By now, you have surely heard about the “partisan” speech by Nancy Pelosi on the House floor before the bailout vote…
Well, to hear House Republicans tell it, the speech was so patently offensive that at least 12 votes were “turned around” as a result.
Judge for yourself, here’s the speech:
Krugman succinctly states the obvious:
the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate.
If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”;
if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s [...]
In a remarkably weak post on Huffington Post entitled: Scrubbed: Edwards Filmmakers Deleted Website Raises Questions author Sam Stein (de)posits on the controversy he apparently invented specifically for himself regarding a “mystery website” that *gasp* disappeared from the internet, inferring some vaguely nefarious but entirely unspecified conspiracy about presidential candidate John Edwards and the non-political, [...]
Surprise! White House Investigator Comes Up Short on Funding
In the department of who didn’t see this one coming, Scott Bloch’s Office of Special Counsel investigation was launched with great bravado and no dough…
Equally shocking is the notion that Mr. Bloch is not highly regarded by his peers:
Ex DOJ wrote on September 17, 2007 11:56 PM:
Scott [...]
Doesn’t anyone remember Kenneth Starr?
The White House has indicated no willingness to move beyond Bush’s initial offer to let Rove, Miers and their deputies to speak to committee members in private, without being sworn. Conyers , meanwhile, has signed a contract with the law firm Arnold & Porter worth up to $225,000 through the [...]