Well the airways are a-titter about the 911 movie on ABC which apparently paints Clinton’s White House as ‘blowing it.’ The blogsphere is up in arms about historical distortions in this Disney production. You know what? It’s a trap. This is the way they work. They drive us nuts responding to crap like this and […]
Speaking of luminaries from the American Enterprise Institute in the late 90’s, John Bolton‘s in the news today. Seems their having trouble getting him through the Foreign Relations Committee [see Bolton Vote Cancelled; Nomination Pulled] and are not doing so well on getting him confirmed. Senator Chris Dodd had this to say on the floor […]
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War from the Press Release: An obscure academic, derided as a virtual crackpot by U.S. law enforcement and the intelligence community, greatly influenced top Bush administration officials, who adopted her farfetched theory that Saddam was the source of most of the terrorism […]
Blair says he’ll resign within a year Prime Minister Tony Blair reluctantly promised Thursday to resign within a year, hoping that revealing a general timeframe for his departure will appease critics who are calling for him to step down. "I would have preferred to do this in my own way," Blair said. He refused to […]
Well, here it comes. Bush transfers prisoners from the unacknowledged "secret prisons" and undoes the torture thing. Today, we hear that we all owe Karl Rove an apology for thinking he was a bad guy. The last couple of weeks, there have been non-stop speeches on the War-on-Terror-in-Iraq-about-911. The blogs are all refutations of the […]
In Connecticut, Poll Finds Lamont Way Behind A new Public Opinion Strategies (R) poll finds Ned Lamont (D) trailing Sen. Joe Lieberman (I), 51% to 35%, in the Connecticut U.S. Senate race. Republican Alan Schlesinger receives 4% of the vote, while 10% remain undecided. Key finding: When asked which candidate is running a negative campaign, […]
Well, as usual, when Bush comes on T.V., my feet just carry me out of the room. Tonight, it happened when he said, "we have to be right 100% of the time." My leaving the room is like a Magic Carpet. I don’t even know it’s happeneing. Not even Cutie Katie Couric could keep me […]
Unwinding Bush … Bush will leave a legacy, in the form of four headaches. The fiscal mess. Bush’s tax cuts and spending increases turned a $236 billion federal surplus in fiscal 2000 into a deficit of more than $400 billion four years later, an astonishing reversal… The Iraq mess. The invasion was a gamble; the […]
Bush Warns Of Enduring Terror Threat Abandoning his practice of only rarely mentioning al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Bush repeatedly quoted him and purported terrorist letters, recordings and documents to make his case that terrorists have broad totalitarian ambitions and believe the war in Iraq is a key theater in a wider struggle. … "Iraq […]
What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA The Nation, by David Corn Though Cheney was already looking toward war, the officers of the agency’s Joint Task Force on Iraq–part of the Counterproliferation Division of the agency’s clandestine Directorate of Operations–were frantically toiling away in the basement, mounting espionage operations to gather information on the […]