I’m Amazed

This, from Fox News…

All Alone

…Wow. There’s literally no one left who will come to Alberto Gonzales’s defense anymore, even on Fox News. "We invited White House officials and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend Attorney General Gonzales," Chris Wallace said today [...]

Tags: Gonzales, Senate Judiciary Committee. Fox News

Thanks for reading!

The Argument

Think Progress notes the two sides of a very important debate.

Rangel speaks against impeachment, fears Cheney presidency.

“In spite of what he said was pervasive corruption in the White House, Charlie Rangel, the dean of New York’s congressional delegation, said today he wouldn’t want President Bush impeached. ‘God forbid!‘ he said.” The reason? “I would vote against impeachment of Bush too because the corruption of the Vice President Cheney would even be worse,” [...]

Fein argues for Bush and Cheney impeachment.

Former Reagan administration lawyer Bruce Fein recently sat down with the editors of the San Francisco Chronicle to discuss how “George W. Bush’s foreign policies are making Americans less safe, and why the president and Vice President Dick Cheney should be impeached.” You can [..]

Tags: Rangel, Impeachment, Fein, Cheney

Thanks for reading!

How Nice

And, how typical.

Bush Administration killed public health report for political reasons

The Washington Post today has a report about how a political aide with no medical experience in the Bush Administration went out of his way to block a report by (now former) Surgeon General Richard Carmona which said that the United States needed to step up to the plate on helping other countries with global [...]

Tags: Washington Post, Carmona, Bush Administration

Thanks for reading!

Creative Reporting

NBC vs MSNBC.  Interesting comparison.

Tillman Story Reveals Shortfalls in NBC’s Journalism

The newest revelations about the circumstances surrounding Pat Tillman’s death are horrifying enough to merit widespread media coverage. But rather than rehashing the details, I think it’s instructive to watch two very different broadcasts, ironically, by two stations with the same parent company: Here’s Jim Miklaszweski on [...]

Tags: Tillman, NBC, MSNBC

Thanks for reading!

Sunday Evening Coming Down

It’s been a tiring weekend. Helping folks move, prepping meals, etc.  I’m beat.  But, relaxing finally gives me a chance to skim through some blogs.  And some bloggers ain’t happy.

What will it take to end this madness?

I ask this as a serious question. One that requires more than a cry for impeachment, or calls for inherent contempt as a response. Or boycotts, more investigations – even total election domination, for that matter (although that would humiliate the republicans and would be oh-so-satisfying in a schadenfreude kind of way). Pretty much everything is broken. The electoral system, checks and balances, healthcare, the government, our military, infrastructure and any semblance of fairness for at least 75% of the American public. Each day brings more news that is so [...]

Tags: Impeachment, Health Care, Military

Thanks for reading!

Suicides

Our military folks in Iraq.  This is truly sad.

116:

Number of U.S. troop suicides in Iraq, which “does not include several dozen still under investigation, nor any of the many cases back in the U.S.” Editor and Publisher notes that the “rising toll of suicides” is “[o]ne of the [...]

Tags: Suicide

Thanks for reading!

The Anti-O’Reilly Campaign

Olbermann seems to be the quarterback.  But the team is coming together quite nicely. As for me, a busy Friday morphed into a busy Saturday that promises to morph into a busy Sunday. Yawn. And Whew.

Lowes pulls its advertising off O’Reilly

This is rather huge news (even more about it here). The most important advertiser to fall, and the most difficult, is the first. Now the rest (Home Depot) have to explain why they don’t care as much as Lowes about threats against Hillary Clinton’s life, why they don’t care about [...]

Tags: O’Reilly, Lowes, Home Depot, Clinton

Thanks for reading!