Sorry for the lack of posts, but I am on spring Break and Tim is lazy busy. BTW- I have been watching the Wire again while working out (the only thing that keeps me in that torture device exercise bike is a good show), and I had forgotten how good the show really is. I …
Archives for March 2007
Pants On Fire
Let’s stipulate that in any normal administration AG Gonzales would have committed the firing error weeks ago. To be fair, in a normal administration the idea a president tapping his own lawyer as AG would have been a firing error in itself. Recall the endless hysterics from rightwingers over Janet Reno’s insufficient independence. Where have …
The Tim F. Theory Of Government And Everything
As told by David Ignatius. The Bush political operatives have become the people the Republicans once warned the country against — a club of insiders who seem to think that they’re better than other folks. They are so contemptuous of government and the public servants who populate it that they have been unable to govern …
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Spectering Like It’s 1999 2005
Poor Arlen Specter. He isn’t in charge any more so his old tactic doesn’t have quite the same punch. As it turned out, the Senate judiciary committee didn’t really want to think about the FBI, either. So the senators hijacked their own hearing and talked about the pending subpoena showdown instead. A constitutional crisis pretty …
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Open Thread
The weather is crappy out, and I feel like death because of it. For some reason, anytime it is overcast and muggy and raining, I now get sinus headaches. Wunderbar. I want to be 12 again.
Edwards
I can’t be the only one to think it was a little bizarre that Edwards called a press conference to let us know that his campaign will continue on uninterrupted. At any rate, the juxtaposition is still pretty clear- Any time his wife needs him, Edwards will be by her side. Newt Gingrich bailed on …
Open Thread
Because I can.