Month: January 2007

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It’s those little things Timmeh does…

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…that has helped to make Meet the Press the administration’s best format. While interviewing Sen. Vitter today Timmeh stated… MR. RUSSERT: Senator Vitter, you live in New Orleans. The president was down a few days after Katrina and gave a speech about what he was going to do. Let’s listen. (emphasis mine) He then showed the videotape of Bush in Jackson Square on September 15, 2005. That would be WEEKS not DAYS after Katrina. Timmeh to refresh your memory here is what the rest of us remember of Bush a few DAYS after Katrina hit on August 29… Tuesday August … Continue reading It’s those little things Timmeh does…

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Katrina Hearing Tomorrow…Lieberman gives assurance panel has full authority to do whatever it takes

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Lieberman, Obama and Landrieu will be holding a Senate Committee hearing on Katrina in New Orleans tomorrow. Also Lieberman has named Landrieu head of the new Disaster Recovery subcommittee… Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said he added two subcommittees, the Disaster Recovery Subcommittee and State, Local and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration Subcommittee, to concentrate on areas that he thinks need more attention from Congress. Landrieu said Lieberman has assured her that the new panel “will have the full authority to do whatever it takes” to examine the mistakes made during … Continue reading Katrina Hearing Tomorrow…Lieberman gives assurance panel has full authority to do whatever it takes

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Lady Justice Pushes Back

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The Bush Justice Department seems to think it can make whatever rules it chooses in the various civil suits filed in response to Chimpy’s warrantless eavesdropping. The judges presiding in these cases disagree. The Bush administration has employed extraordinary secrecy in defending the National Security Agency’s highly classified domestic surveillance program from civil lawsuits. Plaintiffs and judges’ clerks cannot see its secret filings. Judges have to make appointments to review them and are not allowed to keep copies. Judges have even been instructed to use computers provided by the Justice Department to compose their decisions. But now the procedures have … Continue reading Lady Justice Pushes Back

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The Road Home to New Orleans: Uncertainty in life…Certainty in death

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The Times Picayune has 2 articles today which taken together show the paradox of the bitter and bittersweet twists of the Road Home for New Orleanians…the living and the deceased. The first is a long article which chronicles the continuing problems of the “understaffed and overwhelmed” Road Home program impeding the homecoming…of the living: So far, more than 100,000 homeowners in Louisiana have applied for a Road Home grant, but the vast majority of those applications are stuck in the pipeline. Though ICF originally claimed many applicants would receive their money six to eight weeks after an initial meeting with … Continue reading The Road Home to New Orleans: Uncertainty in life…Certainty in death

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Jonah’s an Idiot

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Jonah had a column yesterday complaining how Democrats Love to Use The Children.He cites Hillary, Pelosi and Boxer as using kids. He then goes on about the evil genius of Dems’ policies to help children such as this example… By making The Children the beneficiaries of welfare rather than the adults, the left could portray any attempt to curb the welfare state as “anti-child.” He concludes with… Children are hugely important. But they shouldn’t be a Trojan horse for policies you can’t sell fair and square. Imagine using the needs of children to sell policies for children! Republicans would never … Continue reading Jonah’s an Idiot

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Friday Ferretblogging: Action Ferret Edition

Allison Hantschel

I have THE MOST INCREDIBLY AWESOME video of Joey playing in the two inches of snow we got the other night. But it’s trapped on a hard drive in Mr. A’s office and alas, it will have to wait until next week’s ferretblogging. But trust me, it’s epic. It’ll tear a new asshole into the Friday Petblogging scene. This week you get a photo of Joey asserting his supremacy over Mr. A’s Christmas present, while Fox hangs out in the background all bored, like, “Dude, I chewed on that thing weeks ago, you’re so far out of style you can’t … Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging: Action Ferret Edition

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Your President Speaks!

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Today, at the White House. Tell Me What Your Instructions Is My instructions to the General is, get over to the zone as quickly as possible and implement a plan that we believe will yield our goals. Must Be A Box-And-One One of the amazing things about our country is that we’ve got military folks who volunteer to go into a tough zone to protect the American people from future harm, and they’ve got families who stand by them. Whether you be a general or a private in the military, there is a U.S. — there’s a family member saying, … Continue reading Your President Speaks!

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Rove Subpoenaed

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Hey indeedy…From Newsweek Both Rove and Bartlett have already received trial subpoenas from Libby’s defense lawyers, according to lawyers close to the case who asked not to be identified talking about sensitive matters. While that is no guarantee they will be called, the odds increased this week after Libby’s lawyer, Ted Wells, laid out a defense resting on the idea that his client, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, had been made a “scapegoat” to protect Rove. Continue reading Rove Subpoenaed

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“An Awesome Date”

Allison Hantschel

I do believe that Atrios and watertiger are on to something. [Image stolen from watertiger.] Minneapolis/St. Paul’s City Pages has the definitive Bachmann piece, which includes the following relevant tid-bit: August 30, 2006 The congressional candidate [Michelle Bachmann] weighs in on the visit from President Bush with Jason Lewis on KTLK-FM (100.3). First she notes that Dubya is an “awesome date,” before adding, “He’s so buff. He’s like you, Jason, he has 1 percent body fat.” Bachmann is a bit of a freak, particularly in regards to Teh Gay. April 7, 2005 Bachmann is caught on film crouching behind the … Continue reading “An Awesome Date”

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Idiot Wind, Blowing Every Time You Move Your Teeth

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Iraqi VEEPAdel Abdul Mahdi answers Joe Scarborrough’s famous question. The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was an “idiot decision” and Iraqi troops now need to secure Baghdad to ensure the country’s future, Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Thursday. “Iraq was put under occupation, which was an idiot decision,” Mahdi said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [snip] Mahdi’s party, the powerful Shi’ite Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, was one of the exiled opposition parties consulted by Washington as it planned the invasion. Continue reading Idiot Wind, Blowing Every Time You Move Your Teeth

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Responsibility

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Would you rather be ignored or abused? OK that’s the wrong question as I’d like you to think what it would be like to be ignored AND abused? The question comes due to a football game in Chicago but this isn’t really about football or Chicago. No it is about Responsibility and America.

It starts with this shithead, the Onefan I keep hearing about…

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But then…

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Let’s Not Forget

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The Busheconomy is still sucking wind. Witness last week’s 12% increase in new unemployment claims. In the week ending Jan. 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 325,000, an increase of 36,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 289,000. The 4-week moving average was 309,250, an increase of 1,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 307,750. Then there’s the busted housing bubble. Sales of new homes plunged in 2006 by the largest amount in 16 years as the nation’s housing industry suffered through a sharp contraction after five boom years. The Commerce Department reported that … Continue reading Let’s Not Forget

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Another Departure

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Robert Joseph, the man who pushed the inclusion of those famous 16 words into Chimpy’s 2003 SOTU address, is calling it quits. Robert Joseph, the State Department’s senior arms control and security official, has resigned. Joseph submitted his resignation to President Bush amid uncertainty about the future of negotiations to curb nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea. [snip] His departure follows that of several other top diplomatic officials, including Philip Zelikow, a close adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Deputy Secretary Robert Zoellick; and John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Joseph joined the department in … Continue reading Another Departure

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Scuzzballs

Allison Hantschel

Jesus. Virginia state Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, a Republican from Fairfax County, is one of the press corps’ favorite lawmakers in Richmond. He’s no great statesman, but he’s got a penchant for taking the outrages of daily life and concocting some way to write new laws about them. Lately, Cuccinelli is bothered by “scuzzball reporters out there who don’t have a shred of human decency to give a flying rat’s tail about the condition or feelings or circumstances of families” who’ve suffered some tragedy. Cuccinelli is offended by the sight of press hacks descending on citizens who’ve lost a loved one … Continue reading Scuzzballs

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Poppies

Allison Hantschel

I agree with Karzai’s cabinet, spraying Afghanistan’s poppy fields with herbicide is likely to poison the groundwater, kill wildlife, damage other crops, and sicken people. But somehow I don’t think that’s why he made this decision. Rebuffing months of U.S. pressure, Afghan President Hamid Karzai decided against a Colombia-style program to spray this country’s heroin-producing poppies after the Cabinet worried herbicide would hurt legitimate crops, animals and humans, officials said Thursday. The decision, reportedly made Sunday, dashes U.S. hopes for mounting a campaign using ground sprayers to poison poppy plants to help combat Afghanistan’s opium trade after a record crop … Continue reading Poppies

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WaPo: Troops Authorized to Kill Iranian Operatives in Iraq

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This is scary stuff. This administration has been wrong on everything and now they are playing with new matches hoping for a spark. Bush is moving us towards war with Iran and Congress had better assert itself and its war making authority before Bush sets the whole Middle East aflame. The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran’s influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program, according to government and counterterrorism officials with direct knowledge of … Continue reading WaPo: Troops Authorized to Kill Iranian Operatives in Iraq

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Your President Speaks!

Allison Hantschel

Today, in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. What About Papa Johns? We believe the private sector is the best delivery of health care. He’s Pro-Worry You just kind of assume that the third-party payer is making a rational decision on your behalf. And our view is, is that in order to have — to worry about health care costs, the more a consumer is involved, the more likely we’ll be able to deal with the increasing cost of health care. In Other Other Words In other words, a restaurant in Missouri ought to be able to have their employees insured with a … Continue reading Your President Speaks!

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Free/Paid Media

Allison Hantschel

Atrios: Still, I have hopes and dreams that both paid media and free national media will decline in their power to shape elections. Raising the effective price of running a primary campaign using traditional means might force candidates to get creative about other ways of campaigning, particularly by creating and mobilizing volunteers. You can’t knock on every door in California, but your volunteers can. A much worse problem than either free or paid media is the free media that results from paid media, ie when the Swift Boat Liars released their little smear campaign, and we had six weeks of … Continue reading Free/Paid Media

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Lowered Standards

Allison Hantschel

Check out the table Elizabeth Gentleman put together for Mother Jones demonstrating the length to which the US Army has relaxed their standards for new recruits. Highlights: The age limit for new inductees was raised from 34 to 42, while the length of active duty service required before a non-US citizen can apply for citizenship was lowered from three years to one day. Also, it’s OK now it your tats show while in uniform. -Holden Continue reading Lowered Standards

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Let Us Now Praise Patrick Leahy

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Columnwhoring: Even after Watergate, even after Vietnam, we find it touchingly difficult to set as our default the idea that our leaders find it necessary, convenient and even easy to lie to our faces. We want to believe the best, and so we turn away from those who accuse the president and all his men and women of conspiracy to harm the country; we call the accusers deluded, because we don’t want to see. We want to believe the best, but this isn’t a TV show, and we can’t let the world we want to see blind us to the … Continue reading Let Us Now Praise Patrick Leahy

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Return of the Juggernaut

Allison Hantschel

I wanted title this post You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down (Not With Those Flotation Devices) but that was too long. Courtesy of the fabulous watertiger, she’s ba-aaaaack… She may have given up her House seat to run a losing campaign for the Senate, but that doesn’t mean former Florida Rep. Katherine Harris actually has to leave the House. See, as a former representative, she keeps floor rights and she used them to the hilt Tuesday night before President Bush’s State of the Union address. Our chief photodog, Charlie Archambault, caught her mingling on the Republican side and even … Continue reading Return of the Juggernaut

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Today On Holden’s Obsession With The Gaggle

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A side note before we begin: Typepad still can’t figure out that I’m me instead of someone else, so Athenae has graciously allowed me to log in as her until they recognize me as me again. But I really am me. Anyway, Pony Blow did a quickie gaggle aboard Air Force One this morning en route to Kansas City where Chimpy is due to prattle on about his dumbass health care proposal. However, none of the gagglers were interested in Chimpy’s plan to raise taxes on some while further denying helath care to others, they were primarily intereseted in Iraq. … Continue reading Today On Holden’s Obsession With The Gaggle

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SOTU: Even The Freepers Hated It

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Though they’re just mad because he didn’t talk about burning gays and Mexicans at the stake while shooting abortion doctors. Or something. I do my best but sometimes the hamster just dies, you know? He’s not gonna quit ’till he pisses off every conservative in the country. There are a few hundred left. Tonight may just do it. Has he called for Mexican statehood yet? I was hopeing he would do stuff about immigration, cut spending, reduce welfare, abortion, finding osama, a clear cut non grass eater energy plan, less gun control, increased boarder spending, cutting the trade deficit with … Continue reading SOTU: Even The Freepers Hated It

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There Goes The Legacy

Allison Hantschel

I somehow missed this bit from a Pew Poll released on Monday: According to the survey, 53% of the public believes that, in the long run, the failures of the Bush administration will outweigh its accomplishments, a 17 percentage point increase since January 2004. Nearly half (45%) believe that Bush will be viewed as an unsuccessful president. About one-in-four (24%) see him as successful, while the remainder say it’s too early to tell or don’t know. -Holden Continue reading There Goes The Legacy

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Your President Speaks!

Allison Hantschel

Today, in Delaware. Still An Ass And as the Secretary of Energy, Sam Bodman, told me coming in — he said, when he was — see, he’s like a graduate from MIT, which — so he’s a smart guy and I’m the President. But anyway — It’s the way it works sometimes, you know. An Economic Effect On Or Economy But we’ve got to understand that when the globe becomes interconnected economically, the demand increases in other countries can cause the price of oil to go up here, and it has an economic effect on our own economy. That SOTU … Continue reading Your President Speaks!