Week of November 23, 2008 - November 29, 2008
"War crimes" become "policy disputes" between hawks and soft-on-terror liberals
Glenn Greenwald tackles my Number One Issue from the Presidential campaign. Via The Daily Kos, which also has some interesting comments to add.
It appears that the media is beginning to put the brakes on any sorts of investigations of the MYRIAD--literally--crimes of the Bush administration. It would 'tear the country apart'. It would 'be disruptive'. It would be 'partisan witchhunting'.
Yet they impeached a President for having a girlfriend. Impeached. Tried to remove him from office. Tried to destroy him, utterly, for the crime of lying to a Grand Jury--something Scooter Libby did repeatedly before HE was eventually convicted.
This entire past eight years is about to slide down the Memory Hole, folks. It's been said before: Americans have the worst case of cultural mass amnesia than any other country.
Why? It helps boost sales, that's why.
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If you're going to report the news, please EXPLAIN it
Hey, that goes for you, too, Joshua Micah Marshall...
Here's a post and its accompanying link claiming that Paulson is considering asking for $350 billion allocated by Congress for the financial bailout.
Here's another post and its accompanying link, claiming that the Treasury has already spent $2.8 trillion, and plans to spend up to $7.4 trillion to address this financial crisis.
Why are these two items/requests/bailouts NOT THE SAME THING? Can anyone explain the difference between them to me? Or did I just not click the links and read every word, every page? I didn't, but...
It appears a bit ridiculous. It's almost sensationalist. Flogging the $350/$700 billion story seems like pennies compared with the several trillions of the other story. But, of course, NEITHER are pennies, and I just wish a brief explanation of how the Fed can dole out TRILLIONS without Congress's approval.
Or maybe, just MAYBE, the Paulson $350 billion post has no explanation, and THAT is its point. I can dig it.
GOP Swinger-in-Chief regrets installing Boy King in 2000
Via bartcop: If Roger Stone has regrets, you know they ALL have regrets.
"There have been many times I've regretted it. When I look at those pictures of people who have been killed in Iraq, I think, 'Maybe there wouldn't have been a war if I hadn't gone to Miami-Dade. Maybe there hadn't have been, in my view, an unjustified war if Bush hadn't become president.' It's very disturbing to me."
-- Roger (Want to screw my wife?) Stone
