The aide who abruptly ended Colin Powell/’s interview with Tim Russert is a former press flack for Tom DeLay. I knew the right wing had salted the State Department to undermine Powell/’s influence, but this is nuts. An aide to Secretary Powell attempted cut short a taped interview with Tim Russert by moving the camera …
Young, Right-Wing and Stupid in Iraq
by | 2004-05-14 | No Comments
I know better than to read the National Review, but this quote in an article on “Gen X in the Green Zone” contains a remarkably stupid comment from Michael Ledeen/’s daughter in defense of the vast number of kids who got jobs with the CPA in Iraq based soley on their ideological affinities: [Simone] Ledeen, …
Go Sonia! Congress wins in India. Bush will blow it, again.
by | 2004-05-13 | No Comments
The Hindu natonalist (BJP) government of Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has fallen. The Congress party (led by Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi) won a surprise victory in India/’s elections and is expected to form a coalition government with its electoral allies. Add this to the list of …
NFIRE Stumbles in Senate
by | 2004-05-13 | No Comments
The Bush Administration and the Missile Defense Agency may run into trouble over their plans to place weapons in outer space. The Senate Armed Services Committee, in its defense authorization mark-up, directed the Missile Defense Agency “to provide the congressional defense committees a report no later than March 15, 2005, on the risks to space …
