All of the papers are reporting today that the nation’s most criminally corrupt public official — House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — was admonished again by the House Ethics Committee yesterday. Most outlets report that this was the second time DeLay has been busted in the last six days — an unprecedented feat, to be […]
I found this entire paragraph hilarious. “Look, the decision’s been made that the president just isn’t going to get into an introspective mode of ‘we could have done this better,’ ” said one administration official who sat in on many of the campaign’s strategy meetings. Such concessions, the official said, would “play right into” Mr. […]
Noted, without comment, from ABC News: At a town meeting in Miami, Vice President Cheney responded to the Duelfer report saying that the “headlines all say no weapons of mass destruction, no stockpile in Iraq, but we already knew that,” reports ABC’s Karen Travers. (that sound you hear is me banging my head against my […]
I keep hoping someone will talk to the Republican base and force them to write, “I will stop giving Michael Moore free publicity” 100 times on the chalkboard. They clearly don’t understand that their anti-Moore efforts always — always — backfire. The latest GOP effort is a call to arrest Moore for offering free underwear […]
Any reasonable person might assume that the Duelfer report would be hard to spin. Not only did Iraq not have weapons of mass destruction at the time of our invasion, but Saddam Hussein hasn’t had anything in the way nuclear, biological, or chemical programs for many years. There were, to borrow a phrase, “program activities” […]
The Bush campaign saw this as a time for action. Their guy had tanked in a national debate, the polls were slipping, the war in Iraq is getting worse, violence in Afghanistan is increasing, and their opponent is getting stronger as time goes on. It was time, the campaign told everyone, for a “significant speech.” […]
Just to add a bit to yesterday’s list of lies from the VP debate, I’ve since found a few more of Dick Cheney’s whoppers. “Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I’m up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they’re in session.” No, he’s not. In […]
The Bush campaign has been focusing on an argument about expanding international support in Iraq that sounds kind of logical at first blush, but falls apart upon further inspection. Bush laid out this line of reasoning last week and Cheney follow up on the same point last night. In the last debate, for example, Bush […]
In case there was any doubt, there’s a startling difference between Ayad Allawi’s rhetoric when Bush officials are writing his remarks and when he’s speaking on his own. One is dishonest, the other true. One is embarrassingly wrong, the other sobering but accurate. At the White House for a campaign stop, I mean, diplomatic event […]
No wonder Bush seemed particularly uncomfortable today on the campaign stump. It’s not about the debates or the polls; it’s about reality constantly seeping in and making him look bad. Yesterday, it was Paul Bremmer announcing that America “paid a big price” as for Bush’s poor pre-invasion planning in Iraq. Today, it’s the Duelfer report. […]