Never mind that Dick Cheney is favorably regarded by only about a third of Americans. To this crowd, in this place, he is a rock star.Drape Bush and Cheney across every Republican candidate this year. Make them come out of the closet as true Bush/Cheney devotees. Read the rest of this post...
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Saturday, August 05, 2006
Cheney is the GOP "Rock Star"
All you need to know about those Republican candidates trying to distance themselves from Bush is that they think Cheney is a "rock star" according to the Associated Press:
Saturday Evening Open Thread
It has been amazing to watch the DC-based punditry freak out over the campaign in Connecticut. Voters, real voters, actual people, are going to decide Joe Lieberman's future on Tuesday. In this election, voters are actually voting on issues and their beliefs. They're not being swayed by negative campaigns. They're deciding on the things that matter. What a concept. I think it's called democracy.
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GOPers devising strategies to pretend they're not Bush Republicans
Republican candidates across the country are trying to devise clever ways to distance themselves from Bush this year. The Washington Post explains how Jim Talent in Missouri and Mark Kennedy in Minnesota are cooking up schemes to pretend they're not Bush clones:
Fired-Up Missouri created their own response for Talent who voted with Bush 94% of the time. Read the rest of this post...
These Republicans have hardly broken with Bush. Talent and Kennedy, after all, have invited him into their states this year to help raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for their campaigns. But their tactics are representative of the diverse ways, large and small, that Republican candidates are trying to put distance between themselves and the president and his most unpopular policies.Talent and Kennedy are responsible for Bush's unpopular policies. They voted for them. They made Bush who he is. And they should suffer the consequences at the ballot box in November.
Fired-Up Missouri created their own response for Talent who voted with Bush 94% of the time. Read the rest of this post...
Update on Lieberman vs. Lamont race in Connecticut on Tuesday
It ain't looking good for Lieberman. BUT, over-confidence could cost Lamont at the polls. Folks need to vote.
There are a couple of great posts on the race from DemFromCt at DailyKos here and here. Read the rest of this post...
There are a couple of great posts on the race from DemFromCt at DailyKos here and here. Read the rest of this post...
LOL Bush's summer reading list
Why does the media even print these things? No one seriously believes Bush is reading books about Lincoln and polio.
Let's come up with our own list - what is Bush REALLY reading during his summer break? Read the rest of this post...
Let's come up with our own list - what is Bush REALLY reading during his summer break? Read the rest of this post...
Eiffel Tower prints now available
Some of you asked if I'd offer prints for sale of my Eiffel Tower photo I took two days ago in Paris. I've prepared them in the AMERICAblog shop - an entire range of framed prints, posters in various sizes, and t-shirts (and a bit more).
And we've got a new bumper sticker:
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9/11 Commissioners Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton failed America
Congratulations, America. You wanted your heroes, and you go 'em.
We now learn that the 9/11 Commission couldn't get the information it needed from Rudy Giuliani because newspaper editorials criticized the commission for asking tough questions of NYC's firefighters and police. You see, the firemen and the police were heroes, so we don't get to ask them tough questions that might help us avoid a future terrorist attack, or at least respond to it better - you see, that just wouldn't be "nice." Oh no. In Soviet America, we just tell the cops and firemen how great they are, rather than get the information we need to save another, oh, 3,000 lives.
We learn all of this via a new book from the co-chairs of the 9/11 commission, a Republican and a Democrat. They tell us the commission was stymied on a number of fronts by the Bush administration as well.
Well here's a thought. Rather than telling us this in a book years too late, why didn't the book's authors stand up at the time and make a difference when it mattered?
Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton didn't seem to have a problem when the commission was still active. They didn't have a problem writing a final report that they now claim might be a wee bit wrong. Oh no. Rather than going public at the time in order to get the answers we needed to stop the next big one, these guys sucked it up, like all good Washington politicos do, and basically fed America a load of crap in their final analysis and recommendations, simply because they felt it was better to get some final report, any final report.
What is the difference between what Kean and Hamilton are telling us in their book today, and what, say, Jayson Blair did in his tell-all book about his plagiarizing days at the New York Times? We didn't believe a thing Blair told us in his book because he was a proven liar. Why should believe Kean and Hamilton now, or at the very least have any respect for them, when they tell us that they basically sold us out in the final 9/11 report because they didn't have the backbone to do anything about it when it mattered? Now, that it's too late, they're coming clean? In August, no less, when the press is on vacation, along with all of Washington and most of America?
Real profile in courage, guys. Read the rest of this post...
We now learn that the 9/11 Commission couldn't get the information it needed from Rudy Giuliani because newspaper editorials criticized the commission for asking tough questions of NYC's firefighters and police. You see, the firemen and the police were heroes, so we don't get to ask them tough questions that might help us avoid a future terrorist attack, or at least respond to it better - you see, that just wouldn't be "nice." Oh no. In Soviet America, we just tell the cops and firemen how great they are, rather than get the information we need to save another, oh, 3,000 lives.
We learn all of this via a new book from the co-chairs of the 9/11 commission, a Republican and a Democrat. They tell us the commission was stymied on a number of fronts by the Bush administration as well.
Well here's a thought. Rather than telling us this in a book years too late, why didn't the book's authors stand up at the time and make a difference when it mattered?
Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton didn't seem to have a problem when the commission was still active. They didn't have a problem writing a final report that they now claim might be a wee bit wrong. Oh no. Rather than going public at the time in order to get the answers we needed to stop the next big one, these guys sucked it up, like all good Washington politicos do, and basically fed America a load of crap in their final analysis and recommendations, simply because they felt it was better to get some final report, any final report.
What is the difference between what Kean and Hamilton are telling us in their book today, and what, say, Jayson Blair did in his tell-all book about his plagiarizing days at the New York Times? We didn't believe a thing Blair told us in his book because he was a proven liar. Why should believe Kean and Hamilton now, or at the very least have any respect for them, when they tell us that they basically sold us out in the final 9/11 report because they didn't have the backbone to do anything about it when it mattered? Now, that it's too late, they're coming clean? In August, no less, when the press is on vacation, along with all of Washington and most of America?
Real profile in courage, guys. Read the rest of this post...
Surprise! Pentagon exonerates itself for lying to 9/11 Commission
More than a few dead Soviet leaders are smiling in their graves. This is disgusting.
Seriously, Kean and Hamilton failed us all. They need to do a lot more than write a book (see upcoming post) to atone for the travesty they tacitly sanctioned. Read the rest of this post...
There is no evidence that senior Pentagon commanders intentionally provided false testimony to about the military's actions on the morning of the September 11 attacks, according to a report by the Defense Department's watchdog agency cited in the New York Times on Saturday.Let's all thank Thomas Kean, Lee Hamilton and the rest of the 9/11 Commission for not taking a public stand against the Pentagon's lying when it really mattered, before their final report came out. Is there any surprise that the same Pentagon that sold us WMD and "Iraq is going swell!" is now lying about, well, lying?
The Pentagon's office of inspector general said the Defense Department's initial inaccurate accounts could be attributed largely to poor record-keeping, the newspaper said in an article on its Web site, citing the newly released report.
Seriously, Kean and Hamilton failed us all. They need to do a lot more than write a book (see upcoming post) to atone for the travesty they tacitly sanctioned. Read the rest of this post...
Open thread
My weatherbug tells me it's 74 in DC right now. Joe will be pleased when he wakes up.
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