Archive for July, 2007
Would You Vote For This Man For President?
WaPo had an article Wednesday on Freddie Thompson‘s career as a stand-alone lawyer, after his star turn as the Senate Watergate Committee’s White House mole, and before he decided life was much more comfortable in the Senate (all those recesses, no doubt). Here’s the punchline from their article: Most of the time, Thompson’s legal work [...]
Shame On You, Alberto!
Sen. Charles Schumer had this to say about Buttercheeks today: The attorney general took an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Instead, he tells the half-truth, the partial truth and everything but the truth. And he does it not once, and not twice, but over and over and [...]
Buttercheeks’ Experiments With Truth
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy has invited Buttercheeks to revise his suspect testimony: Leahy (D-Vt.) told reporters he is giving Gonzales until late next week to revise his testimony about the surveillance program or he will ask Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine to conduct a perjury inquiry: “I’ll ask the inspector [...]
Depends on the Definition of Diplomacy
As I mentioned yesterday, I haven’t been watching the debates. Aside from how far away the elections are, there are simply too many candidates to properly evaluate them based on how well they elbow everyone else out in order to answer questions no one has asked. 30 second and one minute answers are the foundation [...]
The Clinton-Obama Spat
We are, of course, one happy family at 1115. But like happy families everywhere, we don’t always agree on everything. The Clinton-Obama diplomacy spat is one instance. I think that, in his original response to the question, Obama failed to make the distinction between the U.S. talking to countries like Syria, Iran and Venezuela, and [...]
Ho Hum, Buttercheeks Caught In Another Lie
Not much news really on the Buttercheeks front. He’s been caught in a lie again, but it’s hard to get excited about that any more, really. (I stand ready, though, to go to BOLD ALL CAPS any time he’s found to have uttered a meaningful truth in his congressional testimony.) Documents indicate eight congressional leaders [...]
If They Told Him, They’d Have To … (What?)
The Bush-Cheney White House has a (what else?) secret plan for maintaining government control and public order in the event of an apocalyptic event. It’s not just secret from you and me, it’s apparently secret from everyone who’s not a ranking member of the administration, or a loyal Bushie, or both. That includes Congressmen who [...]
Do True Confessions Have Consequences?
From the latest episode of the “Gonzo Goes To Capitol Hill” soap opera: “It’s hard to see anything but a pattern of intentionally misleading Congress again and again,” Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., told Gonzales during the often-bitter Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. “Shouldn’t the attorney general of the United States meet a higher standard?” “Obviously, there [...]
Condi Rice: Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Was a Secretary of State ever so dissed by the media establishment? Condi Rice wrote an op-ed piece about Lebanon. And no one would publish it. Not the Wall Street Journal, not the New York Times, not the Financial Times. As a last-ditch strategy, the State Department briefly considered translating the article into Arabic and [...]
This is Why
I’ve written a lot about what I’m not looking for in the next President. There will be plenty of time when the race gets serious to outline what I want to see, but for now I can’t even watch the debates. I do however want to highlight this quote from John Edwards: “We cannot get [...]