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 [email protected], which is much easier to type than [email protected], 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 […]
Crediting Wonkette As I MUST. She’s got the right take on Wolfowitz’s testimony yesterday: Paul Wolfowitz fesses up on why Iraq isn’t going so well: “We had a plan that assumed we’d have basically more stable security conditions than we’ve encountered.” Among those assumptions: That Iraq was a magical country, where lollipops grew on trees […]
Almost Missed This One Via TBogg, this story from the Washington Post: The House would not only make permanent the $1,000-per-child tax credit enacted as part of the 2001 tax cut but would dramatically increase the income limits for eligibility. Currently, married families with incomes of up to $110,000 receive the full credit; the bill […]