Hillary and Barack are all chummy. Again. Just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, doesn’t it?
Clinton, Obama Agree to Rein in Attacks
Advisers say Thursday conversation on the Senate floor was about making efforts to stop supporters from crossing the line. Clinton spokesman Phil Singer: “They agreed that the contrasts between their respective records, qualifications and issues should be what drives this campaign, and [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
Ladies and Gentlemen! We have a FISA bill! One the democrats wrote. One they spoke out in support of. One they voted for.
House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance
The House just now approved a new FISA bill that denies retroactive immunity to lawbreaking telecoms and which refuses to grant most of the new powers for the President to spy on Americans without warrants. It passed comfortably, by a 213-197 margin. Notably, many of the 21 “Blue Dogs” who previously signed a letter indicating their support for telecom immunity and [...]
Categories: Congress · FISA · National Security
Now, they’re making sure what they saw and did in Iraq isn’t lost. Warning, it’s NOT a pretty picture…
US/IRAQ: “We Reacted Out of Fear, and With Total Destruction”
Hart Viges joined the U.S. Army the day after Sep. 11, 2001, in the belief that he could help make the world a safer place. The term “haji” is used by U.S. soldiers in Iraq to degrade and dehumanise the Iraqi people. Viges, like others who spoke, said that U.S. troops routinely detained innocent people during home raids. “We never went on the right raid where [...]
Categories: Iraq War
I’m sorry, but I just don’t see this working. Not this year. Not with the economy. Not with the Iraq War. Not with the long list of administration scandals.
Painting the Electoral Map Red
I’ve seen polling which indicates this isn’t a pipe dream - and, anyways, I’ve always felt that when we write off the blue States we’re just foolishly taking several large pieces off the political chessboard. Why not fight it out everywhere? From Politico: “EXETER, N.H. — Every candidate tells his audience that its votes [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain
It’s time to be very afraid. John McCain pretty much said so, today.
McCain: Al Qaeda Might Try To Tip Election
Campaigning in Pennsylvania today: “McCain, at a town hall meeting in this Philadelphia suburb, was asked if he had concerns that anti-American militants in Iraq might ratchet up their activities in [...]
A democratic administration (assuming there IS one) is going to have a lot of rebuilding work to do. The Bush Administration just added another chore.
In practice, I don’t know how effective the Intelligence Oversight Board has been over the years. But I guess the answer is, a little too effective for President Bush’s taste:Almost 32 years to the day after President Ford [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · National Security
I pretty much agree with this gentleman. Sadly.
US Faces Severe Recession, Feldstein Says
The United States has entered a recession that could be “substantially more severe” than recent ones, former National Bureau of Economic Research President Martin Feldstein said Friday. “The situation is very bad, the situation is getting worse, and the risks are that it [...]
And, McCain’s in the mix:
So, the economy’s not doing too well. The New York Times summarizes: “Almost everything seems to be going wrong for the American economy at once. People are buying less, but most things are costing more. Mortgage rates are rising, the dollar is falling and prices of [...]
Categories: Consumer · Economy
Can you blame them?
GOP Gags Witnesses on Credit Card Woe
They came to the nation’s capital this week from as far away as Denver, Chicago and Niagara Falls—five people who’d had tough experiences with their credit cards and were asked to share those tales with a House panel. Instead, they ran headfirst into the buzz-saw of Washington politics when the panel’s Republicans insisted the visitors allow their lenders to discuss their financial histories publicly—in any forum, at any time. For four of the five, [...]
Categories: Consumer
Out of mind. This really does explain those new poll numbers.
Media Finds Increased Support for Iraq Occupation Since Reporting on it Stopped
In the latest head smacking example that shows just how much impact the corporate media has on how people feel about things, we see that people’s views of Iraq are “better” over the past few months. It is also interesting to note that there has been a decrease in the overall reporting about Iraq from 15% of the total stories as recently as last July to a mere [...]
Categories: Iraq War
Yes, indeed, he really DID say it. George W. Bush tops anything anybody else said this week.
Bush “Envious” of U.S Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
On Thursday, President Bush once again provided fodder for generations of psychology graduate students to come. For the second time in just six months, the same man whose dubious Air National Guard service kept him out of the jungles of [...]
Categories: Afghanistan · George W. Bush · Iraq War
It’s all about religion and racism. I’m just now catching up on this story. It does seem that it could have some pretty strong implications for the Obama campaign.
Imagine if Wright Were Hillary’s Pastor …
Imagine for a moment Hillary had for two decades embraced a minister and a church that preached racism or hatred for America as Wright’s has done. She not only would not be running for president, she wouldn’t be in the Senate, she probably would not be employable in public life anywhere. The question [...]
Debate, after the jump…
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama · Religion
Now, he just has to convince the Commander in Chief of this. I’m thinkin’ that’s not gonna happen.
Petraeus Admits The Surge Has Failed
Proconsul Petraeus, Who We Must Never Question, on the Bush/McCain Surge: “Iraqi leaders have failed to take advantage of a reduction in violence to make adequate progress toward resolving their political differences, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday.” Did you get that? Failed. “Petraeus, who is preparing to testify to Congress next month on the Iraq war, said in an interview that “no one” in the U.S. [,,,]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
Kind of. Not running 100% still this evening. At least it’s Friday. Storms rolled through overnight and they always drive one of our dogs crazy. So, it was like having a baby in the house again! Consequently, we’ve been tired all day long. Ugh.
Today was Tucker Carlson’s final show on MSNBC. He was certainly not among the best they have. We’ll reserve judgement on the replacement, another “Road to the White House” thing. There IS such a thing as overkill.
We begin tonight with the latest twist in the Eliot Spitzer debacle. It would seem he might have been stupider than we thought.
Spitzer Being Investigated for Using Campaign Funds In Meetings With Prostitutes
Things might be looking worse for Spitzer. While there was never any doubt that he could not survive politically, it is not yet clear as to what legal charges he will face. If this was limited to a victimless crime such as prostitution, and even if there was some technically illegal movement of his personal [...]
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