohol consumption, according to an exclusive story by Aviation Week Space Technology. A panel reviewing astronaut health issues in the wake of the Lisa Nowak [...]
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And we have to use slave labor, kidnapped workers, to build it? What’s wrong with this picture?
In early June, I wrote about a report which suggested that slave-type labor was being used to build the oppulent $600 US embassy in Iraq. That was the first I’d heard of such allegations, and I responded in an unsure way: Now, this is the first report I’ve read about this, and as far as I [...]
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The Democrats need to get together and present a united front, or the momentum of the Gonzales debacle will be lost over the August vacation.
On the same day that FBI Director Robert Mueller contradicted the Tuesday testimony of Alberto Gonzales, Senate Democrats went in seemingly different directions about what to do. Mueller gave them enough ammunition. [...]
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The gang at Truthout doesn’t have a 100% success rate in vetting the information in some of their stories, however they have nailed a few tasty morsels in the past. This piece, today, might just be the latest to hold up to scrutiny. Assuming the documents are all legitimate, this one has legs.
Exclusive | Emails Detail RNC Voter Suppression in 5 States
Truthout’s Jason Leopold and Matt Renner report, "Previously undisclosed documents detail how Republican operatives, with the knowledge of several White House officials, engaged in an illegal, racially-motivated effort to suppress tens of thousands of votes during the 2004 presidential campaign in a state where George W. Bush was trailing his [...]
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Unconstitutional? That’s been argued and debated by quacks and constitutional experts for decades. Say Anything blog has snagged an interesting bit of information out of neighboring Louisiana…
The IRS has failed to prove to a jury in Louisiana that the income tax is, you know, constitutional. I imagine the ruling will probably be [...]
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Karl Rove gets the next subpoena. That’s right. It’s pretty solid evidence that Congressional Democrats are fed up.
‘We simply cannot stand for this any longer’
Dems, and more than a few Republicans, have made it clear for quite some time that Alberto Gonzales should not be the Attorney General, but after the AG’s ridiculous appearance this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, in which Gonzales appears to have lied rather recklessly, Senate Dems are taking their frustrations to the next [...]
Joe, over at AMERICAblog, has some thoughts on what comes next…
Okay, when Rove doesn’t respond to the subpoena — and he won’t, play hard ball: cut his salary from the budget, take away his security clearance, make him pay. The guiding principle for Senate Democrats should be: [...]
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Nope. Apparently not.
Fred Barnes Argues Bush Will Go Down as Best President Since Lincoln
George Bush’s polling numbers are sinking faster than a stone. Despite this, he still has his staunch, if somewhat deluded, defenders. Yesterday during a discussion on the topic of newly released poll numbers that show Bush to be closing in on Richard Nixon’s poll numbers at the nadir of the Watergate scandal, conservative editor and commentator Fred Barnes proved once again that the state of denial is alive and well in the Republican Party. Barnes desperately tried to [...]
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Well, now. This is certainly interesting. It does answer Hillary Clinton’s main question, but it doesn’t indicate any type of timetable. So, does it really mean all that much?
Breaking: In Letter To Hillary, Gates Confirms "Planning Taking Place" For Withdrawal
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has written a long letter to Hillary Clinton in which he confirms that "planning is taking place" for withdrawal from Iraq. In the letter, which was obtained by [...]
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But the campaign shakeups are multiplying.
Fred Thompson’s Campaign Shake Ups
Wow, there’s a lot of stories coming out about Fred Thompson’s stealth campaign for the Republican nomination. Can you imagine if he actually declared?First there was the story of his would be campaign manager being pushed aside, allegedly due to friction with Fred’s wife, Jeri Kuhn, herself a GOP operative. And the next [...]
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