Josh, writing at TPM reminds us of a over-looked fact: A Reminder Republicans have won the popular vote for president once in the last six presidential elections. That should really give you an idea of where the country sits.
If we need to keep evidence of torture, like photographs, secret, to protect our troops, doesn’t that suggest that torture isn’t a great way to keep them or us safe? – Josh Marshall
I haven’t posted on the firing of the federal prosecutors lately, but there has been some real interesting developments in the case. Yesterday, we received this news: The controversy flared up early Wednesday afternoon after David Iglesias, the departing U.S. attorney from New Mexico, told McClatchy Newspapers that he believes he was forced out because […]
Seems like the Republicans still love their dirty tricks. From Matt Stoller: Terry Nelson, an unindicted co-conspirator in the TRMPAC Tom Delay scandal, and the boss of Jim Tobin, the convicted felon in the NH phone-jamming case, is the head of opposition research for the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. So it’s not a surprise that […]
No wonder more and more soldiers are getting pissed about Iraq. We now have the very government they defend trying to censure their lives online. This is highly disturbing: We realize that when it comes to freedom of the press, the USA has fallen to Number 53 in the world — tied with our fascist […]
The entire Foley scandal has removed the cover from a party has serious skeletons. Far more disturbing is the downplaying of the incident by others in the Republican Party, all the way up to the White House. Today Tony Snow, while discussing the incident with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, referred to the emails as simply “naughty”. […]
Last night I reported about the discrepencies in the story between Hastert and Boehner. Hastert said he was never told of Foley and Boehner said he told Hastert. Now it looks like the story has taken another turn (big ht to Josh Marshall) From the Washington Post The resignation rocked the Capitol, and especially Foley’s GOP […]