If you live in Connecticut there is an accountability meeting on Joe lieberman next week in Milford. Announcing the "Connecticut For Lieberman" Rally. So mark your calendars for that one too. There are so many listed for Mass. Concord, … [Read more...]
Truth: Indeed Stranger than Fiction?
When I saw this mentioned and linked, I thought for certain that it must be a link to The Onion (strange how often that happens these days), but it does appear to be a legit advanced excerpt of the President's speech due to be given within … [Read more...]
Bush’s Groundhog Day
Everyone is, of course, familiar with Groundhog Day, the movie in which Bill Murray keeps waking up to discover that he has to relive the same day, over and over again, until he gets it right.By all accounts, President Bush's Great Leap New … [Read more...]
Bush closes EPA libraries & cuts access to Whitehouse guest list
1. PEER Released Email Reveal EPA Libraries Dispersion - Nov 20: U.S. EPA is frantically dispersing its library collections to preempt Congressional intervention, according to internal emails released by Public Employees for … [Read more...]
Why I have less respect for Ford than when he was alive.
From Bob Woodward's 2004 interview with Ford, embargoed until yesterday:Describing his own preferred policy toward Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Ford said he would not have gone to war, based on the publicly available information at the time, and … [Read more...]
Un-great moments in framing
"Framing" -- the association of two or more things, even if denying the connection, thereby reinforcing the connection in the public's mind. A distant cousin of the Freudian slip.Richard Nixon, November 17, 1973:"I am not a crook"... … [Read more...]
(W)orst President Ever?
Mass Eyes and Ears points us to the Washington Post, where historians Douglas Brinkley, Eric Foner and David Greenberg engage in a fun debate (under the exceptionally grim circumstances) as to whether Bush is absolutely hands-down the worst … [Read more...]
Ted Haggard Day: Did You Miss It?
The press release (hat tip to Kvatch and If I Ran The Zoo) says:"Now, therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do … [Read more...]
Powell: Iraq in “Civil War”
I realize that his reputation has taken a hit, but I still like Colin Powell. Perhaps his loyalty to his President as Secretary of State caused a myopic view of Iraq at the beginning of the war, but he isn't allowing that to cloud the … [Read more...]
More Jim Webb, Please
From the Washington Post. Emphasis mineDemocrat James Webb declined to stand in a presidential receiving line or to have his picture taken with the man he had often criticized on the stump this fall. But it wasn't long before Bush … [Read more...]
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