Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
Transcript from Condi’s chat with Brit Hume:
HUME: Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who was asked to inquire in Africa about what Saddam Hussein might have been doing there in terms of acquiring nuclear materials, ended up with his wife’s name in the paper as a CIA person. There are now suggestions that the name and her […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
Looky here. A loophole in Florida’s campaign contribution law has turned into a special interest bonanza.
For example:
* A committee set up with the help of J.D. Alexander, R-Lake Wales, in 2000 reimbursed the travel of James Kotas at the same time that Kotas was being paid as an employee of the Alexander campaign.
* The Citizens […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
Well, well, well. From Maryland:
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) has asked state investigators to look into the opposite interests of a well-known Annapolis lobbyist who represents two companies involved in the overhaul of the state’s voting machine system.
Ehrlich requested the inquiry last week after learning that Gilbert J. Genn, a former Montgomery County […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
Republican strategists are trying to draft comedian Dennis Miller into politics.
“There’s a lot of us who’d like to see him campaign,” Rob Stutzman, a Republican consultant and Schwarzenegger spokesman, said this week, noting Miller’s appeal to younger voters. “Dennis Miller is at the cutting edge of biting political commentary.”
Another Republican consultant said simply, “We love […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
Quote from former President George H.W. Bush in 1999 on those who out CIA agents:
“Even though I’m a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
I was watching Condi Rice with Brit Hume and then with Tim Russert this morning. It was pretty funny. When asked about the report of White House advisors outing a CIA agent, she used the exact same lines with Hume as she did with Russert - but her delivery was totally different. With Hume, she […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
Thomas Friedman on Iraq:
President Bush is deeply morally unserious when he tells Americans that we can succeed in this marathon and still have radical tax cuts for the rich and a soaring deficit, and the only people who will have to sacrifice are reservists and soldiers. And the Democrats had better decide: What is their […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
MoDo’s got a good one today:
There are many disturbing passages in the soon-to-be-published book “Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait,” by Midge Decter.
Ms. Decter is doyenne of the neocon movement, wife of the neocon patriarch Norman Podhoretz; mother of John Podhoretz, the neocon Iraqi war cheerleader and new “West Wing” adviser; and friend of the neocon clan […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
The Cinderella Cubs win their division. The late Steve Goodman must be jumping in his grave with glee.
Do they still play the blues in ChicagoWhen baseball season rolls aroundWhen the snow melts away,Do the Cubbies still playIn their ivy covered burial groundWhen I was a boy they were my pride and joyBut now they only […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2003
STILL RUNNING GOVERNMENT LIKE A (MEDIOCRE) BUSINESS
You may remember my recently referring to the Boy King as the PowerPoint president. Oddly enough, the New York Times has a piece today on how PowerPoint was used in place of technical papers at NASA during the investigation of the shuttle failure.
But there is a new crescendo […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2003
KA-BOOM!
This story’s blowing wide open, and Josh Marshall’s all over it.
Okay, no question: the Washington Post has the story about the Wilson/Plame scandal. This story, frankly, blows the whole thing wide open.
The Post got one “senior administration official” to concede that “two top White House officials” disclosed Plame’s identity to at least six journalists. […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2003
How very sad.
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2003
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2003
PERSONAL LIFE PURGE
This is probably foreign to my male readers, but I took a few vacation days to get my life in order. I figure a four-day weekend ought to do the trick.
I’m going through my apartment like the proverbial shit through a goose. Since I got up at 6, I cleared out several boxes […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2003
From Atrios, where do I begin on what’s wrong with this?
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2003
Kevin Drum has a most excellent post today, commenting on the OMB finding that the diverse economic benefits of environmental regulation far outweigh the costs of compliance.
The report provides the most comprehensive federal study ever of the cost and benefits of regulatory decision-making. It has pleasantly surprised some environmentalists who doubted the Bush administration would […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2003
Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) are one of the biggest scams going, so I was happy to read this.
Imagine: A business in which the company purporting to protect your financial interests is taking a cut from both ends and is accountable to neither. And the cost of drugs goes up, up, up.
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2003
Strange story. A leaked DEA memo, Israelis posing as art students, showing up at the homes and offices of DEA agents all over the country, possibly having something to do with Israeli Ecstasy dealers. No one seems to know what’s going on but it doesn’t sound good.
What about the crucial Washington Post article, in which […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2003
Oh, the horror.
Posted in General on Sep 26th, 2003
A CANCER ON THE PRESIDENCY?
Breaking news from NBC: The CIA has requested an investigation into whether the White House leaked information that fingered Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s wife as a CIA operative in retaliation for the Iraq yellowcake story.
Posted in General on Sep 26th, 2003
Via TAPPED, Liberal Oasis deconstructs Howard Dean’s past stands on Medicare.
Posted in General on Sep 26th, 2003
Josh Marshall has more followup on New Bridge Strategies.
Barbour of course is former chair of the RNC, former chair of President Bush’s campaign advisory committee in DC in 2000, and former just about everything else in the DC Republican party, as well being one of the priciest and most wired Republican lobbyists in town.
At […]
Posted in General on Sep 26th, 2003
Charles Krauthammer has never been the same since the tragic accident in which he lost his chin. So bitter.
Posted in General on Sep 26th, 2003
Ted Rall on why we hate Bush.
Bush isn’t president, but he plays one on TV. His presence in the White House is an affront to everything that this country stands for. His fake presidency is treasonous; our passive tolerance for it sad testimony to post-9/11 cowardice. As I wrote in December 2000, “George W. Bush […]
Posted in General on Sep 26th, 2003
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