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Still two blogads available on the right, or you could just go here:
Thank goodness I start teaching in two weeks.
by John Cole| 3 Comments
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Josh Marshall continues his one-man jihad against the Bush administration, once again trying to pin the blame for the whole Plame leak on President Bush:
President Bush could make it known either implicitly or explicitly that he wants to get to the bottom of this mystery and that anyone who is asked should free journalists in the way Libby has. If they don’t feel they can do so — which is certainly their right, working in the White House doesn’t mean you lose your right to defend yourself — they should take a leave of absence from their job or quit….
Needless to say, I’m not holding my breath waiting for this to happen. But let’s not lose sight of the president’s passivity and indifference to this probe. He’s dragging the country through this. And the reason, I think, is obvious. He doesn’t want the probe to succeed.
Or Bush could do the appropriate thing, which is to stay the hell out of the way of the investigation. Is there ANYONE who doubts that if Bush did anything to involve himself in the case, Marshall would not then immediately accuse him of a cover-up or improperly meddling with and impeding the investigation? Anyone?
I thought so. Also, I love the rhetoric:
He’s dragging the country through this.
Yes, indeed- President Bush is indeed dragging us through this long national nightmare known as the Plame investigation. The horrors of it all.
Our long national nightmare will be over when the world stops paying attention to people like Josh.
by John Cole| 3 Comments
This post is in: Democratic Stupidity
It takes a special form of narcissism to elevate union political activity to ‘hero’ status, but the Democrats are just the guys to do it.
Thank goodness for the almighty SEIU heroes for taking up the valiant cause of fighting evil.
At any rate, if you want to see some real heroes, go here.
by John Cole| 4 Comments
This post is in: Politics
Global emissions are now rising about 2 percent annually.
The only way to reduce them sharply is to have a worldwide cooperative plan to do so. The Kyoto protocol, negotiated in 1997, was one plan. But it would not have actually reduced greenhouse emissions. They would have continued rising even if the United States had adopted Kyoto. Undermining Kyoto’s effectiveness was the unwillingness of most developing countries — prominently China and India — to join. With mass poverty, they’re more interested in faster economic growth than in slower global warming.
Their refusal was one reason the Senate would never have ratified Kyoto. In 1997 senators passed a resolution 95 to 0 disapproving the Kyoto approach. The other reason is that even modest reductions in U.S. greenhouse gases might result in higher energy prices, more regulations, slower economic growth or all three.
While this won’t keep the usual supects (Democrats) from lying about Bush killing Kyoto, it is nice to see the record set straight again. No matter how often they try to lie about Kyoto, remember- George Bush did not kill Kyoto.
He simply had the common decency to provide the treaty with a proper burial.
by John Cole| 11 Comments
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Hugh Hewitt interviewed Steve Gardner, and finally (FINALLY!), someone addresses the idiotic ‘served with’ talking points I have been bitching about for a week:
HH: Last night on the Daily Show on Comedy Central, Jon Stewart, the host, said this about the book that is coming about by John O’Neill: There are powerful indictments, or rather it would be had any of those guys served on Kerry’s boat,. By saying ‘with him’ they mean they were in Vietnam at the same time. Kind of the same way Snoopy served with the Red Baron. How do you respond to that?
SG: Well, on any movement we would do, we are talking four or five boats going in on an engagement, we were always within 50 or 75 yards of each other. And to be perfectly honest about it, if you were to look at an overview, if your were looking for an overview of a situation, you were better off being on another boat and looking at the rest of the other boats.
Finally.
And these pictures (from Q and O) don’t help Kerry’s idiotic defense.
The ‘served with’ canard, in Haiku form:
“Not on the same boat,”
the pundits cry. Their mission:
redefine “served with.”
by John Cole| 6 Comments
This post is in: Sports
At the Kerry Spot, I see Jim Geraghty tryingto make the case that Tereza Heinz Kerry simply does not belong on the campaign trail, and he offers this anecdote as evidence:
I realize most Kerry Spot readers, including the most important one named Mom, cannot stand Teresa Heinz Kerry. But I hear stories like this, or her comment about how she roots for the Pittsburgh Steelers while in Cleveland (garnering boos from Browns fans), and I just feel bad for her. This poor woman does not belong anywhere near the campaign trail.
I don’t know Geraghty’s background, but it is clear he does not understand some fundamentals about Pittsburgh:
A.) For a ‘Burgh native, it is a capital offense to fail to root for the Steelers when they are playing the Browns.
B.) Should a ‘Burgh native not only fail to root for the Steelers, but, *SHUDDER*, root for the Browns, the Death Penalty becomes an option.
Tereza may have been a bad campaigner when failing to root for the Browns, but she was just doing her loyal duty and fulfilling her obligations as a Pittsburgh native. It really is that simple.
BTW- the Steelers home field is Heinz field.
by John Cole| 18 Comments
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How desperate are the Democrats when confronted with Kerry’s possible lying nuance about Cambodia? Enough so to run this picture from the Yale yearbook showing Bush playing Rugby:
Our intrepid partisan then notes:
As long as we’re re-examining the 1960s, looking for signs of character, trying to decide if a man who volunteered for combat and was decorated five times was more or less courageous than a guy who didn’t even show up for his own medical exam… here’s George W. Bush during his college days, hitting a fellow sportsman in the face.
Bwahahaha. Sorry. I am laughing too hard to type. Bush was rough during rugby in college, so therefore questioning Kerry’s character is not important and he did not lie about anything in Vietnam. But then there is this:
Dem presidential candidate John Kerry called his secret service agent a “son of a bitch” after the agent inadvertently moved into his path during a ski mishap in Idaho, sending Kerry falling into the snow.
When asked a moment later about the incident by a reporter on the ski run, Kerry said sharply, “I don’t fall down,” the “son of a b*itch knocked me over.”
The Secret Service agent in question has complained about Kerry’s treatment, top sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
And why does it matter so, Mr. Harris?
The point about Kerry’s Cambodia service is the context of his claim. He did not simply inflate his service record. He used the claim as a club to bludgeon supporters of Reagan’s Nicaragua policy. Nicaragua = Viet Nam. Reagan = Nixon. Support for the Contras = John Kerry sent to Cambodia by his duplicitous government. His indignation gave him not the moral high ground, but an amazing simulation. In 1986 that was all he needed to put defenders of Reagan’s policies on the defensive. If his claim to Cambodia service is false it reveals a particularly repugnant form of cynicism. If he can’t prove his claim, it speaks very badly indeed for his political character.
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