And Pat Buchanan says impeachment should be reserved for the kind of high crimes and misdemeanors that Nixon and Clinton did(?!?!) And Bill Press disses impeachment talk as well(?!?!)

Carlson also says he thinks it’d be neat if Bush was impeached and Cheney became President, and he picked the CEO of Halliburton to be his vice […]

Poor construction, improper design, substandard materials and lack of maintenance have brought into question the usefulness of seven of eight U.S.-funded Iraq reconstruction projects. So says an inspector general report that recently examined the eight reconstruction projects.

If these projects are typical of the quality and effectiveness of operations and maintenance performance on transitioned projects, the […]

Doug: So much for “when they stand up, we’ll stand down.” They’re standing down. Even moreso than before. Heckuva’ job, Bushie.

Ever since this story broke, the general consensus has been “How terrible, our boys are dying over there, and they’re going on vacation?!” Which is true, except for one thing… the Iraqis didn’t ask for […]

Fourteen U.S. soldiers and Marines were killed in Iraq during the past 72 hours, making April the sixth deadliest month of the Iraq war, according to the U.S. military. The number of U.S. military personnel killed in the Iraq war stands at 3,351, including seven Defense Department civilians. April is the sixth deadliest month of […]

Doug: These are some songs from the Pig Man’s web site (Rush Limpbotomy), including “Respeck” and “Barack the Magic Negro.”So again, where are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton now? They caught the “small Imus minnow of racism” - meanwhile - the “large whale of racism, Rush Limpbotomy” - still swims free every day. Hello.

Palfrey claimed irreconcilable differences with A.J. Kramer, the head of the Federal Public Defender Service’s Washington office as the reason for making the change.

Her new lawyer is an attorney out of New York. Palfrey is accused of running an operation that provided $300 per hour prostitutes. She was indicted by a federal grand jury in […]

Keith Olbermann and former CIA analyst Larry Johnson discuss Tenet and what Johnson calls Tenet’s cowardice.

If you missed Dick Durbin’s statement, here it is.

Tenet addresses his “slam dunk” comment

Miz Julia was the pseudonym for Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the woman at the center of a sex scandal that has caused a deputy secretary of state to resign and has lawyers calling around town trying to keep their clients’ names out of public view. Palfrey piqued fascination — and anxiety — by first threatening to […]

Democratic presidential contender John Edwards said Sunday he would consider raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy to fund programs such as his plan for universal health care. Edwards has long said he wants to repeal the tax cuts on upper-income earners enacted during the Bush presidency, but Sunday he seemed to go further, by […]

Doug: Um, we’re really not interested in your sex life, Ms. Rice [see picture], just your testimony.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Face The Nation dismissed accusations made by former CIA Director George Tenet about the Bush administration’s early decisions on Iraq and Afghanistan. Click here for the rest of the story, as well as […]

Doug: Does this bother you? There’s something very, very wrong with this. And there’s a part of me that thinks Senator Durbin and every other member of the intelligence committee - Democrat and republican alike - should suffer some serious consequences for this.

Doug: If you missed O’Reilly’s meltdown with Jane Hall, here it is again.

This is the video presentation of this story we posted Friday night.

As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide. Titled “Echo-Chamber Message” — a public relations term for talking points designed to be repeated again and again — the Sept. 7, 2005, directive was unmistakable: Assure the scores […]

In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting and expensive equipment […]

Another version.

A clip from Tenet’s “60 Minutes” appearance.

CNN’s strategy session on Tenet’s new book.

The Bush White House spin (lie) on Tenet’s book.

A senior White House counselor on Friday dismissed former CIA Director George Tenet’s portrait of a Bush administration that rushed to war in Iraq without serious debate. “The president did wrestle with those very serious questions,” Dan Bartlett said. Asked about Tenet’s upcoming book, excerpts of which were reported Friday in The New York Times, […]

A congressional committee on Friday requested documents from the White House and Pentagon describing how and when the Bush administration learned the circumstances of Pat Tillman’s death. The House Oversight Committee is investigating why Tillman’s family and the public were misled about the circumstances of his death.

The debates last night were like watching paint dry but for the presence of Mike Gravel, former Senator from Alaska. Of course he doesn’t stand a snow-ball’s chance in hell of becoming the next President, but he should; anyone who’s endured the last years not locked in a dungeon incommunicado who’s not as indignant, outraged, […]

America’s generals have repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq…. America’s generals did not provide Congress and the public with an accurate assessment of the conflict in Iraq….

After going into Iraq with too few troops and no coherent plan for postwar stabilization, America’s general officer corps did not accurately portray the intensity of the insurgency […]

First - Bill’s opening monologue; secondly, Congressman Kucinich, and one of his strongest performances, in my humble opinion.

Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation. Tobias, 65, director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the […]

“It’s the will of the nation versus the stubborness of one man.”

George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials in a new book, saying they pushed the country to war in Iraq without ever conducting a “serious debate” about whether Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the United States.

“There was never […]

Democratic presidential candidates criticized President Bush over the Iraq war Thursday night in the first debate of their campaign, and urged him to reconsider his threat to veto legislation to begin withdrawing U.S. troops.

Doug: Gee, how many times have we heard this assertion with regards to Iraq. I thnk a more honest assessment would be “Things are going to get worse before they get worse.”

The top US commander in Iraq admitted yesterday that the conflict would “get harder before it gets easier”, providing further ammunition for Democrats determined […]

Doug: I guess a presidential medal of freedom only buys so much silence.

There are only eleven times in history when the “F” word has been considered acceptable
for use. They are as follows:
11. “What the F#$% do you mean, we are sinking?”
— Capt. E.J. Smith of RMS Titanic, 1912
10. “What the F#$% was that?”
— Mayor Of Hiroshima, […]

Part 1

Part 2

Just moments ago, the Senate followed the lead of the House of Representatives by passing the $124 billion supplemental spending bill containing a provision that mandates a withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq by this time next year. The vote was 51-46, with Republicans Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Gordon Smith of Oregon crossing […]

Wayne Barrett, author of “Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9-11″ exposes the real Rudolph Giuliani.

If you missed O’Rielly’s tirade, we have it right here. It’s actually worse than George W. Bush’s “malaria dancing.”

Keith is joined by Michael Musto from the Village Voice, who offers a few humorous takes.

If you missed McCain’s “IED Funny” here it is.

Doug: Um, we’re really not interested in your sex life, Ms. Rice [see picture], just your testimony.

The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she is unwilling to answer a US House of Representatives subpoena about Iraq’s pre-war weapons. A House committee wants to question Ms Rice about a White House assertion that Iraq […]

Supreme Court justices seem skeptical of a key provision of the landmark campaign finance law, and that could lead to a bigger role for corporations, unions and other interest groups in the 2008 presidential elections.

Doug: Because… we’re not enough of a corporatocracy yet?)

Doug: Just can’t tell you who said it. I can tell you it was a republican.

“This is the most incompetent White House I’ve seen since I came to Washington,” said one GOP senator. “The White House legislative liaison team is incompetent, pitiful, embarrassing. My colleagues can’t even tell you who the White House Senate liaison […]

Doug: If you missed Giuliani’s aforementioned nitwiticism, here it is.

The US House of Representatives has ignored the promise of a veto by President George W Bush and approved a war funding bill that includes a timetable for pulling US troops out of Iraq. The 218-208 vote by the Democratic-majority House links release of $US124 billion in military spending for Iraq and Afghanistan to a […]

Technorati Profile

Biden accuses Bush (among other things) of being completely out of touch with reality and exposes the lie of “progress in Iraq.” This clip is 13 minutes long.

Doug: And not to rain on anyone’s parade, but this film caused me to ponder the many children who cried even harder when they learned their Fathers would not be coming home from Iraq - because they’d become victims of the Bush administration’s unnecessary, impeachable war.

They discuss the Bug Man’s charge that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are rapidly approaching “the treason zone.” [snort]

Doug: Between MC Rove and George of the Jungle, no wonder this country is so reviled around the world. Do you think Bush will resign and move to “Dancing With the Stars?”

Click To Play

And yet, Laura “Pickles” Bush just told Anne Curry on the Today Show, that the American people need to know that “no […]

Robin Williams slaps DeLay in this scene from “Man of the Year.”

(Doug: Um, we’re really not interested in your sex life, Ms. Rice [see picture], just your testimony)

U.S. Democratic lawmakers voted on Wednesday to subpoena Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to testify about administration justifications for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. On a party-line vote of 21-10, the House of Representatives’ Oversight and Government […]

Rudy Too Arrogant For America

The Rudy Giuliani Americans Do Not Yet Know Ill-Prepared to Keep America Safe

While campaigning in New Hampshire last night, Rudy Giuliani resorted to hurling desperate attacks about Democrats while trying to tout his national security credentials. Despite the fact that he failed to prepare New York City for the second attack […]

House committee voted Wednesday to grant immunity to Monica Goodling, a key aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales during the firings of eight U.S. attorneys. She had refused to testify, invoking her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. The 32-6 vote by the House Judiciary Committee surpassed the two-thirds majority required to grant a witness […]

After one season, four public feuds, a few hundred thousand viewers and countless headlines, Rosie O’Donnell is calling it a day on daytime. The larger than life View cohost announced on Wednesday morning’s show that her first season as moderator of the femme-fueled coffee klatch would also be her last, with her tenure scheduled to […]

Here are some advance excerpts: More here.

Bush Administration has redefined the famous challenge of President Kennedy’s inaugural address. Instead of “Ask not what your country can do for you,” it has become “Ask what your government can do for our party.”

Let’s begin with the biggest issue facing our nation: the war in Iraq. We […]

Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001. But if a Republican is elected, he said, especially if it is him, terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped. “If any Republican is elected president —- and […]

It was Bush who sent the troops to invade Iraq with the mission of ridding it of weapons of mass destruction, which he should have known Iraq did not have, and to end ties with al-Qaida that, the record shows, he knew never existed. And it was the Bush administration that micro-managed every aspect of […]

Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich on Tuesday introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney for “high crimes and misdemeanors” related to his participation in the buildup for the war in Iraq — and what the longshot Democratic presidential contender said was belligerent rhetoric toward Iran.

In an 18-page draft resolution, Kucinich outlined three […]

“We will take the evidence where it leads us,” Scott Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel, told The Los Angeles Times. “We will not leave any stone unturned.” But who is Scott Bloch, and should his vow be taken at face value?

The Times story did not provide background on the fellow who will […]

Tonight on MSNBC, fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias revealed key new details about the Office of Special Counsel’s (OSC) probe into Karl Rove and other White House officials reported today by the Los Angeles Times. Iglesias said that on April 3, he filed a Hatch Act complaint with the OSC, charging that Karl Rove and […]

(Doug: Absolutely amazing. On the same day of the Pat Tillman/Jessica Lynch hearings, Cheney declares it’s cynical to honestly declare war is lost because you believe it gives you political advantage. But it’s OK to DIShonestly say the war is going well because you believe it gives you political advantage? (Bit of an oxymoron there, […]

(Doug: This clip runs 16 minutes.)

(Doug: It’s easy, Jessica. They’re inherent liars. Liars lie. Especially when they lie their nation into an unnecessary, impeachable war and they’re trying to prop it up and make it look honorable. In short, they used you Jessica. You were a means to an end. If you’d died in Iraq, guess how many people in […]

Pat Tillman’s brother accused the military Tuesday of “intentional falsehoods” and “deliberate and careful misrepresentations” in portraying the football star’s death in Afghanistan as the result of heroic engagement with the enemy instead of friendly fire. “We believe this narrative was intended to deceive the family but more importantly the American public,” Kevin Tillman told […]

(Doug: All morning, I’ve been listening to one right wing radio talk show host after another demonizing Senator Harry Reid and calling for his recall because he had the nerve to articulate what anyone with any intellectual honesty has known from day one - that the debacle in Iraq is lost. And their rationale in […]

Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for such offenses as discriminating against military personnel or engaging in prohibited political activities.

But the Office of Special Counsel […]

Doug: This film is by past guest on the show, Robert Greenwald, producer of the film “Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers,” which tells the story of Erik Prince and Blackwater, and their consistent profiting from the war. The film tells the story of two young men who are killed as a result of Blackwater […]

A suicide car bomb struck a patrol base northeast of Baghdad on Monday, killing nine U.S. soldiers and wounding 20 in the single deadliest attack on American ground forces in more than a year, the military said.

(Doug: So is impeachment still off the table?)

Doug: Oh… my… God. Of all the delusional O’Lielly tirades, this has got to be one of the best (worst?) Listen to him deride Media Matters, who Shrill calls a “vile, propaganda outfit that specializes in distorting comments made by politicians, pundits and media people.”

Excuse me? Has O’Lielly ever even been to Media Matters web […]

A former U.S. congressional aide was charged with using his position to help disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchange for food, tickets to sporting events, a golf trip to Scotland and the promise of future employment. Mark Zachares, 49, was charged with conspiracy in a criminal information filed in federal court, which indicates the defendant […]

(Doug: This is a followup to these 2 stories we brought you last week, here, and here.)

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act was an intrusion by government into the practice of medicine, said doctors writing for the New England Journal of Medicine.

(Doug: This is a followup to this story we brought you on Friday.)

Under the House impeachment process, Kucinich’s articles would be reviewed by the House Judiciary Committee, which would decide whether to conduct an impeachment inquiry. The committee would seek authority from the entire House before beginning an inquiry.

On July 4, 2003, Carol and Richard Coons had planned to welcome home their son Master Sgt. James Coons, a career soldier who had seen action in Iraq in 2003 and during the first Gulf War. Instead, they found out James was dead. He had committed suicide in his room at Walter Reed Army Medical […]

(Doug: Bush says Gonzo answered “as honestly as he could.” What the Hell does that mean. You either answer honestly, or you don’t. You answer “as honestly as you can” if you’re trying to hide something, yes?)

(Doug: Still think this is a “conservative” country?)

Most Americans are in favor of stricter gun control, but few say it would have done a lot to prevent the shootings last week at Virginia Tech, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. Two-thirds of the adults surveyed Friday through Sunday said the laws covering […]

Further to these 2 wall stories we brought you yesterday: American and Iraqi officials appeared today to be moving away from a plan to build a wall around a mostly Sunni neighborhood here. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said Sunday he was ordering a halt to construction of the wall around the Adhamiya neighborhood. […]

House and Senate negotiators reached agreement on language to begin bringing U.S. troops home as early as this July. The final legislation:

Establishes benchmarks for the government of Iraq, including measurable progress in developing Iraqi security forces, giving U.S. troops more authority to pursue Islamist extremists, establishing a program to disarm militia, pursuing Sunni-Shiite reconciliation initiatives, […]

President Bush has skipped the funerals of the troops he sent to Iraq. He took his sweet time to get to Katrina-devastated New Orleans. But last week he raced to Virginia Tech with an alacrity not seen since he hustled from Crawford to Washington to sign a bill interfering in Terri Schiavo’s end-of-life medical care. […]

(Doug: Just like I asked on Saturday’s show, why are the 32 VA Tech lives any more important than the lives of the soldiers who die in Iraq? The short brutally honest answer that no-one wants to articulate? They’re not. But we act as if they are. Why?)

From Army Sgt. Jim Wilt

Following the deaths of […]

History will be made today when Copperas Cove resident Bill Thomas and his wife, Georgia, present President George W. Bush with a Purple Heart at the Oval Office. Thomas said he and his wife came up with the unprecedented idea to present the president with the Purple Heart over breakfast one morning a few months […]

From Obsidian Wings: For some reason — don’t ask — I was looking at Rush Limbaugh’s web site, and I saw this headline: “Can Any Good Come from V Tech Horror?” followed by this blurb: “Maybe, just maybe, we’ll face the hatred for American traditions and capitalism infesting our campuses.” No, I thought. No, no, […]

“Back in December, the Iraq Study Group said that “the situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating.” Unfortunately, since then nothing has changed. And yet the President on Friday used the word “progress” no fewer than ten times when he gave his Iraq update. Back in December, the Iraq Study Group said that “the situation […]

Part 1

Part 2

The Justice Department is conducting a probe of a $6 billion reading initiative at the center of President Bush’s No Child Left Behind law, another blow to a program besieged by allegations of financial conflicts of interest and cronyism, people familiar with the matter said yesterday.

The disclosure came as a congressional hearing revealed […]

So why hasn’t one man who wants to be the next commander of this global war on terror - Mitt Romney - not asked any of his 5 sons to go fight in it. Massachusetts residents can enlist in the National Guard up to age 39. Romney’s five sons range in age from 24 to […]

(Doug: What’s interesting about this clip is that I found it on the extremely right wing TownHall.com web site. As you know, the right has been orgiastic in their coverage of Baldwin’s message to his daughter.)

The most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq will appear next Wednesday, a 90-minute PBS broadcast called “Buying the War,” which marks the return of “Bill Moyers Journal.” E&P was sent a preview DVD and a draft transcript for the program […]

Latest US/Iraq solution: a three-mile wall

The US military is building a three-mile concrete wall in the centre of Baghdad along the most murderous faultline between Sunni and Shia Muslims. The wall, which recognises the reality of the hardening sectarian divide in Baghdad, is a central part of George Bush’s final push to pacify the capital. […]

The congresswoman had asked for a four- to six-week leave of absence from the House last week to deal with her illness.

In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, “Don’t touch me.” How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unphased, […]

by former Reagan administration official, Paul Craig Roberts.

Neoconservatives have turned the Republican Party into a Brownshirt Party. Look at the evidence. While real patriots flee the party, the remaining supporters cling to power by asserting dictatorial dominance for President Bush. The Republican attorney general denies that the U.S. Constitution provides habeas corpus protection to American […]

(Doug: This clip was featured at White House Correspondents Association Dinner. In the clip, Letterman includes the footage of Bush spitting as he’s walking across the White House lawn. At the end of the clip, they return to the dinner. At the very end, the camera ends up on George W. Bush. If you read […]

A three judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared this week that EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman and other agency officials can’t be held constitutionally liable for making rosy declarations about air quality after the World Trade Center’s destruction.

(Doug: WTF?!)

Gunmen shot and killed 23 members of an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq on Sunday after stopping their bus and separating out followers of other faiths, while at least 20 people were killed in car bombings in the capital.

(Doug: Doing a heckuva job, Bushie.)

“I think everybody would agree that somebody with a psychological problem should not be allowed to purchase a weapon,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy.”

(Doug: Everybody? Most rabid right wingers won’t agree because they know that would prevent them from obtaining their beloved firearms.)

“Certainly, Gonzales is unfit to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. We knew that before he testified on April 19. We knew that before he was even confirmed. No one who signs off on tortured legal memos authorizing torture, kidnapping and illegal detentions is fit to be the attorney general of the United States. […]

Two weeks earlier, Waxman, known as one of the Democrats’ most feared investigators, had asked Card to appear before Congress about the leak of the identity of former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson, but the White House, citing executive branch policy, rejected Waxman’s request. After Card’s appearance, Waxman promptly dashed off a stinging, three-page letter […]

(Doug: Isn’t it funny how republicans call telling the truth going too far? Amazing)

Reid unleashed a flurry of GOP criticism Thursday after saying President Bush, the Secretary of State and others know the war in Iraq is lost but just won’t admit it.

Campaigning in 2000, Texas Gov. George W. Bush would repeatedly raise his right hand as if taking an oath and vow to “restore honor and integrity” to the White House. He pledged to usher in a new era of bipartisanship. Now, with fewer than two years left of his second term, the Bush administration is […]

This clip starts with Bill’s monologue from Fri. April 20, 2007, and then moves to just a wonderful conversation on the media between Maher and “media icon,” Bill Moyers. Enjoy.

How…

Frigging…

Embarrassing.

Film-maker Oliver Stone will direct an advert for a campaign calling for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. A US serviceman or woman, or relatives, will discuss the impact of the war in the ad, as part of the campaign by the MoveOn and VoteVets organisations. “America needs to listen to our servicemen and […]

Crooks and Liars has the video. Again, excellent.

And is this really anybody’s business other than Alec Baldwin’s and his daughter’s and ex-wife’s? Maybe if he wasn’t such a well known liberal?

Yeah, that’s great, but Coburn also rejects that the firings were politically motivated. Just 1/2 a cigar.

Congressman Murtha points out the painfully obvious. The people who say “we are fighting this war” aren’t fighting this war.

When republicans boo something else Frank says, he replies “Oh, Mr. Speaker, I have underestimated the tenderness of the feelings of the members opposite…”

Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces. Training Iraqi troops, which had been the cornerstone of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy since 2005, has […]

Desperate for support among fellow Republicans, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced grim prospects Friday after a bruising Senate hearing that produced one outright call for resignation and a fistful of invitations and hints to quit. One GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, John Cornyn of Texas, predicted Gonzales would weather the furor and said […]

Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up […]

(Doug: When George W. Bush repeats these ridiculous statements, why doesn’t somebody ask him “OK, and whose fault is that, you miserable failure?” Just a thought.)

If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it’s hard to imagine how he could have done a better job, short of simply admitting the obvious: that the firing of eight United States attorneys was a partisan purge. Mr. Gonzales came across […]

Rove supporters Charles and Joan Ritz of Canton watched the protesters for a few minutes as they arrived at the event. “I’m glad we live in a free country where people can protest,” Joan Ritz said. She said she likes Rove because “he’s a friend of the president, and I’m for the president.” (Doug: And […]

The Independent School District of Burleson, Texas, just south of Ft. Worth is the first in the country to adopt a policy of training students to immediately fight back and use their advantage in numbers to take tactical control if a gunman enters their classroom.

The popular online hangout MySpace is entering the news business with a feature that lets its users determine what items other members see.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the former mayor of Cleveland who is seeking the 2008 Democratic nomination for president for the second time, has selected a date to introduce articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.

FBI Raids Rep. Renzi’s Family Business

In a second blow to House Republicans this week, the FBI raided a business tied to the family of Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) Thursday afternoon as part of an ongoing investigation into the three-term lawmaker.

Details of the raid on Patriot Insurance Agency in Sonoita, Ariz., were not immediately available. Renzi’s […]

For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort [and some illegal efforts as well?] to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates, according to former department lawyers and a review of written records. The administration intensified its efforts […]

(Doug: He’s losing it (if indeed, he ever had it). Listen to the plant in the audience (you know this crowd was hand picked) ask the completely loaded question “How do you respond to the rather mistaken notion that Iraq is becoming Vietnam? Written expressly by KKKarl Rove, I suspect.)

To listen to conservative talk radio and television, you’d think 98.5% of America favored sending illegal aliens back to Mexico yesterday. Apparently - as is quite often the case with conservative programs - not so. A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken last weekend found that 78% of respondents feel people now in the country illegally should […]

Women who want a controversial abortion procedure for health reasons have few options beyond going to court and trying to prove that a Supreme Court decision banning the practice should not apply. For women facing serious health risks, that may not be practical.

(Doug: That’s all right. The conservatives on the Supreme Court know better than […]

President George W. Bush and fellow Republicans struggled on Thursday with comparisons between the U.S. wars in Iraq and Vietnam as the Senate’s top Democrat declared the Iraq lost.

“The best way to put this behind us is your resignation,” Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma bluntly told Gonzales, one conservative to another. Gonzales disagreed, rejecting the idea that his departure would put the controversy to rest. Even with the White House offering fresh support, it was a long day for the attorney general. Seventy-one […]

Key senators from both parties appear to have a message for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: You haven’t regained our confidence. At a tough April 19 hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, lawmaker after lawmaker reacted with various degrees of disbelief of or frustration with the attorney general’s explanations of events surrounding the dismissal of […]

Less than a week after the FBI raided the Northern Virginia home of his wife, Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.) gave up his coveted seat on the House Appropriations Committee today amid concerns that he had used that post to advance the interest of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and other allies.

“I understand how the most […]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the war in Iraq is “lost,” triggering an angry backlash by Republicans who said the top Democrat had turned his back on the troops.

(Doug: No, the Bush administration turned its backs on our troops A) when it sent them into an unnecessary war B) without the proper amor/protection […]

Listen to this courageous right wing nut ask when we’re going to start a war with Iran [he says “send a real message to Tehran” - same difference].

Right, with things going south in both Afghanistan and Iraq, with our military essentially broken and abused and being forced to fight without the proper protection/armor they need, […]

Specter: I assume you are well-prepared for this hearing.”
Gonzo: I prepare for every hearing, sir.
Specter: Well, do you prepare for your press conferenced, like the one where you said you had no involvment?”
(Doug: ouch)

You can watch the hearing online at C-Span 3.

(Doug: It’s very funny, but like before, I’m not sure it was meant to be funny. There’s a part of me that thinks it had to be intended to be funny, but - again- I don’t know. Help.)

Cho repeatedly suggests he was picked on or otherwise hurt. “You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience,” he says, apparently reading from his manifesto. “You thought it was one pathetic boy’s life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and […]

Iraq could hold almost twice as much oil in its reserves as had been thought, according to the most comprehensive independent study of its resources since the US-led invasion in 2003. The potential presence of a further 100bn barrels in the western desert highlights the opportunity for Iraq to be one of the world’s biggest […]

Midway through his murderous rampage, the Virginia Tech gunman went to the post office and mailed NBC a package containing photos and videos of him brandishing guns and delivering a snarling, profanity-laced tirade about rich “brats” and their “hedonistic needs.”

“You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today,” 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui says […]

Honorary member of the rodded gender thanks to a conspicuous Adam’s apple and complementary set of brass balls.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority upheld a nationwide ban Wednesday on a controversial abortion procedure in a decision that sets the stage for additional restrictions on a woman’s right to choose. For the first time since the court established a woman’s right to an abortion in 1973, the justices said the Constitution permits a nationwide […]

The FBI has raided the Northern Virginia home of Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.), according to Congressional sources. No details are publicly available yet about the circumstances of the raid, but Doolittle and his wife, Julie, have been under federal investigation for their ties to the scandal surrounding imprisoned former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Doolittle Throws Wife Under […]

“If the United States is going to have a significant component of its ground forces in Iraq over the next five, 10, 15 or 30 years, then the responsible course is for the president and those supporting this open-ended and escalated presence in Iraq to call for reinstating the draft.”

(Doug: Except of course, when has […]

A Virginia court found that Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho was “mentally ill” and dangerous. Then, the state let him go. In 2005, after a district court in Montgomery County ruled that Cho was either a danger to himself or to others, he was evaluated by a state doctor and ordered to undergo outpatient care.

Killer’s […]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is resisting a U.S. House panel’s demand that she testify tomorrow on why President George W. Bush said in a 2003 speech that Iraq sought uranium from Africa.

Waxman, in a letter to the State Department released late today, wrote that he has “postponed the scheduled vote for a subpoena for […]

More false bravado and machismo from right wing cowardly, war cheerleaders. Crooks and Liars has the video.

Car bombs killed nearly 170 people in Baghdad on Wednesday in the deadliest attacks in the city since U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a security crackdown aimed at halting the country’s slide into sectarian civil war. One car bomb alone in the mainly Shi’ite Sadriya neighbourhood killed 118 people and wounded 139, police said. “The […]

Cole headed for the second floor to look for a co-worker. As he walked down the hall, he saw a shape on the floor — a student, covered in blood, his body jerking. Then, from a door about 20 feet away, the black-clad gunman burst out. Gripping the gun in both hands, the man assumed […]

“We took action to limit the availability of guns and we showed a national resolve that the gun culture that is such a negative in the United States would never become a negative in our country,” said Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who staked his political career on promoting tough gun laws after a gunman […]

Lifelong Republican, Marine veteran and former congressman Pete McCloskey has left the GOP and registered with the Democratic Party. McCloskey says he is disgusted with the “succession of ethical scandals, congressmen taking bribes and abuse of power by both the Republican House leadership and the highest appointees of the White House.” “A pox on Republicans […]

Railroad Crossings

(Doug: This can also double as our PSA (public service announcement) of the day. Please be careful. Some of the people in this video weren’t.)

(Doug: Amazing. The man who has singlehandedly ripped this country apart with his bare hands for the past 6 plus years, shows up at VA Tech to unite the country. The man who is responsible for more senseless shootings [bombings] and needless deaths shows up at VA Tech to condemn senseless shootings and needless deaths. […]

The White House and Democrats in Congress are both pushing for emails kept by the Republican National Committee, and the RNC is caught in the middle.

And today, in a letter to the RNC, the White House made their position clear: you have to give them to us first. There “exists a clear and indisputable Executive […]

(Doug: From Laurence Jarvik Online) The crime scene at Virginia Tech was so incompetently handled, the response by Steger such an outrageous CYA bureaucratic bungle, I suspected the Virginia Tech president may have been a Bushie. So I checked it out on the FEC database and learned that indeed, in 2004, Virginia Tech president Charles […]

(Doug: Just using BushCo rhetoric.)

The push by Democrats to set a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq has been helpful in showing the Iraqis that American patience is limited, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

ABC News/Washington Post poll finds 51 percent think U.S. will lose war, 66 percent think Iraq was not worth fight; Dems, Pelosi get higher marks in approval and trust. A bare majority of Americans for the first time believe the United States will lose the war in Iraq, and a new high — two-thirds — […]

A growing number of war opponents complain that Democrats, who now control both the House of Representatives and the Senate, have gone back on their promise to voters last year to end the war outright. The comments of a member of Code Pink, who identified herself only as “Liz from Arizona,” are typical. “I want […]

>
The gunman who massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech university was named yesterday as Cho Seung Hui, 23, a South Korean English student who left behind a “disturbing and angry” suicide note before his rampage. Cho, who moved to the US with his family from South Korea in 1992, was a loner who lived on […]

The U.S. Defense Department ordered a contractor to hire a World Bank employee and girlfriend of then-Pentagon No. 2 Paul Wolfowitz in 2003 for work related to Iraq, the contractor said on Tuesday.

(Doug: Why do I have this nagging suspicion Wolfie’s girlfriend was supremely UNqualified to help rebuild Iraq? And that this was just one […]

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), the most liberal of the Democratic presidential candidates in the primary field, declared in a letter sent to his Democratic House colleagues this morning that he plans to file articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.

Kucinich has made ending the war in Iraq the central theme of his campaign. He […]

The head of an al Qaeda-led group in Iraq said the country has become a “university of terrorism” producing highly qualified warriors since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

(Doug: Gee, I can’t understand why? Sure we’re killing countless thousands of Iraqis, but we’re also liberating them. So what’s the problem?)

Mr Benn said: “In the UK, we do not use the phrase ‘war on terror’ because we can’t win by military means alone and because this isn’t us against one organised enemy with a clear identity and a coherent set of objectives. It is the vast majority of the people in the world … against […]

A South Korean student was named today as the gunman who shot dead 32 people at a university in Virginia yesterday.

University and police officials told a a press conference at Virginia Tech this morning that the gunman was Cho Seung Hui, 23. They said that a 9mm handgun had been recovered that was used in […]

The two-page letter, written on stationery of the American Freedom Agenda, a recently formed body designed to promote conservative legal principles, is blunt. Addressed to both Bush and Gonzales, it goes well beyond the U.S. attorneys controversy and details other alleged failings by Gonzales. “Mr. Gonzales has presided over an unprecedented crippling of the Constitution’s […]

The rhetoric over recent days and this morning makes it clear that Vice President Dick Cheney is still in charge of Iraq policy.

He seems supremely confident that the Democrats can be intimidated into giving the White House the only thing it really wants - enough money to stave off defeat until President George W. Bush […]

President Bush’s staff has talked to Virginia Tech officials about the possibility of Bush visiting campus this week, Tech President Charles Steger said at a press conference this evening.

(Doug: Is there anything this shameless little putz won’t exploit in an attempt to raise his approval ratings? Anything?! The bodies aren’t even cold yet, and […]

Everyone agrees that Danny Dietz died a hero. A statue based on the last photo of Dietz will be unveiled in a park across the street from a playground and elementary school, down the block from a middle school. A small group of parents in this suburb of 41,000 object because they believe it emphasizes […]

Abu Zubaydah, accused of being a senior al-Qaida operative, says he has been a U.S enemy since childhood but isn’t a member of the terrorist group or an associate of Osama bin Laden.

(Doug: Whether this story is true or not, what’s the one word/entity that I have said repeatedly that BushCo has little to no […]

The nationalist Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered his ministers to leave the Iraqi government because of its refusal to set a timetable for US troop withdrawal from Iraq. The departure of the six ministers will weaken the Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, who relied on the support of their movement for a majority in parliament. […]

“Rush (Limbaugh) may not, as Al Franken suggests, be a ‘big, fat idiot,’ but I’m sick of him. The radio show, the television show, the stupid books, and now men’s ties — bold, vibrant, colorful, and all designed to look great with a brown shirt.”

(Doug: I guess it’s OK to talk like this on national television when you belong to the party of morals and family values. Amazing.)

Today, U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) issued the following statement in response to the Justice Department’s failure to comply with the Committee’s subpoena response deadline of 2 p.m. today. The subpoena seeks information the Department has continued to refuse to provide or has provided only in redacted form.

““We are disappointed that […]

The e-mail, which came from Gonzales aide Kyle Sampson, appeared to contradict the prepared written testimony Gonzales submitted to Congress over the weekend in advance of his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. In his prepared testimony, Gonzales said that during the months that his senior staff was evaluating U.S. attorneys, including Lam, “I did not […]

A major government watchdog organization has warned that White House officials, including Karl Rove, could face a number of obstruction of justice charges for the way they used outside e-mail accounts and failed to properly archive e-mails on White House servers.

“[Special Counsel Patrick] Fitzgerald could decide to reopen the case,” said Melanie Sloan, Executive Director […]

(Doug: As I watch the wall-to-wall media coverage of the shooting at VA Tech, I can’t help but reflect on how this would be considered a good day in Iraq.

And not to make light of the situation, but how does that old joke go? “Thirty-two people died today at VA tech, or as Iraqis call […]

(* Again, thanks to JP at Welcome to Pottersville.)

“It’s possible that the only people in this whole sorry story who are not hypocrites are the Rutgers teammates and their coach, C. Vivian Stringer. And perhaps even Don Imus himself, who, while talking way too much about black people he has known and ill children he […]

>
(Doug: JP at Welcome to Pottersville has the story.)

But a funny thing has happened on the Democratic side: the party’s base seems to be more in touch with the mood of the country than many of the party’s leaders.

And the result is peculiar: on key issues, reluctant Democratic politicians are being dragged by their base […]

(Doug: Can somebody please explain to me how this blood thirsty little Bush twit is qualified to condemn senseless shootings and needless deaths? The only person less qualified would be the president of vice, little Dick “5 Deferment” Cheney. And whaddya’ think… will Bush use the word “terror” in his speech?)

At least 32 people were killed and 15 injured in a hail of gunfire at Virginia Tech Monday in the worst school massacre in U.S. history. The rapidly rising death toll included many students as well as the gunman, school spokesmen said.

At least 29 people are dead in what may be the biggest mass killing on a college campus in American history — and the death toll may rise. Police at Virginia Tech, in Blaksburg, Va., said that the shootings happened at a dormitory and a classroom on opposite sides of the university campus. Law enforcement […]

It’s in another language, but it doesn’t matter. This is a visual.

A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 21 people in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history. The gunman was killed but it was unclear if he was shot by police or took his own life. “Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider […]

In some instances, the survey, compared with a similar survey nearly two decades ago, has found that Americans know less. While 69 percent of those surveyed by the Pew Research Center can name the current vice president (Dick Cheney), that’s 5 percent fewer people than could name the vice president in 1989 (Dan Quayle). While […]

You can tell what society values by looking at what it is interested in, by what it spends its time focusing upon. This past week, Americans have NOT been focusing on an unconstitutional war that has violated one of the oldest civilizations and turned into a fiasco, nor the possibility that the US is provoking […]

(Doug: Sick bastards.)

Do you expect the chatter to be any less crass now that CBS Radio gave Don Imus the boot for his racist, sexist comment about the Rutgers’ women’s basketball team? Some media analysts are hopeful. They say Mr. Imus’s firing signals a new awareness on the part of network executives – that while mean-spirited banter […]

A PLATOON of US marine special forces went on a shooting rampage in Afghanistan last month, killing 12 civilians - including a four-year-old girl and a one-year-old boy - and wounding at least 33 others, according to a US military inquiry. (Doug: Hmmm… using Bush administration rhetoric as a guideline here, why does our military […]

Film director Michael Moore has taken Ground Zero responders to Cuba for medical treatment in a bid to show that Fidel Castro’s socialized medicine is better than health care in the U.S., the New York Post reports. The director of “Roger & Me” and “Fahrenheit 9/11″ took the responders to Cuba as part of his […]

Vice President Dick Cheney says he is “willing to bet” that Democratic lawmakers will back down and approve a war-spending bill that doesn’t call for U.S. troops to leave Iraq. Top Democratic leaders shot back that Cheney has lost all public credibility.

(Doug: Yeah, but they didn’t shoot back that Cheney was wrong.)

Ann Coulter is in demand because she appeals so effectively to the mean-spirited and destructively hateful streak a mile wide and countless fathoms deep in the American psyche—a flabby, malleable, and intellectually incurious psychological structure effortlessly programmed by the Borg Hive idiot box. Corporate “entertainment” media, passing as the “news,” feeds ferociously off the piercing […]

Legendary crooner Don Ho, who entertained tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing the catchy signature tune “Tiny Bubbles,” has died. He was 76. He died Saturday morning of heart failure, publicist Donna Jung said. Ho had suffered with heart problems for the past several years, and had a pacemaker installed last fall. In […]

State Police declined to charge the 20-year-old driver of a pickup truck for leaving the scene of a crash that critically injured Gov. Jon Corzine because the man said he was trying to make room for the governor’s motorcade.

(Doug: The rabid right is already launching a pre-emptive strike on any reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, which they call “an attempt to silence conservatives” (like that would be a bad thing?!) And think about it. How can anybody say there against anything that centers around “fairness?” And here’s something else. The right complains all […]

Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to reopen his investigation of Karl Rove’s role in disclosing Valerie Plame Wilson’s status as a covert CIA operative in light of recent revelations about missing White House email. Melanie Sloan, CREW’s executive director, said today, “It looks like Karl Rove […]

He’s calling this the “best freeway sign ever.” He told me, “It’s the leader so far in a ‘public punditry’contest I’m doing with Buzzflash and Michael Moore.com. 60 feet long and only lasted about fifteen minutes, but well worth it according to the artists. Made with cheap latex paint and disposable plastic tablecloths: about ten […]

Karl Rove’s lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that President Bush’s chief political adviser intentionally deleted his own e-mails from a Republican-sponsored server, saying Rove believed the communications were being preserved in accordance with the law.

(Doug: I am forever “accidentally” deleting emails. If you still believe anything out of MC Rove’s mouth [or Bush or […]

In her latest column “Ho Ho Ho, Merry Imus“, Coulter writes “The reason people don’t like what Imus said was because the women on the Rutgers basketball team aren’t engaged in public discourse. They’re not public figures, they don’t have a forum, they aren’t trying to influence public policy.”

(Doug: You got that? If someone is […]

Appearing last night on CNN’s Larry King Live, Al Franken said that firing Don Imus was the “right decision,” but pointed out that CNN has its own anchor who regularly spews hateful and bigoted remarks. “CNN has Glenn Beck on,” Franken told King. Think Progress has the video.

Don Imus’ wife took over his radio fundraiser Friday after CBS fired the host for racist remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. She described Imus’ brief meeting with the team the night before and praised the women as “beautiful and courageous.” “They gave us the opportunity to listen to what they had to say […]

An April 11 article in The Washington Post on the House Judiciary Committee’s decision to subpoena hundreds of Justice Department documents related to the U.S. attorney firings noted that Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) has “joined other members in demanding records and additional information about a federal public corruption case” in Wisconsin. Regarding the case, the […]

New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine may be unable to perform his duties for weeks after he was critically injured in a car wreck while heading to a meeting between fired broadcaster Don Imus and the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, doctors said.

Corzine, 60, underwent emergency surgery at a Camden hospital after suffering fractures to his […]

The White House said Thursday that missing e-mail messages sent on Republican Party accounts may include some relating to the firing of eight United States attorneys.

The disclosure became a fresh political problem for the White House, as Democrats stepped up their inquiry into whether Karl Rove and other top aides to President Bush used the […]

World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz is fighting for his political life as calls mount for his resignation over his involvement in astonishing pay hikes given to his girlfriend by the lender.

“I made a mistake, for which I am sorry,” Wolfowitz told a news conference. But his mea culpa was not enough for the World Bank’s […]

Rahm Emanuel, the chairman of the House Democratic caucus, is urging his House Dem colleagues in a memo not to back down in the face of White House pressure over Iraq and instead to continue to marginalize President Bush by pointing out that he’s weaker than ever and way out of step with public opinion.

(Doug: This Saturday, Lydia and I will discuss the Imus post-mortem with Eric Burns, senior fellow at Media Matters. Here is Media Matter’s report that followed the announcement that CBS had fired Imus.)

On April 11, NBC News announced that it was dropping MSNBC’s simulcast of Imus in the Morning in the wake of the controversy […]

Tony Blair yesterday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture. His remarks angered community leaders, who accused him of ignorance and failing to provide support for black-led efforts to tackle the problem. One accused him of misunderstanding the advice he had […]

Leahy: …”And they say they have not been preserved. I don’t believe that. I don’t believe that. You can’t erase emails; not today…Those emails are there. They don’t want to produce them. It’s like the famous 18 minute gap in the Nixon WH tapes. They say they’ve been erased or misplaced. They’re there. They know […]

Countless e-mails to and from many key White House staffers have been deleted — lost to history and placed out of reach of congressional subpoenas — due to a brazen violation of internal White House policy that was allowed to continue for more than six years, the White House acknowledged yesterday.

The leading culprit appears to […]

CBS fired Don Imus from his radio program Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation’s most prominent broadcasters. Imus initially was given a two-week suspension for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos” on the air last week, but outrage continued to grow and advertisers bolted from his CBS […]

From Slate Magazine

On April 3, 2007, President George Bush threatened to veto a Democratic bill containing timetables for an Iraq withdrawal. We asked 609 voters to watch a clip of the president and record their level of agreement with his remarks via the internet.
Here are the results, organized by party affiliation.

Today, CREW issued a new report, WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White House Emails and Violations of the PRA, and made the shocking new disclosure that the Bush White House has lost over FIVE MILLION e-mails in a two year period. The report also details the legal issues behind the growing controversy over the White […]

A radio station fired its longtime morning DJ today after he encouraged listeners to repeat talk-show host Don Imus’ racially charged comments in an on-air contest.
Gary Smith told WSBG-FM listeners to call and say “I’m a nappy-headed ho” for Tuesday’s “Phrase that Pays” contest, said Rick Musselman, executive vice president of station owner Nassau Broadcasting.

(Doug: […]

The White House said Wednesday it had mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by nearly two dozen presidential aides, resulting in the loss of an undetermined number of e-mails concerning official White House business. (Doug: I’m shocked, I tell you. Just… shocked.)

Congressional investigators looking into the administration’s firing of eight federal prosecutors already had the […]

Nearly two in 10 soldiers who have returned to Fort Carson from Iraq in the past two years have suffered a traumatic brain injury, according to an ongoing study by medical experts at the base.

Since June 2005, 13,400 soldiers in three brigades have been screened for TBI. Fort Carson has found that 178 of every […]

MSNBC said Wednesday it will drop its simulcast of the “Imus in the Morning” radio program, responding to growing outrage over the radio host’s racial slur against the Rutgers women’s basketball team. In a statement, NBC News announced “What matters to us most is that the men and women of NBC Universal have confidence in […]

Iraqi insurgents are being trained in Iran to assemble weapons and Iranian-made weapons are still turning up in Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday. (* Doug: So the Iraqi insurgents - who are primarily Sunni - are being trained in dominantly Shiite Iran? What’s wrong with this picture, except that it’s coming from the […]

Beginning immediately, all active-duty Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will serve 15-month tours — three months longer than the usual standard, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today. “This policy is a difficult but necessary interim step,” Gates told a Pentagon news conference.

(* Doug: No it isn’t necessary - EXCEPT - in the context of […]

Even if talk show host Don Imus survives the storm of protest swirling around him, his employers are already feeling the effects of his racially charged comments last week as advertisers pull out of his nationally distributed radio show.

(* Doug: I’m sorry. This whole media circus over Don Imus is rapidly approaching Anna Nicole levels. […]

var fo = new FlashObject(”http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v001/democratic1.download.akamai.com/8082/flash/webAd_iraq/final_iraq_ad.swf”, “mymovie”, “320″, “280″, “8″, “#000000″, true);
fo.write(”flashcontent”);

Republican leaders across the country say they are growing increasingly anxious about their party’s chances of holding the White House, citing public dissatisfaction with President Bush, the political fallout from the war in Iraq and the problems their leading presidential candidates are having generating enthusiasm among conservative voters.

In interviews on Tuesday, the Republicans said they […]

The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people close to the situation.

At least three retired […]

A federal panel responsible for conducting election research played down the findings of experts who concluded last year that there was little voter fraud around the nation, according to a review of the original report obtained by The New York Times. The revised version echoes complaints made by Republican politicians, who have long suggested that […]

“Funding the troops” has become this idiotic Orwelliani double-speak slogan for politicians on both sides of the aisle. The stark reality — the ugly truth — another “inconvenient truth” if you will — is that “funding the troops” is now a policy of homicide. “Funding the troops” is now equivalent to “killing the troops.” […]

…George W. Bush and the last republican congress has… wait for it… are you ready… here it comes… Plan B!! Anybody believe the people who never even had a Plan A have a Plan B? Anybody?

(* Doug: MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson claims YouTube is censoring conservatives. [Mind you, this video appeared on YouTube?!? But when did a conservative ever let the truth get in the way of their persecution complex?]

Oh no! First, the liberal media, now YouTube! What’s next for poor, persecuted conservatives? Don’t these people ever get tired of whining? […]

An even larger percentage believe White House aides should testify about the matter under oath, poll finds.Most Americans believe Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales should resign because of the controversy over his office’s firing of federal prosecutors, and a big majority want White House aides to testify under oath about the issue, the Los Angeles […]

In this liberal-leaning tourist town known for its handmade turquoise-and-silver jewelry, Joseph Wilson has just bought his wife something special in a downtown shop: a red-and-blue pin that reads, “I’m not anti-Bush. I’m pro-intelligence.” Wilson and his wife, outed CIA spy Valerie Plame, are finally getting a chance to unwind. Three weeks ago, they arrived […]

Despite the fact that the three top contenders (at this point) for the Democratic nomination say they won’t take part in a September debate in Detroit sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and Fox News, the C.B.C. released a statement tonight announcing that it stands by its plan.

(* Doug: What is wrong with these […]

This is part 1.

Here’s part 2.

President Bush, raising the political stakes in his fight with Congress over the war in Iraq, made Democratic leaders an offer they could and did refuse – come to the White House to accept his demand for continued, unfettered funding of the war. “We can discuss the way forward on a bill that is a […]

(* And as we predicted weeks ago, it’s none other than… [* trumpet fanfare *]… Khalid Sheik Mohammed (the Forrest Gump of terrorism), who admitted to just about everything else that’s happened in America since the Industrial Revolution, including being second gunman on the grassy knoll; the killer of Nicole Brown Simpson, Bonnie Lee Bakely […]

(* Doug: Watch and listen to Abrams slam conservatives for their victim mentality [altho’ he doesn’t use that exact phrase] and their ridiculous claim that “If a Conservative has said what Imus said” canard. This bit also features past guest on this show, Paul Waldman. *)

President Bush will again veto a bill to subsidize stem cell research using human embryos, but would sign an alternative that permits public funding for studies on embryos incapable of developing into fetuses, the White House said Tuesday. Both bills are moving toward a Senate vote this week with a debate over a budding science […]

The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales today seeking hundreds of pages of new or uncensored records related to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year, officials said.

It is the first subpoena to be served on the Bush administration in connection with the dismissals and escalates the confrontation […]

(* Doug: And make no mistake folks. Everyone on this panel knows damn well what they’re saying is untrue. They know that the media has become corporatized and by proxy, conservative friendly.

But they also know that “conservative victimization” is a guaranteed “push-button” rallying cry for their dumbed down, brainwashed base. And so they keep playing […]

Holbrooke: “I think this whole thing has been blown out of proportion by a deliberate ambush plan by the opposition — in this case the Republicans — and, frankly, exploited by journalists who are just looking for a controversy. There is no issue here. Congressman Wolf, a major Republican, was in the region a few […]

Pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical may have sickened or killed 39,000 cats and dogs nationwide, based on an extrapolation from data released Monday by one of the nation’s largest chains of veterinary hospitals.

Monica Goodling has a problem. As senior counsel to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Justice Department liaison to the White House, Goodling no longer seems to know what the truth is. She must also be increasingly unclear about who her superiors are. This didn’t used to be a problem for Goodling, now on indefinite leave […]

Jackie and Dunlap on the Louisiana fifth graders accused of having sex with each other in their classroom.

(* Doug: Hardly. This piece is well worth a watch. Enjoy. *)

And then there were three. Three leading Dem candidates who have pulled out of the Fox/Congressional Black Caucus debate. Hillary Clinton has now confirmed that she’s not participating in the debate, joining John Edwards, who pulled out on Friday, and Barack Obama, who pulled out today.

Tens of thousands draped themselves in Iraqi flags and marched peacefully through the streets of two Shi’ite holy cities yesterday to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad’s fall. Demonstrators were flanked by two cordons of police as they called for US forces to leave, shouting: “Get out, get out occupier.”

Update: White House Tells Press: Huge […]

CBS Radio and MSNBC both said they were suspending Don Imus’ morning talk show for two weeks following his reference last week to members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.” The suspension begins April 16. MSNBC said it believed this was the appropriate response based on Imus’ regret for making the inappropriate […]

Barack Obama has chosen not to attend September’s Democratic presidential primary debate co-sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and Fox News, an aide said, effectively dooming the event. Obama is the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus running for President, and his decision allows other candidates to skip the debate without facing criticism […]

After receiving what he deemed an insufficient response from the State Department, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) is reiterating his request for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to appear before the panel on April 18 to answer questions about administration claims that Iraq tried to buy enriched uranium from Niger.

On “FAUX Noise Sunday,” Chris Wallace confronted Newt Gingrich with the statements he made in 1997 on a trip to China in which he directly contradicted President Clinton’s policy regarding Taiwan. Crooks and Liars has the video.

Last week, Wallace held republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s feet to the fire over AttorneyGate.

In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation’s “shocking” mismanagement of his country, a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had “turned their backs on their would-be liberators.” “The corroded and corrupt state of Saddam was replaced by the corroded, […]

Newt Gingrich is joining the list of Republicans calling for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Gingrich appeared on “Fox News Sunday” and criticized Gonzales’ judgment in allowing the firings of eight U-S attorneys to become a political scandal.

(* Doug: Now he’s still calling AttorneyGate an “artificial mess,” but… *)

Listen to Keith’s guest, Roger Cressey call Cheney’s supporters “a small band of fellow KoolAid drinkers. Or how Cheney adds 2 + 2 and comes up with 2,000.

When Don Imus called the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos” this week, he seemed to think nothing of it. It was just another in a long line of comments in which Imus makes people the butt of his jokes because of their race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation or any other trait. But the controversy […]

JP at Welcome to Pottersville has the story.

As if to confirm we’re in the last throes, President Bush threw any remaining caution to the winds during his news conference in the Rose Garden that same morning. Almost everything he said was patently misleading or an outright lie, a sure sign of a leader so entombed […]

Thousands of Iraqis streamed to the holy southern city of Najaf on Sunday in response to a call by fiery Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr for a big anti-American protest on Monday. Pope Benedict, in his Easter message, lamented the conflict. “Nothing positive comes from Iraq, torn apart by continual slaughter as the civil population flees,” […]

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said Democrats may be ready to compromise in the showdown with President George W. Bush over linking funding for U.S. troops in Iraq with a timetable for withdrawal. Should Bush veto war-funding legislation that sets a limit on the U.S. military presence, Levin said the majority Democrats likely […]

For standing up to Shrill O’Lielly, Keith Olbermann names Geraldo Rivera “Best Person in the World.”

If you missed it, here’s the original scream fest between O’Lielly and Rivera, as posted here a few days ago.

MY WIFE came into the living room wearing a Kevlar vest, helmet and night-vision goggles.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

“Have you completely forgotten, silly head? We’re going to the market.“

I placed my hand at my head. I’d been so caught up in stitching a minor wound I’d received earlier in the day after going […]

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday pulled out of a second debate co-hosted by Fox News Channel, saying the cable network has a conservative slant. The Edwards campaign said it will not attend the September 23 debate in Detroit hosted by Fox News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, but officials added that Edwards […]

Cheney Reasserts al-Qaida-Saddam Link

Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions of al-Qaida links to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq on Thursday as the Defense Department released a report citing more evidence that the prewar government did not cooperate with the terrorist group.

No link between Iraq and al-Qaeda

Interrogations of Saddam Hussein and seized documents confirmed the former Iraqi […]

The US offered to take military action on behalf of the 15 British sailors and marines held by Iran, including buzzing Iranian Revolutionary Guard positions with warplanes, the Guardian has learned. In the first few days after the captives were seized and British diplomats were getting no news from Tehran on their whereabouts, Pentagon officials […]

And just in case you miss the original Bonanza theme song, here it is.

For all the talk about potential candidates who haven’t entered the 2008 presidential race — from Mayor Bloomberg to Vice President Gore to Senator Thompson and Speaker Gingrich — the one that who would bring the most to the race is Vice President Cheney. (* Doug: Yeah, but everything he brings… is bad. He is […]

It’s a major shakeup at the offices of new U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose. Four of her top staff voluntarily demoted themselves Thursday, fed up with Paulose, who, after just months on the job, has earned a reputation for quoting Bible verses and dressing down underlings.

Deputy U.S. Attorney John Marty is just one of the […]

The top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales abruptly quit on Friday, almost two weeks after telling Congress she would not testify about her role in the firings of federal prosecutors.
“I am hereby submitting my resignation to the office of attorney general,” Monica Goodling said in a three-sentence letter. There was no immediate reason given, […]

Economic conditions for workers are deteriorating so dramatically in the new American economy that an overwhelming majority, nearly 70 percent, now say that basic security – not opportunity – is their number one concern, according to a new survey released today. The finding is a stunning reflection of the anxiety, anger and demand for action […]

Mitt-wit Romney plays “word association” with FAUX Noise’s Sean Hasn’t Any. Calls George W. Bush a “man of character” and little Dick Cheney a “man of resolve and strength.” Go far, far away, Mitt-wit. *)

With George W. Bush struggling to stay relevant in his final 22 months in the White House, his administration is looking more and more like the incredible shrinking presidency.

He finds himself increasingly hemmed in by public approval ratings stuck in the low 30 percent range, a hostile Democratic majority in Congress and an unpopular war […]

The Army’s rush to carry out President George W. Bush’s order to send thousands of additional troops more quickly to Iraq is forcing two of the five new brigades bound for the war to skip standard training at Fort Irwin, Calif.

These soldiers aren’t getting the benefit of participating in war games on the wide […]

Coming on the heels of a controversial “surge” of 21,000 U.S. troops that has stretched the Army thin, the Defense Department is preparing to send an additional 12,000 National Guard combat forces to Iraq and Afghanistan, defense officials told NBC News on Thursday.

The deployment is sure to ignite a firestorm on Capitol Hill, where Democrats […]

(* But now that he works for FAUX Noise, any “conspiracy theory” talk that questions the Bush administration - such as Rosie O’Donnell - is cause for firing. Can you say “stinking hypocrite?” *)

(* This is a longer version that begins with Keith Olbermann’s intro to the bit, along with a goodly amount of footage from George W. Bush’s press conference. *)

(* And to his credit, Geraldo screams his ass off back! *)

The captain in charge of the 15 marines detained in Iran has said they were gathering intelligence on the Iranians. Sky News went on patrol with Captain Chris Air and his team in Iraqi waters close to the area where they were arrested - just five days before the crisis began.

Captain Air and his team […]

On NBC’s Meet the Press this past Sunday, you said this about Carol Lam, the US Attorney for San Diego who was fired by the Justice Department in December, “She was a former law professor, no prosecutorial experience, and the former campaign manager in Southern California for Clinton. First of all, uh, NO, she wasn’t.”

(* […]

Another federal investigation is targeting a Bush administration official, this time for possibly using government resources for partisan political purposes. The Office of Special Counsel confirmed to ABC News it has launched an investigation into General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan, probing concerns she may have violated a ban against conducting partisan political activity at […]

In the upcoming issue of Time magazine, out Friday, columnist Joe Klein considers what he calls the Bush administration’s “epic collapse.” He concludes with a statement that may make some wonder if he is hinting that the president ought to be impeached. Klein claims, in referring to the president, that he has “tried to be […]

Iran has released the British sailors - unharmed - and they’ve been reunited with their families. So what’s the big topic of discussion regarding this “hostage release” situation - both in Britain and here in America (like it’s any of our business)? Who won. Did Iran win? Or did Britain win? Who won? And the […]

… Boyd said that partway through the semester, Marsden sent him an e-mail saying that it was going so well, she thought he should be able to grade her. When he refused, he claimed, she began phoning and e-mailing him frequently, asking him out, and “showing up after talks I gave in the community, or […]

Potrero, California boasts a broad swath of meadowland that currently houses derelict chicken coops. Surrounded by the Cleveland National Forest, the property boasts a former chicken ranch and includes an environmentally sensitive, protected agricultural preserve southeast of San Diego.

But if private security contractor Blackwater USA gets its way, this 850-strong community will soon host an […]

Democrats and Republicans are at odds on whether to use President Bush’s catchall phrase “global war on terrorism” when talking about the billions of dollars spent each year in Iraq and elsewhere. A new internal memo by a senior Democratic staff member urged aides to drop the term from their legislative dictionaries because it was […]

(* Like I’ve said so many times… let Bush veto a bill that demands our troops be ready before he ships them to die for his lies. *)

Two soldiers killed in Iraq in February may have died as a result of friendly fire, Army officials said Wednesday, not from enemy fire, as the press […]

(* Just remember. FAUX Noise’s job isn’t to report the “news.” Their job is to demonize anybody who criticizes republicans. That they are even allowed to incorporate the word “news” into their logo is a black stain on this country’s credibility. *)

Presidential candidate Tommy Thompson said Wednesday that he wants the Iraqi government to vote on whether the U.S. should keep its troops there. “I’m confident they will, but … if they do vote no — they don’t want us there — we should get out,” Thompson said, drawing applause.

(* Is Mr. Thompson aware that George […]

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defused a growing confrontation with Britain, announcing the surprise release of 15 captive British sailors Wednesday and then gleefully accepting the crew’s thanks and handshakes in what he called an Easter gift.

Update
Syria Says They Helped Iran/Britain Dispute

President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox’s nomination. Democrats had denounced Fox for his 2004 donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group’s TV ads, which claimed that Sen. John Kerry exaggerated […]

(* From John Amato at Crooks and Liars *) Phoenix Fox 10 News runs a poll to see who is “the most foolish American” and the host proclaims—Britney Spears the winner! That wouldn’t be surprising except that the real winner of the poll was George W. Bush. Check out the screen shot that […]

(* When George W. Bush held his press conference yesterday to criticize Democrats for “not funding the troops”(the bill they sent him absolutely funds the troops), did you see little Dick “5 Deferment” Cheney “lurking” in the background? Or, as the media described it “lurking behind a shrub?” You talk about both a literal and […]

Here’s a first glimpse at the cover of Out magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America” issue. Those are models holding Jodie Foster and Anderson Cooper masks on the cover. Neither, of course, would appear themselves.

The USS Nimitz and several other American warships left San Diego today for the Persian Gulf to join another locally based aircraft carrier strike group already in the region. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will join the San Diego-based John C. Stennis Strike Group and relieve the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, according to Naval Air Forces […]

Syria on Tuesday hailed what it called the “courageous position” taken by Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, after President George W. Bush criticised the Democrat’s trip to Damascus. Ms Pelosi arrived on Tuesday for what is the highest level visit by a US official in more than two years. She is […]

(* If FAUX Noise [and the rest of the media] would spend even a fraction of the time reporting the truth that they do attacking someone who’s critical of the Bush administration… well, I guess they wouldn’t be FAUX Noise.

One of the most insidious ways the rabid right has demonized the left has been to […]

Some 33 years after Richard Nixon left the White House in disgrace and some 13 years after he died, why are we still allowing Nixon to drive our debate over what to do next in Iraq? It was reported today that respected historian Robert Dallek has a new book out on Nixon and Henry Kissinger, […]

It was 3 a.m. in Italy on Jan. 29, 2003, when President Bush in Washington began reading his State of the Union address that included the now famous — later retracted — 16 words: “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”

Like most Europeans, Elisabetta Burba, an […]

(* Heck, I still remember the time I ordered those bogus “X-Ray Glasses” as a kid. *)

Researchers using nanotechnology have taken a step toward creating an “optical cloaking” device that could render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside this “cloak.” The Purdue University engineers, following mathematical guidelines devised in 2006 by physicists […]

“The falling of the twin towers served to remind me that many of the assumptions Americans have about their lives are rooted in false feelings of security. In light of this reminder, I have begun doing exactly what this country, at its best, allows for me to do: inquire. Investigate. America is great in so […]

A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 British sailors and Marines.

Early on the morning of 11 January, helicopter-born US forces launched a surprise raid on a […]

High Court Rebukes Bush on Car Pollution

The Supreme Court rebuked the Bush administration Monday for its inaction on global warming in a decision that could lead to more fuel-efficient cars as early as next year. The court, in a 5-4 ruling in its first case on climate change, declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse […]

The Pentagon said on Monday it will send another 9,000 U.S. troops to Iraq, with about half of them returning to combat ahead of schedule, in order to maintain troop levels in its new security crackdown through at least August. Two of the affected Army units, totaling about 4,500 troops, will return to combat short […]

(* Yesterday it was Matthew Dowd. Today it’s Vic Gold, author of the new book “Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP.” This is the guy who also wrote the official bios of the new pResident and first lady. Gold was a good friend of Lynne Cheney, in […]