And a speech worth watching and reading. Pay attention, students. This is good stuff.
Sen. Chris Dodd gave a great statement on the floor of the Senate this morning. You can watch video here on his Senate website. I asked for a written copy of the remarks, because there wasn’t a transcript available, and am reprinting them here with permission because I’ve had several e-mails asking for this. Here you [...]
Tags: Dodd, Patriots Stand Up
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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has been getting quite the good press for the past couple of weeks. All of that seems to be coming to a screeching halt right about now. Welcome to reality, Mr. Huckabee!
Before the media stamps John McCain as a comeback kid or Mike Huckabee as a serious candidate for the GOP nomination and the presidency, can they at least take a close look at how unserious each of them are when it comes to dealing with the uninsured and Social Security in this country? At an Iowa AARP forum yesterday where McCain and Huckabee were the only two GOP candidates who bothered to show up, both of them proved to be lightweights unworthy of [...]
Another blogger likes Mike, but doesn't think he has a prayer of a chance.
MIKE HUCKABEE: LET THE FRAGGING BEGIN
Many people believe the conventional wisdom that you can't possibly win the Republican presidential nomination if you have liberal or moderate position on social issues. You know that I believe differently -- that I think Giuliani has developed a line of kill-the-brutes rhetoric and built up a myth about himself that give him a real chance to win despite the objections of (some) fundamentalists. The flip side of this argument concerns Mike Huckabee: There's a belief that because he does pass all the fundie litmus tests with flying colors, and is a minister from the South, he could become a first-tier candidate, or a good VP choice for, say, Mitt or Rudy. I don't believe that -- I think if [...]
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The story that just won't go away. Here's an earlier post. Ready for the latest round in the he-said, she-said over Scott Beauchamp's insider stories in The New Republic? It's TNR's turn:
Does Scott Thomas Beauchamp stand by the "Baghdad Diarist" pieces he wrote for the New Republic or doesn't he? In his September 6 conversation with TNR's editors, which was leaked to Drudge by the Army a couple of days [...]
Tags: Beauchamp, The New Republic
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Is it 2007? Or 1962? And, in the case of our relations with Russia, does it really make any difference?
Putin Gives Bush The Finger Again
Putin says our installation of Star Wars near his borders is similar to the Cuban missile crisis. He's not accurate, of course, because the Soviets were installing offensive weapons that could strike most of America on Cuban soil 90 miles from the United States, whereas Bush wants to install a defensive system very close to Russia's borders aimed at knocking down missile threats from Asia, Iran, and yes, Russia. But Putin isn't trying for rhetorical accuracy here. His comment, especially after his smackdown yesterday of Bush's sanctions against Iran reflect a dismissal of [...]
Tags: Putin, Russia, Cuban Missile Crisis
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The President had some nice words to say yesterday in Southern California. Nice words for the people hit hard by the wildfires. He also had some not-so-nice jabs at Louisiana and Governor Blanco. She delivered a pretty darn good comeback.
Yesterday Bush took a shot at Gov. Blanco. Blanco responds: In a statement forwarded by her press office, Blanco noted that it took federal forces nearly a week to arrive in Louisiana after the storm. "I was the only game [...]
Tags: Wildfires, Blanco, Katrina, Federal Aide
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Chalk up another one. Another case of an electronic voting machine maker getting the boot.
EXCLUSIVE: ES&S CERTIFICATION TESTING SUSPENDED IN COLORADO
Once again, the country's largest voting machine vendor, Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) has failed in yet another state certification process, The BRAD BLOG has learned. In a letter faxed to the company yesterday, Colorado's Secretary of State Mike Coffman informed the Omaha, Nebraska company that the state has suspended [...]
Tags: Electronic Voting Machine, ES&S, Colorado Elections
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While everybody in the Administration is busy hawking the prospect of War with Iran, there's been some investigative work underway that seems to cut deeply into one of the main validations for action against Iran.
Is Bush Lying about Iran and EFP's -- Again?
Since earlier this year, Bush administration officials and Pentagon spokespersons in Iraq and elsewhere have been claiming that Iran is the source of the explosively formed penetrators, or EFP's, which have been used in Iraq to penetrate the armor of US military vehicles and kill American soldiers. And despite evidence to the contrary that these weapons are in fact being manufactured in Iraq, they have continued to assert that Iran is the source of these weapons. Indeed, this charge that Iran's Revolutionary Guards, has been providing EFP's to Iraqis, was [...]
Now, let's update the cost of all this fun and frivolity:
After I posted about the CBO’s estimation that the occupation in Iraq may end up costing the U.S. $2.4Trillion, I received this link from a C&Ler: "Using the actual size of a dollar bill, this is how large a stack of $9 million would be: And using the same scale, this is $191 Billion, [...]
Tags: Iran, Explosively Formed Penetrators, EFP's
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The numbers are growing and the list is getting longer.
TJX account theft 94 million and counting
It's nice to see that TJX (TJ Maxx, Marshalls) is so upfront about the problem. With a down year in Christmas shopping expected, they help make the choice of where to spend your money a lot easier. How can a company like this be trusted with personal data? Maybe they can put signs on their windows saying [...]
Tags: Identity Theft, TJX, TJ Maxx, Marshalls
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Finally. Big plans for the weekend? Lots of home-based stuff on my list, so I'll be doing good to find much time to scan the blogs. At least the rain has moved on and sunshine returns to the forecast.
We begin tonight with one of those posts that just boggles the mind. We actually pay federal employees to think of stuff like this. Amazing.
FEMA Stages Press Conference With Staff Posing As Journalists Asking ‘Softball’ Questions
On Tuesday, while “wildfires raged” in California, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), held a press conference at FEMA’s Southwest D.C. offices that was “carried live on Fox News, MSNBC and other outlets.” In the presser, Johnson said he was “very happy with FEMA’s response” while [...]
Even the White House didn't back FEMA on this one!
White House condemns FEMA’s fake presser.
Today, Al Kamen reported that the Federal Emergency Management Association held a Tuesday press conference filled with softball questions that were actually asked by FEMA employees posing as journalists. In today’s press briefing, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino condemned FEMA’s actions: QUESTION: And from what we understand, the questions were posed not by reporters but by [...]
While we're exploring governmental stupidity...
The state of Pennsylvania has decided not to release a list of state polling places to prevent terrorists from disrupting the state's elections. Just glad we have our priorities straight [....]
Tags: FEMA, Press Conference, Wildfires
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I seldom agree with Brian Maloney, the guy who delights in criticizing almost all of the progressive radio talkers all of the time. This time, he just may have a point. If we're going to jump on conservative Glenn Beck for his comments about the California fires, we'd better do the same for those on the other side. You'll find audio clips, etc as he builds his case. For once, I must agree.
Tags: Glenn Beck, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy
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