Cheney Attempting to Constrain Bush’s Choices on Iran Conflict: Staff Engaged in Insubordination Against President Bush There is a race currently underway between different flanks of the administration to determine the future course of US-Iran policy. On one flank are the diplomats, and on the other is Vice President Cheney’s team and acolytes — who […]
Congress Passes Deadline-Free War Funding Bill Measure Includes Benchmarks for Iraqis Congress sent President Bush a new Iraq funding bill yesterday that lacked troop withdrawal deadlines demanded by liberal Democrats, but party leaders vowed it was only a temporary setback in their efforts to bring home American troops.
Why Bush hasn’t been impeached Congress, the media and most of the American people have yet to turn decisively against Bush because to do so would be to turn against some part of themselves But there’s a deeper reason why the popular impeachment movement has never taken off — and it has to do not […]
President Bush told NBC reporter David Gregory at a Rose Garden news conference today that terrorists are a "threat to your children, David." The President’s reaction came after Gregory asked him why he should be considered a credible source on terror intelligence. I find this comment infuriating. None of us are unaware of the threat […]
Ex-Justice Aide Admits Politics Affected Hiring Ms. Goodling appeared to contradict Mr. Gonzales’s testimony to the committee this month in which he said he had not spoken to his senior aides since the firings “to protect the integrity of this investigation.” During a meeting in March before she resigned, Ms. Goodling said, Mr. Gonzales […]
I’ve been thinking all afternoon about what bothered me about Monica Goodling’s testimony today. She struck me as a sincere person, someone who thought she was doing the right thing in some idiosyncratic frame of reference. I don’t think she thought of herself as a political operative, though I think it’s virtually impossible that she […]
GSA chief violated Hatch Act, OSC report finds An Office of Special Counsel report has found that General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal officials from partisan political activity while on the job, sources say. The report addresses a Jan. 26 lunch meeting at GSA headquarters attended by Doan […]
A month ago, I mentioned a local project about some unusual trees in the Georgia woods around here – thought to be Indian Trail markers. Well, I spent the weekend in a University Dendrochronology lab where they date trees by studying "cores." The objection to the notion that these are, indeed, remants of our Native […]
To be honest, I don’t know much about the World Bank – what it does, why it is. All I know is that Paul Wolfowitz, in spite of a long history of prestigeous jobs in policy making positions, is a very flawed guy. If he’s done anything in his career that’s been notable as a […]