It’s been a fairly eventful afternoon for the purge scandal; let’s consider the latest news. * Bush is scheduled to address the controversy at 5:45pm (eastern). CNN reports, however, that we shouldn’t expect too much in the way of actual news: “What is expected from the president is that he will say that Attorney General […]
The Bush gang has been mulling over whether to let Karl Rove and Harriet Miers talk to lawmakers about the prosecutor purge scandal. This afternoon, the White House announced its response. The White House will allow the president’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, and former White House counsel Harriet Miers to be interviewed by congressional […]
The notion that the Bush gang is running some kind of Manchurian White House, intentionally undermining the United States on our enemies’ behalf, is not entirely new. In 2004, Doonesbury had an amusing item, explaining that Bush’s presidency had united the Muslim world against the United States, inspired a new generation of future terrorists with […]
Here’s an odd thought I’ve been mulling over: Dick Cheney’s name hasn’t come up at all throughout the entire prosecutor purge scandal. No one has suggested he orchestrated the firings; there haven’t been any obvious references to the Office of the Vice President in any of the emails or related documents; and there doesn’t seem […]
The WaPo’s Richard Cohen addressed the controversy today over whether the lives of troops killed in Iraq have been “wasted,” a word used in this context by both John McCain (R) and Barack Obama (D). In analyzing recent events, however, Cohen’s memory of the last five weeks is faulty. McCain used the “W” word when […]
Almost two years ago, in June 2005, the New York Times uncovered the fact that the White House hired [tag]Philip Cooney[/tag], a former lobbyist for the [tag]American Petroleum Institute[/tag], to be chief of staff of the president’s [tag]Council on Environmental Quality[/tag]. As part of his responsibilities, Cooney re-wrote government reports on [tag]global warming[/tag], editing out […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney seems to have annoyed an important GOP constituency: Cubans in Miami. Romney inadvertently associated a notorious Fidel Castro-spewed Communist catch phrase with freedom fighters, describing the socialist […]
Obviously, the writing is on the [tag]Attorney General[/tag]’s wall. [tag]Tony Snow[/tag] would only say yesterday that [tag]White House[/tag] officials “hope” Gonzales stays on. There are multiple reports this morning that the search is already on for a new AG, and a list of possible replacements is already being floated, presumably as a trial balloon. But […]
Over the weekend, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) offered a new complaint about the purge scandal that seems to be a new GOP favorite. “When the leader of the effort on the judiciary committee is the leader of the Democratic Senatorial campaign Committee, Chuck Schumer, I think it undermines the legitimacy of a legitimate inquiry…. Senator […]
Thousands of pages of documents were released by the Justice Department last night, and no one has yet been able to read them all. [tag]Purge[/tag]-related revelations of varying significance will probably come to public light throughout the day, if not the week. But at the outset, there’s one message that seems to stand out. [tag]Attorney […]