Dick Morris: A sign of the times (1)
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Dick Morris, September 24, The O'Reilly Factor:O'REILLY: Rove says it's a risk for McCain to bail temporarily on the debate and go back to Washington. What say you? DICK MORRIS, POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, it's the most brilliant move since Sarah Palin. O'REILLY: You think it's brilliant? MORRIS: Bless the McCain campaign. It's fabulous, because McCain is going to save the country, because he's the only one that can deliver the Republicans and the administration. . ...
A country in shambles, under GOP rule (4)
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(updated below) There are few things that make political coverage more unbearable -- and more distorting -- than The David Brooks Syndrome: the extremely patronizing and ill-informed pretense, shared by media and right-wing elites alike, that they can study the Little Common People like zoo animals, and then translate and give voice to their simple-minded and ignorant though good-hearted, salt-of-the-earth perspectives. Rarely has this mentality been so transparent as in the wake of the Biden-Palin ...
Salon Radio: L.A. Times' Tim Rutten on Ahmadinejad (1)
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(updated below) The Los Angeles Times's Tim Rutten wrote a column on Wednesday attacking "last week's abominable speech by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the United Nations." Rutten chided the U.N. and the American public for not taking Ahmadinejad's "threats" seriously enough and ended his column this way: "Shame on them; shame on us." The headline: "Ahmadinejad's evil words aren't just talk -- Threats by Iran's president are not empty rhetoric; he means what ...
Wash Post's Pearlstein: Anyone opposing the bailout is ignorant (4)
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(updated below - Update II) Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein has spent the week insisting that only gross ignorance could account for opposition to the Paulson bailout. After the House rejected the bailout plan on Monday, he wrote a column -- entitled "They Just Don't Get It" -- arguing that bailout opponents simply "don't understand the seriousness of the situation." He scoffed at the idea that any well-informed person could question -- let alone ...
Salon Radio: Murray Waas (1)
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My guest on Salon Radio today is journalist Murray Waas. He has two separate new articles in The Atlantic released today which contain potentially enormous revelations about the illegal Bush NSA spying program -- this one, which details new evidence strongly suggesting that it was President Bush who, in March of 2004, ordered Alberto Gonzales to go to the hospital room of an extremely sick John Ashcroft in order to extract the authorization for Bush's ...
Salon Radio: ACLU's Mike German on new FBI spying powers (1)
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Last month, Attorney General Michael Mukasey announced that the FBI -- with four months left in the Bush administration -- was adopting new regulations for itself which would vastly increase its power to investigate and spy on American citizens, on U.S. soil, even in the absence of any suspicion that the targeted citizen is involved in any wrongdoing. My guest today on Salon Radio is former long-time FBI agent and current ACLU Policy Counsel Michael ...
The simultaneous rejection of the bailout and a corrupt ruling class (1)
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(updated below)Retired New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston, writing at The New Republic yesterday, makes a critical point, in a piece entitled "Celebrating the Bailout Bill's Failure":Whether you favor the $700 billion bailout or not, the House vote today should make you cheer -- loudly. Why? Because the majority vote against it shows that Washington is not entirely in the service of the political donor class, by which I mean Wall Street and the ...
McCain's flailing panic (1)
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(updated below)There are few things more boring than following the twists and turns of the Campaign Scandal du jour, but this is pretty unstable behavior:Fox News on Wednesday:John McCain will suspend his presidential campaign Thursday and has asked to postpone his debate Friday with Barack Obama so the two senators can return to Washington to help negotiate a Wall Street bailout, an approach that Obama promptly rejected. McCain will participate in Friday night's debate if ...
Correction on Sarah Palin - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (3)
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(updated below - Update II - Update III) Three weeks ago -- before Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson was announced -- I mocked the idea that the McCain campaign was afraid to have Palin face our mighty press corps, and I defended Palin as follows:When they decide in a couple of weeks that Palin is ready to do so, she'll go and sit down with Brit Hume or Larry King or Charlie Gibson or ...
Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the "Homeland"? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (12)
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Glenn Greenwald via Salon: Glenn Greenwald shared by 4 people Several bloggers today have pointed to this obviously disturbing article from Army Times, which reports that "beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st [Brigade Combat Team] will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North" -- "the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal ...
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Here we go, folks. Sorry it all has to end like this.
Salon Radio: Digby on the bailout (1)
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(updated below) My guest today on Salon Radio is Digby, and we discuss various political aspects of the Paulson bailout, beginning with her widely cited post from Monday warning of the political dangers to Democrats from joining with George Bush in approving the bailout. The discussion is roughly 35 minutes and can be heard by clicking PLAY on the recorder below. A transcript is posted here. We recorded this yesterday and it has become increasingly ...
Single funniest blog post I ever read - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (4)
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(updated below - Update II - Update III) I wrote earlier today about the sudden right-wing resistance to vast executive authority that has emerged in opposition to the Paulson plan, but still, this post from Ed Morrissey at Michelle Malkin's Hot Air -- full-fledged advocates of every last expansion of unfettered executive power over the last eight years -- is just so exquisite, so perfectly constructed, so unbearably hilarious, that it really expands the definition ...
Salon Radio: Notre Dame finance professor Richard Sheehan (1)
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[updated below (w/transcript) - Update II] University of Notre Dame Professor of Finance Richard Sheehan has been one of the most incisive economist-critics of the Paulson plan since it was unveiled, and he's my guest today on Salon Radio. We discuss the ways in which the key fear-mongering claims of Paulson have been both misleading and exaggerated; the reasons the bailout plan won't work even if the best case scenario occurs; where and how the ...
David Brooks thinks he sees a "new establishment" to run economic policy (2)
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(updated below - Update II) In his New York Times column this morning, David Brooks announces that as a result of the financial crisis, "a new center and a new establishment is emerging" that will rule as a Benevolent Oligarchy over economic policy and will be comprised of Old Wise Men from Wall Street:Once, there was a financial elite in this country. During the first two-thirds of the 20th century, middle-aged men with names like ...
What does Sarah Palin have to hide in her Yahoo e-mails? (1)
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Some adolescent criminal (in mentality if not age) yesterday hacked into a Yahoo account used by Sarah Palin for both personal and business email, and various sites -- including Gawker -- posted some of the emails online. While the bottom layers of the right-wing noise machine (the kind that make you run for the shower after reading them) are moronically describing the hacker(s) as "liberals" and "left-wing," nobody actually has any idea of their identity, ...
The Oversight Joke (1)
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(updated below - Update II) FBI Director Robert Mueller is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee today, currently live-streamed on C-SPAN. An article this morning in The Washington Post dramatically touted the hearing as one in which, as the headline put it, "Lawmakers Are Seeking Answers in Anthrax Case -- FBI's Mueller to Be Queried by House Panel About Evidence Against Researcher." The article itself claimed that "the strength of the government's evidence against Bruce ...
The right dictates MSNBC's programming decisions (1)
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What illegal things did the U.S Goverment do from 2001-2004? (14)
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Such an en masse resignation in the middle of an election year was averted only when Bush finally agreed to change certain aspects of the surveillance program in order to persuade these DOJ officials to endorse its legality. The illegal NSA spying program revealed by The New York Times in December, 2005 that created so much political controversy -- whereby the Bush administration was spying on Americans without the warrants required by law -- was ...
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Absolutely unbelievable. And that a few prominent democrats may have been complicit in this too is just infuriating. When even "loyal Bushies" are threatening mass resignations over illegalities, why would Democratic leadership even consider helping cover for it?!I swear, "hell in a handbasket" indeed.
Where is the debate over the Bush Doctrine? (2)
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(updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV - Update V) Before it became clear that Sarah Palin had never heard of it, nobody -- including the presidential candidates themselves -- ever had difficulty answering questions about what they believed about the Bush Doctrine, nor ever suggested that this Doctrine was some amorphous, impossible-to-understand, abstract irrelevancy. Quite the contrary, despite some differences over exactly what it means, it was widely understood to ...
AP's Tom Raum confuses his fantasies for fact (2)
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(Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV) Ever since the McCain campaign announced Sarah Palin as its choice for Vice President, they have been attempting to attribute to "liberals" generally and the Obama campaign specifically the plainly offensive and sexist objection that Palin's duties as Vice President would irreconcilably conflict with her obligations to her children (Rudy Giuliani's convention speech: "And how -- how dare they question whether Sarah Palin has ...
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