The notes from Dick Cheney’s FBI interview in the Valerie Plame leak investigation have just been released. Turns out that Cheney lied through his teeth, essentially channeling Alberto “Buttercheeks” Gonzales:
Today, after successfully winning a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, under court order, CREW received documents related to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s [...]
Josh Marshall has an absurdly misguided (and misguiding) post this afternoon.
His headline asks:
Is the Public Option a Big Dud?
The post (in its entirety) reads:
Has the Public Option been made so emasculated and available to so few people that its premiums will actually end up being higher than private insurance premiums. (sic) Brian Beutler explains [...]
Health care: Most wouldn’t have public option – SF Chronicle (10/29/09):
…lost amid the ideological battle for or against a public option is a key overlooked fact: The vast majority of Americans would have no access to a public option even under its most expansive versions.
House and Senate bills limit the option to the smallest [...]
For a diplomat, Hillary Clinton indulged in some pretty plain speaking in Pakistan yesterday:
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed doubt Thursday over Pakistan’s failure to locate top al-Qaeda leaders in the eight years since they escaped over the border from Afghanistan, telling a group of Pakistani journalists that she found “it hard to believe [...]
It’s his answer for everything:
The Politico reports that the White House sent senior adviser David Axelrod and political director Patrick Gaspard to New Jersey in August, to express the White House’s concerns about the race. One Corzine aide said there was a message being sent that Corzine should consider dropping out of the race — [...]
We’re so lucky, blessed really, to have such a political genius leading the Democratic party and fighting for the greater good.
4/2/06:
A few minutes later, however, the audience was riveted as Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the guest speaker at the $175-a-plate dinner, stood on the podium and began the customary round of recognition [...]
Here’s a funny one.
On Tuesday, a well-known senator held a conference call with progressive bloggers. He was asked if, given Joe Lieberman’s threat to join the Republican filibuster, the senator “would support using the reconciliation process to pass health care reform with a public option, which would require a mere simple majority [...]
The only argument ever advanced for allowing Joe Lieberman to stay in the Democratic Party (and keep his precious committee chairmanship and Senate seniority) after his vigorous campaigning for and with John McCain in the last presidential election, was the assumed importance of having that 60th vote.
So now that we have seen exactly how much [...]
So rape is now a spectator sport in the U.S.?
Investigators say as many as 20 people were involved in or stood and watched the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a California high school homecoming dance Saturday night.
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As many as 10 people were involved in the assault in a dimly lighted back alley at [...]
Someone will have to explain this to me, since — despite that Ph. D. in Finance — I’m not enough of an economist to figure it out for myself.
Everyone knows that a business model inspired by the maxim “you can screw all of your customers all of the time” is not viable in the long-term.
Everyone [...]
