Check my byline and you’ll understand why I get a kick out of this video. It’s so rare that I hear my name said by somebody like this, plus there’s the added bonus of getting to disagree with Cheney on something.
I think, for just a moment, Dick Cheney forgot who he was. He sounded less like Dick Cheney, unique creature extraordinaire, and more like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, poor rememberer extraordinaire. “I don’t recall” was Cheney’s Gonzales-esque stock answer for at two questions Larry King asked him in a rare interview today. King described his […]
More on Senator Teddy ‘tubes’ Stevens, since his FBI raid:
The senator skipped a Commerce Committee hearing Tuesday and spent much of the day ducking or yelling at the press. When he was finally cornered by two reporters in a Senate stairway, the always volatile Alaskan barked that he did not have anything to say about […]
Newsweek reports on Wal-Mart’s highly immoral and legally questionable decision not to pay child workers at its Mexico stores, who get only tips that customers give them for bagging their purchases:
Wal-Mart is Mexico’s largest private-sector employer in the nation today, with nearly 150,000 local residents on its payroll. An additional 19,000 youngsters between the ages […]
What the hell?
The wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is facing criticism from some cancer patients and survivors for saying in a magazine interview that, rather than continue living with multiple sclerosis, she once wished she could “just have cancer and die.â€
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The comment received an angry reaction from Leroy Sievers, a journalist who has […]
Oh boy, this is too funny. What great timing:
Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, whose home back in Alaska was raided by federal investigators Monday in a wide-ranging corruption investigation, has threatened to place a hold on the Democratic-drafted ethics legislation just passed by the House and expected on the Senate floor by week’s end.
The senator told […]
Dick Cheney is a unique creature. That is all.
Update: The unique creature will be on Larry King tonight.
Arlen Specter (R-PA, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee) announced late yesterday that he was expecting a letter from the Administration clarifying Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ recent obfuscated testimony regarding the NSA’s spying program by noon today:
The Hill has an article out, about how Arlen Specter (R-PA, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee) […]
From the Department of Truly Inane Headlines comes this real stinker from Reuters:
No, really? Do you mean to imply that people who back Fred Thompson for president want him to run for president? My goodness, I’m shocked. What’s next, people who back Al Gore for president want him to get in the race? After that, […]
The Washington Post today has some more details on the raid that the FBI and the IRS conducted on Senator Ted Stevens’ (R-AK) house yesterday. The scandal involving Stevens (and his son, a now former state Senator) has been simmering on the back boiler for a while, but this raid seems to have reignited questions […]
CNBC is reporting that Rupert Murdoch will be successful in his bid to buy the Dow Jones company:
Nearly three months after CNBC’s David Faber broke the news that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. was making an offer to buy the Dow Jones Company, Faber reports this morning that it’s a done deal, and an “agreement is […]
The Hill has an article out, about how Arlen Specter (R-PA, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee) was briefed on Monday about the Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program in hopes of understanding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ obsfucated defense of his rhetoric in last week’s hearings.
Specter emerged from the meeting saying the Administration had 18 hours […]
Today’s quote of the day goes to Vice President Dick Cheney, expressing his belief that it doesn’t matter whether Congress or the public have confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales:
“I think the key is whether or not he has the confidence of the president, and he clearly does.”
Well this is a bit embarassing. The Fred Thompson campaign, which has tried very hard to escape the now-conventional wisdom that he’s holding off announcing so he can raise money (sorry no link but I’ve read about how his aides are furiously denying the suggestion). It now seems increasingly clear however that money is indeed […]
As you’ll recall, one of the initial suspicious tidbits regarding the US Attorney purge scandal was the fact that the US Attorney for New Mexico, David Iglesias, had been fired after he was inappropriately contacted by GOP lawmakers, who it seemed, were pressuring him to hurry up with cases against Democrats before an election. It […]
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