Archive for April, 2007
Get Paulson on the Line!
Earlier this week, I pointed out Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson‘s rose colored economic outlook: “All the signs I look at†show “the housing market is at or near the bottom,†Paulson said. The U.S. economy is “very healthy†and “robust,†he said Well, GDP numbers came out today, and surprise, surprise: The U.S. economy grew [...]
Thousand Words
John pointed me to this AP story about former CIA director George Tenet‘s new book: Former CIA Director George Tenet writes in a new book that Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration officials pushed the country to invade Iraq without a “serious debate” about whether Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. [...] “There was [...]
Pulling The Plug On Democracy In Iraq
Such a cosmic coincidence that this should cross our radar just when Matt is holding Jon Klein‘s feet to the fire for the mockery that CNN has made of itself as a news network. From CNN‘s American Morning yesterday: MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And you listen very carefully to what General Petraeus says. He says, [...]
Condi’s Grasp Of International Political Reality
Here’s as good an indicator as any of why what is laughingly referrered to as our foreign policy is so laughable. Everyone’s favorite female Ph.D., our super-arrogant super-smart rocket-scientist Secretary of State, is still living in the Reagan era and fighting the Cold War. “The idea that somehow 10 interceptors and a few radars in [...]
You Can Pick Up My Quote Book at the Nearest Barnes & Noble
There was a time a few years ago when I couldn’t go two days without knocking around CNN President Jon Klein. My general irritation with the media – and my specific disappointment with CNN – was peaking, and Klein became my whipping boy (nullus!) for an interminable series of interviews he gave to media reporters [...]
Balls, Crystal And Brass
(1) Murky Crystal You can quibble, you can parse. But for my money, President Bush’s favorite “Yes, boss! You got it!†general — that would be Gen. David Petraeus — declared yesterday that several years down the road we will still have an unimaginable number of troops in Iraq. Q: I’m just wondering, do you [...]
Can‘t Judge The Surge Yet, Ha Ha!
I have lost count of how many times in recent weeks I have heard President Bush and his army of enablers and apologists — not to mention his ministry of propaganda — complain that it’s simply not fair for Democrats and war critics to judge the success or failure of The Surge when only two [...]
Office Spaced
David Sirota on Peter Beinart‘s definition of journalism. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Strategery
I’ve of course been watching as Congressional Democrats forced their Iraq withdrawal bills to conference and now passage. Pelosi and Reid deserve a good bit of credit for enforcing party unity with shaky majorities, but it has always irritated me that any time a Democrat talked about the bill, they echoed President Squinty’s threat to [...]
Proper Credit
My 8th-ranked Presidential hopeful, Senator Barack Obama on the President’s expected veto of the Iraq withdrawal bill (4/26/07): “We are one signature away from ending the Iraq War.” That’s about as perfect an example of sound-bite politics as you’ll find. John Edwards had a statement that was good, I don’t mind saying that Obama’s was [...]