One of the weirdest political things to watch this summer was various and sundry Republican officials referencing the “fact” that China was drilling for oil off the coast of Florida with the help of Cuba. This wasn’t some weird Ron Paul fan club rumor, or backbench Congressmen trying to get in the game, it […]
History really does rhyme:
Vice President Dick Cheney called Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to express U.S. solidarity in the conflict with Russia and told him “Russian aggression must not go unanswered,” the vice president’s office said on Monday.
George H. W. Bush (circa 1990):
This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.
Other than […]
NYT:
Martha Raddatz, chief White House correspondent for ABC News, sat down with Mr. Cheney in Amman, Jordan, one of several stops on a Middle East tour that includes Iraq, Israel, the West Bank, Oman, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
After Ms. Raddatz asked about the economy — which he said was in “a rough patch,” not a […]
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “I Have a Dream” (8/28/63)
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Lynne Cheney on MSNBC (10/16/07):
One of the things I […]
No, this is not a U.S. women’s soccer story.
After all this time, Duke president President Richard Brodhead has suddenly apologized to the lacrosse team players and their families.
Maybe Donald Rumsfeld will still apologize for bungling the Iraq war? Or George Bush? Or Prick Cheney, or Paul Wolfowitz, or Douglas Feith, or George Tenet, […]
While doctors at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. did to George Bush what many angry Americans would dearly love to do (and less gently), Prick Cheney was running the country. With no checks and balances, mind you (since he recognizes none).
The media has sounded the all-clear:
Cheney was acting president for 2 […]
Even the rare administration mea culpas come leavened with a healthy dose of Bush-sh*t.
AP’s Michael J. Sniffen wants us to applaud Maura Harty:
The current passport mess is rare among government foul-ups: A top federal official has publicly taken the blame and expressed regret.
“Over the past several months, many travelers who applied for a passport did […]
Cheney part of executive branch again - The Politico (6/27/07):
Vice President Cheney’s office will not pursue the argument that he is separate from the executive branch, senior administration officials tell The Politico. The decision follows a threat by Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), the No. 3 House Democrat, to try to cut off the office’s $4.8 […]
Guantanamo has been much in the news lately. And, conscientious blogger that I am, I have duly read vast quantities of that prose. My favorite paragraph of the whole lot comes from WaPo’s Josh White and Robin Wright:
Still, officials said the discussions are not yet at a decision point because too many issues […]
Once upon a time — not very long ago, but in a very different country — George Bush was wandering in the forest, all dejected and forlorn, kicking aimlessly at stones. “Who will be my Vice President?” he asked the trees and the shrubs and the wind. “Whoo-ooo”, answered the wind.
George […]
