I’m glad the president has hit it off with German Chancellor [tag]Angela Merkel[/tag], but I really wish [tag]Bush[/tag] knew well enough to avoid describing others’ souls. President George W. Bush said on Sunday he gained a glimpse into German Chancellor Angela [tag]Merkel[/tag]’s soul when they met in Washington last week. Bush told ARD television that […]
Let’s see, who believes it’s a bad idea for Air Force Gen. [tag]Michael Hayden[/tag] to replace [tag]Porter Goss[/tag] as the [tag]CIA[/tag] director? Well, there are congressional [tag]Republicans[/tag]… “I do believe he is the wrong person, the wrong place, at the wrong time,” Representative [tag]Peter Hoekstra[/tag], a Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, […]
When asked before the 2004 election about his biggest mistake, [tag]Bush[/tag] couldn’t think of anything. Asked over the weekend about his [tag]best moment[/tag] in office, the [tag]president[/tag] seemed to have trouble again. During his more than five years in office, Bush has traveled the world’s most impressive cities, met with world leaders and entertained celebrities. […]
Just to let readers know, a couple of Carpetbagger regulars have informed me of some of recent successes that I thought I’d pass on. First, Russ Krauss, whom many of you know as “hark” from the comments section, had a terrific short story published in the current issue of Peridot Books. Be sure to take […]
Are we near the tipping point on the Republicans’ “culture of corruption” story? Have we passed it? * CIA Director Porter Goss resigned suddenly Friday, a move than may have been driven, in part, by his connection to Kyle “Dusty” Foggo (who is now facing a criminal investigation of his own) and the Brent Wilkes/Duke […]
So, why did [tag]Porter Goss[/tag] resign yesterday? As of this morning… * The NYT said [tag]Goss[/tag]’ departure “was hastened because a recent inquiry by the [tag]President[/tag]’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board had found that current and former agency officers were sharply critical of Mr. Goss’s leadership.” It added that the resignation “occurs amid an investigation into […]
By any reasonable standard, Porter Goss was an awful, almost embarrassing, choice to be the director of the CIA. His limited tenure was, as Spencer Ackerman noted, marred by the near-total collapse of the agency, as Goss helped turn it into little more than an appendage of the White House. Worse, Goss drove the CIA’s […]
First up from the [tag]God[/tag] machine this week is a follow-up story about the annual National Day of Prayer “holiday,” on which I had an item on Thursday, and the religious right’s idea about how best to promote the event. NEXTEL CUP Driver Kenny Wallace is scheduled to drive the National Day of Prayer car […]
Guest Post by Morbo Tearing apart David Brooks’ asinine columns in The New York Times is never a challenge, but Thursday’s was especially child’s play in one regard. Brooks attacked Kevin Phillips’s best-seller American Theocracy, writing in part: Needless to say, Phillips’s book is rife with bizarre assertions. He writes that “many Orthodox Jewish females […]
Guest Post by Morbo I’m used to reading poll results that fill me with despair. More than half of Americans do not believe in evolution. Significant numbers think a UFO crashed near Roswell, N.M., in 1947 and space aliens were recovered. More than 30 percent of the population still thinks President George W. Bush is […]