It’s starting to look up for October: White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, widely expected to leave the White House to make a long coveted run for Chicago mayor, could make an announcement on his decision as soon as Friday, a source close to him said. Emanuel has not made a final decision, said […]
Last week news broke that the Obama administration had struck a deal with big pharma to spend up to $150 million in advertising in support of President Obama’s health care reform. This got a lot of people wondering what deals were struck, and some of the rumors even included prevention of Congress from negotiating for […]
Old Turdblossom is leaving the White House: Karl Rove, the political adviser who masterminded President George W. Bush’s two winning presidential campaigns and secured his own place in history as a political strategist with extraordinary influence within the White House, is resigning, the White House confirmed today. In an interview published this morning in The […]
This Week with George Stephanopoulos is not on this week due to coverage of the British Open. Here is the rest of the Sunday Lineup: Meet the Press White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten Washington Post Senior Pentagon Reporter Tom Ricks Face the Nation Daniel Ayalon Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Dr. Imad Moustapha […]
This is the first I heard about this, but Jason Leopold of Truthout seems to be on target all the time: Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove. During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former […]
The front page of today’s Washington Post has an interesting headline – “White House Shifts Into Survival Mode“: In a White House known for both defiance and optimism, yesterday’s senior staff changes represent a frank acknowledgment of the trouble in which President Bush now finds himself. They are also a signal of how starkly Bush’s […]
Kind of an odd timing for Card to resign now. The reason given by Bush this morning was so that Card could return to “private life”. Sounds kind of Claude Allenish to me. Yesterday Raw Story gave us this: Karl Rove, Deputy White House Chief of Staff and special adviser to President George W. Bush, has […]
Well the story of Cheney’s shooting incident this past weekend is really growing. The downplaying of the incident to be minor injuries now appears to also be fabricated per the Associated Press: Cheney apparently did not see Whittington, and the vice president accidentally hit him in the face, neck and chest with bird shot. So […]
Fitzgerald is presenting new information to the grand jury today. Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald appeared this morning to present information to a new grand jury in the CIA leak investigation. Fitzgerald has been probing for two years what role senior Bush administration officials have played in leaking a CIA operative name to the media […]
According to aWashington Post article today, Patrick Fitzgerald is also looking into how the infamous 16 words got into the President’s state of the union address in 2003. This kind of reminds you of the original Matrix when Morpheus told Neo “You take the red pill…..you stay in wonderland…and I show you just how deep […]