Robert Kuttner writes in the Boston Globe:
“My bet is that impeachable offenses will emerge from Congressional investigations. What will protect Bush and Cheney from that fate is less the merits of the case than the electoral calendar. It is simply too close to the 2008 election.”
The same thing that saved Reagan.
Jamison Foser, of Media Matters writes a compelling piece on the nastiness we’re seeing from Coulter, Down, Mattews, & gang:
“The MSM’s failure to properly convey the extent of Ann Coulter’s bigotry, nastiness, and irresponsibility hasn’t resulted in her being ‘marginalized’ — it has helped her become an icon of the right without any accountability for the conservative movement that embraces her. Coulter’s column, receptacle of much of her hate speech, appears in numerous newspapers across the country. Media Matters, outraged emailers — 834 by one editor’s count — and others have begun to put a real dent in her reach. Yesterday, we posted a list of papers running her column, as well as their email addresses, and the parade of op-ed pages announcing that they are dropping her is growing almost by the hour.”
Let’s hope in 2008 we have an election on the issues and not a rehash of the vile rightwing smears we’ve seen since seeminly forever.
Categories: journalistic integrity · smear
The Bush purge of US Attys isn’t going away, folks.
This morning’s NYTIMES editorial board calls for Gonzales’s firing.
We opposed Mr. Gonzales’s nomination as attorney general. His résumé was weak, centered around producing legal briefs for Mr. Bush that assured him that the law said what he wanted it to say. More than anyone in the administration, except perhaps Vice President Dick Cheney, Mr. Gonzales symbolizes Mr. Bush’s disdain for the separation of powers, civil liberties and the rule of law.On Thursday, Senator Arlen Specter, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, hinted very obliquely that perhaps Mr. Gonzales’s time was up. We’re not going to be oblique. Mr. Bush should dismiss Mr. Gonzales and finally appoint an attorney general who will use the job to enforce the law and defend the Constitution.
As we’ve said in earlier entries, “Ouch!” I give him to maybe July.
Categories: US Attorneys
The Bush purge of US Attys isn’t going away, folks.
This morning’s NYTIMES editorial board calls for Gonzales’s firing.
We opposed Mr. Gonzales’s nomination as attorney general. His résumé was weak, centered around producing legal briefs for Mr. Bush that assured him that the law said what he wanted it to say. More than anyone in the administration, except perhaps Vice President Dick Cheney, Mr. Gonzales symbolizes Mr. Bush’s disdain for the separation of powers, civil liberties and the rule of law.On Thursday, Senator Arlen Specter, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, hinted very obliquely that perhaps Mr. Gonzales’s time was up. We’re not going to be oblique. Mr. Bush should dismiss Mr. Gonzales and finally appoint an attorney general who will use the job to enforce the law and defend the Constitution.
As we’ve said in earlier entries, “Ouch!” I give him to maybe July.
Categories: US Attorneys
Dear Nancy,
“With his veto threat, the President offers only an open-ended commitment to a war without end that dangerously ignores the repeated warnings of military leaders, including the commander in Iraq, General Petraeus, who declared in Baghdad this week that the conflict cannot be resolved militarily.”
You GO girl!
Categories: Pelosi
A comment at the TPM Election Central website:
“If FOX had/has any intentions of becoming more neutral, FOX would have moved from the far right and more to the center a long, long time ago.You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.”
Ouch!
Categories: polls
