Looks like the Mark Foley scandal will stay in the limelight this week. The focus has shifted to:
• Who knew what when?
• What did they do?
• Why are they now lying about it?
Much of the attention is directed at the Republican House leadership. House Majority Leader John Boehner and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert have […]
From the “With a Straight Face” department:
The United States may cut off funding for Iraq’s police because of its failure to punish people responsible for torture, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said in an interview published on Saturday.
Tony Snow, White House press conference, September 27:
As a matter of fact, Ayman al Zawahiri today is going to issue yet another tape that is — at least we are told — that is going to try to get people whomped up, in this case, I think about the Pope, about Darfur — because, apparently, […]
Political Wire: Did Bush Blow His Dog Whistle?
In a recent CNN interview, President Bush suggested history would judge the Iraq war as “just a comma.” He repeated the statement today in Alabama. While it seems an odd thing to say, a Political Wire reader suggests it’s designed to speak to the religious right while not […]
Two hundred and nineteen years ago (almost to the day), the founding fathers put together not just some shining prose for the ages, but they crafted the finest manifesto for living as a society that the world has ever been able to put together. (This is the document that some of us, at least, […]
I don’t usually throw around four letter words in my posts. (Maybe in the comments sometimes, but usually not in the posts). However, what the Senate has wrought yesterday has lathered me up into such a state of white-hot outrage that the English language gives me no words to express my feelings other […]
After the NYT published leaked excerpts from the NIE on Sunday, the Democrats launched a political offensive to exploit what the NYT said the NIE said. Namely, that the war in Iraq has increased the threat of terrorism, not reduced it. It has made us less safe, not more safe.
The context, of course, […]
On Tuesday, at his joint press conference with Hamid Karzai, President Bush was asked:
Former President Clinton says that your administration had no meetings on bin Laden for nine months after he left office. Is that factually accurate, and how do you respond to his charges?
You may find this hard to believe, but his answer […]
In July, we reported that a respected Canadian human rights lawyer, David Matas, and a former Canadian cabinet member, David Kilgour, had issued a report supporting charges that China has been killing Falun Gong dissidents, and harvesting and selling their organs.
A spirited argument broke out in the comments section between two readers, one of whom […]
It looks like the warrantless wiretapping bill may be dead, after all.
WaPo:
A high-profile Republican effort to clarify the legality of President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program will almost certainly not pass before Congress recesses at week’s end for the fall campaign, leaving the legislation in deep trouble, congressional leaders conceded yesterday.
Efforts to reach agreement on a […]
