Just sitting here, shaking my head in amazement at the things some people will say..
Lieberman: Waterboarding is OK by Me
Well, we know why Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) voted “nay” Wednesday. “[Waterboarding] is not like putting burning coals on people’s bodies. The person is in no real danger. The impact is psychological,” he says. And while Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) [...]
Tags: Torture, Waterboarding
Categories: Torture · Waterboarding
Nothing new. All bad.
The New York Times reports the latest batch of bad economic news: The price of imports rose 1.7 percent in January and was up 13.7 year over year, the highest annual rate since the Labor Department records began in 1983….Manufacturers’ [...]
Tags: Economy
Categories: Economy
The President’s talking tough over the FISA bill, but at least one member of Congress is talking equally tough.
As long as we’re following the volleys back and forth in the surveillance battle, a number of readers have urged that we publish House intelligence committee Chair Silvestre Reyes’ (D-TX) letter to Bush sent yesterday afternoon. So, without further ado, [...]
Tags: FISA
Categories: FISA
It’s easy when you try to follow most of the primaries and caucuses. Case in point…
Will Hillary’s Latino Advantage Matter In Texas?
Some inside baseball stuff on the Texas’ complex primary system: “What many Democrats might not realize, however, is that only three-fourths of the delegates (126) and alternates who will go to the National Democratic Convention will be chosen according to the state’s popular vote results. Texas’ delegation will also include [...]
Tags: Primary Elections
Categories: 2008 Election
The President’s on the warpath. It’s all about terror and the Democrats.
Bush says ‘our country is more in danger of an attack’ — and it’s Dems’ fault
It looks like the president believes his misleading attacks will sound more credible if he repeats them over and over again. For the third time in as many days, Bush appeared before cameras to blast House Democrats for not giving him the surveillance powers he wants. “The Senate passed a good bipartisan bill that makes sure [...]
Categories: FISA · National Security
How bad is the economy? You hear Bernanke and Greenspan all the time. Now, it’s Bloomberg’s turn. And he’s not pulling any punches.
Bloomberg: U.S. looking like a ‘third world country.’
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday ripped into President Bush’s economic policies, stating that the federal government’s rebate checks are “like giving a drink to an alcoholic.” Referring to the federal deficit, he added [...]
Tags: Economy
Categories: Economy
So, we’re gonna launch a missile from a ship to shoot down a dead satellite…the plan may seem to make sense, until…
Experts Scoff at Sat Shoot-Down Rationale
The Pentagon says it has to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite because of the threat of a toxic gas cloud. Space security experts are calling the rationale “comedic gold.” Yesterday, Deputy National Security Advisor James Jeffrey said the satellite’s [...]
Categories: Military
Over at AMERICAblog, A.J. Rossmiller notes something worth passing along. Lest you think I never pass along the “good news”…
It’s hard to have any optimism when it comes to Iraq, but I do think there was some potentially good news from Baghdad this week. It resulted from what appears to be an undemocratic process, but basically three major political groups held their noses and [...]
Tags: Iraq
Categories: Iraq War
It’s Friday night, so let’s do it…let’s run the numbers.
Texas poll shows tight races — on both sides
Burnt Orange Report has the results of the Texas Credit Union League poll, which shows fairly tight races on both sides. Very surprising that the Huckster is within reach of McCain: [...]
Gallup: Obama, HRC Deadlocked; McCain Up Big
Tags: 2008 Election
Categories: 2008 Election
Doled out for those lovely things called “earmarks”…nice, huh?
12,881 earmarks. $18.3 billion. Taxpayers for Common Sense has cataloged them all, and you can see them right here in their awe-inspiring earmark database of this year’s spending bills. Jump in and tell us what you find. A number of [...]
Seems President Bush is going to endorse John McCain next week. There will be debates over whether that’s a good thing. One thing we can say, with certainty, is that McCain is a dividing force in the Senate.
A 2008 election goal: Make sure all Americans know “the well-known darker aspects of McCain’s style”
The media who ride on the bus with McCain love him. The Senators who work with him — Republican Senators — don’t. They know “the darker aspects”: [...]
Tags: George W. Bush, John McCain
Categories: 2008 Election · George W. Bush · McCain
We were doing the “Valentine’s Day” thing last evening, so I didn’t catch Olbermann. The gang at Crooks and Liars did, so you have this to watch. I wonder how much coffee Keith downs before he delivers these “Special Comments”…
Countdown Special Comment on FISA: President Bush Is A Liar And A Fascist
Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on today’s Countdown was a scathing rebuke of President Bush for continuing to play the fear card, trying to scare the hell out of the American people and vowing to veto any FISA legislation that does not contain telecom amnesty. “You are a liar, Mr. Bush, [...]
Tags: Olbermann
Categories: Olbermann
The 2008 Presidential Campaign has become a game of moving-target endorsements and super-delegates. It’s greatly entertaining to political animals, but bad for the overall system, because of the games it creates.
In the thick of a campaign it is easy to overrate the importance of an endorsement or a political hit. But it is difficult to overstate the significance of John Lewis’ switch from the Clinton to Obama camps because it [...]
UPDATE: What Did John Lewis Really Say?
There was a fair amount of confusion last night and this morning about what exactly Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) told the NYT about how he would cast his superdelegate vote at the Democratic Convention. We’ve been trying to track it [...]
UPDATE 2: Or maybe not.
The Washington Post’s Ann E. Kornblut says the now viral report about legendary civil rights activist Congressman John Lewis’s switch from support of Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama might not be a done deal [...]
Tags: 2008 Election
Categories: 2008 Election
It’s been a speed bump of a week. Seems like it was Monday moments ago, then we flew past the middle of the week, and landed squarely on Friday evening. Hope your Valentine’s Day was a pleasant one. I’d suggest trying to carry the feeling through the weekend, just for good measure.
In Washington, it appears to be “politics as usual” as the week comes to an end.
Reid: Bush Attempting to “Manufacture A Crisis”
This morning, Bush stuck to the plan and tried to bring the squeeze on the House: “This Saturday at midnight, legislation authorizing intelligence professionals to quickly and effectively monitor terrorist communications will expire. If Congress does not act by that [...]
Tags: FISA, George W. Bush
Categories: Bush Administration · FISA
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