More Less Chalabi Not only is Chalabi ambiguous at best about the intelligence he may or may not have provided to the US, now the US is ambiguous about the intelligence it did not get from Chalabi. Or, as Josh Marshall writes, Ask not for whom the memory-hole sucks, Ahmed; it sucketh for you … […]
No Questions Apparenlty, no matter how friendly the audience, Bush doesn’t feel like answering any questions: In a 45-minute pep rally in a basement conference room under the West Front of the Capitol, Mr. Bush told more than 200 House and Senate Republicans that the United States was firmly committed to transferring power to the […]
Gmail Having nearly filled my Yahoo inbox, I’m transitioning to Google’s new email service, Gmail (it’s still in Beta, but apparently Google decided to let bloggers get in early.) My new email address will be is angrybear@gmail.com, which is much easier to type than angrybearblog@yahoo.com, so I’m expecting lots of mail. I’ll keep checking the […]
Chalabi By now, you’ve all seen the big Chalabi news. There’s a post I wanted to write last night but didn’t because PRI’s The World doesn’t publish transcripts. In any case, the reporter (Lisa Mullins?) was interviewing the soon-to-be-raided Chalabi. Since it’s rather timely now, I offer the following loose paraphrase of the interview: Mullins: […]
Tax Cuts = Support the Troops? Earlier, I wrote about a proposal by House Republicans (which includes Hastert, of course) to extend the income limit for the $1,000 child credit from $110,000 to $250,000. Now, reading the Hastert/McCain exchanges that Kash just posted, I see that Hastert has the gall to basically claim that tax […]
McCain v. Hastert Some quotes from their exchanges in recent days, as reported in the Washington Post: The nasty exchange between McCain and Hastert began with a comment the senator made at a think-tank conference on the budget deficit on Tuesday. “My friends, we are at war. Throughout our history, wartime has been a time […]
Bush Campaign Spending Wow. They really have been spending their money like crazy. From today’s The Note: ABC News’ Karen Travers reports that according to the Bush-Cheney ’04’s April FEC report, the campaign has officially hit the $200 million mark for total fundraising. As of April 30, BC04 had $71.6 million in cash on hand, […]
Economist Running the Show This week saw a triumph for a practitioner of the dismal science in the world’s second largest country. Singh is actually a very credible and well-respected economist; but running a government is something else entirely. I wish him luck. Kash
The Government as Bush Campaign Tool We all know that Bush has taken this art form to new levels in the past year. Yesterday the GAO took the first concrete steps to try to curb this practice, finding that the White House’s Medicare propaganda videos are illegal. Of course, whether this finding will make any […]
Fiscal Discipline … … or rather the lack thereof: House and Senate Republican negotiators have produced a [pay as you go] measure that is essentially make-believe. It purports to require that tax cuts or spending increases be paid for with offsetting tax increases or spending cuts. It pretends to impose that rule for the next […]