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Bush/GOP Sweetheart: 11/5 - Unnamed State Bushavik
2007-11-05 12:49:00 Rice was in Istanbul, Turkey, attending an international conference on Iraq when her attention was shifted to the upheaval in Pakistan. One adviser traveling with Rice saw a silver lining in the rapid turn of events. "Thank heavens for small favors," the official said. Compared to Pakistan, "Iraq looks pretty good."... [emphasis added] Inserted from Only a true Bush /GOP More About: State , Thea
Open Thread: Mon., 11/5/2007
2007-11-05 12:03:00 I will be out at a meeting all morning, but hopw to catch up this afternoon. Today's question: How do you see the coming developments in the Pakistan crisis? OR... What's new? Today in history: On Nov. 5, 1968, Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace. Today's absolute disgust: Today's humor: Bush More About: Open , Thread
The Pakistan Crisis
2007-11-04 13:12:00 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf suspended Pakistan's constitution and deployed troops in the capital Saturday, declaring that rising Islamic extremism had forced him to take emergency measures. He also replaced the chief justice and blacked out the independent media that refused to support him. Authorities began rounding up opposition politicians, cut phone lines in More About: Crisis , Cris
Bill Maher: New Rules - 11/3/2007
2007-11-04 12:41:00 Bill is uncommonly funny in this one. More About: Bill Maher , Rules , Bill
This Week in God
2007-11-04 12:30:00 First up from The God Machine this week is a disconcerting story about religious congressional pork-barrel spending. It’s been a fairly big issue for a while, but as desperate lawmakers hope to curry favor with religious groups, the amount of taxpayer dollars that are ending up in collection plates keeps getting bigger. The NYT reported back in May that from 1989 to January 2007, Congress More About: Week
New Facts on US Health Care
2007-11-04 12:13:00 A new study from the Commonwealth Fund highlights once again problems throughout the U.S. health care system—problems that progressives, the U.S. business community, and the American people all recognize despite desperate conservative efforts to demonize any and all universal health care proposals. The new study compares our health care system’s performance to that of other developed countries. More About: Health , Facts , Health Care , Care , Heal
Bush/GOP Outsource Waterboarding
2007-11-04 11:57:00 Concerned about its legal liability for violating U.S. and international laws, the Bush Administration has decided to outsource waterboarding and similar torture to Disney’s new Water-Boarding Theme Park. Called Terrorist Lagoon, the park will be devoted to enhanced interrogation techniques that clearly violate the Geneva Convention. However, Disney contends that it is a sovereign state that More About: Waterboarding
Open Thread: Sun., 11/4/2007
2007-11-04 11:03:00 I finally caught up on visits yesterday. Dang! Hopefully this week will not be so bad, but it may be Tuesday before I make rounds again. Today's question: Did you remember to fall back? OR... What's up? Today in history: On Nov. 4, 1979, the Iranian hostage crisis began as militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran. Today's humor: Naughty Bush Photographs More About: Open , Thread
Peace of Jerusalem or More GOP/Theocon War?
2007-11-03 14:26:00 Utopian fantasies have long transfixed the human race. Yet today a much rarer fantasy has become popular in the United States. Millions of Americans, the richest people in history, have a death wish. They are the new "Armageddonites," fundamentalist evangelicals who have moved from forecasting Armageddon to actually trying to bring it about. Most journalists find it difficult to take seriously More About: Peace , Jerusalem , Theo
Piling on? The Politics of Division
2007-11-03 13:33:00 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said yesterday her male opponents "piled on" during a debate this week in Philadelphia because of her front-runner status, not her gender. "I don't think they piled on me because I'm a woman," she said in an interview. "I think they piled on me because I was winning." She said she expects similar incidents will happen "again and again and again More About: Politics , Division , Politic
Subpoenas for Rice/Officials in AIPAC Trial
2007-11-03 13:13:00 Secretary of State Rice , President Bush's national security adviser, and 13 other current and former government officials will be required to testify as defense witnesses at the upcoming trial of two pro-Israel lobbyists for trafficking in classified information, a federal judge ruled today. Judge Thomas Ellis III ruled that the two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs More About: Trial , Subpoenas
Two Key Dems Goose-Step with the Reich
2007-11-03 12:57:00 WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 — The confirmation of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general appeared to be all but certain on Friday after two key Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee announced they would support the nomination despite complaints over Mr. Mukasey’s refusal to clarify his views on what amounts to torture. The announcements by the senators, Dianne Feinstein of California and Charles E More About: Goose , Step , Reich
Big Trouble in Motor City
2007-11-03 12:44:00 Statement of Robert Shull, Deputy Director of Auto Safety and Regulatory Policy at Public Citizen The news that Vice President Dick Cheney has held more backdoor meetings with the auto industry to discuss energy policy is bad news for everyone. According to today’s Detroit News, Cheney met recently with the CEOs of Chrysler and Ford to discuss mounting pressure on Capitol Hill for energy More About: Motor , City
Giuliani’s Dream VP
2007-11-03 12:35:00 In a radio interview with “The Big Picture on the Radio Show” on South Carolina’s ETV Radio, Rudy Giuliani talked about how he plans to choose his vice president: I would want a vice president who was a partner. Someone who was in on everything that was going on, so that that person could take over if, God forbid, something happened. […] How do you pick a vice president? … I think Vice More About: Dream
Bush Bashing Bloggers - Week 8
2007-10-30 14:04:00 Here a your scores and standings after another wonderful week of beautiful Bush bashing. Congrats to Dusty's Bako Bombers for her 100+ score. Please include a ;-) in your trash talking, so nobody takes it seriously. More About: Bloggers , Week , Bash
Celebrating 37,000 Visitors!
2007-10-30 13:56:00 Yesterday morning our 37,000th visitor dropped stealthily, perhaps to see if I had accused her of being blonde, and made herself an official Politics Plus Bush Buster, for an amazing sixth time!! She's still a pretty remarkable person who relishes fine literature and artworks of the great masters, understands Einstein, and gets herself into trouble on a delightfully regular basis, in addition More About: Visitors
One year ago: Democrats Critical of New Medicare Guide
2007-10-30 13:47:00 It is indeed ironic that one year ago today, when I posted this, the Democrats were opposing Big Health Care, but today, they're taking Big Healthcare money.WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 — Congressional Democrats say a new government publication being sent to all Medicare beneficiaries inappropriately favors private insurance plans over the traditional government-run program. The publication, the 2007 More About: Guide , Year , Rats
Moyers: When the President Does It, That Means It's Not Illegal
2007-10-30 13:43:00 Bill Moyers looks at the undoing of Congress’ checks and balances put in place following the Church Committee hearings and the unprecedented expansion of Executive authority in the wake of 9-11. You can watch the entire episode online here... Inserted from Here is a nine minute except. Spend the time to watch it. More About: President , Illegal , The President , Resident , Not I
Why the 'Rockies of Ages' Lost the Series
2007-10-30 13:14:00 If you haven’t heard by now, the official team of Jesus, the Colorado Rockies , against all Biblical odds, were swept in the World Serie s by the Boston Red Sox. As highlighted at One Good Move, the Rockies have become baseball’s equivalent of the Bush Justice Department — recruiting “holy rollers” to take their turn at bat with the Lord. But contrary to popular perception, their defeat was not More About: Lost , Erie
Feds Frisk Finns
2007-10-30 13:06:00 When three of Finland's most popular musicians, including one described as that country's Bruce Springsteen, arrived for a recent tour in Minnesota, they expected a quick trip through airport customs. Instead, immigration agents at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport subjected them to more than two hours of interrogation that the musicians considered so harsh and demeaning that they
Tancredo Won't Seek House Seat
2007-10-30 12:57:00 DENVER -- Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo said Monday he will not seek re-election to his Colorado seat in the House in 2008. He will continue his long-shot bid for the White House. The five-term lawmaker said illegal immigration, his core issue, now has national prominence and he doesn't need to remain in Congress to promote it. "The issue now has a life of its own and it More About: Seat , Seek
Open Thread: Tue., 10/30/2007
2007-10-30 12:15:00 Yesterday when I returned home, I tried to visit blogs. On the second, my computer froze, and after I rebooted and tried again, I knew that something was terribly wrong. On a recommendation from PC World, I had tried a new firewall application called Commodo, which offers some unique features. Big mistake. The firewall allowed an apparently random attack to dump a major load of malware on my More About: Open , Thread
Krugman: Fearing Fear Itself
2007-10-29 13:55:00 ...Today, many of the men who hope to be the next president — including all of the candidates with a significant chance of receiving the Republican nomination — have made unreasoning, unjustified terror the centerpiece of their campaigns. Consider, for a moment, the implications of the fact that Rudy Giuliani is taking foreign policy advice from Norman Podhoretz, who wants us to start bombing More About: Fear
One Year Ago: NYT Endorses Lamont
2007-10-29 13:45:00 This is what I said a year ago today. Admittedly, this was not rocket science, but most of the MSM disagreed with this. Has history proved me right or what? .....Mr. Lieberman has changed his tone but not his underlying conviction that he has been right all along. He and Mr. Bush are still on the very same page, encouraging the American people to believe that there is a happy ending for More About: Year , Mont
Celebration 36,000 Visitors!
2007-10-29 13:14:00 Yesterday our 36,000th visitor dropped in to leave "linky love" (which I first mistakenly read as kinky love and thought HUH?? ). In the process she made herself an official Politics Plus Bush Buster. She's a relative newcomer, but she has contributed well with comments that are invariably on the mark. From all I can see, she is a positive force for change, reflected in her blog which you More About: Celebration , Visitors
IED Fraud: Bush/GOP Bogus on Bombs!
2007-10-29 13:02:00 WASHINGTON - When the United States military command accused the Iranian Quds Force in January of providing the armor-piercing EFPs (explosively formed penetrators) that were killing US troops, it knew that Iraqi machine shops had been producing their own EFPs for years, a review of the historical record of evidence on EFPs in Iraq shows. The record also shows that the US command had More About: Bush , Fraud , Bombs
Big Health Care Bets on Democrats
2007-10-29 12:42:00 WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 — In a reversal from past election cycles, Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry, even as the leading Democrats in the field offer proposals that have caused deep anxiety in some of its sectors. Hospitals, drug makers, doctors and insurers gave candidates in both parties more than $11 million in the first More About: Health , Health Care , Care , Bets
Giuliani and Executive Power
2007-10-29 12:28:00 David Greenberg is absolutely right to see in Giuliani an approach to government as illiberal, as secretive and as dictatorial as Dick Cheney: Beyond religious issues, a second conservative trait defined Giuliani's tenure: his Cheney-esque appetite for executive power. In 1999, for example, he directed (without the City Council's permission) the police to permanently confiscate the cars of More About: Power , Executive
Dollar to Dive
2007-10-29 12:15:00 Washington, Oct 27 (Prensa Latina) IMF (International Monetary Fund) director, Rodrigo Rato, forecast that the dollar is due for a disorganized and pronounced fall. In declarations to the press, Rato said that the greenback may continue to fall rapidly, which, he added, would complicate the credit crisis in the United States. Rato said there was a possibility of a worldwide recession in 2008 More About: Dollar , Dive , Doll
Open Thread: Mon., 10/29/2007
More articles from this author:2007-10-29 11:27:00 Yesterday I got tied up in computer maintenance, trying to figure out who hit the thousands post, and on the phone with friends, so I got no visiting in. I'll be out all morning, but will try to catch up some this afternoon. Today's question: What is the most important general topic for politics plus to cover? OR... OGIM!! How will you survive Monday? Today in history: On Oct. 29, 1929, stock More About: Open , Thread 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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