Archives: September, 2006

Woodward: Bush’s Public Persona Has Become Defined by ‘Incompetence and Arrogance’
Jon Ponder | Sep. 30, 2006

Card was enough of a realist to see that two negative aspects to Bush’s public persona had come to define his presidency: incompetence and arrogance. Card did not believe that Bush was incompetent, and so he had to face the possibility that as Bush’s chief of staff, he might have been the incompetent one.
Bob [...]

I’ll Bet Your Governor Didn’t Appear Nude in a Magazine in the 70s
Jon Ponder | Sep. 30, 2006

I’ll Bet Your Governor Didn’t Appear Nude in a Magazine in the 70s

Was the GOP Leadership’s Cover Up of Foley’s Emails Illegal?
Jon Ponder | Sep. 30, 2006

GOP Leadership Appears to Have Covered Up Knowledge of Foley’s Emails

This Just In: Foley Resigns After Approaching Underage Male Intern
Trish Ponder | Sep. 29, 2006

Just this morning, I was thinking there was nothing to the story circulating around Florida of U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (R-Palm Beach) being improper toward a male teenaged former page in email.
And when I’m wrong, I’m wrong big.
ABC is reporting Foley just resigned.
Here’s the background:
The boy served as a page to a Louisiana congressman last [...]

Investigation Finds HUD Secretary Might Be Kind of Guilty
Buck Banks | Sep. 29, 2006

Faction Jackson: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson got in trouble in May for telling a Dallas business meeting that loyalty to President Bush was a prerequisite for receiving HUD contracts. Pensito Review covered the first report of the speech here and Jackson’s half-assed mea culpa here.
‘People [expletive] dog-out the president but still [...]

Topics: Incompetence, Politics, Republicans

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Is It Me, Or…?
Trish Ponder | Sep. 29, 2006

…Every time you hear Bush say he’d rather fight them “over there” than here, do you cringe at the effect these words must have on every Iraqi who hears them? I mean let’s just come right out and say to these people who have lost thousands of friends and family members — not to mention [...]

Topics: Message Points, Politics

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Quote du Jour
Buck Banks | Sep. 29, 2006

Women’s rights, men’s rights — human rights — all are threatened by the ever-present specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.
— Rosika Schwimmer (1877-1948), American pacifist, feminist

Topics: Verbatim

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Cold War Officially Over – U.S. Withdraws Troops from Iceland
Buck Banks | Sep. 29, 2006

‘g skil ekki: It’s official – the Soviet Union no longer poses a threat to Iceland, and, as of tomorrow, the U.S. military presence that held Nazism and Communism at bay for 65 years will end. Despite the fact that the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, heralding the break-up of the USSR, the U.S. has [...]

Topics: Congress, Military, Politics

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Play ‘Rank the Presidents’ at AOL
Jon Ponder | Sep. 29, 2006

AOL has an online poll up in which you are asked to rank the last four presidents from best to worst. As of 5:40 AM Pacific, Ronald Reagan was ahead of Bill Clinton but George W. Bush was safely last, behind his father.
History has been kind to Reagan. Personally, I found it hard to [...]

Topics: Politics, Worst President Ever

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NC 08: Ads for Dem Challenger to Rep. Hayes, Heir to Mill Fortune, Focus on Common Sense Values
Jon Ponder | Sep. 28, 2006

MORE ADS- larrykissell.com
In North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District, Democrat Larry Kissell is running against Republican Rep. Robin Hayes, who is a principal heir to the founder of Cannon Mills, a cotton mill empire that dominated the southern Piedmont of North Carolina for most of the Twentieth Century.
In the ad above, Kissell comes across as being [...]

Topics: Election Coverage, Politics

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