Frank Rich: THIS summer in Crawford, the White House went to this playbook once too often. When Mr. Bush’s motorcade left a grieving mother in the dust to speed on to a fund-raiser, that was one fat-cat party too far. The strategy of fighting a war without shared national sacrifice has at last backfired, just as the strategy of Swift … Read More
Why Is Today Different From Any Other Day?
Bush is #1! Today he passes Reagan’s record for most vacation days! Yaaaay! It took Reagan, who was much older, 8 years to reach his personal best of 355 days. Bush did it in only 4 years, 7 months! And his August vacation isn’t half over yet! [Source] Now watch this drive!
Ann Coulter: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
I love her: To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush’s Crawford ranch. I don’t think she went to Crawford to "cheer herself up". But note that we’re only one sentence in, and we have more amature psychology from the … Read More
Lessons Not Learned
Paul Begala is talking here about the smears of the right wing against Sheehan (although it is hard to tell). He’s nailed it: It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam. The left was right, of course, about Vietnam. Even my CNN colleague Bob Novak, who was extraordinarily hawkish on Vietnam, … Read More
Can Dish It Out But . . .
… can’t take it, apparently. It has been 10 days since I first posted on Cindy Sheehan, and after sticking my neck out and taking massive amounts of ongoing abuse and ridicule for giving her the scrutiny she deserves, I am more than happy to let others pick up the slack. Then she links to others who continue continue slamming … Read More
Sheehan Bigger Than Schiavo
From Blogometer (a good daily resource by the way): Each time this week we’ve visited Technorati, the popular blog search engine, the "Top Searches This Hour" feature has placed "Cindy Sheehan" at the very top. At one point this a.m., "Sheehan" was also #5. The Blogometer is trying to remember the last time this happened, but no person or event … Read More
Bush Administration Ignored The State Department About Lack Of Post-War Planning
No doubt because the State Department primarily deals with diplomacy, and the Bushies don’t do no pansy-ass diplomacy. One month before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, three State Department bureau chiefs warned of “serious planning gaps for post-conflict public security and humanitarian assistance” in a secret memorandum prepared for a superior. The State Department officials, who had been discussing the … Read More
Now, Watch This Drive
Vacationus interruptus: How could President Bush be cavorting around on a long vacation with American troops struggling with a spiraling crisis in Iraq? Wasn’t he worried that his vacation activities might send a frivolous signal at a time when he had put so many young Americans in harm’s way? "I’m determined that life goes on," Mr. Bush said stubbornly. That … Read More
Another Grieving Mom
Courtesy of The Green Knight, here’s a picture of another grieving Mom: Green Knight adds: …this man went to his death voluntarily and heroically. He was an adult when he did it. Apparently, according to the modern pro-war right, most of which thinks it’s Christian, his mom shouldn’t have been unhappy about it. Green Knight, with apologies to Cenk Uyger … Read More
Wingnuttia Of The Day
A.W. at Freespeech.com has been on trial lately (he says), so he’s been a little late in playing the Cindy Sheehan smear game. But what he lacks in punctuality, he make up for in both verbosity and wingnuttery: I’ll lay out my evidence shortly, but here are the pertinent points in my book. The proper reaction, I think, should be … Read More
A Soldier’s Letter To Cindy Sheehan
From Daily Kos: Fort Hood, Texas12 August 2005 Dear Mrs. Sheehan: I am a Soldier stationed at Fort Hood who is scheduled for deployment to Iraq (soon). Like you, I do not support the war because I believe it represents a horrible waste of lives and lucre that is bankrupting our nation. However, I am sworn to obey my orders … Read More
Michelle’s Lame Response
As I reported yesterday, intellectually dishonest Michelle Malkin reported about Cindy Sheehan’s divorce claiming that "like it or not, it is news", a seeming contradiction of her previous "hands off" policy when it came to the mentioning of Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter and the New York Times inquiry into John Roberts’ kids. Today, Malkin lamely responded to the obvious hypocrisy: … Read More
The Lower Depths
Just when you think Michelle Malkin can’t get any lower in her smears of Cindy Sheehan, she does: Like it or not, the dispute between Cindy Sheehan and some of her family members is news. Malkin then goes on to note that divorce proceedings have been filed by her husband against Ms. Sheehan. Others have pointed out what I’m about … Read More
Lowered Expectations
It’s interesting. At the very moment, when Cindy Sheehan is asking Bush (or trying to ask Bush) why her son died, the Bush Administration is changing its answer: U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq Administration Is Shedding ‘Unreality’ That Dominated Invasion, Official Says The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in … Read More
Report From Crawford
The anti-Cindy Sheehan protesters have shown up at the Bush ranch, and like their online counterparts, they’re nothing but ugly: Alex just called, and some counter-protestors showed up in a bus. Don’t know with whom or what they’re affiliated. A diary on DailyKos says it’s the Mike Gallagher group. They’re not obeying the strict parking rules the police have been … Read More