When you get done calling me an asshole in one of the earlier “Hanoi Jane” threads (that ought to get the party started- after all, us “Red State Racists” have to leave Dick Cheney’s bunker ever now and then to call a liberal a traitor), the hunt for WMD in IRaq has begun anew, and …
Archives for March 2006
Andrew Card Has Resigned
My first thought was- “Things can’t really get any worse, so who cares?” And that is all I have to say about that, although it will be amusing to watch the usual suspects speculating why he left and trying to find a scandal.
RIP Lynn Nofziger, Erma Byrd
Two notable deaths this week that should be at least mentioned in passing. First, Reagan aide and friend Lyn Nofziger has died: Lyn Nofziger, a longtime adviser and strategist to U.S. President Ronald Reagan, has died at his Falls Church, Va., home at the age of 81. Nofziger began his time at Reagan’s side to …
WooHoo!
Wanker of the day award from Atrios! As a wanker eevery day, Atrios surely is in a position to judge. And Jane continues to call everyone in sight a racist. Wankers and racists- everyone of us! This is the angry left- the Jane Hamsher’s and Duncan Black’s of the party are the ones half you …
Is Rove Roving The Veep?
Via Raw Story, headlines that tingle your nethers: Rove said cooperating in CIA leak inquiry Apparently the steady drip of Cheney-centered WH leaks came from Rove. Like every internet scoop I strongly recommend that you take the Raw Story piece with an appropriately-sized brick of salt. So with my enthusiasm appropriately tempered, I still found …
Tomorrow’s Alt-History Today
Greg Djerejian has useful commentary fueled by Josh Marshall’s observation that Dan Senor, former CPA spokesman, lately seems to be phoning it in from some alternate universe where nothing whatsoever has gone wrong in Iraq: Given the horrific sectarian murders underway in many parts of Iraq, I found this glibness rather astounding and nausea-inducing. It …
Saturday Open Thread
Some stories just make you shake your head: ETA’s Ceasefire may Leave Guards Without Job We never think very much about the downside to global harmony. Why not? Defense contractors got families to feed. Some third-world kids would starve if they didn’t have jobs making cheap AK47 knockoffs. Peace doesn’t sound like such a great …