The Columbia NYU journalism professor thinks that the National Journal’s Murray Waas is today’s Bob Woodward. Read the whole thing. Waas not only gets the scoop, but he’s accumulated an incredible track record for being accurate. UPDATE: Sorry, Jay. Guess I’m no Murray Waas.
Confirmed . . . Sort Of
New York Times: A senior administration official confirmed for the first time on Sunday that President Bush had ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq in an effort to rebut critics who said the administration had exaggerated the nuclear threat posed by Saddam Hussein. But the official said that Mr. Bush did not designate Vice … Read More
Well, Well, Well
It’s interesting to see who the Pentagon sees as the true enemy: A high-ranking Pentagon official has been snooping around Hillary and Bill Clinton’s personal financial records, The Post has learned. The Defense Department big shot recently scoured Sen. Clinton personal financial filings – which are required by Senate rules and publicly available. The records contain information about her investments … Read More
Holy Crap!
Why is nobody talking about this (which comes from the right-leaning NY Sun, no less)?!? A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded "National Intelligence Estimate" on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of … Read More
These Guys Don’t Get It
More proof that the Bush Administration, for all its talk about the "War On Terror" being a "new kind" of war, is still fighting a 20th century enemy: they want to restart building nuclear bombs at the pace of 125 per year. Ostensibly, it is to replace "outdated" nuclear bombs from the Cold War. The U.S. built its last nuclear … Read More
The Education President
Looks like Bush is actually teaching kids something: A new online poll conducted by Scholastic magazine says more than 80% of kids don’t want to be the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth. Amazingly, that’s a nearly total flip from 2004, when 75% of the elementary and middle school children did want to rule the roost from the … Read More
Top Ten Mistakes The Bush Administration Is Repeating From Vietnam
This is very good, and you should read the whole thing. My favorite from the list: 1. Underestimating the enemy. As in Vietnam, the superpower’s potent military has been astounded by the tenacity and competence of a nationalist rebellion attempting to throw a foreign occupier from its soil. For example, the U.S. military, a hierarchical organization, views the Sunni insurgency … Read More
White House Infighting
The rumors are apparently true. Rove is cooperating with the Fitzgerald investigation, and pointing investigators to the Cheney office. It was Rove, reports say, who informed Fitzgerald about the "missing" emails from the VP’s office. From The Washington Note: According to several Pentagon sources close to Rove and others familiar with the inquiry, Bush’s senior adviser tipped off Special Prosecutor … Read More
Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic
The news that Andrew Card is resigning as Chief of Staff is not entirely unexpected, but it hardly represents a sea change in the way the White House will operate. His replacement is budget director and former deputy chief of staff Josh Bolton. It does not, as The New York Times notes, "represent an infusion of new blood." This is … Read More
Tell Us How You Really Feel
Curbstone Critic, citing Will Durst: I don’t know about you guys, but I am so sick and tired of these lying, thieving, holier-than-thou, right-wing, cruel, crude, rude, gauche, coarse, crass, cocky, corrupt, dishonest, debauched, degenerate, dissolute, swaggering, lawyer shooting, bullhorn shouting, infrastructure destroying, hysterical, history defying, finger-pointing, puppy stomping, roommate appointing, pretzel choking, collateral damaging, aspersion casting, wedding party bombing, … Read More
Cheney’s “Performance Contract”
Thinking of hiring Dick Cheney to come to your speaking event? Here’s his list of demands (click to enlarge): "All lights turned on"? What’s the matter? He can’t do this for himself? And "extra lamps" (in handwriting at the bottom)? He’s probably going to do some interrogatin’. Maybe a bare bulb hanging from the ceiling would be best. "All … Read More
Bush Bites
(1) Tuesday, Bush said this: Mr. Zarqawi and al Qaeda, the very same people that attacked the United States, have made it clear that they want to drive us out of Iraq so they can plan, plot, and attack America again. This is just one of the many many things that Bush says that just floats across the screen into … Read More
“See? If You Just Shield Your Eyes Like This, It’s Easy!”
The AP headline: Bush Asks U.S. to Look Past Iraq Bloodshed The accompanying photo: I think the folks at AP are havin’ a little fun today.
Our Pro-Cancer President
Last week, the he U.S. Congress approved a $781 billion increase in the legal borrowing limit for the federal government, raising the debt ceiling to nine trillion dollars (that’s 30,000 for every man, woman, and child in America). All this to accomodate Bush’s psychotic spending, coupled with tax cuts for the wealthy. So where, if anywhere, is the Bush Administration … Read More
Bush’s Straw Man Rhetoric
The AP’s Jennifer Loven has been noticing the same thing as me: WASHINGTON – "Some look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude that the war is lost and not worth another dime or another day," President Bush said recently. Another time he said, "Some say that if you’re Muslim you can’t be free." "There are some really decent people," … Read More