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. […]
Usually, when Bush is speaking from a script, he’s less inclined to make nonsensical arguments. When he’s giving a “significant speech,” as the White House described today’s speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Bush is usually on the top of his game. But Bush’s primary argument today — that John Kerry is wrong about Iraq — was […]
I’m beginning to think the Bush campaign just can’t think of a good response to the charges that the administration let Osama bin Laden slip through our grasp at Tora Bora. Kerry hammered away at this last week and Edwards followed up last night. “[W]e had Osama bin Laden cornered at Tora Bora. We had […]