By SusanUnPC on Sep 30, 2007 in Bush/Cheney, Counterterrorism, Republicans | 22 Comments
We’ve seen the decimation of critical federal agencies like the DOJ and agency missions of the FDA, CPSC, and EPA (see TPM today on Bush letting polluters off the hook). But the FBI? Somehow this important Seattle P.I. story fell through the cracks of the blogosphere on Sept. 27, but you need to know — [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 29, 2007 in Bush/Cheney, Intelligence, Iraq | 37 Comments
Last Thursday, Larry Johnson participated in a symposium at American University with Sam Provance, Dan Ellsberg, Ann Wright, Coleen Rowley, Bob Parry, Akbar Ahmed, Peter Kuznick, Edward Mortimer, Max Friedman, Ray McGovern, and David Swanson. The video and transcript (only of Ellsberg) are now available. David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org described the impact of the powerful [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 28, 2007 in Afghanistan, Iraq, Soldiers/Veterans | 17 Comments
Take this, Rush Limbaugh: And there’s a great letter to VoteVets.org supports from our friend Brandon Friedman (aka “Angry Rakkasan”):
By SusanUnPC on Sep 27, 2007 in Iraq | 44 Comments
(Photo link/story.) Couldn’t resist … Okay, BACK TO BUSINESS: Moses is upgrading our software. He plans to start on Saturday night just before midnight ET. For an hour or so, the blog will be down. While he’s at work, you’ll see a page telling you the blog is undergoing maintenance. :::::::::: Just in (and it’s [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 27, 2007 in Bush/Cheney, Iraq | 12 Comments
Sameer Lalwani writes for The Washington Note (Steve Clemons’ blog) — and I’ve added the intro to Juan Cole’s piece below: Juan Cole has picked up stories from Reuters and Harpers on a transcript of President Bush’s conversation with Spanish President Aznar that confirms that he had no intention of seriously pursuing UN Security Council [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 27, 2007 in Bush/Cheney, Health Care | 12 Comments
The Democrats have persevered, despite threats by President Bush to veto the expansion of SCHIP provisions to bring more children on board for basic health care, and now a number of Republicans have joined them. ThinkProgress has video of conservative Kansas senator Pat Roberts, “one of the 18 Republican senators to vote for the compromise [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 26, 2007 in Current Affairs | 64 Comments
Every time I say something nice about Chris Matthews, I quickly live to regret it. After condemning the fearful, shoddy treatment of Ahmadinejad Monday, Matthews spent Tuesday mocking Bush’s mention of Myanmar’s crisis, repeatedly saying Americans don’t know about it or care. Well, some of us do. (Besides, to learn about the monks’ marches, the [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 26, 2007 in Current Affairs, Iran | 42 Comments
In “Bed-wetter Nation,” his commentary for CommonSense, a project of TomPaine.com, Rick Perlstein wonders, given the treatment of Ahmadinejad this week, if — these days — “when a bad guy crosses our threshhold, America becomes a pants-piddling mess.” [W]hat is conservative rule doing to our nation’s soul? How is it rewiring our hearts and minds? [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 25, 2007 in Bush/Cheney, Iran | 21 Comments
Sept. 26 UPDATE: Toned-Down Measure Passes: “The Kyl-Lieberman amendment, in substantially revised form, passed 76-22. The most egregious saber-rattling language was removed. We’ll have more soon on TPMtv.” Late Sept. 25 UPDATE: “Due to the still outstanding concerns raised over the amendment, [Majority Leader Harry] Reid announced this evening on the Senate floor that Lieberman-Kyl [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 24, 2007 in Bush/Cheney, Gen. David Petraeus, Iraq | 19 Comments
UPDATE: I fixed the blog clock to reflect Eastern Standard Time, which means that your new comments will appear towards the top of the thread. Last night, I cracked open the Sept. 24 issue of The New Yorker my daughter brought me. Every time I spot a commentary by Steve Coll in a New Yorker [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 23, 2007 in Current Affairs, Environment | 32 Comments
Did you know that Taters is a highly accomplished professional musician? I asked him to write about his life: Hi, my name is Bobby Murray, aka taters. I’m a musician and I play guitar. I’ve been with Etta James (whom I adore) for almost 20 years now, since ’88. We just got off the road, [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 22, 2007 in Advertising | 36 Comments
I love mentally engrossing movies, great TV dramas, and widgets I can program (and Amazon has lots of those). Here’s a new widget from Amazon that lets me show off the movies, TV shows and one documentary that I love. I was especially excited to discover today that we can buy the brilliant documentary, The [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 21, 2007 in Bush/Cheney, Current Affairs, Iraq | 16 Comments
The following, which reflects the deeply knowledgeable views of Thomas Ricks, Washington Post reporter and author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, left me somber and sad. It’s been on my mind, that we’ll be in Iraq for many years. And that, no matter what presidential candidates may promise, they won’t be able [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 20, 2007 in Current Affairs, Democrats, Republicans, Soldiers/Veterans | 55 Comments
The GOP’s Base Moves: It’s clear the GOP will make the most base moves to secure votes from the GOP base before the primaries. Let’s play too. TPM’s David Kurtz writes this morning: “After blocking measures on habeas corpus and Iraq yesterday, Senate Republicans will seek to condemn MoveOn’s Petraeus ad today. Sen. Barbara Boxer [...]
By SusanUnPC on Sep 19, 2007 in Bush/Cheney, Iran, Iraq | 53 Comments
(WTF? Now the Senate wants to pass a bill praising Petraeus and condemning MoveOn’s NYT ad?… Sen. Cornball (Cornyn) is promoting the bill. Yes, I’m still listening to C-Span2.) BACK ON TOPIC NOW: My daughter knows Steve Clemons and received this mailing list note from him today about the reaction to his op-ed in today’s [...]
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