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Lugar: White House political briefings were
‘inappropriate.’

post from Think Progress on 24 July 2007 04:31:00 PM. © Think Progress

Today in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) said that the political briefings given by Bush aides to high-ranking diplomats “were probably inappropriate.” The AP notes that Lugar’s statements “were in contrast to White House assertions that the private briefings were not unusual or improper.”

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George Bush and the Boy Who Cried
“Wolf!”

post from All Spin Zone on 24 July 2007 04:26:00 PM. © All Spin Zone

Today, George Bush again raised the specter of terrorists plotting to nuke you in your bed. But like the boy in the Aesop's fable, no one is listening anymore.

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Gonzales Stonewalls on President Involvement in
Hospital Visit

post from TPMmuckraker on 24 July 2007 04:19:25 PM. © TPMmuckraker

Alberto Gonzales refused to answer Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) question of whether President Bush had dispatched then-White House chief of staff Alberto Gonzales and chief of staff Andrew Card to...

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Gonzales Stonewalls on Bush's Involvement in
Hospital Visit

post from TPMmuckraker on 24 July 2007 04:19:25 PM. © TPMmuckraker

Alberto Gonzales refused to answer Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) question of whether President Bush had dispatched then-White House chief of staff Alberto Gonzales and chief of staff Andrew Card to...

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Mall of America

post from Eschaton on 24 July 2007 04:19:00 PM. © Eschaton

Please kill me.

This month, Bachmann traveled to Iraq, and despite more GOP defections from Bush's base of support, she returned as firm as ever in her conviction that the war is justified. Al-Qaida, she said, "doesn't show any signs of letting up." The congressional delegation met with Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander in Iraq, in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces.

What was the palace like?

"It's absolutely huge," she said. "I turned to my colleagues and said there's a commonality with the Mall of America, in that it's on that proportion. There's marble everywhere. The other thing I remarked about was there is water everywhere. He had man-made lakes all around his personal palace -- one for fishing, one for boating."

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Norman Solomon: Media Corrections We'd Like to
See

post from BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash on 24 July 2007 04:17:08 PM. © BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
By Norman Solomon

Former readers of Mad Magazine can remember a regular feature called "Scenes We'd Like to See." It showed what might happen if candor replaced customary euphemisms and evasions. These days, what media scenes would we like to see? Technorati Tags: Guest Contribution Norman Solomon MSM right-wing media Mad Magazine Scenes We'd Like to See

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Tragedy

post from Eschaton on 24 July 2007 04:17:00 PM. © Eschaton

Andrew Cohen:

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales deserves to be fired for his testimony Tuesday alone; for morphing into Jon Lovitz's famous "pathological liar" character (or maybe just one of the Marx Brothers) as he tried to dodge and duck responsibility before the Senate Judiciary Committee not just for his shameful leadership at Justice but also his shameless role in visiting an ailing John Ashcroft in the hospital to try to strong-arm him into renewing the warrantless surviellance program. Can anyone out there remember a worse, less-inspiring, less confidence-inducing performance on Capitol Hill? I cannot.

No reasonable person watching Gonzales' tragically comedic performance Tuesday's on Capitol Hill-- especially his miserable exchange with Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) in late morning-- can any longer defend his appalling lack of competence, courage and credibility. And no one who hears him say that he is what's best for the Department right now should forget that on the eve of his testimony (and a few days after he urged his subordinates to work diligently to regain their morale) the nation's top law enforcement official reportedly left work early to go for a bike ride Monday afternoon-- at about 3:50 p.m.

I am running out of words to describe how inept this public servant is and how awful is the message our government sends to the nation and to the world by allowing him to continue to represent us.

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Cheney biographer Hayes' pattern of falsely
defending the Bush administration's Iraq policy

post from Media Matters for America on 24 July 2007 04:15:28 PM. © Media Matters for America

On the July 23 broadcast of NBC's Today, co-host Matt Lauer interviewed Weekly Standard writer Stephen F. Hayes, author of the forthcoming biography Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President. Lauer noted that Vice President Dick Cheney "does not like to do a lot of interviews, does not like to talk about himself, does not like to share personal feelings, and yet he sat down for 30 hours of interviews with you." Lauer continued: "You've[...]

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Gonzo Vows To Fix Justice Dept.s Image

YahooNews (h/t NonnyMouse)Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says he’s staying at the Justice Department to try to repair its broken image, telling Congress in a statement released Monday he’s troubled that politics may have played a part in hiring career federal prosecutors.[..]In his written testimony, Gonzales touted the department’s focus on terrorists, violent crime [...]

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How to Cancel PayPal Subscriptions

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