How many Bush Admin officials does it take to Change a Lightbulb?
From John Cleese (!) via William Gibson (!!)How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb? None. There's nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change...
View ArticleImportant: need research - Bush's Deficit-cutting plan fraud
Okay, here's the scoop. Background: Bush's plan to cut the deficit in half - which he promoted during the debates, has been verrrry quiet about since, but has never backed down from - was always smoke...
View ArticleIF your diary post is humor or joke, title should SAY SO!!! (joke)
Please, I beg of you... Kos is loading slowly - lots of info is flying around - and it's not always possible to load your diary entry to learn that in fact Fox News has NOT called the election for...
View ArticleRay of hope...
I've been seriously thinking of moving back to Canada. Or fleeing further.... like Thailand. On the other hand... go see the movie "Ray", about the life of Ray Charles. It puts things in perspective a...
View ArticleNominate Wes Clark: Yes, No, or Maybe
Dvd Avins postedThe poll system at Daily Kos is too limited, because we can only choose one answer to one question. I think we'd benefit from knowing more about how we collectively feel about the...
View ArticleIran: Another Neocon Stupid Idea
There have been two big "WTF are they thinking" questions at the center of our current mideast strategy:Since they're Iran's natural allies, why are we in bed with the Iraqi Shiite Arabs?What on Earth...
View ArticleLibby Trial: Our Broken Government
It's hard to begin to describe the depths of what's wrong here.Marcy Wheeler continues her brilliant livebloggingof the Libby trial. On the stand today: John Hannah, National Security Advisor to VP...
View ArticleHave dinner with Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame
Oooh, I like this...The Robert Kennedy Foundation is holding its celebrity auction, with bidding to close on April 6th.Plamegate junkie that I am, my favorite would have to be dinner with Joe Wilson...
View ArticleWow. WaPo on USAgate - best story yet!
Wow. An actual piece of journalism, in which the WaPo's Dan Eggan draws in background info and compares Whitehouse cant with self-contradictory statements they have been making!A half-dozen sitting...
View ArticleFinancial Times gets the Goods on Wolfowitz
The Financial Times has been all over the Wolfowitz story, and now they've got details on just how bad it was.It turns out that not only did he do an end run around the World Bank's ethics committee,...
View ArticleWolfowitz & World Bank: It's all about Iraq
It shouldn't come as a huge surprise, but the current scandal that might sink Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank is actually a sideshow to the real issue. His sweetheart, big-bucks deal for his...
View ArticleCA-04: Doolittle's home raided by FBI
(From the diaries. Democrat Charlie Brown came close to taking out Doolittle in 2006. I suspect one way or another, Doolittle will no longer be in Congress in 2009 -- kos)Remember how Doolittle's top...
View ArticleWhite House backs off from Wolfowitz support!
The London Times is reporting that the White House is selecting candidates to replace Wolfowitz!The future of Paul Wolfowitz... was in further jeopardy last night after it emerged that the White House...
View ArticleWolfowitz guilty of conflict, rules violations (with updates)
... The World Bank report is out, and it's a doozie. No wonder the Bush Admin tried to block its release(thanks, Polticalrecluse).The meat: The Ad Hoc Group concludes that the President placed himself...
View ArticleRNC email dump: Rove Kids deep in USAgate
Hoo boy. And it's not even Friday yet.Looks like our friends in the White House just found some more emails. These are RNC server emails, and show that Rove's top aids, Sarah Taylor and Scott Jennings,...
View ArticleAid to Pakistan: Not One Dime for Common Sense
The US reputation, in both the mid-east and the world as a whole, is terrible.But look - we have a chance to redeem ourselves! A killer typhoon has hit Pakistan, 1.5 million people were affected, with...
View ArticlePower of the Purse: Just as good as Executive Power
This (via TPM), from today's hearing on Libby Clemency: Republicans angrily derided the hearing as a partisan stunt that could accomplish nothing, since the president has inherent constitutional...
View ArticleNY Times: FISA law was a wider power grab
Remember how Bush rammed through a FISA reform bill in just five days? Remember how just when the Dems thought they had a deal Lucy - er, Bush - pulled the football? Remember how there wasn't enough...
View ArticleHyping al Qaeda in Iraq, The Anbar Awakening and the Surge
The administration is trotting out a shiny new narrative on Iraq: Petraus's Anbar Awakening has brought around the Sunni Tribes, who are now our allies in a battle against the wicked excesses of Al...
View ArticleMore Doolittle Subpoenas!
The Sacramento Bee and the AP (via TPM) are reporting more subpoenas for CA-R Congressman John Doolittle.Rep. John Doolittle said Thursday that the Justice Department has issued subpoenas to him and...
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