Rove’s Diagnosis by Robert D. Novak Karl Rove, President Bush’s political lieutenant, told a closed-door meeting of 2008 Republican House candidates and their aides Tuesday that it was less the war in Iraq than corruption in Congress that caused their party’s defeat in the 2006 elections. Rove’s clear advice to the candidates is to distance […]
Last Sunday [July 22nd], I took off for Northwest Arkansas with some friends and colleagues involved in our Trail Tree Project, and I made a mental note not listen to or watch the news, not to read the blogs or the papers. I call it "news restriction." I did it for three weeks before the […]
The river cruise up the Danube from Budapest to Linz, Austria was relaxing. The political turmoil I periodically felt in Hungary was mostly left behind and I enjoyed the beauty and culture of the cities along the way – particularly Vienna – a place I knew a lot about from years of teaching the Freud […]
When you wake up one day and realized that you’re old, it’s not all creaky joints and thinning hair. There’s something of a freedom to think about whatever you want to think about – at least there has been for me. I just got back from a jaunt to Eastern Europe, and I’m about to […]
July 19, 2007 Mr. Fred F. Fielding Counsel to the President Office of the Counsel to the President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Mr. Fielding: I am disappointed that the President’s Chief of Staff Josh Bolten has continued to disobey the subpoena served on him on June 13, 2007, […]
Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper As chief law enforcement officer of the Senate, the Sergeant at Arms is charged with maintaining security in the Capitol and all Senate buildings, as well as protection of the members themselves. The Sergeant at Arms serves as the executive officer of the Senate for enforcement of […]
With All Due Respect to the WaPo … And here are some details they miss, from Kagro X, whose batting average on Bush obstruction has been better than anyone’s: But has the US Attorney ever done that before? Declined to prosecute a political friend on orders from the White House? Absolutely. The case was that […]
I’ve copied this article in toto without comment because it’s exactly what I worry about on the side of my mind [see repetition and the face of America…] : Old-line Republican warns ‘something’s in the works’to trigger a police state Thom Hartmann began his program on Thursday by reading from a new Executive Order which […]
Power tends to corrupt.Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton Broader Privilege Claimed In Firings White House Says Hill Can’t Pursue Contempt Cases Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never […]
Mr. Empathy finally speaks about Plame’s outing