Not Fitzmas today. Maybe tomorrow.
Hindrocket Wins Wanker Of The Day Award, Again
From Is That Legal, via Atrios: John Hinderaker, yesterday: Tomorrow may bring indictments of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby on charges that can charitably be described as trivial. Tonight, one of our readers urged us to link to President Bush’s great speech to the Joint Armed Forces Officers’ Wives’ group rather than being distracted by the minutiae of the day. … Read More
Four Questions
The Liberal Avenger points to a wonderful Salon article which asks "four of the biggest questions Fitzgerald’s investigation may be able to answer". I’ll post the "questions", but seriously, the whole article is worth a read: Did the vice president’s office put pressure on intelligence analysts in the run-up to war? Did pressure from the vice president’s office have anything … Read More
Less Than One Hour To Fitzmasday?
Steve Clemons: An uber-insider source has just reported the following to TWN: 1. 1-5 indictments are being issued. The source feels that it will be towards the higher end. 2. The targets of indictment have already received their letters. 3. The indictments will be sealed indictments and "filed" tomorrow [Wednesday]. 4. A press conference is being scheduled for Thursday. The … Read More
Chill The Champagne
Raw Story, which has been slightly ahead of the curve on Plamegate these past few weeks (i.e., it seems to have reliable inside information), reports the following: Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has decided to seek indictments in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and has submitted at least one to the grand jury, those close to the investigation … Read More
Oh, Yeah. Democrats.
The Hill is reporting that the Democratic Party is working on a slogan for the 2006 midterm elections. They reportedly have it narrowed down to two: "Together, We Can Do Better" or "Together, America Can Do Better". I kind of like the "do better" strategy, although I think it will cause many to think, "Well, a duck could do better". … Read More
The Pollari-Hadley Connection
Josh Marshall, not one to give in to hysterics and histrionics, points to an article in today’s Italian Daily La Repubblica — an article which, if accurate, could "rock the foundations of official Washington". I strongly urge you to read the whole thing, including Josh’s cautionary caveats, but here is the gist: It’s about the forged Niger/uranium documents. Back in … Read More
Capital Comedy
Brief notes not worthy of their own separate post: Bush Prevents Kids From Seeing "Wizard Of Oz": One hundred Brentwood kindergartners, many dressed in costumes, were all set to go see "The Wizard of Oz" on Friday when their first-ever field trip was blocked by the nation’s 43rd president. They never got to see the wizard. President George W. Bush, … Read More
Plamegate Spotlight On Cheney
The New York Times doesn’t quite come out and directly implicate Cheney, but if this is true, it certainly hurts Cheney politically. I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003, … Read More
Bush: “The Buck Stops Everywhere But Here”
Looks like the Bubble Boy is mad at the bubble. The Daily News writes about Bush’s edge-of-meltdown demeanor: Facing the darkest days of his presidency, President Bush is frustrated, sometimes angry and even bitter, his associates say. With a seemingly uncontrollable insurgency in Iraq, the White House is bracing for the political fallout from a grim milestone that could come … Read More
Frist Is A Lying Bastard
You know how Frist was saying that he was never aware of his stock holdings, so he can’t be held responsible for the tremendous profit he made on their sale based on what would generally be acknowledged as insider information? Well, it turns out that, in the reality world, Frist was . . . uh . . . you know … Read More
Fitzmas, Fitzmas Time Is Here
RonK at Next Hurrah has some thoughts about Fitzmas, scheduled (most say) to arrive this week: The goose is cooked, the ox is gored, the chickens are coming home to roost. The kiddies are giddy with visions of sugarplums, marching frogs, TV specials, seasonal trappings and wrappings piled so deep you can’t find the dog in the living room. Fitzmas … Read More
White House Goes After The Onion
Truth is funnier than satire sometimes: You might have thought that the White House had enough on its plate late last month, what with its search for a new Supreme Court nominee, the continuing war in Iraq and the C.I.A. leak investigation. But it found time to add another item to its agenda – stopping The Onion, the satirical newspaper, … Read More
Littwin To Testify!!
Earlier this month, I blogged a post entitled: "Who Is Larry Littwin And Why Should He Testify At The Miers Confirmation Hearings?" I encourage you to read that link for the full story, but suffice it to say, Littwin is a guy who may have a lot of unpleasant dirt about The Texas Lottery Commission scandal and its relationship to … Read More
Mano a Mano 2.0?
Perhaps you once read about the time Dubya had a little scrape with his Dad: There was at least one incident that his parents witnessed. When he was 26, he returned home inebriated one night to his parents’ home in Washington – with his then-teenage brother Marvin in tow – and plowed his car into a neighbor’s garbage can, dragging … Read More