And it’s looking pretty damned familiar. Today’s piece by Peter Canellos [Boston Globe] via [TPM] takes a look at some putrid rhetoric being dragged out and reheated for America. One hopes fewer people will gobble it up this time and ask for more.
Former New York mayor Rudolph Guiliani asserted, in response to a [...]
Sweet. [TPMCafe]
“This country is united in our support for our troops, but we also owe them a plan to relieve them of the burden of policing someone else’s civil war. Governor Romney and Senator McCain clearly believe the course we are on in Iraq is working, but I do not.
And if there ever was [...]
NewsMax described Ann Romney as “an outdoors woman bred to be an equestrian” who has a “good carriage, rosy complexion, square jaw, and blond mane,” then later scrubbed the description— without informing its readers. The Newsmax reporter is the same person who recently raved about Mitt Romney’s “sensational good looks”: “Women - who will play [...]
Looks like the Minutemen are having some issues.
“Simcox has been under fire from MCDC chapter leaders and rank-and-file members since last summer, when he began refusing to account for the $1.6 million to $1.8 million in private donations he said MCDC had raised by the end of May 2006. That sum included $600,000 for the [...]
Well, looks like Shrubbo’s planning to put more troops in harm’s way than he wants us to know.
[San Francisco Chronicle] via [CommonDreams]
“I miss Mommie. She called from Fla. — will be home tomorrow nite.” Or this, while on a 1986 visit to Tokyo without her: “Another fabulous suite at Hotel Okura — actually a penthouse…. Dinner alone in my suite. I’ll be glad when Nancy joins me. CNN has an English language channel in Japan. I [...]
How important will the good-ol’-boy image be to Fred Dalton Thompson’s presidential bid? Important enough to lease a beat-up old Chevy (again), and drive the last quarter mile to campaign stops in it? I hope so, because that would be hilarious. [The Carpetbagger Report]
Actually, it will be a bit of a relief to [...]
In response to the former President’s criticisms of the current administration:
“Yes, George W. Bush and his whole family are very respected, even popular, with the man on the street in China. It is a country he visited as a teenager and a country that respects both he and his father. China is the largest nation [...]
Yeah. Let’s hope it’s AG’s curtain call.
President Bush is restating his support for his embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who may face a vote of no-confidence in the Senate as soon as this week. Two Democrats have introduced a companion measure in the House.
President Bush says any vote by Congress to express its lack [...]
Seems that most prominent GOP-ers wouldn’t be caught dead at Falwell’s funeral tomorrow. The White House will send a “mid-level aide.”
GOP notables to miss Falwell rites
