Lesson From the Imus Affair

post from All Spin Zone on 12 April 2007 05:31:00 PM. © All Spin Zone

He got canned from CBS Radio just in the last hour or so. Canned. Gone. Kaput. And surely that is a good thing. CBS fired Don Imus from his radio show Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation’s most prominent broadcasters.Imus initially was suspended for [...]

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Jon Stewart Evaluates the 08 Republican Field

post from Crooks and Liars on 12 April 2007 05:30:32 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart ran through the GOP frontrunners and evaluated their electoral prospects. The jab at Senator Kerry at the end is hysterical.&nbspDownload (718)&nbsp| Play (726) &nbspDownload (233)&nbsp| Play (484)

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Advice and Consent

post from Firedoglake on 12 April 2007 05:30:20 PM. © Firedoglake

I've been thinking a lot about the Democrats' refusal to take Advice and Consent seriously of late. It's partly to blame for the whole, ugly, USA Purge.In his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee investigating the USA Purge,[...]

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Sen. Collins Rails Against ‘Out Of
State’ Iraq Ads, Accepts $10K Of ‘Out Of State’ Money

post from Think Progress on 12 April 2007 05:23:00 PM. © Think Progress

Last week, Americans United for Change launched an ad campaign highlighting how several key senators, including Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), had voted against beginning the redeployment of U.S. forces out of Iraq.The ad highlights how Collins hypocritically voted to give President Bush a blank check in Iraq despite having argued previously that “the Senate go [...]

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Sen. Collins Rails Against ‘Out Of
State’ Iraq Ads, Accepts $10K In ‘Out Of State’ Money

post from Think Progress on 12 April 2007 05:23:00 PM. © Think Progress

Last week, Americans United for Change launched an ad campaign highlighting how several key senators, including Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), had voted against beginning the redeployment of U.S. forces out of Iraq.The ad highlights how Collins hypocritically voted to give President Bush a blank check in Iraq despite having argued previously that “the Senate go [...]

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NBC’s Brian Williams on bloggers:

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“You’re going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I’m up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn’t left the efficiency apartment in two years.”

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Rove Emails Missing from RNC Server

post from TPMmuckraker on 12 April 2007 05:18:37 PM. © TPMmuckraker

In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asked that the Justice Department retain all emails received or sent to a White House official's RNC-issued...

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Marjorie Cohn: U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights:
The New Watergate

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A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Marjorie Cohn

The Bush administration is shocked, shocked, that the firing of a few U.S. attorneys has caused such a stir in Washington. After all, the Oval Office says, the President can choose whomever he wants to prosecute federal cases. But the Supreme Court declared in Berger v. United States that a prosecutor's job is to see that justice is done, not to politicize justice. The mass ouster of the top prosecutors had more to do with keeping a grip on power - by manipulating voting rights - than with doing justice. And like the Watergate scandal, the evidence points to a cover-up.

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RNC has no Rove emails pre-2005.

TPM Muckraker highlights a portion from this letter today from Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) to Alberto Gonzales:Mr. Kelner’s briefing raised particular concems about Karl Rove, who according to press reports used his RNC accountfor 95% of his communications. According to Mr. Kelner, although the hold started in August 2004, the RNC does not have any [...]

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Iraqi Tet

The Iraq and Vietnam wars are sometimes eerily similar. Both wars were based on non-existent threats and the foolhardy arrogance and accompanying ignorance of American politicians and policy makers. And like the Vietnam War, the Iraq War has taken on a decidedly un-winnable feel.

It?s not difficult to find other parallels, but today?s news of a suicide bombing inside the Iraqi parliament practically screams, ?Pay attention, America, it?s Vietnam all over again!?

Why? Because it is so reminiscent of the Tet Offensive.

Conservatives are quick to point out that the Tet Offensive was technically a military loss for the Viet Cong; historians generally agree with that assessment. But historians also point out that American public opinion was so affected by Tet, not because it was perceived as a military loss for America, but because it demonstrated the enemy's will to fight at a time when the White House and Pentagon were claiming that real progress was being made. For many Americans, Tet meant one of two things: the White House and the Pentagon were either deluded or dishonest in their assessment of conditions in Vietnam.

President Bush and the Iraq War?s other ardent supporters have been telling Americans ? lecturing, really ? that progress is being made in Iraq and that to talk of withdrawing now is to quit just when we?re on the verge of winning. Then a suicide bomber penetrates the most heavily fortified area of Baghdad and blows himself up in the midst of a group of Iraqi lawmakers having lunch in their own parliament building, killing at least eight people, including a few of the lawmakers.

It is increasingly clear that America can not ?save face? in Iraq. We can stay, but that?s not likely to help, and it will cost us dearly. We can leave, but that will leave ordinary Iraqis at the mercy of terrorists and sectarian militias, and it will cost us dearly.

We?re stuck. All we can do is hope for the best. But we owe it to ourselves, our soliders and the world to remember that we shouldn?t have been there in the first place.

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