You gotta love the graphic on the cover of this week’s Newsweek. More here.
The Local Press Reviews Bush’s Visit To Kernersville Earlier This Week
Kernersville is small town located right in between Winston-Salem (where I am) and Greensboro. Since it doesn’t have a newspaper of its own, let’s see what its media neighbors had to say about Bush’s visit to a John Deere plant in "K-Vegas". The Rude Pundit writes so I don’t have to: The lead editorial from today’s Winston-Salem Journal (which has … Read More
Cheney Vs. The Bees
"Some have suggested by liberating Iraq from Saddam Hussein we simply stirred up a hornet’s nest. They overlook a fundamental fact: We were not in Iraq in September 2001 and the terrorists hit us anyway." That’s what Dick Cheney said two days ago. Yes, he’s still making the connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. It’s a sickness, in my view. … Read More
SCOTUS Update: Rumsfeld v FAIR
This is arguably one of the most important cases of this term, and I simply didn’t have time to summarize it before oral arguments today. Below is a summary from the folks at SCOTUSblog. Before I begin, I want to make a prediction that the Solomon Amendment will survive this case. The Court is simply too conservative to let it … Read More
Easy Question
UPDATE AND BREAKING NEWS: The American Civil Liberties Union will file a lawsuit today against former CIA director George Tenet and three American contractors challenging the CIA’s abduction of a foreign national for detention and interrogation in a secret overseas prison, RAW STORY has learned. The suit alleges that Tenet and other CIA officials violated U.S. and human rights laws … Read More
Bush In Kernersville
President Bush is paying a stop to K-Vegas (aka "Kernersville") today — in fact, he’s here now — and nobody cares. OTHER LOCAL GOP NEWS: The head of the Wake Republican Men’s club, Chris Mintz, is running for office . . . as a Democrat: Mintz, 30, said he decided to leave the Republican Party because he thinks it is … Read More
Lowered Expectations
Powerline Paul: The latest Fox News poll shows that President Bush’s approval rating has risen by 6 percentage points during the past three weeks. It now stands at a not so lofty but not dreadful 42 percent. 42 percent — even if it is true — is dreadful, historically speaking (see, example, Clinton’s approval ratings through out his eight year … Read More
Bush Lied
I’m talking now about the speech he gave yesterday. Bush said: The progress of the Iraqi forces is especially clear when the recent anti-terrorist operations in Tal Afar are compared with last year’s assault in Fallujah. In Fallujah, the assault was led by nine coalition battalions made up primarily of United States Marines and Army — with six Iraqi battalions … Read More
The Dysfunctional White House
From the New York Daily News: For the moment, Bush has dismissed discreetly offered advice from friends and loyalists to fire Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and bring back longtime confidant Karen Hughes from the State Department to shore up his personal White House staff. "He thinks that would be an admission he’s screwed up, and he can’t bring himself … Read More
Whack-A-Democrat
Ezra Klein (via another) makes an interesting observation: John Dickerson makes a good point on the laughably bungled attempt to mar Murtha: This is what happens when a party goes into campaign mode without a single opponent. With no specific person to target, the Bush administration ends up taking on all members of the opposition at once. The White House … Read More
AIDS Relief in Africa: Strings Attached
AIDS in Africa could reach pandemic perportions: The HIV/AIDS scourge on the African continent could worsen in 2006 if developed nations do not deliver on their financial pledges, the U.N.’s top AIDS official in Africa said on Monday. Stephen Lewis, U.N. special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, said treatment, prevention and care programs on the continent will start losing out … Read More
Blue America
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Bush Kept Intelligence From Congress — The List Grows
From The National Journal: Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant … Read More
Easongate
Back in February, CNN executive Eason Jordon made comments to the effect that the U.S. military targeted journalists. The rightwing blogosphere went ballistic, decrying Jordon’s comments as absurd and unsubstantiated. The whole thing was dubbed "Easongate", and within days, Eason Jordon resigned. Turns out Eason Jordon wasn’t far off the mark: US President George W. Bush planned to bomb pan-Arab … Read More
Bush Hearts Dissent
After all the GOP soldiers took turns taking potshots at Murtha, Bush said some odd words in China on the entire thing: People should feel comfortable about expressing their opinions about Iraq. I heard somebody say, well, maybe so-and-so is not patriotic because they disagree with my position. I totally reject that thought. This is not an issue of who’s … Read More