Just a brief follow-up on Rove’s speech. The usual way one measures the economy is the gross domestic product [GDP]. Since he didn’t mention it, I looked it up: I didn’t see much in the graph other than the ‘dip’ when Bush was elected. Then I ran across a link today on Huffpo about […]
In the endless battle against spin, Prospect had a statistician compare the ‘indian giving’ of the Abramoff client tribes to Democrats and Republicans before and after he became involved with them. The results are what everyone ought to know by now, how the spin works. Rove always starts with the conclusion he wants to convey, […]
Forty years ago, I was a young Intern doing my time in an Emergency Room that was often like a battlefield. One night, I saw a young girl checking in at the desk who looked bad. As I went towards her, she collapsed. I caught her and raced to the treatment area, but she died […]
There’s an amazing thing on the The Huffington Post right now – an article by Gore Vidal. What’s amazing isn’t that he wrote it, or even what it says. It’s the quality of the thought. It’s even more remarkable to read through the comments. There’s an almost reverent tone as people thank him for posting. […]
Karl Rove made a speech last week to the Republican National Committee which laid out three platforms for the upcoming midterm elections: National Security: Iraq is making great strides towards Democracy. We’re winning the Iraq War and in the War on Terror. Pulling out of Iraq now would be abandoning the Iraqis, handing them over […]
from t r u t h o u t The current State Department official said the INR memo was discussed at length during the meeting Grossman attended at the White House. That meeting may have been the first time other White House officials, including Karl Rove, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, and other […]
With congressional hearings set to begin on this issue Feb. 6, Bush kicked his administration’s new intensive public relations effort to win support for the program run by the National Security Agency. As part of that, he gave it a new label — the Terrorist Surveillance Program. … "It’s amazing that people say to me, […]
"Let me be as clear as I can be: President Bush believes if Al Qaeda is calling somebody in America, it is in our national security interest to know who they’re calling and why," Mr. Rove said. "Some important Democrats clearly disagree." This is a false dichotomy, par excellence. I, myself, believe if Al Qaeda […]
White House seen to use wiretaps as campaign asset "With Karl Rove’s speech to national Republicans on Friday — followed by a hard-hitting campaign of speeches and events this week — the White House has effectively declared that it views its controversial secret surveillance program not as a political liability but as a tool: a […]
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