Year: 2007

Ahem.

The White House offered on Tuesday to make President George W. Bush’s senior political adviser, Karl Rove, and other officials available to congressional investigators to give unsworn testimony in the firings of U.S. attorneys. In a letter to relevant members of Congress, White House counsel Fred Fielding made clear he was not offering them to give sworn testimony as they have requested.

So, this is the post-November 2006 election White House. Gradual cave-in after cave-in.

Lame duck indeed.

I’ve been ‘under the weather’ the past couple of days, lest you think I went and “Brad Delp’d” myself.

No worries. I’ll be back when I’m feeling better.

UPDATE: It’s been 4 days and I’m just now feeling a (little) better. Cripes, I haven’t had a cold like this in years. Most of them come and go within a couple of days. I don’t know what’s worse – heavin’ in a toilet for 24 hours or living with congestion and a naggin’ cough for 4 days. At this point, I’d have takin’ the 24 hour thingy.

By the way, I don’t get this Twitter thing, do you? I think it’s my age, but I can’t figure out what you’re supposed to do with it.

I saw this yesterday, did you? Someone hit the nail on the head.

Maybe by tomorrow I’ll have enough energy to get back to proper blogging. I dunno.

Why isn’t this story the headline everywhere today?

Some progress may mean hope for Baghdad

Bomb deaths have gone down 30 percent in Baghdad since the U.S.-led security crackdown began a month ago. Execution-style slayings are down by nearly half. The once frequent sound of weapons has been reduced to episodic, and downtown shoppers have returned to outdoor markets — favored targets of car bombers.

There are signs of progress in the campaign to restore order in
Iraq, starting with its capital city.

Instead, everyone is talking about 8 ineffective lawyers who were rightly fired by the Justice Department.

What a world.

Via The Hill:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) began the presidential race as a frontrunner with a well-known personal story and a unique style. But in recent weeks his past has provoked some potentially harmful early opposition stemming from those same qualities.

Is it possible that widespread support for McCain is just an illusion created by the MSM?

Yep.

According to The New York Observer, Rudy Giuliani has the GOP nomination sewn up. In fact, he’s so golden that he’ll flip some of those purple states to solid red and effectively deny the Democrats the electoral votes they’ll need to win the White House.

Let’s see, Rudy has advocated public funding for abortion. He’s weak on border control and that means he’s got a national defense problem. He points leftward on gun control and he’s partial to liberal judges.

Sewn up huh?

There’s a new recipe being served up at the JR Shin-Koiwa Station in Tokyo – Rat Curry.

I never thought I’d say this, but I wish the Bush Administration would act more like the Clinton Administration did.

Rather than accepting resignations and then whimpering to the press about the dysfunctionality within the Justice Department over the recent firings of US Attorneys, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should be fighting back. He should be calling this what it is. It’s a stunt being pulled by the Democrats to do what they’ve always wanted to do – get Bush. Why else would the press reports on the story be mentioning Harriet Miers and Karl Rove?

The American people want bipartisan governance. The problem is, they thought electing Democrats to a majority was the answer. They were wrong.

The lead singer of the rock band Boston was found dead today. Brad Delp, the voice behind hits like “More Than a Feeling”, “Long Time” and “Don’t Look Back”, was just 55 years old.

I grew up on this music. I wore out my copy of their first album and the “Don’t Look Back” album. Needless to say, I’m bummed.

Rest in peace, Brad.

UPDATE: It was a suicide.

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This is unbelievable.

Who knows what this man is thinking.

Nebraska’s Chuck Hagel, the Senate Republican most outspoken in opposition to President Bush’s March 2003 decision to invade Iraq, is expected to announce Monday that he will make a bid for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

Just how many Republican votes does he think he’ll get?

Chuck Hagel, a narcissistically delusional RHINO.

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