If you’re not up on the newest scandal involving the Bush Administration, here’s a primer from The New Republic: Senators at a Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday tried to get to the bottom of whether the Bush administration inappropriately fired eight federal attorneys for political reasons. If so, the GOP plan has backfired: at least two Republican lawmakers could be mired … Read More
Election ’08: NH Poll
The first New Hampshire poll of the season from Suffolk is out. It has a small sample size (212 in the Democratic sample), so its value may be limited. The poll was taken February 24-28. Democrats: Clinton: 28Obama: 26Edwards: 17Biden: 3Kucinich: 2Richardson: 2Unsure: 17 This is pretty much what I expect, although Hillary, the putative frontrunner, has got to be … Read More
John Edwards Virtual Campaign Headquarters Attacked
This is a little weird, but so is the 21st century. As I posted a few weeks ago, John Edwards established the first campaign headquarters in virtual reality — specifically, in Second Life. I thought that was pretty saavy, and a sign of things to come. Unfortunately, the headquarters have been virtually vandalized. A group of, well, miscreants with too … Read More
Fox News Doesn’t Understand The Law
Take a look at this graphic from Fox News yesterday: The caption reads: "Libby Convicted On 4 Counts But Was There Even A Crime?" This shows the level of stupid thinking (as well as propagandazing) that one sees every day on Faux News. Yes, Hannity. There was a crime. Perjury is a crime. Obstruction of justice is a crime. Making … Read More
Let Me See If I Get This Straight
Let’s get a timeline: In 1995, Clinton cuts off all trade and investment with Iran. U.S. companies were no longer able to do business with Iran. After that announcement, Halliburton decided that business with Iran, then conducted through at least five companies, would all be done through a subsidiary incorporated in the Cayman Islands. This way, Halliburton could skirt around … Read More
One Of Those Days
Carpetbagger Report: I’m trying to imagine what the mood is like in the West Wing right now. Scooter Libby, the first high-ranking White House official to face criminal charges in over a century, has been convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, stemming from a smear campaign he and the Vice President worked on together. Nine Americans were killed in … Read More
Breaking: Libby Guilty
on four of five counts in his perjury and obstruction of justice trial. The verdict isn’t as important as what the whole Plamegate process and trial actually revealed, i.e., the Vice President’s main adviser has just been convicted of obstructing an investigation not just of himself but of the Vice President, and the trial brought out substantial evidence that Cheney … Read More
Walter Reed Scandal Grows
The Walter Reed scandal sheds a spotlight on the basic difference between conservatives and progressives. The conservative’s mantra is that government is necessarily bad, and it can’t do anything right. The progressive’s mantra is that government can do good things, if we just permit it to. Of course, when conservatives control the agencies of government, their mantra becomes a self-fulfilling … Read More
’08 Matchups
Presidential race match-ups mean little at this early stage, but they do mean something. Zogby’s latest match-up poll of the top three GOP contenders (Guiliani, McCain, and Romney — in that order)vs. the top 3 Democratic contenders (Clinton, Obama, and Edwards — in that order) is interesting: Giuliani 47%, Clinton 40% Giuliani 40%, Obama 46% Giuliani 46%, Edwards 40% McCain … Read More
Guy Who Never Had A Chance In Hell Drops Out
Vilsack ends his 2008 presidential bid. For those of you who don’t know him (98% of us), he is the ex-governor of Iowa. Here’s a photo: UPDATE: CNN gives us Vilsack-in-a-nutshell: Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa) Filed candidacy papers with the FEC on 11/9/2006 (two days after midterm) Dropping out 2/23/2007 Length of campaign: 15 weeks, 1 day (106 days) Not the … Read More
The Left And God
Discussions generated from fall out surrounding Amanda Marcotte’s departure from the John Edwards campaign are still taking up pixels in lefty blogger circles. Atrios has led the league in thoughts on the subject, and the New Donkey summarizes his thoughts and responds: His basic argument, with which I basically agree, is that once "people of faith" inject their religious views … Read More
Terrorist Supports GOP
Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari pled not guilty in a Manhattan federal court last Friday, denying charges that he’s a terrorist financier. But that’s a matter in some dispute, and not just by the prosecutors. According to The Blotter at ABC News.com, the indictment charges that he arranged for $152,000 worth of bank transfers to fund a terror training camp. … Read More
Democratic Swords Are Out
And now it begins. Clinton vs. Obama. The attacks have started: Further proving that the Democratic presidential candidates are already pulling out their swords — even over the most minor of matters — the Clinton campaign is up in arms over comments that Hollywood mogul and Obama supporter David Geffen made to the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd. In a … Read More
The MySpace Election
Which ’08 President candidate has the most friends on their MySpace page? According to this, it’s Obama: Democrats – # of friendsObama – 43003Clinton – 23428Edwards – 11593Vilsack – 1347Kucinich – 1078Richardson – 661Biden – 510Dodd – 172 Republicans – # of friendsPaul – 2501Romney – 1373McCain – 1356Tancredo – 1051Giuliani – 637Huckabee – 385Brownback – 166 I don’t think … Read More
Bush Words
There’s a lot of things interesting about this poll question, but one of the first things I noticed is how "Christian" no longer comes up as a response. NOTE: You make have to click on this graphic to see it in full.