The MSM is covering it, so I won’t. Of course, that’s the real story: that the MSM is finally (and openly) exposing the Bush Administration for their silly staged events. But you can see good NBC/MSNBC reports about it here and here (both Windows Media Player files) And then there’s the AP story: I’m going to ask somebody to grab … Read More
Yet ANOTHER Bush Administration Scandal
Investigators at the Education Department have contacted the U.S. attorney’s office regarding the Bush administration’s hiring of commentator Armstrong Williams to promote its agenda. The action was disclosed by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who has pressed for a criminal fraud investigation focused on questions about whether Williams actually performed the work cited in his monthly reports to the Education Department. … Read More
Bush Denies Photo-Op At Photo-Op
This is from the L.A. Times. All I have done is reverse the paragraphs, and add the word "then": Before starting his brief work shift, Bush verbally hammered critics who have accused him of staging politically motivated "photo ops" in the hurricane zone instead of staying in Washington and drafting a comprehensive recovery plan. President Bush then strapped on a … Read More
Miers and Election 2008
The N.H Union Leader reports: The White House political arm is taking a special interest in U.S. senators who are potential 2008 Presidential candidates, especially when they come to New Hampshire. The goal is to put them on the record on the Harriet Miers nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is under fire from the right and left. Bush … Read More
Bush Photo-Op – Scripted
In this morning’s gaggle, Scott McClellan got asked whether the teleconference the president had with troops in Tikrit was scripted. Here’s what he said … QUESTION: How were they selected, and are their comments to the president pre-screened, any questions or anything… MCCLELLAN: No. QUESTION: Not at all? MCCLELLAN: This is a back-and-forth. Here’s how the pool report (i.e., from … Read More
Harriet Miers And The Christmas Card Debacle
With so little known about Harriet Miers, this story may take on certain undue significance. We know that Harriet Miers, as White House staff secretary, was responsible for vetting documents that made their way onto Bush’s desk. Apparently, she was a bit of a tyrant in this area, although this is arguably necessary for anyone in that position (after all, … Read More
Olbermann On “The Nexus Of Politics And Terror”
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann does an excellent story on how the terror alert level goes up whenever the Bush Administration is in trouble, citing thirteen specific examples. Video here, courtesy of Crooks & Liar. And if you want to read it, do so here. Here’s an example: Number Three: February 5th, 2003. Secretary of State Powell tells the United Nations Security … Read More
“Sweet Schadenfreude”
Marty Kaplan is right: This suspense may giving me the heebie-jeebies, but it’s really killing the media. No one knows who’ll be indicted by Patrick Fitzgerald, but you have to think there’s more than smoke there. Though the Harriet Miers story could play out in any of a dozen ways, all of them are delicious. Frist, Delay, Blunt, Ney and … Read More
Another Poll Low
For the first time in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, President Bush’s approval rating "has sunk below 40 percent, while the percentage believing the country is heading in the right direction has dipped below 30 percent. In addition, a sizable plurality prefers a Democratic-controlled Congress, and just 29 percent think Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers is qualified to serve … Read More
Sekulow’s Hypocrisy
White House ally and chief counsel to the American Center for Law and Justice, Jay Sekulow (described as one of the “four horseman” who helped Bush select Miers), has been publicly holding up Miers’s faith as a reason she should be confirmed: [The Miers nomination is] a big opportunity for those of us who have a conviction, that share an … Read More
We Think This Is A Good Name For A Blog
"P.S. No more public scatology" — actual handwriting of Bush in note to Harriet Miers. Wonkette speculates about its meaning.
Harriet Miers Update
(1) GOP AIDES COMING OUT AGAINST MIERS "As the White House seeks to rally senators behind the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet E. Miers, lawyers for the Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee are expressing dissatisfaction with the choice and pushing back against her, aides to 6 of the 10 Republican committee members" told the New York Times. Said one … Read More
Cheney Days
Sure, the value of Cheney’s Halliburton stock options have increased 3281% in the past year (from $241,498 to over $8,000,000), but it won’t do him much good if this is true: The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are working on stories that point to Vice President Dick Cheney as the target of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation into the leaking … Read More
Pass The Barf Bag
This is ookey: AUSTIN, Texas – (KRT) – Harriet Miers, President Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court, quickly developed a deep and almost gushing admiration for her boss from her earliest days in Texas government. "You are the best governor ever – deserving of great respect!" she wrote in 1997, in a belated birthday note that was typical of the … Read More
“A Conservative Civil War”
Boy, I like the sound of that term. I’ve had a fairly busy weekend, but I sort of thought that by Monday, the whole Miers kerfuffle would have simmered down somewhat. Apparently, I was wrong: How Harriet Unleashed a Storm on the Right Well, he’s finally done it. By nominating White House lawyer Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, George … Read More