Washington Republicans: Looks like MSNBC correspondent David Shuster may have deprived loyal MSNBC viewers of their favorite GOP talking heads — at least for now. This week, the MSNBC reporter “sandbagged” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) during an interview by asking her to name the last solider from her district to die in Iraq. After she …
Archives for September 2007
Open Thread
Big game tonight for the Eers! Important Piece of Trivia About Your Host: I was recently (an hour ago) caught singing along to Huey Lewis in the grocery store. I have no shame.
Taking The War Very Seriously
Everybody knows that Republicans care terribly deeply about American kids fighting and dying in Iraq and would never, ever consider putting their political interests ahead of the brave young men whom they sent to war. That is why the following stories seem so jarringly strange. One, via Josh Marshall: For three months now, Sanchez has …
Shorter Weekly Standard
Context is for when our guys say stupid things. *** Update *** Now it is viral.
More Adventures In Oversight
Another batch of Sergeant Schutzes uncovered, this time at the FDA. In a report due to be released Friday, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, Daniel R. Levinson, said federal health officials did not know how many clinical trials were being conducted, audited fewer than 1 percent of the testing …
Domestic Surveillance
Imagine how amused I am watching Captain Ed and alleged libertarian McQ get upset about this story: Starting today, state Department of Revenue agents will begin stopping Tennessee motorists spotted buying large quantities of cigarettes in border states, then charging them with a crime and, in some cases, seizing their cars. Critics say the new …
Our Proud Governmental Oversight Corps
Facing a contracting embarrassment of abu Ghraib proportions, the State Department needs a credible oversight team now more than ever. Too bad for them the current Inspector General, Howard J. Krongard, already pulled up the drawbridge against accusations of fraud, corruption, mismanagement and (not kidding) slavery. An article in today’s WaPo covers that ground again, …