Filed at 5:08 pm, Thursday March 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
NYT reports today on a meeting of US Attorneys here in Chicago hosted by Pat Fitzgerald. It seems like Gonzales, who was in attendance, got hit pretty hard by his own US Attorneys:
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales endured blunt criticism Tuesday from federal prosecutors who questioned the firings of eight United States attorneys, complained that […]
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Filed at 2:40 pm, Thursday March 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
A new poll from my home state (New Hampshire) shows that President Bush has an approval rating far below the national average (somewhere in the 30s) of only 17% (among registered voters).
Note that the reason this is so low despite having a disapproval level that is average nationwide (62%) is because of a remarkably high […]
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Filed at 10:06 am, Thursday March 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
As I mentioned briefly before, I was interviewed on KPOJ, a Portland-based talk radio station. I was on the Thom Hartmann show, and I think the interview about the US Attorney firing scandal (which you can listen to below) went pretty well, except for a slight moment of awkwardness after I made a comment about […]
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Filed at 10:44 pm, Wednesday March 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
By the way, I’ll be on the radio Thursday morning talking about the US Attorney scandal at about 9AM central (10AM EST, or 7AM PST) on KPOJ Portland. You can listen live on the internet here. How exciting. If I’m able to get audio of the interview, I’ll post it later.
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Filed at 5:41 pm, Wednesday March 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Did Karl Rove sign off on the misleading statements Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty gave to Congress about Tim Griffin’s hiring? That’s what it’s looking like.
Basically, when the US Attorney for Eastern Arkansas, Bud Cummins, was fired in 2006 (for no other reason than to make room for Tim Griffin), the DoJ originally said that […]
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Filed at 2:25 pm, Wednesday March 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I’ve been getting a nice bump in traffic over the last couple of days due to my writings on the US Attorney scandal. If you’re new to The Daily Background and you’re wandering in interested in this, allow me to suggest some relevant pieces I’ve written from the last week or so:
First signs of criminality […]
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Filed at 12:57 pm, Wednesday March 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Yet another scandal has Karl Rove’s fingerprints all over it. I first read about this in the Washington Post a couple of days ago, but didn’t think that it would blow up into a big deal. Basically, Rove’s office of Political Affairs in the White House is being accused of cooperating with GSA chief Lurita […]
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Filed at 11:31 am, Wednesday March 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Shakespeare’s Sister has news about an important anti-discrimination Amendment that’s being taken up by Democrats 84 years after it was originally proposed.
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Filed at 8:05 am, Wednesday March 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
2008
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is expected to endorse Senator Hillary Clinton in her bid to replace President Bush today in a press conference at 12:30 EST.
In other 2008 news, Bill Richardson will appear on The Daily Show tonight.
That Iraq bill
The supplemental budget bill that passed through the Senate yesterday worth 122 billion dollars […]
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Filed at 11:31 pm, Tuesday March 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Chuck Missler, a fundamentalist Christian minister tries to debunk evolution and the scientific theory of “the big bang” by using a jar of peanut butter. This video is hilarious.
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Filed at 9:06 pm, Tuesday March 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Uhhhhhhhh… I think this needs some attention: The day after Tom Vilsack endorses Hillary Clinton, she announces that she’ll help raise $400,000 for him in order to get rid of his campaign debt. No seriously, what the hell?! This is more than a little bit odd, to say the least.
To say a bit more, this […]
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Filed at 6:14 pm, Tuesday March 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
The upshot of today’s vote in the Senate is that there is almost certain to be a non-binding requirement for combat troop withdrawal from Iraq by March 31st, 2008. Democrats were able to strike down 50-48 a Republican motion to kill the withdrawal deadline language.
Now once the bill itself passes, it’ll be somehow reconciled with […]
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Filed at 4:46 pm, Tuesday March 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Below (left) is a picture of how John McCain’s MySpace sidebar is supposed to look like. On the left is how it looked like earlier today when the person who originally made the theme the McCain campaign was using changed some code because the campaign didn’t give him give him credit for creating the theme, […]
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Filed at 1:28 pm, Tuesday March 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
The family of Pat Tillman is telling the press that they don’t trust a new Pentagon report released Monday which says that there was no deliberate cover up over the circumstances of Pat’s death. And who can really blame them; the Pentagon lied to them and the entire country about the tragic circumstances surrounding Tillman’s […]
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Filed at 11:05 am, Tuesday March 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Something extraordinary might happen this week. Apparently Mitch McConnel (R-KY), the Senate Minority Leader, will not, repeat not threaten a filibuster on the Senate’s upcoming Iraq vote. This means that instead of 60 votes to pass the bill, it will take only the usual 50 votes.
Basically the legislation is an emergency funding package, requested by […]
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