This is change we can really believe in: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is receptive to the idea of prosecuting some Bush administration officials, while letting others who are accused of misdeeds leave office without prosecution, she told Chris Wallace in an interview on “FOX News Sunday.” “I think you look at each item and see […]
Despite Congress saying otherwise. Chertoff has decided he is the new decider and it is even pissing off Republicans: Noting that Chertoff’s department was forced to temporarily suspend a similar requirement for air travelers last summer when the rule caused a massive U.S. passport backlog, Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.) said the secretary “frankly has […]
Apparently not: You are not going to believe this, well, actually you will… According to Karl Rove (on Charlie Rose), the Bush Administration did not want Congress to vote on the Iraq War resolution in the fall of 2002, because they thought it should not be done within the context of an election. Rove, you […]
This is from “the Decider“: President Bush gave embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a strong vote of confidence on Monday despite scant support and scathing criticism from key Republicans. “This is an honest, honorable man, in whom I have confidence,” Bush said. The president said that Gonzales’ testimony before skeptical Judiciary Committee senators last week […]
From the White House that is. They are spinning as hard as they can on the Walter Reed fiasco. Tony Snow showed this spin during the first part of today’s presser: The problem is that this spin isn’t going to work. Basically Snow is saying they don’t want to talk about it. They are trying […]
This is priceless: Iraq’s prime minister said Wednesday he’s sure Iran is behind some attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and he won’t allow his country to be a battleground for the two nations. “We have told the Iranians and the Americans, ‘We know that you have a problem with each other, but we are […]
The waste of time has been delivered: The Iraq Study Group report gives a “tough assessment of the situation in Iraq” but provides “common ground” for a way forward, President Bush said Wednesday. Bush spoke at the White House after receiving the group’s report in a breakfast meeting. According to two sources who have seen […]