Another Interview

The prez. And Fox.

Bush Dodges Question About His Biggest ‘Error,’ Focuses On His ‘Disappointment’ With Congress

Today, President Bush sat down for an approximately 30-minute interview with Fox Business Channel. Toward the end of the interview, host David Asman asked Bush, “What do you think, looking back, your greatest hit was? Where you really hit one out of the park. And what do you think your greatest error was?” Bush replied, [...]

Things That Make You Go “Hmmmm”

I wonder if the White House knows…..

Mukasey Makes First Big Move

The new attorney general has already restarted the DOJ’s internal investigation into warrantless wiretapping–an investigation once blocked when the White House refused to authorize security clearances for the investigtors from the Office of Professional Responsibility [....]

Coming Home

It’s not all that idylic for many.

Later US Army test finds more mental health issues

U.S. soldiers are significantly more likely to report mental health problems six months after returning home from combat than on initial assessments, Army researchers said on Tuesday. Soldiers reported greater concern about interpersonal [...]

CBS News Reveals Shocking Report on Vet Suicides

More than virtually any other news outlet in the “mainstream” media, E&P for years has repeatedly reported on the little-covered syndrome of suicides among U.S. troops in Iraq (now in the hundreds)– or after [...]

C’mon, Folks!

Do you really think this hasn’t happened in any other campaign?  Any other candidate? Not to mention that the headline WAY overstates reality!

Hillary Goons Threaten Wolf Blitzer

The glass jaw cowardace continues, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer has been warned not to focus Thursday’s Dem debate on Hillary. ‘This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy,’ top Clinton insider explains. ‘Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack and pull ‘a [...]

Another Poll

Iowa is getting very, VERY, close!  In fact, it’s a statistical dead heat…

Another storyline bites the dust?

Follow that link.  Numbers are there.

The Democratic Front Line

Remember the words. They are vitally important to the Dems finishing the year without more mud on their collective face..

Are Reid and Pelosi for real this time?

The words are pretty, it’s the action I’m worried about. “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that Democrats won’t approve more money for the Iraq war this year unless President Bush agrees to begin bringing troops home. By the end of the week, [...]

War Stories

Firsthand. Up close.  Personal.

Michael Winship | A Firsthand Look at War

Michael Winship, reporting for Truthout, writes, “Like Alice in Wonderland’s wacky Queen of Hearts, who believed six impossible things before breakfast, the current inhabitant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue believes the preposterous on a regular basis and then talks about it,” while Nancy A. Youssef, reporting for McClatchy Newspapers, gives a glimpse into the role US money plays in the politics of one southern Iraqi town [...]

The Cost of War

No, not THAT cost of war.  The $$$$ cost of war.  And, just for fun, let’s throw in the hidden costs the Administration doesn’t like to talk about.  What do you get?

$1.5 Trillion

When writing about the monetary cost of the war in Iraq in recent months, typing out, “$500 billion,” always boggled the mind.  Who knew that that wasn’t the half of it…so to speak: “The economic costs to the United States of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so far total approximately $1.5 trillion, according to a new study by congressional Democrats that estimates [...]

Just Because I Can

Why, you ask, are you putting up another Cafferty File post?  See answer above.  And, because I still think he’s an excellent commenter.

The Cafferty File: Redefining Privacy

You have to know that the news that Intelligence official Donald Kerr suggesting the Americans need to redefine “privacy” to not mean “anonymity” from the govenment, but trust that they (and corporations) will protect their information nonetheless would raise the hackles of Our Man Jack [...]

Not Making Friends

Hillary Clinton is not making friends among a certain group of bloggers.  In fact, she’s darn near turning them into enemies.

Why We Don’t Have Her Back

For a Democratic presidential campaign to go into the general election without the Netroots is to fight with one hand behind your back. Yet, that is what the Clinton campaign intends to do. Their contempt for the progressive blogosphere is manifest and comes in comments from people as diverse as Al From and Paul Begala. “They (bloggers) don’t really speak for the Democratic Party,” From said Thursday during a 45-minute chat in Las Vegas. He cited poll results that show Clinton with 51 percent of the vote against Rudy Giuliani [... ]

It’s not just the bloggers who are have a tough time.  It’s mainstream reporters, too. The Bill Clinton campaigns were extremely open to reporters, even the local ones.  What’s up with this philosophy?

Clinton and reporters and control … oh my

Every major presidential campaign is going to approach media relations in a different way, but as TNR’s Michael Crowley explained in a fascinating piece, Hillary Clinton’s team has crafted an aggressive press operation that perceives reporters as a combative enemy army, to be treated accordingly. Reporters who have covered the hyper-vigilant campaign say that no [...]

Another blogger opines that bloggers would not have been good for Bill Clinton, either…

Blogs: Bill Clinton’s Kryptonite

Let me throw out a counterfactual. If we had had blogs when Bill Clinton was President, he would have been a lot less effective and his approval ratings lower. Bloggers, who shape more and more of the coverage, deal largely in the printed word. Until YouTube, video was utterly irrelevant to our commentary. Even [...]

Not Monday

It’s Tuesday evening in what’s been a busy week around these parts. Busy at work and busy at home. The Thanksgiving holiday next week has snuck up on yours truly. Honestly, it is earlier than many years, but that’s no excuse. So, I may be spending a little more time getting the house in shape for guests and a little less time blogging in the evening. Still, I promise I’ll keep SOMETHING online for y’all.

We’ll start tonight with your tax dollars and how they’re doled out.

Bush vetoes $10bn increase in health/education budget, signs $40bn increase in Pentagon budget

Bush is vetoing bills that would add money to health and education, claiming America just can’t afford to spend the money, but he has no problem signing bills that spend four times as much money on the Pentagon. Bush just asked for another $200 billion for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he can’t/won’t spend another $10 billion on health and education programs for Americans since, according to him, [...]

Bush veto hits heating bill aid program for poor

Low-income U.S. families planning to rely on a federal program to help pay expensive heating bills this winter are in jeopardy after [...]

Big Business

Citigroup style. Just wonderful.

Disgraced Citigroup CEO to receive $12.5M bonus

Well, fair is fair and he really tried hard. I’m sure the same considerations would be taken for anyone working at Citigroup. Just because Citigroup lost $64 billion during his tenure doesn’t mean he should be deprived of tens of millions worth of bonus money. How else is he going to live in the lap of luxury and retire as one of the worst [...]