Murray Waas: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove personally assured President Bush in the early fall of 2003 that he had not disclosed to anyone in the press that Valerie Plame, the wife of an administration critic, was a CIA employee, according to legal sources with firsthand knowledge of the accounts that both Rove and Bush independently provided … Read More
Who Will Be Indicted?
Lawrence O’Donnell, who seems to have pretty good sources on the CIA leak story, predicts the following: "At least three high level Bush Administration personnel indicted and possibly one or more very high level unindicted co-conspirators." In a subsequent post, O’Donnell says Karl Rove’s agreement to testify again before the grand jury is a solid indication his lawyer thinks he’ll … Read More
Plame Update
There’s rumors floating about that indictments are expected soon (like, any day now) in the CIA Leak/Valerie Plame matter. And Rove, some are saying, has been seen much — missing White House meetings that he usually attends, etc. UPDATE TO THE UPDATE (and post bumped to top): Rove to testify to grand jury. And no immunity. Good. It’s important to … Read More
Plame Update
I haven’t forgotten about this — but I’m not digging in the dirt about it either. Judith Miller revealed that her source was Scooter Libby — no surprise there. But the real speculation is on what special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is cooking up. I’ll let Kevin Drum speak: In the Washington Post today, Jim VandeHei and Walter Pincus provide some … Read More
Sheehan Just Arrested
Good. More headlines for us. Doesn’t look like she’s too upset. And, I might add, it’s nice to know that civil disobedience can be, on occasion, disobedient.
Bush To Bestow Honor On Cindy Sheehan
This is, uh, interesting. Keep in mind as you read, that on the weekend of September 24-25, there will be a huge anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., in which Gold Star Mom Cindy Sheehan will play a vital role. America’s Gold Star Mothers carry a great burden of grief, yet they show a tremendous spirit of generosity in helping their … Read More
Pro-Bush Supporters Attack Themselves
Protest Warriors is a conservative activist group. Their tradmark is to show up at progressive rallies posing as liberals and carrying signs that say things like: "Communism has killed only 100 million people; let’s give it another chance!" and "The ACLU – we don’t hate religions – we just hate Christianity!" Get it? Because people will read the signs and … Read More
An Anti-Sheehan Pro-Bush Protester
From this week’s list of Top Ten Conservative Idiots at Democratic Underground:
The Other Crazy Pat
WorldNutDaily has an exclusive. The old headline, as reported here, was "Rock Legend Shreds Cindy Sheehan ‘Peaceniks’" but apparently the editors at WND had second thoughts about being on the side of someone involved with rock (aka "the devil’s music"). And who is that "rock legend"? Why, Pat Boone, of course, who became famous for taking songs from black musicians … Read More
Not Angry
In response to a comment on that his blog is "full of hatred and anger", Corrente not only denied the charge, but set out to compile a list of things he was not angry about, as well as things he doesn’t hate. It’s not only long, but a work-in-progress, so check out Corrente’s site for the latest revisions and updates: … Read More
Swiftboating Sheehan Fails To Pay Off
Frank Rich: THIS summer in Crawford, the White House went to this playbook once too often. When Mr. Bush’s motorcade left a grieving mother in the dust to speed on to a fund-raiser, that was one fat-cat party too far. The strategy of fighting a war without shared national sacrifice has at last backfired, just as the strategy of Swift … Read More
Republicans Nervous, And With Good Reason
The NY Times: A stream of bad news out of Iraq, echoed at home by polls that show growing impatience with the war and rising disapproval of President Bush’s Iraq policies, is stirring political concern in Republican circles, party officials said Wednesday. They are referring to Republican party officials, as in: "There is just no enthusiasm for this war,” said … Read More
Ann Coulter: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
I love her: To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush’s Crawford ranch. I don’t think she went to Crawford to "cheer herself up". But note that we’re only one sentence in, and we have more amature psychology from the … Read More
Lessons Not Learned
Paul Begala is talking here about the smears of the right wing against Sheehan (although it is hard to tell). He’s nailed it: It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam. The left was right, of course, about Vietnam. Even my CNN colleague Bob Novak, who was extraordinarily hawkish on Vietnam, … Read More
Can Dish It Out But . . .
… can’t take it, apparently. It has been 10 days since I first posted on Cindy Sheehan, and after sticking my neck out and taking massive amounts of ongoing abuse and ridicule for giving her the scrutiny she deserves, I am more than happy to let others pick up the slack. Then she links to others who continue continue slamming … Read More