(Huge thank you to Kathryn in MA for sending along this adorable picture.)
– Our Blue America guest this weekend will be Charlie Brown from the CA-04. Please stop by and chat with Charlie at 11:00 am PT/2:00 pm ET. Thanks, Howie — can't wait!
– Crooks and Liars has an hilarious Daily Show clip, skewering the "Incredibly Awkward Situation Room." Too funny.
– Atrios points out that another $245 billion dollars is being poured down Bush's hole. Erm…that didn't come out right, did it?
– Well, this is good to know: "The Intelligence Community judges that the term "civil war" does not adequately capture the complexity of the conflict in Iraq, which includes extensive Shia-on-Shia violence, al-Qa’ida and Sunni insurgent attacks on Coalition forces, and widespread criminally motivated violence. Nonetheless, the term "civil war" accurately describes key elements of the Iraqi conflict, including the hardening of ethno-sectarian identities, a sea change in the character of the violence, ethno-sectarian mobilization, and population displacements…." Kind of makes the term F.U.B.A.R. seem a little quaint, doesn't it?
Gee, good thing the President wants to throw more soldiers at the increasingly horrific and out of control problem, huh? Because that's worked SO well thus far…well, not so much. Taylor has so much more. As does Juan Cole.
– The Muck has some quotes from the Hadley presser this afternoon. I watched part of it on C-Span, and the quote from the seemingly intellectually constipated Hadley that stuck in my mind was this: "the sectarian violence in Iraq has seemingly increased, and we need to get control of that." Um…yes, that would appear to be the case Mr. I Can't Brief Without My Note Cards. Jeebus, this one from the United States National Security Advisor really gets to the heart of why the Bush Administration's policies in Iraq have such long-term suckitude: "One of the things you should conclude from this NIE," Hadley said, "is the best plan is to have this plan succeed." Your national security policy, based on an Emily Dickenson poem. Great. Just great.
– The Young Turks had a fantastic interview with Sen. Russ Feingold on Wednesday, and they've got the whole thing up online if you missed it. It is well worth the listen.
– I don't know what it is about this post, but TBogg just never fails to make me laugh out loud.
– Jeralyn has some thoughts about The Scooter and Shrub Bus Tour.
– Skippy, just because.
– Jerome Armstrong over at MyDD has a campaigning update from the DNC winter meeting.
– Pam has some snazzy new digs. And First Draft has a new do as well. Nice!
– Poputonian, over at Digby's, manages to work the words Cheney, LaRouche and bedfellow into a single post. Be very afraid.
– Will Bunch is trying to break my heart with this picture.
– Wolcott gets to the bottom of "Play That Funky Music" Biden's gaffe — or not-so-gaffe — as the case may or may not be, dispatching the minor kerfuffle with the trademark Wolcott brevity of snark. Boo-yah!
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Well Hell,
FITZ!
Fitz!
Christy!
My Lady doth surf the web prodigiously!
“Coming to a country over there — Xtreeme Civil War!”
Think I could get a job messaging for this administration?
Why are people, supposedly sensible people, not the bottom of the barrel type, still enabling thises goofs?
I mean really.
The plan will work because it has to work? Who runs a country by magic thinking?
Bush’s plan should go forward because it’s the only one that even pretends a win can be pulled out of Iraq?
It’s over. You broke it, yes, but if we don’t get you out of there you’re in danger of wrecking the whole goddamn Pottery Barn!
Cinco
Friday!
That is an unfairly cute photo.
Christy,
Just happened to have watched the Daily Show clip a few minutes ago. It was funny and I really appreciated Ms. Gephardt and Stweart’s exchange. What is like to have a politician for a father? Was he born that way? The nails all got hit on the head with that video.
Yo! Go Colts!
Consortium News, which IMHO tends to be a little alarmist, had a good piece I read about how Bush is hiding the ball with Iran…putting all the pieces in place denying everything until…Anschluss anyone?
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/020207.html
“The Intelligence Community judges that the term “civil war” does not adequately capture the complexity of the conflict in Iraq,…”
Translation for SecDef Gates: Just because you have pneumonia and the flu doesn’t mean you don’t have pneumonia. And just because there’s more going on there than a civil war doesn’t mean “civil war” isn’t accurate.
“Almost four years into a war that should never have been fought in the first place, with all the evidence that anyone could ask for pointing to the fact that things are getting worse rather than better, senators are trying to muster the will to support a non-binding expression of mild distaste for President Bush’s troop surge fantasy.”
“Non-binding resolutions are the political equivalent of room-temperature tap water served up for toasts at a wedding reception. They beg the question: What the hell are these people thinking?”
Talk about not in touch:
Lawmakers square off on climate report
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a strongly worded global warming report from the world’s top climate scientists, the Bush administration expressed continued opposition Friday to mandatory reductions in heat-trapping “greenhouse” gases.
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman warned against “unintended consequences” — including job losses — that he said might result if the government requires economy-wide caps on carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.
‘Unintended consequences’ like large areas being flooded when sea level goes up?
Like the guys who’ve been telling us it isn’t real suddenly finding themselves in unemployment lines?
Like areas becoming too hot and dry for the farms they now have?
Like a whole lot of people dying, because we’ve screwed the ecology of the entire world?
Like completely new industries arising to provide pollution controls, with jobs that never existed before?
Twisted Martini @
11
From the comments on digby,this artical,and the other souces I have been reveiwing,we hit Iran..we are sooo screwed…
That it will be “life changeing” is bonechilling understatement.We will get to see what world war,hunger,and a great deppresion look like from the inside.
New stuff on the DOJ website..video clips and pdfs.
Latest from The Hill:
Clinton Promises to End War if Elected
WASHINGTON Feb 2, 2007 (AP)— Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she would not have attacked Iraq if she were president in 2002 and would end the war if elected, as she tried to blunt rivals like John Edwards who are stoking anti-war passions in the Democratic Party.
“Believe me, I understand the frustration and the outrage,” Clinton said in a speech to the Democratic National Committee meeting that brought the party’s nine White House hopefuls together for the first time.
“Understand”? She does?
Oklahoma kiddo @
17
Well, that’s nice.
P J Evans @ 14
And don’t figure the mass extinction of flora and fauna as their environments change too rapidly for them to evolve.
That’s “forget” not “figure.”
That photo is prejudicial to the puppy. When I see that photo I think the puppy destroyed the pillow. There is no way that puppy can get a fair trial at Firedoglake.
An Idiot is returning to his village:
From the AP:
If only dozens more of these people would leave.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 17
She wouldn’t have started the war, but she did vote to give Bush a blank check to do so.
Too little, too late.
AZ Matt @ 9
Yes, that was great. The Strom Thurmond analogy was just priceless.
Sparkles the Iguana @ 21
That puppy will be doing hard time real soon. It is time to solict millions for its legal defense team. Get the pup on Larry King for its side of the story. Probably a cat did it.
Oklahoma kiddo @
17
OTOH:
Calling Iran a danger to the U.S. and one of Israel’s greatest threats, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday no option can be taken off the table when dealing with that nation.
“U.S. policy must be clear and unequivocal: We cannot, we should not, we must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons,” the Democrat told a crowd of Israel supporters. “In dealing with this threat … no option can be taken off the table.”
Clinton spoke at a Manhattan dinner held by the largest pro-Israel lobbying group in the U.S., the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Some 1,700 supporters applauded as she cited her efforts on Israel’s behalf….
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/821284.html
Woo-hoo…Just got Marcy’s book…
The first blurb on the back jacket? “Marcy Wheeler has the deepest understanding of the betrayal of Valerie Plame Wilson’s CIA affliation of anybody I know, myself included…”
The author of that quote? Joe Wilson…
High praise indeed for our very own live blogging prodigy by a man who should know..
Sparkles the Iguana @ 21
You have admit the puppy is “Cuter than Scooter.” And if he IS a scooter, I’ll wager he scoots cuter than Scooter scoots.
Love the picture. My wire dachshunds also love to unstuff pillows. At this point if I forget to put them out of reach it is my fault.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 17
She is SUCH a disappointment.
Sparkles the Iguana @ 21
We don’t know whether the puppy caused the leak of the pillow’s secret ingredients. For all we know, the photographer is trying to throw this puppy under the bus. Kathryn?
AZ Matt @ 25
The evidence will show that the puppy was made a scapegoat for the cat.
mandrake @ 30
Hillary’s handling of this issue seems to me to be a likely capsule summary of how she would govern. Not pretty.
Scarecrow @ 31
I hope the pup was smart enough not to sass the FBI agents when they interviewed it.
From TPM:
Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash.
Saudi government officials deny that any money from their country is being sent to Iraqis fighting the government and the U.S.-led coalition.
But the U.S. Iraq Study Group report said Saudis are a source of funding for Sunni Arab insurgents. Several truck drivers interviewed by The Associated Press described carrying boxes of cash from Saudi Arabia into Iraq, money they said was headed for insurgents.
…
In one recent case, an Iraqi official said $25 million in Saudi money went to a top Iraqi Sunni cleric and was used to buy weapons, including Strela, a Russian shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile. The missiles were purchased from someone in Romania, apparently through the black market, he said.
So the Saudi Sunni are arming the Iraqi Sunni, who are killing about 80% of our soldiers. The Saudis get a pass. But the Iranian Shia, who are arming the Iraqi Shia, who kill about 20% of our soldiers, get irradiated this April? What a deal…
Ed*ard Teller @ 26
When I see stuff like this I question whether Senator Clinton if elected prez would be a seeker of a fair and just settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is at the core of Arab distaste for America and its ham-handed treatment of the situation.
ET @ 26:
I read that excerpt at Digby’s place and then went over to Hillary’s e-mail page and gave her a piece of my mind. She may be the ‘front runner’ at this point, but she’s not winning my vote. (And, in related news, saw the first ‘Hillary in 2008′ sticker this morning.)
DELBERT!
So, how do we find out how Marcy’s book is doing thus far?
I ordered my copy. Can’t wait to read it.
_
There will never be peace in the Middle East without a settlement of the Palestinian ‘question’. If it was right for Israel to be given a homeland in 1948, and I believe it was, then it is right that the Palestinians be granted a home of their own now.
The puppy is a hero! He smothered the explosion of a rightwinger’s head while reading Marcy’s trial transcript.
The puppy was looking for WMD’s.
A deal indeed. I still have not been able to wrap my mind around the fact that most of the September ‘01 hijackers were Saudi nationals, and yet we went after Iraq?
LindyH @ 16
Dang those clips are short. Some of them are 2 seconds. If I were a juror I’d be wondering what I wasn’t being shown.
BobbyG @ 39
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It’s been up and down, was under 300 a day or so ago.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 40
There will never be peace in the Middle East, period, I fear. Would the granting of a truly independent Palestinian state suffice to effectively neutralize the mutual/multi-way hair-trigger hatreds?
I am skeptical. We do have, to be fair, though, the example of Northern Ireland, I suppose. I never thought they’d give up the gun.
Dunno.
P J Evans @
14
Y’know, when Florida’s stupid enough to elect Jeb’s grandson as governor, that kid is going to plead with the Feds for $10 trillion to build a sea wall around the state.
The bill should go to Bodman, et al.
Come to think of it, if the Feds billed every stupid idea to the people who thought of them in the first place, we’d be in a budget surplus and the Washington elite would be dumpster-diving for McDonalds leftovers….
BobbyG @ 46
The impression here is we have to try.
In case it hasn’t been posted yet, the New York Times did the right thing today, correcting its erroneous statement yesterday about Judith Miller being under investigation by Fitzgerald in a case unrelated to the Libby trial. It will be interesting to see if this tidbit makes it into the trial record on Monday, since Wells characterized the NYT as “very reputable”.
I did e-mail the two reporters on the story yesterday pointing them to this blog’s quote of what Fitzgerald said (”inaccurate”), and one of them was kind enough to send me a reply pointing out today’s correction.
Bustednuckles @
42
Is that dog’s name “Walker”? I’ll bet it is.
W: “No dog bones here! Heh heh heh.” (smirk, slobber, bark)
Oklahoma kiddo @ 36
I just see repug lite w/a little social justice.If Ore. is safe,I will vote green
Before Bush came in, there was no Iraq war, Iran was not the issue it has become, and the Palestinians and Israelis were kept busy talking by Presidents Carter and Clinton.
Let’s just not get to the point where we have to discuss the puppy’s head in a meatgrinder.
I’m about half-way through State of Denial. While I realize each of Woodward’s sources has his own agenda (as does Mr. Wurlitzer himself), the thing that strikes me is the manner in which Cheney cherry-picked the Iraq intelligence. It wasn’t so much a parallel intelligence apparatus he was setting up. Instead he comes across as an Inspector Clouseau with his own amateurish screening of raw NSA intercepts. His writing out the talking points for dealing with the press comes across similarly–he is controlling yet over-his-head. The irony, per State of Denial, is that the worst sin, in Bush’s mind, is for someone to be a micromanager. Cheney is one, and Rumsfeld was one in spades.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 48
Why?
What? No SFZippergate links in this post, Christy?
More on Gavingate.
One woman’s perspective on Da Mayah.
the Dickinson poem reminds me of “Success”,an Edna St.Vincent Millay poem I memorized in 7th grade:
Success is counted sweetest
by those who ne’re succeed
to comprehend a nectar
requires sorest need
Not one of all the purple host
who took the flag today
can tell the definition
so clear of victory
As he defeated dying
on whose forbidden ear
the distant strains of triumph
break agonized and clear.
.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 48
One argument I read that makes sense intuitively is that, by establishing an independent Palestine, the new citizens thereof would then have real skin in the game, they’d have something precious and tangible to (easily) lose. They’d have to get on with the mundane bidness of civics and lose the Victimhoom mantle.
I agree that it should be tried. Just worry that there are too many all-or-thing go-for-broke hotheads in the region. I don’t recall any IRA suicide bombers.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 36 I think this all started when she considered running from NY for the Senate. I am sure she was told by advisors, Schumer, Lieberman et al that she couldn’t win in NY without A*PAC support. (I think that advice was bs) Her first sign of good faith was the Marc Rich Pardon,then strong support for Iraq war, and now “I’ll nuke Iran if you want me to.” This will cost her the presidency,IMHO.
TeddySanFran @ 55
I am so glad this dude is not my mayor. Daley has his flaws *corruption* *cough* but at least he keeps his trousers in the upright and zipped position.
Thread Theorist @ 49
Good, and they corrected the Fitzpatrick flub too. The dangers of reporting while intoxicated….
The puppy just arrived~Clinton did it!
Bizarre news! White stuff is falling from the sky. Looks like the feathers that adorable pup is pulling from the pillow.
Whatever can it be????
Hey I’m out tomorrow and will miss the Charlie Brown fest but I sent him some $. Hope it helps. [waves to Nate]
uncle toby @ 53
I read somewhere that Cheney actually got off easy in State of Denial, i.e., Woodward did not dig deep enough. Wish I could remember in what blog I read this. Was it Laura Rozen, War and Piece? Anybody know what I’m talking about?
Sparkles the Iguana @ 58
My wife and I been together for 33 years come March. I have been utterly faithful to my marriage vows. I am SO friggin’ boring.
I don’t get these cats. But then, I’m now at that age where a cigar is just a cigar, and when I go to Paris, it’s for the art and the architecture.
A lot of what passes for wisdom in this area is merely a function of being too tired.
_
Thank god it’s friday! Ok, what are we doin?
The view here is that maintaining the status quo won’t help bring peace between the two parties. Some argue the problem will continue to fester and the violence will only get worse.
ccmask at 65 — I have such a Friday treat coming up for everyone. It’s Friday, and I figured everyone could use a little laughter…and then after that, we have eRiposte. :)
Scarecrow @ 31
The puppy was simply recreating a scene dictated to him by Clifford the Red Dog. Tearing up that pillow was not indicative of the puppy’s state of mind or intention. He was simply creating a record of Clifford’s “suggestion.”
Well, I tell ya, I could use a good laugh. Although that Daily show one was a nice welcome laugh to start the weekend. I got my taxes done today and I am home from work and I have no plans but to blog and read Marcy’s book.
Tomorrow, I plan on going on a “Spotlight Marathon”…any ideas on which 3 would be best to spotlight?
That puppy can get down! I blame the pillow.
Christy, I just e-mailed a couple of photos to ya…)
Also Christy, I changed my email to go with my paypac account…I just realized that you may not have known I’ve been sending a little money because my email was different from what I’d been using here…
BobbyG @ 64
Sparkles the Iguana @ 58
TeddySanFran @ 55
What? No SFZippergate links in this post, Christy?
More on Gavingate.
One woman’s perspective on Da Mayah.
I am so glad this dude is not my mayor. Daley has his flaws *corruption* *cough* but at least he keeps his trousers in the upright and zipped position.
My wife and I been together for 33 years come March. I have been utterly faithful to my marriage vows. I am SO friggin’ boring.
I don’t get these cats. But then, I’m now at that age where a cigar is just a cigar, and when I go to Paris, it’s for the art and the architecture.
A lot of what passes for wisdom in this area is merely a function of being too tired.
_
BobbyG—
We have seen a photo of yr wife. OF COURSE you have been faithful to her, she’s totally gorgeous.
paypac=paypal
ccmask – The eRiposte post earlier this week was my spotlight favorite, so far.
BobbyG: you aren’t boring! You should be put on a pedestal.
ccmask @ 69
Scarecrow on the military situation.
msnbc on somebody’s father being on the Libby defense committee. sorry jetlag.
3? i’ll leave one for somebody else. so generous.
ccmask,
how are things going now for company?
Great Eureka. I was also thinking of spamming, I mean spotlighting the Marcy at PrettyMan yesterday. I like that one a lot. She is adorable! She comes off as so sincere and intelligent and way more beautiful than any other talking head I have seen in a very long time.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 74
I raise a toast
To eRiposte
He’s got the most
[muse ran out. what can i say.]
Tomorrow, I plan on going on a “Spotlight Marathon”…any ideas on which 3 would be best to spotlight?
I would suggest the three posts that list all the FDL posts about the Plame outing.
egregious @ 71
Thanks. Yeah, she’s still yummie hot at 57. It wuz love at first sight 33 years ago. I am blessed.
AZ MATT: Well, they didn’t get a raise and the owner will be back in town Monday. We had a trade show this week so we were a little too busy to dwell on the Team of 4, but next week we should have some fireworks! I’ll keep you all posted.
egregious: yes, the scarecrow post wrt the troops was another favorite. I wish I could write like that.
ccmask @ 82
I hope it all works out well for you.
Yeah, me too.
What time is the news dump truck scheduled to arrive? I hear it has a new pillow shredder attachment.
I also want to say how much I enjoyed Christy’s posts wrt the older columns of Janes and when Christy posted as reddhedd. I swear I was just laughing my butt off out loud. That Jane sure has a way with a keyboard. I kept thinking of Molly as I was reading them. Jane is a rip.
Sparkles the Iguana @
21
That is so true. I was suckered in.
Butttt….it sure is a cute puppy even if it laying in the midst of all that …. stuff.
O/T- Joke I got from my jazz guitarist pal Robert Conti:
_____
A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper has cheated him out of ten million bucks.
His bookkeeper is deaf and cannot speak. That was the reason he got the job in the first place. It was assumed that a deaf bookkeeper would not hear anything that he might have to testify about in court.
When the Godfather goes to confront the bookkeeper about his missing $10 million, he brings along his attorney, who knows sign language.
The Godfather tells the lawyer, “Ask him where the 10 million bucks he embezzled from me is.”
The attorney, using sign language, asks the bookkeeper where the money is.
The bookkeeper signs back: “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
The attorney tells the Godfather: “He says he doesn’t know what you’re talking about.”
The Godfather pulls out a pistol, puts it to the bookkeeper’s temple and says, “Ask him again!”
The attorney signs to the bookkeeper: “He’ll kill you if you don’t tell him!”
The bookkeeper signs back: “OK! You win! The money is in a brown briefcase, buried behind the shed in my cousin Enzo’s backyard in Queens !”
The Godfather asks the attorney: “Well, what’d he say?”
The attorney replies:
“He says you don’t have the fucking balls to pull the trigger.”
The polar bear pic was very sad indeed.
RBG, if yer lurkin’ about, you’ve got mail!
BobbyG @ 46
I’d suggest referring back to that academic article that showed that the most common thread in terrorism is that it is a response to military occupation. (I don’t have a link handy, but I could probably find it again.)
Long-running hatreds are generally overstated as a supposed motivation for war. Kinda like the wingnuts getting the cart before the horse and blaming our anger on “Bush hatred,” a lot of areas have different groups that don’t much like each other, but only flare up into major conflict over real grievances. If you have a real process for settling the grievances, you’ll probably have a generation who really hate each other and only a few who can’t abide by the resulting agreements, and with the next generation, the eternal hatred turns into people who can at least grudgingly live together unless they’re exploited by a demagogue. Northern Ireland isn’t an aberration.
Has anyone seen anything about all 49 Republicans threatening to filibuster the Levin-Warner or Warner-Levin compromise?
watertiger @ 90
Lol, Thanks for the reminder, I haven’t had gastric discomfort or an erection lasting four or more hours yet today!
*g*
I cannot believe these pictures coming in on the storm in Lake and Sumpter counties last night! What is worse for these people is the fact that there isn’t an election coming up so help may be slow. Two nights ago I brought all of my orchids in the house because I was afraid of a freeze, not storms. Geez, I had no idea this happened last night.
The argument is being made that Hillary is an economic populist because of her suggestion that if she were elected prez she would take a portion of oil company profits and place them in some kind of environmental program. I would have to ask the Senator, since she has very close ties to the DLC, if she considers this a populist organization.
OT – (whatever the topic is – heh) I have been wanting to ask if Monk ever finished the collage for Jane? If so, are we going to get to see it? Also – how is Jane getting to DC – is she able to fly?
curious minds want to know . . .
Good question Kathiein.
Kucinich is on Tucker now.
Bustednuckles @
94
I think I should resemble that remark…so just cuz I need to hear it right about now …bedlam is dreaming of rain.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 99
gawd! you are really trying to get me to tune in to that show. (must resist)
RBG,
Thats the header at Dependable Renegade.
I wish I was that clever.
http://www.dependablerenegade.com/
Bustednuckles @
102
Yep…I’ve suffered from head head banging on table envy for quite some time.
I voted last November for a certain ideology. I did not vote for compromise, Obama.
Sorry if this fly-by is a repeat…
commondreams.org has Molly tributes by Paul Krugman and Bill Moyers.
I would be willing to wager a hefty amount of puppy chips that Obama would gladly join up with Hillary as her VP candidate.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 101
You didn’t miss much (Tucker is hopeless) and dear little Kucinich bolted as fast as he could from the brief interview. KO is the only saving grace on MSMBC. Matthews is an embarrassment to his gender and the Irish.
Hillary says I would not have started this war. Well HRC, why did you vote for it and why aren’t you proposing in the senate to stop it?
Whoa..remember this idiot?
Defense Official Resigns Over Detainee Remarks
A senior Pentagon official resigned Friday over controversial remarks in which he criticized lawyers who represent terrorism suspects, the Defense Department said.
Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said Charles ”Cully” Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, told him on Friday that he had made his own decision to resign and was not asked to leave by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
npb – and little yellow birds..) BTW, Did you get my offer to send Chomsky if you cannot find it?
Eureka Springs, AR @ 106
In a heartbeat.
Tucker talks in circles and thinks that something about depth.
The way I figure it, if my guys (Dems) can’t stand up to the likes of Tucker and others, well…..
Eureka Springs, AR @ 106
You think? I’d like to think he would not. His greatest appeal IMHO is opposing the war. I’m holding out for a late Gore tossing his hat in the ring later this year and/or a grassroots pressure to draft him. Until then, to borrow punaise fine words: Accept No Substitute.
new thread
And I like to know what the opposition is up to. Too.
I would like to learn more about the drafting process. I just cannot allow myself to get excited about Gore since he claims he is not running.
He would be a fine president!
BobbyG @ 89
Ooooh 707!!!
I want a candidate who understands the anger of much of America at the Bush domestic programs, his environmental denial, and his lunatic foreign policies.
Christy:
What’s your take on Libby’s efforts to have the grand jury tapes that will be played to the jury sealed, so there is no public access to the recordings themselves?
Libby: Don’t Release Grand Jury Tapes
My brief research on CD Circuit law suggests that although Walton has the discretion to do that, the strong presumption is to allow public access and that he has to find a strong countervailing public interest compelling their being sealed. What that public interest could be is not clear to me. Seems like the public interest would be to treat them like the rest of the trial exhibits — part of the public court record. After all, it’s not as if reporters won’t hear them played and report on them using their note taking skills (though no one is as good as you all at FDL!)
Any prediction as to what Walton will do and whether a sealing order would hold up on appeal?
Oklahoma kiddo @
66
My two cents worth:
(and originally, I had a lot to say but decided this might be better)
A people subjected to occupation by another country (sound familiar?) are not going to be overly friendly to the occupying force. All humans deserve humane, respectful treatment. This currently is not happening in the Israeli-Palestinian region.
This is not an easy conflict to resolve, but neither is it one that should be abandoned each time one side “slips” in its efforts. And finally, the U.S. needs to quit taking sides and be a fair brokeer. I fear that for the last 6 years, this has not happened and it is to our detriment. More to the point, it is to the detriment of those in the region.
Prairie Sunshine @ 105
Bill Moyers is another of my heroes.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 110
So happy you asked – my local library hasn’t been able to get it for me through their request for inner/library loan and YES I would love to borrow your copy. Book rate postage is fine- never more than a day longer usually that first class usually. Many thanks! Address it to my P.O. Box 1914, Carmel, CA 93921.
I had hoped Marcy’s new book would be here by now but Amazon confirmed it had been shipped. Let me know if you want first dibs on it after I’ve read it and I’ll send it right out to you.
Been swamped catching up on neglected work from being glued to Marcy’s live blogging and afraid I’ll never get caught up with today’s posts and comments anytime soon.
Glad you asked about the collage – I was afraid I had missed it. Maybe he sent the original to Jane and is just waiting to confirm she got first dibs before posting it here. ;~)
Thoughts while watching the snow come down…
How come Rove isn’t on trial/indicted?
From the revelations to date, why isn’t the
press outraged and calling for impeachment…
Is the Congress listening to the trial?
In Fitz’s heart, he must be saying to himself
how in the fuck has my country got to this
low point?
Just a few questions, after having a few
Corona’s… and thinking what a wonderful site we have in FDL…
Thanks,
Jack
A cross-post from the HuffPo:
Brent Budowsky’s article: The Cheney Trial within The Libby Trial
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..40305.html
Brent says plea bargains may be on the way that could leave ‘Shooter’ holding the wrong end of the gun.
If anyone thinks ‘Civil War’ is an inadequate description for the Iraqi situation, you might try ‘failed state,’ ‘warlord government’ or ‘anarchy.’
hey thanks for the link, christy. i’m especially excited at all the work on the mooninites over boston story i’ve done this week.
remember, when cartoon characters no longer bring major metropolitan centers to a complete stand still, the terrorists have won.
How Libby heard about Plame:, via CCR
Heard it through the grapevine