A press conference today with the Army’s top brass said that their is no lack of funds causing the problems at Walter Reed, but rather it was a “failure of leadership”. This is something I had pointed out here , however the right-wing darling blogger, Michelle Malkin, decided to not talk about the actual “failure […]
Oh this is a very nice move by Harry Reid: “For nearly four years, the Republican-controlled Senate stood silent on the President’s flawed Iraq policies and watched as the situation deteriorated into a civil war. The American people have chosen to change course. Democrats have chosen to change course. Unfortunately, Senate Republicans have chosen obstruction. […]
Five more soldiers were killed in Iraq today, bringing the October’s toll to 96 soldiers lost. The last time we had this many soldiers killed in Iraq in one month was last October, and that number is certain to go higher. Sidney Blumenthal also has an interesting piece up at Salon regarding Bush and the […]
I posted this past weekend Mike DeWine’s piss-poor excuses for his horrible attendance record on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sherrod Brown now has a new ad highlighting DeWine’s failure to appear and do his job for Ohio and the United States: (H/T Aravosis on the video find)
CBS has released their latest poll, which was conducted since the terror alert last week. There are some very interesting numbers in here. Bush’s approval rating is at 36%, which is the same number from last month. Even more interesting is his disapproval rating has jumped from 55% to 57%. While that is still in […]
So the stock market is back to the 2005 levels, inflation is rising, people are losing jobs, people who have jobs have an insecure feeling about their income, the national debt is at record levels, we got army bases who might get the power shut off for failure to pay bills, etc., etc., etc. So […]
Tony Blair’s failure to improve the procedures for investigating claims of ministerial misconduct is undermining his own government, the sleaze watchdog has warned. Following the scandal surrounding culture secretary Tessa Jowell and the investigation into her conduct by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, the committee on standards in public life has called for a tightening up of […]
This really has me thinking: “The government of Syria’s failure to provide protection to diplomatic premises, in the face of warnings that violence was planned, is inexcusable,” he said in a statement from Texas, where President George W. Bush is staying at his Crawford ranch. Read full articlehere. So we are blaming the Syrian government […]
Bush spoke too soon on the economy Ann Coulter thinks we should poison justice Stevens. Arianna -VS- Russert (also check out Jane’s take on this) America’s Secret War – A review by Chancelucky. 58% rate Bush as a failure and in a separate poll give him a 35% approval rating
Mike Brown now has his new career ahead of him. That career is a consulting business on how to handle disasters. This from Scripps Howard: Ousted FEMA director Michael Brown, who was vilified over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, plans to make a fresh start in Colorado, selling his expertise about how emergency […]