This should be required viewing and training for all DNC Strategists from here on out. This was awesome (h/t Christy) The Republicans want to try and put out the ethics problems involving Democrats, but the fact of the matter is there are only a handful. They can name 3 or 4 and we can respond […]
From Yesterday’s NYTimes: On July 10, 2001, the book says, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, met with Ms. Rice at the White House to impress upon her the seriousness of the intelligence the agency was collecting about an impending attack. But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. […]
So much of this week was focused on the leaked NIE and the Democrats considered it a major trump on the Republicans in the home stretch of the election season. With all of that, who could have ever imagined the tri-fecta that was given to the Democrats today? Mark Foley has been the hot story […]
A large number of these contacts were with Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman. Roll Call has much more on this bomb shell.
From Reuters An intelligence report showing an upsurge in Islamic militancy put the White House on the defensive on Wednesday in an election-year debate over whether President George W. Bush has made America safer. In a second blow to the president, a new U.N. report said the Iraq war was providing al Qaeda with a […]
Turns out Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist logged over 100 visits to the Bush White House. What makes this so interesting is the fact both men have been tied to Jack Abramoff. So how much longer before we get investigators looking at what “presidential favors” Bush did for these guys, which in turn were for […]
Now things are starting to move in the right direction: Two attorneys representing claimants in a lawsuit over wiretapping by the National Security Agency will subpoena the White House today, RAW STORY has learned. Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, who represent hundreds of plaintiffs in lawsuits against Verizon, AT&T, and the US Government, will announnce […]
You can tell McCain is really starting to worry about his chances for a White House run in 2008: Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), a staunch defender of the Iraq war, on Tuesday faulted the Bush administration for misleading Americans into believing the conflict would be “some kind of day at the […]
Bush’s final gamble: giving Iraq a dictator? Andrew Sullivan The news was buried in a New York Times story last week but it confirmed what others in the Washington chattering classes have been observing lately. The context is that the White House has been inviting outsiders in to the Oval Office to discuss strategy in […]
And not in Iraq NABATIYEH, Lebanon — The United States has given Israeli forces between 10 and 14 days to finish dealing Hezbollah “a strategic blow,” a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official told FOX News, as both Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas continued to volley rockets across the Lebanon-Israel border. While admitting that the Israeli […]