Some links, some snark, and thee.
The Senate have agreed with the House - they're going to subpoena the White House crews lying, cheating asses if they don't come quietly. My advice to Dem leaders - if Trent Lott is saying you're overplaying your hand then you're playing your hand exactly right!
Yet more proof that the Bush administration thinks Nixon was the good guy, via TPM:
"The executive branch is under no compulsion to testify to Congress, because Congress in fact doesn't have oversight ability." - Tony Snow, today's Press Conference.
I predict that in 20 or 50 years time, that quote will still be appearing in the history books. Snow is not coming out well from his brushes with reporters over AttorneyGate - Crooks and Liars has a vid clip to illustrate.
Sidney Blumenthal at the Guardian (or Salon, same column) looks at why the US attorneys were fired and calls the whole episode another hit by the "Godfather White House".
Local tribesmen with Taliban links and outsider Uzbecks with Al Qaeda links are fighting among themselves in Pakistan over who has the bigger Kalashnikov. Musharaff immediately claimed it as a success for his counter-terror efforts but this time even the rightwingers aren't fooled (and I've seen reports that the Taliban have dispatched negotiators to the area to patch up a truce).
Meanwhile the lawyer's revolt against Musharaff's dictatorship continues. On Tuesday an eighth judge and the government's deputy attorney general resigned in protest in protest at Musharraf's removal of the chief justice. The WaPo today ran an op-ed which clearly said it was time to abandon the lame duck dictator and give democracy another chance. Will Bush listen or will he fear depriving his arms corporation friends of lucrative contracts more than he fears a nuclear armed Moslem state sliding into chaos? What a no-brainer...of course the arms dealers will win.
I want to extend my best wishes to Elizabeth Edwards. From someone who has lost a loved one to cancer after hoping they were cured, I sincerely hope she beats it.
I know I'm going to take flack about this but I really think Edwards is wrong to keep running the nominee race under the circumstances.
Just out - "A Democratic plan requiring President George W. Bush to start pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq within four months advanced on Thursday, winning approval by a Senate committee." It's really not been a good week for the Decider, has it? Good!
He wants to be the Decider for what other nations do too - US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack has warned Italy about its policy of getting it's people back when they are kidnapped by terrorists, saying "we expect that concessions
will not be made in the future."
How many people in the US noticed that, yesterday, the socialist in charge of Britain's economy decided he could afford, with inflation dropping below 2% and growth at almost 3%, to cut the basic rate of tax by 2%?
Tell a rightwinger today and watch his head explode.
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