Eyewitness Report on Mukasey I’ve been in contact with an attendee at tonight’s Federalist Society meeting where Attorney General Mukasey spoke for roughly twenty minutes before collapsing… According to this trusted eyewitness, events transpired roughly as follows. Attorney General Mukasey was roughly twenty minutes into a speech defending the administration’s torture policies and particularly arguing […]
Mr. LEAHY, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following REPORT together with MINORITY VIEWS [To accompany Resolutions finding Karl Rove and Joshua Bolten in contempt of Congress] The Committee on the Judiciary, reports favorably on resolutions authorizing the President of the Senate to certify the facts of the failure of Karl Rove and […]
Well, I finally saw "Boogie Man," the PBS Frontline documentary about Lee Atwater – the political strategist who ran George H.W. Bush‘s campaign in 1988 – literally destroying Bob Dole and Michael Dukakis in the process. His protege` cohort in that campaign included Karl Rove and George W. Bush. Atwater actually came into national politics […]
It’s Timetable Time By Dan Froomkin It’s a bit late and somewhat immaterial at this point, but it’s still worth observing that President Bush today did something he said he’d never do: Agree to a firm timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. Peter Graff writes for Reuters: "Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari and U.S. […]
Something New: As advertised, I asked some others to contribute opinions. Ralph is the first taker [below]. I’ll post other reactions as [or if] they come in. Feel free to comment or contribute. It’s an important question. Will We Ever Learn the Truth? By Dan Froomkin Will we ever find out what President Bush really […]
Socialism’? It’s Already Here By George F. Will Conservatism’s current intellectual chaos reverberated in the Republican ticket’s end-of-campaign crescendo of surreal warnings that big government – verily, "socialism" – would impend were Democrats elected. John McCain and Sarah Palin experienced this epiphany when Barack Obama told a Toledo plumber that he would "spread the wealth […]
As I recall, in the days of Barry Goldwater, Conservative meant something. Back then, I don’t recall it being a movement of ‘businessmen.’ That was more Republican. And I’m not sure it was the ideology of Hawks, though there was a strong anti-Communist thread in Conservatism. It was more of an idea than a set […]
Let’s look at just a few of the statistics from the years under George W. Bush – objective measures of a job poorly done. The first one isn’t his doing alone, though he sure didn’t reverse what was started by his predecessor, Ronald Reagan. It’s the GINI Coefficient which measures Wealth Inequity: He started off […]
I said recently that I wanted to change the blog [the Park Bench I…, the Park Bench II…]. What I want to do is pick out some questions that are worth thinking about and look into them more deeply – to flesh out the problem with an eye on what might be done to move […]
Steve Schmidt Doesn’t Blame Palin By: emptywheel Well, to his credit, Steve Schmidt isn’t blaming the Wasilla Wonder for McCain’s loss. In fact, he looks to the Palin selection as a victory (though he doesn’t name her specifically), insofar as it reversed what Schmidt describes as Obama "running away" with the race until her selection. […]