Cheney Refused to Release the Journalists By: emptywheel October 30, 2009 There is a lot in Cheney’s interview report – we’ll have a busy weekend. But for the moment, let’s start with this bit: After the Vice President again mentioned that he was pressed for time, two separate requests were made to Vice President Cheney […]
I certainly am never going to be a Bush/Cheney apologist. They just weren’t leaders or governors. They came into office with a couple of agendas, the unitary executive, invading Iraq, the ‘Bush Doctrine,’ and eight months later, the sky literally fell on top of them. They used that attack to help them along their chosen […]
So I’m coming to you as an optimistic fellow. I’ve seen what happens when America deals with difficulty. I believe that we’re a resilient economy, and I believe that the ingenuity and resolve of the American people is what helps us deal with these issues. And it’s going to happen again. President Bush: the Economic […]
"As of August 2009, the nation had 1.3 million (1,256,000) fewer private sector jobs than in December 1999. This is the first time since the Great Depression of the 1930s that America will have an absolute loss of jobs over the course of a decade." This all feels like something we’ve all known about for […]
Yesterday’s 2009 3rd Quarter GDP Release was as exciting to me as the rest of America. Now three of the economic indicators we’ve all been following have turned in the right direction: But there’s a problem. Here’s the raw data from the Government databases for the CPI, the GDP, and Unemployment [adjusted to fit the […]
Well, Mississippi gave us William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and "Tennessee" Williams. Alabama produced Harper Lee, Truman Capote [and George Wallace]. New Orleans and Louisiana have given us more color that we could ever document. Carson McCullers, James Dickey, Flannery O’Connor – all hail from Georgia. But South Carolina has lagged with colorful characters until recently. […]
Yesterday, we were discussing Thanksgiving travel plans, and it reminded me of Thanksgiving last year. I always torture my family by announcing that I will, of course, make my annual Thanksgiving speech as we sit down to eat. I’m referring to a somewhat tongue in cheek speechlet about Thanksgiving being a celebration of the Indian’s […]
Victory for Obama Over Military Lobby The New York Times By CHRISTOPHER DREW October 28, 2009 When the Obama administration proposed canceling a host of expensive weapons systems last spring, some of the military industry’s allies in Congress assumed, as they had in the past, that they would have the final say. But as the […]
Joe’s Other Switcheroo Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall October 28, 2009 Reformers are all up in arms over Joe Lieberman’s new effort to scuttle health care reform, for good reason. What got far less attention was that between yesterday and today Joe completely changed his rationale for why he thinks the public option is […]