I’m sure by now everyone has heard how Sarah Palin claimed that Paul Revere’s famous ride was to warn the British. Well now she is trying to claim that she was okity-dokity on her claims: “You realize that you messed up about Paul Revere, don’t you?” “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace asked the potential […]
A very interesting op-ed in today’s LA Times starts with: Congress should let the Bush tax cuts expire for the wealthiest Americans and use the additional tax revenues that are generated to invest in infrastructure and research. Now you probably think this is some whack, socialistic liberal or something. Of course you would be wrong. […]
Well this is certainly going to leave some tea baggers in tears: FoxNews commentator Sean Hannity has cancelled his appearance and broadcast at a Tea Party rally at Fifth Third Arena. Hannity planned to tape his television show from the event, which starts at 6 p.m. at the University of Cincinnati. Organizers of the rally […]
Lanny Davis posted a blog on The Hill today entitled: Recent Polling Data Show Serious Concerns About Sen. Obama’s ‘Electability’ Over Sen. McCain vs. Sen. Clinton’s (Lanny Davis) Very interesting. I saw that and thought there was a bunch of polls I missed. Quickly I went to Real Clear Politics and looked at the recent […]
Via Kevin Drum RECONCILIATION WATCH….Ever since we embraced the Anbar Awakening a year ago, the Army has been busily forming Sunni police forces called Concerned Local Citizens. The Shiite government of Nouri al-Maliki hasn’t had much choice but to go along, but at the same time they’ve resisted taking over the CLCs from the Americans […]
A little, unknown federal agency called the “Office of Special Counsel” is preparing to investigate Rove. The LA Times gives us this description of the OSC: Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in […]
Today’s LA Times gives us one of the most detailed looks yet into this scandal: When Karl Rove and his top deputies arrived at the White House in 2001, the Republican National Committee provided them with laptop computers and other communication devices to be used alongside their government-issued equipment. The back-channel e-mail and paging system, […]
Things in Iraq are getting really bad. The LA Times has an article today saying that the civil war is “all but declared“, and we now get a Republican Representative, who has been a supporter of the war, saying it is time to get out: Congressman Gil Gutknecht found the situation in Iraq more bleak […]
Every day seems to bring new stories of how Rove is closer to being indicted in the Plame case. Take this from today’s LA Times: Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald is believed to be considering perjury or obstruction charges against Rove or charges that he offered misstatements to investigators. A grand jury in the case […]
The LA Times has a very interesting article today that takes an in depth look at the Middle East and who is really becoming victorious with the Iraq War: The Islamic government in neighboring Iran watched with trepidation in March 2003 when U.S.-led troops stormed Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime and start remaking the […]