Storm clouds moving in. 

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LIE, LIE, LIE
Is Bush capable of telling the truth about anything?
“I think Kerry going to Vietnam was more heroic than my flying fighter jets. He was in harm’s way and I wasn’t. On the other hand, I served my country. Had my unit been called up, I would have gone.”
– President Bush, in a Today […]

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FLOUNDERING
From Josh Marshall:
Today Scott McClellan went on the offensive against Ben Barnes for describing the “shame” he feels over helping President Bush duck service in Vietnam.
“It is not surprising coming from a longtime partisan Democrat,” he said. “The allegation was discredited by the commanding officer. This was fully covered and addressed five years ago. It […]

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WORSHIPPING FALSE IDOLS
Gag me.
NEW YORK (AP) - President Bush will literally rain down on Republican National Convention delegates Thursday night after he accepts their nomination for a second term.
The president’s picture, along with those of his wife Laura, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne, adorns hundreds of pounds of confetti that will […]

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SHUT UP!
This sounds like fun:
NEW YORK - Demonstrators haven’t come to Manhattan solely to denounce President Bush and his policies. At least two protest events are scheduled for the headquarters of big media companies later this week. Organizers of the “March on the Media” hope to draw attention to what they said is uncritical coverage […]

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BLOGGER S.O.S.
Here’s a letter from John Emerson (aka Zizka) of Seeing the Forest:
So anyway, I’m trying to figure out how to keep on going at leastuntil the election. In order to do that I’ll have to put a quick patch on the various deficits that impelled me to quit. One of them is an […]

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WELCOME
Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News has his own blog, Campaign Extra. He’s a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist but hey, I like him anyway.
Seriously, Will’s been one of the few big-city journalists who asked tough questions about the war in Iraq - before it started. Go check him out.

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MORE MONKEY BUSINESS IN FLORIDA
Greg Palast with another shocker:
On Friday, Theresa LePore, Supervisor of Elections in Palm Beach, candidate for re-election as Supervisor of Elections, chose to supervise her own election, no one allowed. This Tuesday, Florida votes for these nominally non-partisan posts.
You remember Theresa, “Madame Butterfly,” the one whose ballots brought in the […]

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HALF A MILLION STRONG
Who were those people reporting “tens of thousands” at yesterday’s NYC protest? Oh, I forgot. Never mind. The New York Times comes a little closer to reality:
The protest organizer, United for Peace and Justice, estimated the crowd at 500,000, rivaling a 1982 antinuclear rally in Central Park, and double the number it […]

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THE APPLE DIDN’T FALL FAR FROM THE TREE
Values. Integrity. Honor. Things you identify with Bob Novak…
Yeah, right.
Among the stoutest defenders of “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry,” the best-selling book arguing that Mr. Kerry lied about his record of service in Vietnam, is the columnist Robert Novak.
In his syndicated columns […]

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TAKING OUR COUNTRY BACK

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The right-wing Republican party believes that you cannot be religious and a person of God if you are not one of them. Their exclusive ‘religious rights doctrine’ should give all Americans’ serious pause.- President William J. Clinton, 8/29/04.

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LACKEYS
Professor Juan Cole says the Franklin story isn’t really a spy scandal:
So it transpires that the Iranians were willing to give up 5 key al-Qaeda operatives, whom they had captured, in return for MEK members.
Franklin, Rhode and Ledeen conspired with Ghorbanifar and SISMI to stop that trade. It would have led to better US-Iran […]

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MOAN AGAINST FASCISM
Here’s my idea of a protest.

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AN EMBARRASSMENT
Look at the photo caption.
Now ask yourself: Since when does Israel share a border with Iran?
Why does the media hire such idiots?

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TRAITORS
More background on the spy story from Sabarte over at Kos. He builds a persuasive case for the leak story spreading further:
In 1981, Stephen Bryen re-entered the spotlight when Richard Perle, Reagan’s nominee to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, selected Bryen as his Deputy. Perle no doubt sympathized with Bryen […]

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IRAN-CONTRA II
The Washington Monthly has the Josh Marshall/Laura Rozen/Paul Glastris story up now:
While the FBI is looking at the meetings as part of its criminal investigation, to congressional investigators the Ghorbanifar back-channel typifies the out-of-control bureaucratic turf wars which have characterized and often hobbled Bush administration policy-making. And an investigation by The Washington Monthly — […]

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“One Moment More,” Mindy Smith - Oh please don’t go/ Let me have you just one moment more/ Oh, all I need/ All I want is just one moment more/ You’ve got to hold me and keep me/ Tell me that someday you’ll be returning/ And maybe/ Maybe I’ll be here/ It’s just enough to […]

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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER?
From today’s WashPo:
ONLY A FEW years ago, it seemed the slightest suggestion of malfeasance by a presidential administration — allegations of tampering with a minor administrative office, say, or indications that a cabinet secretary might have understated the amount of money given to a former girlfriend — could trigger a formidable response […]

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BIGASS NEWS
From “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy,” Greg Palast has some shocking background on just how much Ben Barnes (the former Texas Lt. Governor who now admits he helped Gearge Bush get into the National Guard) did to help George W. Bush - and how he collected later:
In 1968, former Congressman George Herbert Walker […]

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THE HARDY BOYS IN ‘THE MYSTERY OF THE HAUNTED PEN’
Oh, come on. These people are fucking shameless:
Former Navy Secretary John Lehman has no idea where a Silver Star citation displayed on Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry’s campaign Web site came from, he said Friday. The citation appears over Lehman’s signature.
“It is a total mystery […]

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CRYING WOLF
Mother Jones looks at Bush’s Social Security scam:

Here we go again: President Bush is making yet another push for privatizing Social Security, as part of his pledge to create an “era of ownership” if he is re-elected for a second term. In a new TV ad, the Bush campaign is touting the plan as […]

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SLEEPER CELLS
Eleanor Clift on Karl Rove’s sneak attacks on Kerry:
The Kerry campaign thinks it has succeeded in discrediting the scurrilous attack on Kerry’s military service, but Rove got what he wanted. Instead of talking about a failed war in Iraq and a new report that shows 1.3 million more Americans living in poverty, we’re debating […]

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SPEAKING OF SHADOWY GROUPS…
I never heard of this gang before (although many of the members are familiar enough), but I have a feeling we should all be paying attention:
Three times a year for 23 years, a little-known club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country have met behind closed doors […]

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PEELING THE ONION
Laura Rozen has more on the OSP spy story she’s been investigating for months.
A friend points out one other irony is that what the Pentagon official is alleged in the CBS report to have passed to AIPAC and the Israelis is essentially a diplomatic document that describes a draft US policy position to […]

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