In the News Archive

Reading the newspapers.

• In the News

  I’m a little slow today. I’m using Internet Explorer. – Republican Chuck Hagel on 2008: “The Republican Party has won two elections on the issue of fear and terrorism. [It's] going to try again.” Although we knew that already. (By way of The Huffington Post.) – Republican Tom Davis on Bush’s last months in office: [...]

• In the News

  - A bill that would allow the children of illegal aliens that have excelled in high school to be exempt from deportation if they go to college is being considered in the Senate. This is what we are waiting for, sensible immigration policy. Alas, the right are calling it “amnesty.” Amnesty is “an act of [...]

• In the News… Quote Me.

  Thought I’d go two days without an in the news… – Rudy Giuliani’s new campaign slogan: “I’m probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world.” Better than the last one. – Defense Secretary Robert Gates on the Iraq war: “If I’d known then what I know now, would I have [...]

• In the News… Again.

  - Markos (of DailyKos) turned down a meeting with Bill Clinton, because he “had better things to do with [his] time.” That’s dumb. I’ve got better things to do than blog, but I still do it. (What am I saying? No I don’t.) – Bush really wants a speedy confirmation of his newly-appointed attorney general. [...]

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  - Former Federal Reserve Chairmen Alan Greenspan on the economics of the Iraq war: “I have never heard them [President Bush and Vice President Cheney] basically say, ‘We’ve got to protect the oil supplies of the world,’ but that would have been my motive.” Mine too; it’s the only logical reason. – I’m thinking Bush [...]

• In the News

  - MoveOn.org apparently paid less for ad space in the New York Times than conservative groups. This has upset the conservatives to no end, and they “demand the same ad rate [that MoveOn.org] paid.” Someone get a textbook, teach the conservatives the laws of supply and demand. – Speaking of MoveOn.org’s now infamous ad — [...]

• In the News… A Hard Place.

  - General Petraeus on whether the Iraq war is making the U.S. safer: “I don’t know, actually.” And to say that on the anniversary of nine-eleven. – Bush’s plan to stay the course “would leave approximately 130,000 U.S. troops on the ground by August 2008, roughly the same level that existed before Bush ordered the [...]

• In the News… 499 Days.

  - Leave it to outspoken Senator (and democratic candidate for president) Joe Biden to summarize the reality on Meet the Press: “This president has no plan — how to win and/or how to leave.“ – Edwards and Richardson both say that their cabinets would include at least one republican. Isn’t that adorable; their acting as [...]

• In the News

  - The economy lost a few thousand jobs this past month, even though economists “were forecasting payrolls to grow by 110,000.” (Just more proof that economists don’t know anything.) – Does anyone else think that a Google phone’s OS would consist of several blue links over a white background, and maybe a revolving logo around [...]

• In the News… Ron Paul Video.

  - If the parental-notification for under-18 tanning bill is signed by Schwarzenegger, I’d sell all my stock in tanning salons, if I had any. A silly law, but I can see the point. – Senate Democrats will be considering alternatives in their attempts to end the war (and get GOP support for it). Alternatives, what [...]

• In the News

  - An independent report to Congress concludes that the Iraqi Security Force “is ‘operationally ineffective’ and should be disbanded and reorganized.” Wait until September… oh shit. – Bush has no love in Congress as has “prevailed on only 14 percent of the 76 roll call votes on which he took a clear position,” the lowest [...]

• In the News

  - A GOP double-standard? “It’s easier to ask Larry Craig to resign because he’d be replaced by a Republican.“ – Bush is now hinting towards troop withdrawals. Bush must have received an advance copy of Petraeus’ thesis statement. – A startup is inventing an electric car that would allow “a motorist [to] plug in a [...]

• In the News… Short And Sweet!!!

  - No more snowballing the press. Back to Fox News, I guess. – Senate democrats are looking to regain their footing on ending the war in Iraq. Where have the democrats been on the Iraq war issue? Oh yea, all over the place. – Google’s attempts to use San Francisco as a testing ground for [...]

• In the News

  - Republicans are looking to rid themselves of Senator Larry Craig. (Is it because he was arrested, or because he may be a closeted gay man?) – Bush is a polarizing president, even more than Ronald Reagan, mainly because “Bush has from the beginning governed as if he had a broad conservative mandate.” While Bush [...]

• In the News

  - I understand John Edwards’ point — it is important to drive fuel-efficient vehicles, carpool, take public transportation — however, how am I supposed to go camping, or skiing, up in Tahoe without my SUV? – The long, slow death of Senator Larry Craig’s political career is underway. Would it have been a lesser issue [...]

• In the News… Quotes.

  - New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg on the vice presidency: “I have no interest in doing that.” Dick Cheney does. – Little “immature acts” Mike Vick: “Through this situation [of being prosecuted for killing dogs] I found Jesus and asked him for forgiveness and turned my life over to God. And I think that’s the [...]

• In the News… There Goes Fredo.

  - Yass, yass, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned. Let’s move on, people, nothing to see here. – The democrats may have some power to wield in Gonzales’ replacement. Let’s just hope it’s someone who understands the Constitution. (A lesson brought up in the MSNBC article, however not articulated, was that the last time a [...]

• In the News… Extended.

  - Has Senator Clinton been knighted as the nominee? “Hillary Clinton has acquired a near-lock on the Democratic establishment in the nation’s capital.“ – The left-wing blogosphere has, again, “declared political war against centrist Democrats,” and I will not partake. I do not support the Iraq war, but these democratic representatives were duly elected. – [...]

• In the News

  - John Edwards is using the Rove-Clinton sparring to his advantage, or he is at least trying to. (I’m warming up to Edwards.) – Fred Thompson — who is not even in the goddamn race yet — is taking shots at Rudy Giuliani by “criticizing New York gun laws,” which is a weird angle, since [...]

• In the News

  - The president feels free to compare the Iraq war quagmire with the Vietnam war quagmire since he hasn’t sacrificed in either. – Google will finally introduce ads to YouTube, which only makes financial sense, really. – A CIA report says that former director and Presidential Medal of Honor recipient George Tenet “held accountable for [...]

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