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That Commercial Wouldn’t Make Any Sense to Me Posted 22 Jul 2007 under Bush Man Date, Rice
Because Secretaries of State are…what, smart? If you’ve ever had trouble getting an Op-Ed submission published — and who among print journalists has not? — this might make you feel a little better: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has had the same problem. […] A few months ago, she decided to write an opinion piece about Lebanon. She [...]
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Hot! Hot! Hot! — Summer In Baghdad, By The Numbers Posted 25 Jun 2007 under Iraq War
Temperature: “As the blast furnace of summer brought 115-plus-degree days….” Electricity: “We’re getting about one hour every four days, and we don’t have cold water or the refrigerator, so we’re buying ice from the market.” (Thought experiment: just try to imagine 115 degrees and no electricity worth speaking of.) Cost of a generator: $450 Average monthly income: $200 Market price [...]
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Spinning Wolfowitz’s Corrupt Behavior Posted 14 Apr 2007 under Bush Man Date, Corruption, Podium Spin
I’ve had it up to here with reports which blandly describe Paul Wolfowitz as getting “personally involved in securing a large pay rise and promotion” for Shaha Riza. He wasn’t just “personally involved” in a minor transgression kind of way. He flagrantly and blatantly took charge of the promotion-and-pay-raise decision. He unilaterally ordered the [...]
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Strange Days Posted 15 Sep 2006 under '06/'08 Campaigns, Ahhhnold: Turd, Bad Dems
“I wouldn’t urinate down his throat if his heart was on fire.” - James Carville on Nader When Jason and I started this site in 2003, two things drove us: the Bush administration’s mis-governance and the gubernatorial recall election in California. With our state still dealing with the fallout from the 2000 energy crisis, brought [...]
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A Conspiracy Theory Posted 12 Sep 2006 under War on Terror
I’m going to take a leaf out of President Bush’s book, and write a totally non-political post. It will only focus on 9/11 and TWAT and keeping our country safe, nothing about politics will intrude at all. If I had a Press Secretary, I would turn over the keyboard to her for a [...]
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A Victory Lap for Broken Promises Posted 28 Aug 2006 under Katrina
“Niggaz starvin and they dyin of thirst I bet he had to go and check on them refineries first Makin a killin off the price of gas He woulda been up in Connecticut twice as fast After all that we been through, nothing’s changed You can call Red Cross but the fact remains that: George Bush ain’t a gold digger But he [...]
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What…You Thought They Were Serious? Posted 27 Apr 2006 under Congressional Man Date, Corruption, Politics
My, how things change. It wasn’t all that long ago—a few months at most—that the Republican leadership in Congress got some old-time religion about ethics and lobbying reform. Duke Cunningham had pled guilty to bribery and tax evasion (among other things), überlobbyist Jack Abramoff was facing his own jail time amid accusations that he had influenced [...]
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Bring on the Fuzzy Math Posted 03 Jan 2006 under Bush Man Date, Economy
Torrance:”You better bring your most optimistic economic predictions.” Isis:”Oh, they’ve already been broughten.” Since the end of the last recession, happy talk about the economy has been a constant refrain from the President and anyone else from his administration who stumbled across a microphone. “Look at all the jobs we’ve created” is a big favorite, despite [...]
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Cover Dat Azz Posted 16 Nov 2005 under Bush Man Date, Iraq War
There were hints last week, but the White House’s pushback strategy began in earnest over the weekend. As Fred Kaplan wrote in Slate on Monday, the strategy boils down to “I Was Wrong, but So Were You.” Kaplan goes point-by-point and rather than duplicate his work, I’ll send you over there. But [...]
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A Sort of Homecoming Posted 24 Oct 2005 under Rice
During the 2000 campaign and again after her appointment as National Security Advisor, the story of a seven-year old Condoleezza Rice and her mother refusing to use the “colored” dressing room in a Birmingham department store was rolled out in multiple media outlets (including a Washington Post puff piece that ran just two days before [...]