Just as “clean air” means “pollution like you’ve never imagined” and “healthy forests” means “clear-cutting and four-lane highways with convenience stores,” so “banning oil drilling near Florida” means “Go for it!”
Presidential Brother Jeb Bush has apparently had it all explained to him since yesterday, when PR reported even he didn’t know what his slimeball sibling [...]

I don’t know how widely this is being reported in the news, but we’re all pretty shook up by it down here in Miami.
Yesterday at around 6 p.m., longtime Miami politician Arthur Teele walked into the Miami Herald’s lobby, told a security guard to give a message to columnist Jim Defede (”Tell my wife I [...]

If you’ve been under the same rock as me (doubtful – mine is pretty remote), then you also missed it when our esteemed and sure-footed military leaders ordered American troops in England to hide like George Bush from an unscreened crowd after the London subway bombings.
They didn’t miss it in England. Columnist Brian Reade, in [...]

“The real crime here remains the sending of American men and women to Iraq on fictitious grounds.” — Frank Rich
TomDispatch has posted an interesting “Letter from Ground Zero” that synthesizes a lot of the coverage of the Rove leak and puts it in the context of the Cold War. TomDispatch received special permission [...]

Pincus is one of the two Washington Post reporters who are covering the Bush CIA Leak investigation. Here we have two MSM journos covering a story interviewing each other.

American voters disapprove of the job President George W. Bush is doing 53 – 41 percent, his lowest approval rating since becoming President. This compares to a 50 – 44 percent disapproval in a May 25 Quinnipiac University poll.
–Quinnipiac University Poll
It amazes me that 41 percent of Americans approve of lying and [...]

Karl Rove (right) and Bob Novak “off the record” in 2003.
On CNN’s “Inside Politics yesterday, Candy Crowley interviewed Robert “Bob” Novak about the Valerie Plame case, or, as I like to think of it, the Leaking Rove case:

CROWLEY: I wanted to talk to you about the CIA leak story, because a couple of things [...]

Here is the Bush Administration’s M.O. in summary: Two of its top officials who are suspected of deliberately revealing the identity of a CIA operative are receiving pay hikes:
“The top pay for senior White House aides, including Chief of Staff [Andy] Card, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and Legislative Affairs Director Candida Wolff, was [...]

From yesterday’s Chicago Tribune comes A Layman’s Guide to the Valerie Plame Affair by Garrison Keillor, an author and the host of the radio program, “A Prairie Home Companion”:
I feel it’s time for me to step forward and tell what I know about Karl Rove’s conversation with columnist Robert Novak in which Mr. [...]

The folks who brought you the, “we’ll act if someone committed a crime” distinction as well as the constantly morphing justification for war in Iraq now have a whole new standard in sleight of hand.
They’re calling Florida Louisiana for purposes of drilling for oil.
Anyone doubting that George Bush is just a money- and power-grubbing [...]