The Only Answer: More, More, More
Caught in abuse of power after abuse of power, the Bush White House responds with ludicrous wishful thinking. Let’s get rid of oversight completely, and immunize our corporate cronies while we’re at it!
All Things Considered, April 20, 2007 · The Bush administration calls for changes to the FISA law — the 1970s-era legislation that gives [...]
An Army of Mum
My Army put a lid on media investigations into the death of Spec. Pat Tillman, which we now know to have been due to friendly fire:
For example, the day after Tillman died, Spc. Jade Lane lay in a hospital bed in Afghanistan, recovering from gunshot wounds inflicted by the same fellow Rangers who had shot [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed
The Daily Show’s Larry Wilmore and John Oliver investigate the use of the N-word.
His Own Worst Enemy
With respect to Attorney General Gonzales’ congressional testimony yesterday, the New York Times’ editorial page calls it:
If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it’s hard to imagine how he could have done a better job, short of simply admitting the obvious: [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“No more of these vain parleys.” —Two Noble Kinsmen, 3.3.10
Gratuitous Video Feed (Serpentine Edition)
Guns ‘N’ Roses: “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
Congress Buckling on Iraq Timetable
Scandal after flub after disaster hasn’t diluted the resolve of Da Prez. Congress may hold the purse strings, but they fear being labeled as obstructionist, or accepting blame for Bush’s loss of the war in Iraq:
Congressional Democratic leaders are moving to make their proposed timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq “advisory” as they seek [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“You recount your sorrows to a stone.”
—Titus Andronicus, 3.1.29
White House Directly Obstructing Congress
White House staffers’ e-mails using their Republican National Committee accounts are of obvious interest to Rep. John Conyers as his House Judiciary Committee investigates the firings of several US Attorneys. The White House, though, has ordered the RNC to withold this evidence from Congress:
The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“The devil a Puritan that he is, or any thing constantly,
but a time-pleaser, an affectioned ass, that cons state
without book, and utters it by great swarths: the best
persuaded of himself, so crammed (as he thinks) with
excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all that
look on him love him.” —Twelfth Night, 2.3.146-51
