They must be exhausted—they’re starting to tell the truth. First, on Face the Nation on Sunday, President Cheney finally revealed himself: “Most of my predecessors spent a good part of their time as president—as vice president—getting ready to run for president.” . . . → Read More: They must be exhausted…
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Today I finally got another chance to get Scott McClellan riled up. Ever since the last time I did it, back in January, he’s been lucky enough or tricky enough to avoid having to call on me, but today, the briefing room wasn’t quite as crowded as it has been, and I got my chance to ask a question that has been puzzling me ever since the Director of National Intelligence ,John Negroponte, testified to the Senate on February 2 that, “Tehran has been responsible for at least some of the increasing lethality of anti-coalition attacks by providing Shia militia with the capability to build improvised explosive devices with explosively formed projectiles similar to those developed by Iran and Lebanese Hizballah.” . . . → Read More: More blogging from the White House: Bush & Negroponte vs. Pace & Rumsfeld on the ‘Iranian IEDs’ Rumors that president Bush is being encouraged to take a GOP establishment on board to whip his staff into shape are rife. CNN’s Dana Bash reported today that “a move is afoot among some friends and confidantes of President Bush to persuade him to bring in at least one seasoned Republican veteran to help his struggling staff.” . . . → Read More: “Mr. President, Congress wants your balls on a platter.” It’s not often that you run across a polymath libertarian leftist cleric whose sensibilities suggest the bastard child of an unholy union between Hunter Thompson, St. Thomas Aquinas and Truman Capote. When you do, the question that pops immediately to mind is, “Does this guy have a blog?” . . . → Read More: Say hello to my friend IOZ Digby at Hullabaloo has been writing for several years about the conflict between anti-abortion rhetoric declaiming abortion as murder and anti-abortion statutes which don’t invoke criminal penalties against women who seek or obtain abortions. . . . → Read More: Recasting the abortion debate: is it or isn’t it murder? (Via Raw Story) The father of a man on trial for lying about whether he attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan says the camp was manned by a thousand sword wielding masked ninjas who pole-vaulted rivers in a massive underground training facility. . . . → Read More: Pole-vaulting Islamic ninjas trained terror suspects US secretary of state Condi Rice added a little sizzle to her South American tour by accepting a guitar inlaid with a coca leaf from Bolivia’s president Evo Morales. . . . → Read More: Condoleezza Rice embraces new instrument of diplomacy To paraphrase P.T. Barnum, it’s a rare politician who loses an election by underestimating the American public’s attention span. . . . → Read More: Gambling on short attention spans, GOP bails on ethics reform President Bush has apparently airbrushed India’s nuclear nonproliferation record in his eagerness to cut a deal with the country. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), headed by former UN weapons inspector David Albright, says they’ve discovered “a well-developed, active, and secret Indian program to outfit its uranium enrichment program and circumvent other countries’ export control efforts.” . . . → Read More: Worst national security administration ever: India edition |
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Are Bush administration officials high on more than life?
Slate columnist Bruce Reed has an article today noting some of the more bizarre side effects of Ambien and wondering if they don’t explain the Bush administration. . . . → Read More: Are Bush administration officials high on more than life?