spook of the ozarks

Correction, please

2007-10-01T23:05:00.000-05:00

This woman has to be deputy assistant secretary for ~~coalition~~ United Federation of Planets affairs to Defence Secretary Robert Gates.

Worst poll question ever

2007-09-13T22:31:00.000-05:00

From 40/29:

Do you agree with President Bush's plan to implement gradual troop reductions?

If you answer, "no," you're either William Kristol/John McCain-like or one of those nonexistent "precipitous withdrawal" advocates. Nice choice.

Trojan horse

2007-09-10T10:29:00.000-05:00

We're screwed.

Amen

2007-09-04T17:40:00.000-05:00

Via TP, Al Gore:

... I fear that I’m losing my objectivity where President Bush and Cheney are concerned. Not much surprises me anymore. I have a lot of friends who share the following problem with me: Our sense of outrage is so saturated that when a new outrage occurs, we have to download some existing outrage into an external hard drive in order to make room for a new outrage.

QOTD

2007-08-27T13:20:00.000-05:00

Rahm Emanuel:

Alberto Gonzales is the first Attorney General who thought the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth were three different things.

via Greg Sargent.

It may work in the GOP primary

2007-08-24T10:55:00.000-05:00

Astonishing

2007-08-22T22:50:00.000-05:00

Whose idea was this? The whole speech was a disaster.

Worst attacks since the invasion

2007-08-21T17:41:00.000-05:00

NYT:

One week after a series of truck bombs hit two poor villages near the Syrian border, the known casualty toll has soared to more than 500 dead and 1,500 wounded, according to the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, making them by far the worst coordinated attacks since the American-led invasion.

They'll never equal the death and destruction of the invasion.

Shameless

2007-08-13T12:20:00.000-05:00

Karl Rove to W:

Your integrity, character and decency have remained unchanged and inspiring.

Charles Pierce is a genius

2007-08-06T15:34:00.000-05:00

See for yourself.

Media Matters

2007-08-04T11:13:00.000-05:00

More like Cliff Clavin than Ken Jennings.

Weird

2007-08-03T22:57:00.000-05:00

Did KNWA/KFTA just censor a Duggars joke? We lost the audio during Leno's monologue (on both channels) for a minute or so, but a couple of follow-up jokes when they restored it sure sounded like they were about them.

Impeach Gonzo

2007-08-01T11:46:00.000-05:00

Joe Conason and Gene Lyons agree.

The GOP field

2007-07-22T14:00:00.000-05:00

Danger

2007-07-20T12:24:00.000-05:00

This could be trouble:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush will undergo a routine colonoscopy Saturday and temporarily hand presidential powers over to Vice President Dick Cheney, the White House said.

Anyone need a pardon?

Enablers

2007-07-20T10:59:00.000-05:00

Huh?

2007-07-18T22:10:00.000-05:00

They have mosquitoes down in the euphemistically termed "River Valley." Lana Labrousse of 40/29 sez a good way to avoid them is to "stay inside between dawn and dusk, when they're most active." Never mind that most people can't avoid going outside during the daylight hours. She got it bass-ackwards.
(Link later if they post their report.)

No joke

2007-07-15T10:44:00.000-05:00

As we slouch toward the sixth anniversary of
9/11, the war against Al Qaeda has only just begun.

They hate your children

2007-07-15T09:46:00.000-05:00

NYT:

WASHINGTON, July 14 — The White House said on Saturday that President Bush would veto a bipartisan plan to expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program, drafted over the last six months by senior members of the Senate Finance Committee.
The vow puts Mr. Bush at odds with the Democratic majority in Congress, with a substantial number of Republican lawmakers and with many governors of both parties, who want to expand the popular program to cover some of the nation’s eight million uninsured children.

Why? Tony Fratto: “This will have the effect of encouraging many to drop private coverage, to go on the government-subsidized program.”

Barry Bearak

2007-07-10T10:45:00.000-05:00

One of our favorite NYTimes writers has returned to a place he knows well:

Afghanistan surely has made some progress toward development, but most often the nation seems astride some pitiable rocking horse, with each lurch forward inevitably reversed by the backward spring of harsh reality.

Read every story he files.

Stupid

2007-07-09T22:13:00.000-05:00

Whoever's writing the scripts that the anchors at 40/29 mindlessly read keeps referring to this trial as the "murder trial of an Arkansas beauty queen." She's the alleged victim. Her ex-boyfriend is accused of killing her.

Coward

2007-07-08T11:28:00.000-05:00

Wow

2007-07-04T01:00:00.000-05:00

Olbermann.

Bigtime

2007-07-01T10:23:00.000-05:00

Desperate

2007-06-29T10:51:00.000-05:00

McClatchy:

WASHINGTON — Facing eroding support for his Iraq policy, even among Republicans, President Bush on Thursday called al Qaida "the main enemy" in Iraq, an assertion rejected by his administration's senior intelligence analysts.
The reference, in a major speech at the Naval War College that referred to al Qaida at least 27 times, seemed calculated to use lingering outrage over the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to bolster support for the current buildup of U.S. troops in Iraq, despite evidence that sending more troops hasn't reduced the violence or sped Iraqi government action on key issues.