Politico: Wes Clark plays field as ‘08 hopes fade - look, he’s just not running. and i’m still taking all bets.
Eric Alterman: Who Really Supports the Troops? - unbelievable that columns like this still need to be written.
WLWT.com: Former Marine Claims Illness From Mystery Vaccine - Reads like something out of the X-files. […]
Remember when Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, you know, the one with the credibility, said that “All the signs I look at” show “the housing market is at or near the bottom.” and that “the U.S. economy is “very healthy” and “robust?”
Of course you do, because I’ve been documenting each time the data makes an ass […]
Sen. Joe Lieberman, WSJ op-ed, November 29, 2005:
I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, during his unannounced trip to Iraq, May 30, 2007:
Overall, I would say what I see here today is progress. Significant progress from the last […]
Another classic Bush-icism from his immigration speech on Tuesday:
If you want to scare the American people, what you say is, the bill is an amnesty bill. It’s not an amnesty bill. That’s empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our fellow citizens.
No, Mr. President, not at all. If you want to scare or frighten the […]
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David Leonhardt in the NYT:
Mr. Dobbs is fond of darkly hinting that this country is under attack. He suggested last week that the new immigration bill in Congress could be the first step toward a new nation — a “North American union” — that combines the United States, Canada and Mexico.
That’s the beauty of the […]
The new proposed immigration bill is complicated. So naturally the best person to explain it to America is the President:
This bill is not an amnesty bill. If you want to scare the American people, what you say is, the bill is an amnesty bill. It’s not an amnesty bill. That’s empty political rhetoric, trying […]
Meet Tom of Arc:
DeLay says that when, in the coming years, he is not fighting the indictment in Texas (he insists that he is not guilty) he will be building a conservative grass-roots equivalent of MoveOn.org. “God has spoken to me,” he said. “I listen to God, and what I’ve heard is that I’m supposed […]
President Bush in Gynco, GA:
If you can speak English in this country and work hard and have dreams, you can make it.
On the other hand, if you can’t speak English, have never done an honest day’s work in your life, and your dreams used to be drug-induced nightmares, you can be Governor of Texas and […]
At Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, George Bush declared to the families of the soldiers who have been sacrificed in Iraq and Afghanistan:
Your country thanks you, and we embrace you, and we will never forget the terrible loss you have suffered.
That was reported in all the papers and all the news programs.
Here’s what […]
a) Because that’s what Bush does; not fire people.
b) Because then Karl Rove would also have to be brought to account. As the NYT said:
(Lurita Doan’s) credibility now stands as tattered as her memory. Her fate will be in President Bush’s hands, who supposedly knows a slam dunk when he sees one. Ms. Doan […]
