Garrison Keillor
Maureen Dowd
"...these torture methods have lasted from the middle ages because they work." - Lindsey Graham
Maureen Dowd's column in the NY Times pretty much confirms my thinking about George Bush and Dick Cheney, that: "Cheney unleashed, egged on by the combative Lynne and Liz, is pretty much the same as Cheney underground: He’s batty, and he thinks he was the president.
W. admired Cheney’s brass (he used another word) but grew increasingly skeptical of him, the more he learned about foreign policy himself, and the more he got pulled into a diplomatic mode by Condi in the second term. There were even reports of W. doing a funny Cheney imitation and that it dawned on him that Cheney and Rummy represented a scofflaw, paranoid Nixon cell within his White House.
“Toward the end, 43 was just as confused as anybody about what makes Cheney tick,” said a Bush family loyalist." I still say he's trying out for a job as a media pundit, then we can be exposed to him on a daily basis, to be called The Reptilian Report...
Maureen Dowd's column in the NY Times pretty much confirms my thinking about George Bush and Dick Cheney, that: "Cheney unleashed, egged on by the combative Lynne and Liz, is pretty much the same as Cheney underground: He’s batty, and he thinks he was the president.
W. admired Cheney’s brass (he used another word) but grew increasingly skeptical of him, the more he learned about foreign policy himself, and the more he got pulled into a diplomatic mode by Condi in the second term. There were even reports of W. doing a funny Cheney imitation and that it dawned on him that Cheney and Rummy represented a scofflaw, paranoid Nixon cell within his White House.
“Toward the end, 43 was just as confused as anybody about what makes Cheney tick,” said a Bush family loyalist." I still say he's trying out for a job as a media pundit, then we can be exposed to him on a daily basis, to be called The Reptilian Report...
Politico's Roger Simon has a good report on the upcoming special RNC meeting, and what will be on the agenda: "A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will approve a resolution rebranding Democrats as the “Democrat Socialist Party.”
When I asked if such a resolution would force RNC Chairman Michael Steele to use that label when talking about Democrats in all his speeches and press releases, the RNC member replied: “Who cares?” A lot of dissing in the air, aahhh, Springtime in Washington...
The Anchorage Daily News is reporting that Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin has inked a book contract with HarperCollins: "Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a book deal with HarperCollins Publishers for what is described as her memoir."There have been so many things written and said through mainstream media that have not been accurate, and it will be nice through an unfiltered forum to get to speak truthfully about who we are and what we stand for and what Alaska is all about," Palin said in an interview Tuesday announcing the deal.
The book is to be published sometime in the spring of 2010. Palin will have a collaborator, who is expected to be chosen soon. The governor said she wants to do a lot of the writing herself, and that it will be her story and her words.
"It will be nice to put my journalism degree to work on this and get to tell my story, Alaska's story. There have been so many unauthorized books and publications that have spoken to somebody else's opinion of who I am what my family represents and what Alaska is all about," she said."
Along with many other people, I've been trying to guess why Defense Secretary Robert Gates decided to publicly fire his top General in Afghanistan and replace him with McChrystal, who has a reputation as an intellectual guy who specializes in hunting people down and killing them, and a good friend of Petraeus. The major negative about him was that he was involved in the Pat Tillman coverup, which was messy and reflected badly on the military. Zachary Roth reports in TPM: "Yesterday, we told you that Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the man just nominated to be our new top commander in Afghanistan, played a key role in the cover-up of the death of fallen NFL star Pat Tillman.
And now Tillman's parents don't seem too pleased about McChrystal's impending promotion.
Pat Tillman Sr., the soldier's father, told the Associated Press: "I do believe that guy participated in a falsified homicide investigation." And Mary Tillman declared in an email: "It is imperative that Lt. General McChrystal be scrutinized carefully during the Senate hearing."
In 2004, McChrystal approved a Silver Star award for Tillman even though, according to his later testimony, he correctly suspected that he had been killed by friendly fire, which would not have qualified him for the award. Indeed, the next day, McChrystal sent a memo to top generals urging them to warn the president not to say that Tillman had died from "devastating enemy fire." An investigation found that McChrystal should be held accountable for his role in the cover-up, but that finding was later overruled by the Army."
The book is to be published sometime in the spring of 2010. Palin will have a collaborator, who is expected to be chosen soon. The governor said she wants to do a lot of the writing herself, and that it will be her story and her words.
"It will be nice to put my journalism degree to work on this and get to tell my story, Alaska's story. There have been so many unauthorized books and publications that have spoken to somebody else's opinion of who I am what my family represents and what Alaska is all about," she said."
Along with many other people, I've been trying to guess why Defense Secretary Robert Gates decided to publicly fire his top General in Afghanistan and replace him with McChrystal, who has a reputation as an intellectual guy who specializes in hunting people down and killing them, and a good friend of Petraeus. The major negative about him was that he was involved in the Pat Tillman coverup, which was messy and reflected badly on the military. Zachary Roth reports in TPM: "Yesterday, we told you that Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the man just nominated to be our new top commander in Afghanistan, played a key role in the cover-up of the death of fallen NFL star Pat Tillman.
And now Tillman's parents don't seem too pleased about McChrystal's impending promotion.
Pat Tillman Sr., the soldier's father, told the Associated Press: "I do believe that guy participated in a falsified homicide investigation." And Mary Tillman declared in an email: "It is imperative that Lt. General McChrystal be scrutinized carefully during the Senate hearing."
In 2004, McChrystal approved a Silver Star award for Tillman even though, according to his later testimony, he correctly suspected that he had been killed by friendly fire, which would not have qualified him for the award. Indeed, the next day, McChrystal sent a memo to top generals urging them to warn the president not to say that Tillman had died from "devastating enemy fire." An investigation found that McChrystal should be held accountable for his role in the cover-up, but that finding was later overruled by the Army."
Late night jokes:
"You all have a happy Mother's Day? I thought this was nice. John Edwards told his wife, 'Of all the women I have children with, I'm going to spend today with you.'" --Jay Leno
"President Obama did a great job delivering jokes at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. In fact, NBC is trying to sign him now for the 9 p.m. slot." --Jay Leno
"Vice President Joe Biden gave a speech to fifth graders in Syracuse, New York, where he said his dog is smarter than President Obama's dog. Actually, the dog is smarter than Biden, because it at least knows when not to speak." --Jay Leno
"Hey, how about this? State officials warned today California could be broke by July, which is great because most people thought we were already broke." --Jay Leno
"How could California be broke by July? What happened to all the money we gave them on April 15th?" --Jay Leno
"And California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to legalize marijuana. Good slogan he has — 'Yes, we cannabis.'" --Jay Leno
"And the National Institute of Health is paying researchers $400,000 to cruise bars in Argentina to try and figure out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior while drunk. You know, I got a better idea. How about finding out why politicians like John Edwards engage in risky sexual behavior while sober?" --Jay Leno
"Hey, pro baseball player Manny Ramirez got some good news over the weekend. It seems he has taken so many female hormones, he can now legally celebrate Mother's Day." --Jay Leno
"It seems like the drug Manny Ramirez tested positive for is commonly used for female fertility. I guess the team started getting suspicious when he stopped getting jock itch and started getting that not so fresh feeling." --Jay Leno
"The Post Office announced that the price of a stamp is going up to 44 cents. This is getting out of control. Yeah. If there were just some other way to send written messages that were free and a million times faster. If you guys think of something, e-mail me." --Jimmy Fallon
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