Yes, dear readers, I must go out for a few hours. Possible discussion topics while I'm gone:
1) Who has the awesomest/shittiest blogs
2) Mac or PC?
3) City mouse, country mouse?
4) Edwards vs Obama
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Rudy!
While Rudy is still implying that those fine conservative judges he'd appoint might well overturn Roe v. Wade, he just made pretty clear what he thinks the law should be:
Even the first sentence and a half could be construed as being prefaced by "Given the currrent Supreme Court Ruling," but the last part isn't connected to that:
There you go.
...and, he supports public funding for abortion.
I'm still curious about the all important Matt Drudge primary. Drudge has long hated McCain, though whether that's still true I have no idea (his fronting with McCain's forehead spot suggests he still does). Drudge is extremely anti-abortion, so it's hard to see how he doesn't start ragging on St. Rudy too, as well as Multiple Choice Mitt.
But it is your choice, an individual right. You get to make that choice, and I don't think society should be putting you in jail.
Even the first sentence and a half could be construed as being prefaced by "Given the currrent Supreme Court Ruling," but the last part isn't connected to that:
I don't think society should be putting you in jail.
There you go.
...and, he supports public funding for abortion.
I'm still curious about the all important Matt Drudge primary. Drudge has long hated McCain, though whether that's still true I have no idea (his fronting with McCain's forehead spot suggests he still does). Drudge is extremely anti-abortion, so it's hard to see how he doesn't start ragging on St. Rudy too, as well as Multiple Choice Mitt.
Richard Gere Talks to Diane Sawyer
Your liberal media:
RICHARD GERE ('THE HOAX")
This is just the beginning because it goes further and further into madness, into crazy political stuff. And...
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) And what's real and not real.
RICHARD GERE ('THE HOAX")
I think with some real resonance about today as well.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) Yeah.
RICHARD GERE ('THE HOAX")
Presidents who lie, cabinets who lie, you know, all kinds of fiddling...
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) You're on your own here, you know?
RICHARD GERE ('THE HOAX")
I know that. You weren't gonna come back at all.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) No. I'm not.
RICHARD GERE ('THE HOAX")
No. And we have two wars too. There's a resonance with the Vietnam War and there's a resonance with the war in Iraq.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) Hmm.
RICHARD GERE ('THE HOAX")
Two wars that started with lies.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) And...
RICHARD GERE ('THE HOAX")
You're not gonna go there with me?
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) No, I'm not. I'm going to just put up a little...
RICHARD GERE ('THE HOAX")
Why not?
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) ...'The commentary is the view of the, of Mr. Gere and not this, certainly, this network." Anyway, I wanna ask about Homer, age seven.
Very Simple
Froomkin:
"The bottom line is this," Bush said. "Congress's failure to fund our troops on the front lines will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines. And others could see their loved ones headed back to the war earlier than they need to. That is unacceptable to me, and I believe it is unacceptable to the American people."
There's so much to unpack just in that one paragraph alone. For one, strictly speaking it's not Congress that would be failing to fund the troops, it would be Bush's veto. Bush of course has promised to veto the bill precisely because it requires him to withdraw troops sooner than he wants, not later. And the American public is overwhelmingly in favor of such a withdrawal.
Turn Them Over
Waxman wants emails.
If this really was their scheme, then Rove must have really been counting on "the math" last November...
If this really was their scheme, then Rove must have really been counting on "the math" last November...
Over 100,000 Donors
Forget Obama's apparent $25 million haul, according to the teevee, it's the 100,000 donors which are impressive.
...and, the press release:
...and, the press release:
Over 100,000 People Donate to Obama Campaign in First Quarter
Campaign Raises At Least $25 Million, At Least $23.5 Million for Primary
Chicago, IL- The Obama for America campaign today announced that it will report raising at least $25 million from more than 100,000 people in the first quarter of 2007, with at least $23.5 million eligible to be spent in the Democratic primary.
“This overwhelming response, in only a few short weeks, shows the hunger for a different kind of politics in this country and a belief at the grassroots level that Barack Obama can bring out the best in America to solve our problems,” said Obama for America Finance Chair Penny Pritzker.
The Obama campaign raised $6.9 million over the Internet from more than 50,000 donors.
Fighting Wingnuttery With Wingnuttery
Just when I think they can't get any more fucking stupid.
...adding, to make the obvious point, I've bowed my head to "pray" in church, I've worn yarmulkes in Synagogue, etc. It's called respect.
...adding, to make the obvious point, I've bowed my head to "pray" in church, I've worn yarmulkes in Synagogue, etc. It's called respect.
How Many Days Did That Take
As I said, White House Spin is reported simply as news for the first round or two, and then slowly some facts might creep in.
To President Bush, they are "pork-barrel projects completely unrelated to the war," items in the House and Senate war-spending bills such as peanut storage facilities and aid to spinach farmers that insult the seriousness of the conflict and exist only to buy votes.
But such spending has been part of Iraq funding bills since the war began, sometimes inserted by the president himself, sometimes added by lawmakers with bipartisan aplomb. A few of the items may have weighed on the votes for spending bills that have now topped half a trillion dollars, but, in almost all cases over the past four years, special-interest funding provisions have been the fruits of congressional opportunism by well-placed senators or House members grabbing what they could for their constituents on the one bill that had to be passed quickly.
Ware
Digby tries to remind Iraq wingnuts of what those of who have watched Michael Ware's reporting for some time understand - he's one of them, but he doesn't seem to believe in making stuff up.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Punditry
Amanda discusses us assholes with opinions. There's a lot which could be written about this subject, and not just from a blogger perspective, but a big part of it is about those who think political power and discourse should be in the hands of elites, and those who think otherwise. There's a large amount of paternalistic elitism which runs through many, the belief that governance is too important for the orthodontists and the rest of the rabble to have much to do with it and that essentially Democracy is a nice fantasy we should maintain without embracing the reality.
It's an argument which would have more merit if the elites in our discourse hadn't gotten basically everything wrong over the past decade.
It's an argument which would have more merit if the elites in our discourse hadn't gotten basically everything wrong over the past decade.
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