APRIL FOOL
Don’t forget to wear your brown ribbons! This is “I’m Embarrassed by My President” Day.

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Billmon sets the scene for the Bush-Cheney joint appearance in front of the 9/11 commission:
Kean: Commissioner Ben-Veniste, you may begin.
Ben-Veniste: Mr. President, what did you know and when did you know it?
Bush: Say what?
Ben-Veniste: (chuckles) Sorry, Mr. President. I couldn’t resist that one. (clears throat, grows more serious) Mr. President, you were inaugurated as president […]

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PUNK’D
Speaking of Somalia, another interesting bit (p. 85) from Clarke’s book:
Following his defeat in a bid for reelection, President Bush had sent the troops into Somalia to insure the delivery of the relief supplies. Brent Scowcroft had asked me to be the White House coordinator for the operation, and in January 1993 he had asked […]

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IF YOU HAVE CABLE
Richard Clarke is on Hardball right now. He’s the only guest for the entire hour.

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SOW THE WIND
The ethical and pure souls of the corporate cable media like CNN and MSNBC would sooner die than show the unconvenient consequences of the war for which they so relentlessly led cheers. (Sis boom bah!) And of course they won’t dare highlight this the way they did with Clinton and Mogadishu.
They are spineless […]

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THE O’FRANKEN FACTOR
Okay, finally tracked down some links for streaming: This, this and this.
They’re all a tad overloaded, so good luck getting through!

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DOH
No wonder Clinton is so smart.

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GRACE
Thanks. I needed this.

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‘MESSAGE: I CARE’
“A form letter. Twice.”
Go read this over at Democratic Veteran.

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ETHICS LESSON: THOSE WHO CAN’T, TEACH
This is disgusting on so many levels, I hardly know where to begin.
Eason Jordan, a CNN news exec who was deeply involved in the network’s coverage of the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl, is now romantically involved with Pearl’s widow, Mariane, people familiar with the […]

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A CANCER ON THE PRESIDENCY
In today’s Salon interview with John Dean, Dean offers the following thoughts:
* “There has never been a vice president — ever (and even including Spiro Agnew who was Nixon’s) — who needed to be investigated more than Cheney. Nor has there ever been such a secretive vice president. Dick Cheney is […]

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NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED
From Larry Johnson, a former intelligence official, more on the war on Clarke:
For starters, Clarke presented a memo to Condi Rice outlining the URGENT (this tag is on the document) threat presented by Al Qaeda in January 2001. While Dr. Rice insists she made terrorism a top priority, one of her […]

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In the meantime, our man in Uzbekistan is doing his part for human rights.

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MAKING THE DISTINCTION
Let me explain things.
When bodies were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, that proved Clinton was a miserable failure. (That was, of course, one of the more polite comments made about our last elected president.)
But when it happens in Iraq, it’s merely a sign that things are on the upswing.
Jubilant Iraqis dragged the […]

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AIR AMERICA
The new liberal radio network goes on the air today.
Here’s a link to the schedule. This is the link they give for streaming audio, but I can’t find anything that looks like it’ll work. Anyone have the right one?

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YET ANOTHER LYING LIAR
The thing I like about Digby is, he does the heavy lifting so I don’t have to. Like this fabulous takedown of the excreable Congressman Dana Rohrabacher:
Rohrabacher’s post-Sept. 11 finger-pointing was a fraud designed to distract attention from his own ongoing meddling in the foreign-policy nightmare. Federal documents reviewed by the Weekly […]

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EEK
Kevin Drum writes that rumors are hot and heavy that Dick Gephardt is Kerry’s choice for VP. And he has the same reaction as me: Huh?
Well, I guess the soundbite version is that he’s an economic nationalist with a strong record on national defense. Maybe that sounds good to some of the people around Kerry, […]

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How does a family reflect the application of conservative and liberal thought? Thoughtful piece.

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GO, HOWARD
Check it out - Howard Stern’s website looks an awful lot like an anti-Bush link farm now.

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‘MESSAGE: I CARE’
Boo fucking hoo.
An emotional former President George H.W. Bush on Tuesday defended his son’s Iraq (news - web sites) war and lashed out at White House critics.
It is “deeply offensive and contemptible” to hear “elites and intellectuals on the campaign trail” dismiss progress in Iraq since last year’s overthrow of Iraqi leader […]

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READY, FIRE, AIM
When, oh when, will they kick Zell Miller out of the Democratic party?
“It’s obvious to me that this country is rapidly dividing itself into two camps _ the wimps and the warriors,” Miller said. “The ones who want to argue and assess and appease, and the ones who want to carry this fight […]

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Max on why he wishes Kerry had a fiscal policy:
Broadly speaking, Kerry’s plan aims to improve price signals. It could be called marginalist in inspiration. That’s what’s wrong with it. Elevating improved price signals as a fundamental job creator is supply-side economics. At bottom, it’s a crock. It’s amusing to see conservatives say price signals […]

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LYING LIARS
I just saw Lyin’ Lisa Myers on Hardball. She was pouting and wrinkling her brow. She’s very, very concerned and very, very puzzled that Richard Clarke seems to be so much harder on Bush in his book than he is on Clinton.
Could it be because, um, Bush is a moron who didn’t do anything […]

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‘HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY’
The ever-helpful World O’Crap offers a roundup of the reviews of Karen Hughes’ “Ten Minutes from Normal”:
Readers looking for West Wing intrigue will be disappointed by the Hughes book; when the subject is the President or Hughes’ colleagues in the Administration, Ten Minutes from Normal is all kiss and […]

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‘IT’S ALL A MATTER OF TASTE,’ SAID THE MAN AS HE KISSED THE HORSE’S ASS
Atrios writes about something I caught this on CNN the other night, when Wolf Blitzer made a comment about Richard Clarke’s “weird” personal life. Apparently they’re trying to imply he’s gay.
They really think that’s weirder than the visual image of Fat […]

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