Archives: October, 2005

Bush’s Campaign Promise of ‘Highest Ethical Standards’ Falls Flat in Light of Ongoing Lies & Leak Scandal
Jon Ponder | Oct. 31, 2005

“Let me say a few words about important values we must demonstrate while all of us serve in government. First, we must always maintain the highest ethical standards. We must always ask ourselves not only what is legal, but what is right. There is no goal of government worth accomplishing if it cannot be accomplished [...]

Bush: Et Tu, Silvio?
Buck Banks | Oct. 31, 2005

The Italian job: In a follow-up to Jon’s earlier posting, the rapidly deteriorating relationship between George Bush and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi seems to be accelerating. As reported by the Christian Science Monitor, Berlusconi, in a “behind the scenes effort” to convince Bush not to go to war he even asked Libyan leader Muammar [...]

Is Libby Taking a Fall for Cheney?
Jon Ponder | Oct. 31, 2005

Political seppuku? In every profile of Scooter Libby – and they are legion these days – friends and co-workers express shock that anyone so meticulous and bureaucratically sure-footed could have made such dumb mistakes and told such easily debunked lies to a federal grand jury.
One easily drawn conclusion is that Libby assumed that because the [...]

Possible First Bird Flu Case Detected In Iraq
Buck Banks | Oct. 31, 2005

The United Press International said Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005, that Iraqi medical sources have reported the first case of bird flu in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Erbil.
However, a moderator of an international scientific and medical organization cautioned against taking the report at face value:
This piece of information, lacking elementary clinical and epidemiological [...]

Poll: Bush Admin Remains Ethically Challenged
Buck Banks | Oct. 31, 2005

Political misdirection: What better way to deflect attention away from the Scooter than to nominate another Italian wingnut to the Supreme Court? Hail, Scalito! But the Libby indictment goes to the ethics question, and most people just aren’t buying the “cleaning up government and bringing morality back to the White House” load of malarkey.
Nearly two-thirds [...]

Topics: Conservative Values, Politics

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Isikoff: Rove Aide’s Testimony Tipped Fitz Away from Indictment
Jon Ponder | Oct. 31, 2005

Gotta be more to this: This is the last minute development that Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff says saved Karl Rove from being indicted last week:
Two sources close to Rove who asked not to be identified because the probe is ongoing said Luskin presented evidence that gave the prosecutor “pause.” One small item was a July 11, [...]

Topics: CIA Leak, Politics

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Hume: ‘Juan, Somebody Needs to Hose You Down’
Jon Ponder | Oct. 31, 2005

JUAN WILLIAMS: You can try to minimize it, but the fact that you have Scooter Libby, so involved in justifying going to war, and in the posture of trying to smear a critic of that justification. I think is pretty revealing and pretty damaging to the Bush White House. I think they’re going to have [...]

Topics: CIA Leak, Conservative Values, News, Politics

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Italian P.M. Berlusconi Lies, Says He Tried to Talk Bush Out of Attacking Iraq
Jon Ponder | Oct. 31, 2005

Lying, Italian-style: In the run-up to the Iraq war, President Bush had so few supporters among European leaders that it’s hard not to remember who they were: Tony Blair in the U.K. and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
But now, on the eve of his visit to Washington – and with his poll numbers [...]

Topics: Iraq, Politics

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Bush Caves to Rightwing, Nominates Alito
Jon Ponder | Oct. 31, 2005

Associated Press:
President Bush, stung by the rejection of his first choice, nominated longtime judge Samuel Alito Monday in a bid to reshape the Supreme Court and mollify his conservative allies. Democrats said that Alito may be “too radical for the American people.
“Judge Alito has served with distinction on that court for 15 years, and now [...]

Topics: Politics

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Jebby: Damn the Hurricane! On With the Elections!
Buck Banks | Oct. 31, 2005

Election dysfunction: In yet another of his growing list of quirky electoral decisions, Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush has ignored the suggestions of local elections officials and the company that supplies our touch-screen voting machines, and called for county and city elections to go forward. He allowed Miami-Dade and Broward counties two weeks’ reprieve, but called [...]

Topics: Jeb Watch, Politics

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