Sam Gardiner, a retired Air Force colonel who has taught strategy and military operations at the National War College, Air War College and Naval War College, had a good item in Salon yesterday, which included an interesting observation. The White House Web site also reflects the strategy of withholding information. It used to actively provide […]
Slate’s Eric Umansky went through today’s papers this morning, as he does every day, and made an interesting observation: About 30 Iraqis were killed and 150 wounded in two car bombings and a battle with U.S. forces in Baghdad’s Sadr City. One GI was killed in that fighting and two were killed elsewhere. [No paper […]
I realize that this is hardly a political story, and as such is non-traditional Carpetbagger material, but it deals with Congress, a GOP office, and a damn amusing story, so let’s make an exception. Roll Call reported the other day that an intern in Rep. Phil English’s (R-Pa.) office lost her job when she was […]
It seems Ralph Nader’s campaign is not quite the well-oiled machine it would need to be to help achieve its goal: help Bush win a second term. The campaign is not only struggling to make the ballot in key states, it doesn’t even have the money it needs to mount a credible effort. Ralph Nader, […]
This quote, brought to my attention by my friend DD, is almost too funny to be real. [CBS News’] investigation may not satisfy critics, who have already called for anchorman Dan Rather and Heyward to step down. Heyward has said he wants to see the panel’s investigation before making any personnel decisions. “A strong leader […]
It’s an election year, and no one wants to be against tax cuts with just 40 days before voters go to the polls, so Congress passed a new round of tax cuts yesterday at a price of almost $146 billion. Putting aside efforts to control the federal deficit before the elections, Republican and Democratic leaders […]
CBS News was so excited about its report featuring fraudulent documents a couple of weeks ago that it bumped another interesting item slated for the same episode. Proving once and for all that irony is far from dead, the bumped story was a half-hour segment about how the Bush administration was duped by forged documents […]
It’s bad enough that the Bush administration has been caught literally taking coal industry language — word for word — and using it for new EPA regulations on mercury emissions. But it’s so much worse that it’s happened three times. For the third time, environmental advocates have discovered passages in the Bush administration’s proposal for […]
As part of my ongoing fascination with the Bush campaign’s efforts to limit presidential event audiences to loyal sycophants, I enjoyed seeing an article from Maine (brought to my attention by BW) about how the Bush campaign is combining many of their most offensive practices. We’ve seen, for example, that the campaign will carefully control […]
So Bush trudged up to New York yesterday for his every-September trek to the United Nations, but, alas, his speech was just more of the same. Though he was speaking to an international audience of world leaders and diplomats, Bush spoke right past them to try and score a few points for his election efforts. […]