If you were being waterboarded and you had to say you supported a particular Republican candidate, who would you vote for? (As an aside, I would personally rather deal with the waterboarding.)
President Bush’s Legacy
This great President will be remembered for his courageous decision to become an air traffic controller.
Hillary- Accomplished Woman, or Just Bill’s Bitty
John Hawkins, in a piece today proving that anyone can write for Townhall, takes on the Clagina and asks the following:
If a CEO of a fortune 500 company were to retire, would anyone seriously consider his wife to be an adequate replacement simply because she was married to him when he ran the company? What about a Super Bowl winning football team? What do you think the reaction of their fans would be if their coach’s wife was being seriously discussed as his replacement?
It sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Yet, Hillary Clinton has practically been anointed by the press and the punditocracy as our next President, despite the fact that her run at the presidency is almost entirely based on being Bill Clinton’s wife.
I am not going to say too much about this, because I am going to go out on a limb and bet this is one of the most widely cited stories by the end of the day. There is no need to point out Hillary’s long list of accomplishments, something I can acknowledge even though I really don’t like her much. I will, however, say this- Hawkins is on to something. If only more of us, a few years back, had asked the following:
“Just because someone is the President’s idiot son, does that mean he would make a good President?”
Clearly the answer is no.
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Beer Blogging: J.W. Dundee’s
I’ve always been a little embarrassed that I like J.W. Dundee’s. It’s a cheap ass beer. I bought a 12-pack today for 8 bucks. It included:
- IPA
- Amber Lager
- Honey Brown
- Pale Ale
- Hefe Weizen
- Pale Bock
With the exception of the Honey Brown, which I really hate and only drink because it’s part of the deal, I love them all, especially the Pale Bock (You may love the Brown. Just my taste.) I “interviewed” the owner of the liquor store today, and told him I loved this cheap beer. He asked me, “Have you ever seen a J.W. Dundee’s advertisement?” Of course, I had not. He told me that this is the only reason J.W. Dundee’s is $7.99 for a dozen. They don’t have an advertising budget.
Again, with the exception of the Honey Brown (in my opinion), it’s a pretty good brew all around. Check it out.
Family Issues
Buzzy and Cookie Krongard will have plenty to talk about over Thanksgiving dinner.
Our genius president really knows how to pick ’em.
And Now Time for Kvetching From “Teh Left”
I guess after the inevitable right-wing freak-out about Kos being hired by Newsweek, we need a mini freak-out about their decision to hire Rove. For balance, of course:
Newsweek magazine hiring Karl Rove to be a political commentator illustrates everything that is wrong with the corporate media system. Here is a guy whose scorched earth politics have left the nation reeling with ill effects and crippling divisions and he is rewarded with a prominent mouthpiece for his vitriol from one of the nation’s most widely circulated newsweeklies? Newsweek might as well give a column on the subject of humanitarian living to Charles Manson.
Newsweek thinks it will sell magazines. Hence, they hired him. Lesson over.
Can we leave the freaking out about stuff like this to the professionals? Like, say, Red State?
*** Update ***
Speak of the devil- the GREAT ORANGE SATAN, whose attention I so crave and desire according to my former friends on the right, has his first piece up in Newsweek.
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The Most Important Job In The Bush Administration
Now as always, the departmental Inspectors General:
IG investigators were astonished particularly by what transpired in the first ten days of [Maher] Arar’s detention. Well-defined procedures were not followed. The State Department was consciously kept out of the loop. Steps were taken to circumvent Arar’s rights, and particularly to guard against the prospect that a lawyer for Arar would challenge his highly dubious treatment through a habeas corpus proceeding. Who was at fault in this process? A group of very senior figures, mostly in the U.S. Department of Justice.
Justice Department figures, and particularly those who are fingered and criticized in the early drafts of the IG Report, have been frantic in their efforts to quash it. And they’re succeeding. That, I am told, is why the IG Report has not been finalized and transmitted to Congress.
Imagine the watershed if every one of these guys did their job.
Case in point, State IG Howard “family issues” Krongard. Somebody, please, try to defend this guy.
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