Comments on: Republican Governors: ready for prime time?

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:38:03 +0000

Mr. Malcolm at the LA Times

I clicked on the link to read the entire story and wondered how someone could be such an idiot. Then I saw his bio: “former press secretary to Laura Bush.”

By: Apphouse50

Apphouse50 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:53:48 +0000

She can read to Trig and Piper at bedtime from The War over Iraq: Saddam’s Tyranny and America’s Mission and lullaby Trig to sleep with “Anchored Down in Anchorage:”

Hey Chel you know it’s kinda funny
Texas always seems so big
But you know you’re in the largest State in the Union
When you’re anchored down in Anchorage

By: dmac

dmac — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:32:13 +0000

Sources close to Palin say she will continue to study national issues–including foreign policy and national security–so that she will be in a better position to talk about them in the future.

can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

By: dmac

dmac — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:29:03 +0000

from the post–

No matter who else may ~~desert~~ deserve her, though, the Weekly Standard has a candle burning in the window for Governor Palin. Mr. Kristol, ever a fan of politicians who govern with their intestines, is hopeful about her future, and the party’s

By: BargainCountertenor

BargainCountertenor — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:27:06 +0000

I think that if the history is ever really known, it’s going to be shown to be a confluence of things.

Thing 1: Rummy wasn’t happy that the CIA was able to engineer what was in effect a coup d’etat in Afghanistan. In consequence, the Pentagon dragged its feet in Afghanistan as long as Rumsfeld was running things.

Thing 2: The Dim Son has Daddy issues and wanted to take out Saddam Hussein (choke — he tried to kill my daddy).

Thing 3: The Bush crime family (thanks Mike Malloy!) is in tight with the whole Clan bin Laden. You don’t kill/capture or otherwise humiliate your business partner’s kids, without really good reason. That’s especially true when your business partner’s BFFs are funding his kid and have a strangle-hold on your business.

Thus, the Dim Son doesn’t much time any more worrying about ObL. No need to, because someone made it clear to him that worrying about ObL was not in his (or his family’s) best interest.

By: BargainCountertenor

BargainCountertenor — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:18:33 +0000

CE:

Ph.D. Statistics for me (public school, public high school, state universities all the way.)

Ph.D. Rhetoric and Professional Comm for Mrs. BC, same deal. Public schools, public universities.

Ivies are good, but they’ve nothing on our best public universities. Not that the Ivies believe it, but their belief isn’t necessary.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:13:10 +0000

I would think for several reasons that the account in the French documentary is false but with the credibility of this Administration as low as it is almost no conspiracy can be dismissed out of hand.

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:05:22 +0000

It was clear we let him get away at Tora Bora. But my leading hypothesis for that one is that Rummy was pissed because the CIA won the Afghan was without the DOD, and Rummy was damned if he was gonna let the military help them out at Tora Bora. Can’t wait for Rummy’s memoir to see what his version is.

But the French incident is a whole other episode.

By: Margot

Margot — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:03:40 +0000

Hey Chris! We had a little snow, not much.

By: nahant

nahant — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:02:30 +0000

I don’t know! But I had an interesting conversation with the lead on the crew who installed my solar panels. He was in the 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan in 2001/2002 and he recounted speaking to the Special ops guys who said the Us let Bin Laden get away on purpose! They said the Afghans were told to go after Bin Laden but they weren’t given any support from the Us. He also stated we had plenty of boots on the ground to get him ourselves but were told to stand down… After that he clammed up and wouldn’t say any more! He was glad he got out before the reverse draft kicked in!