The Crazy Man Above the Garage By: emptywheel August 18, 2009 … Gellman provides the following weird two paragraphs, which provide the great drama of the story. The depths of Cheney’s distress about another close friend, his former chief of staff and alter ego I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, have only recently become clear. Bush refused […]
So I’m off for a few weeks in South Dakota to see what’s there. I’ve tasked friend ShrinkRap to clear up all the Town Hall protests before I get back. Have a good two weeks…
Rove "Driving Force" Behind US Attorney Firings t r u t h o u t by: Jason Leopold August 13, 2009 Political adviser Karl Rove and other officials inside George W. Bush’s White House pushed for the firing of a key federal prosecutor because he wasn’t cooperating with Republican plans for indicting Democrats and their […]
False ‘Death Panel’ Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots New York Times By JIM RUTENBERG and JACKIE CALMES August 13, 2009 The stubborn yet false rumor that President Obama’s health care proposals would create government-sponsored “death panels” to decide which patients were worthy of living seemed to arise from nowhere in recent weeks. Advanced even this […]
The rest of the story… That was newscaster Paul Harvey’s line. Well, even though I’ve said it before here, I want to tell the rest of the story about my last post [again]. Sometime after 9/11, my high school class [Class of 60, Best in Dixie] sent out an email list and people began to […]
So, I wrote yesterday about these Town Hall demonstrators and asked, "what are they afraid of?" Then today, I got a forwarded email with a letter to the editor written by a High School classmate of mine in response to some other letter in his local paper. I post it as Exhibit A. I’ve highlighted […]
It sort of snuck up on us, the ads that said, "Ask your doctor if <some drug> is right for you" [followed by a race to get all the side effects and disclaimers covered as quickly as possible]. When I was in Medical School in the 1960’s, such a thing would’ve been unheard of, but […]
Yesterday, I walked by the television set as one of the town hall protesters was being interviewed. I say interviewed, but that’s not quite fair. The reporter was asking the man what he was so angry about. And the man was screaming, "Obama’s lying to us!" The reporter asked the guy, "Lying about what?" The […]
Cheney Uncloaks His Frustration With Bush ‘Statute of Limitations Has Expired’ on Many Secrets, Former Vice President Says Washington Post Staff Writer By Barton Gellman August 13, 2009 In his first few months after stepping down, former vice president Richard B. Cheney threw himself into public combat against the "far left" agenda of the new […]
More reminders: This article is from two years ago. Recall that in April 2006, Karel Rove gave a speech at the Republican National Lawyers Conference listing places where he claimed there was a lot of Voter Fraud. Those places also happened to be "swing voter" places he hoped to add to the ranks of the […]