You got to love Bush and his family and Christian values. The people around him seem to embrace those values also. Paul Wolfowitz is no exception: Sounding more like a cast member of the Sopranos than an international leader, in testimony by one key witness Mr Wolfowitz declares: “If they fuck with me or Shaha, […]
From the Muckraker: “I was glad to meet Mr. Fielding and I welcome the fact that these issues have his full attention. “I don’t accept his offer. It is not constructive and it is not helpful to be telling the Senate how to do our investigation, or to prejudge its outcome. “Instead of freely and […]
There is some heart-breaking testimony coming from these hearings today. It is totally unacceptable that the situation was able to reach this low point. Something I am tired of hearing is this meme that the hospitals are overloaded because of Iraq. This was a war of choice waged by the commander in chief and if […]
This is amazing. During an exchange on Capital Hill today between Senator Patrick Leahy and Steven Bradbury, legal council for the Department of Justice, Bradbury said that “the President is always right”. Here is the transcript compliments of Raw Story: MR. BRADBURY: Well, Senator, I think — as I said in my testimony, obviously the […]
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 […]
Raw Story has uncovered some devastating testimony given by George Tenet while he was the director of the C.I.A. This testimony totally contradicts Bush’s statement on Friday that Democrats had access to the same intelligence as the White House. Here is a small excerpt from the article that is the most damming. But as a […]
A new poll by Survey USA shows that most people believe that Libby was told to lie during his testimony. The question and results are as follows: Based on what you know now, which of the following statements about Lewis “Scooter” Libby do you think is true? Lied because he was told to 34% Lied […]
It has been over two years since the now infamous New York Times article by Robert Novak appeared, which identified Joe Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA operative. Throughout these two years numerous questions have been asked and very few answered, however that will all change in the next week or so. The grand […]
First it was “we need an extension†now it is “we will be done on timeâ€ÂÂ. This came out of the council in Iraq that is authoring the new constitution. If they can’t agree on how much time is needed to complete the constitution, then how can we expect them to agree on an actual […]
In 1998 Bill Clinton made an appointment to the United Nations. He appointed Richard Holbrooke to be the diplomatic voice of the United States. For 14 months the Republicans in Senate continued to block Holbrooke’s appointment in what became “partisan bickering†Holbrooke was offered the recess appointment during this time, however he declined it. Holbrooke […]