Getting a grip on reality over Iran's nuclear program

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Monday December 03, 2007 · 10:53 AM PST

2007/12/03 · 10:53

Pity the conservative thinker and reader haunted by the specter of a nuclear Iran. How would you feel if you got halfway through your day and someone punched a big hole in your already tenuous grasp on reality?

Vice President Cheney tried so hard to play his role of Big Daddy within the Big Daddy Party and protect the kids from facts that they were too young to deal with. But the intelligence community won, and finally we have professionals telling us what some of us knew: Iran's nuclear weapons program has long been more of a virtual threat, a diplomatic tool to keep its head above water in a complicated diplomatic ocean.

But don't worry, surrogates for the genius of our unitary vice president are already coming to the rescue. Check out some of the things they're saying.

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Friday August 03, 2007 · 11:05 AM PDT

2007/08/03 · 11:05

Everyone's favorite former ballplaying Republican got a 'heritage' motion passed on the Senate floor yesterday:

S.RES.294 [110th]
Title: A resolution designating September 2007 as "National Bourbon Heritage Month".
Sponsor: Sen Bunning, Jim [R-KY] (introduced 8/2/2007)
Latest Major Action: 8/2/2007 Passed/agreed to in Senate.
Status: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.

Former Ohio Rep. Bob Ney, who sponsored 2003's 'Freedom Fries' change in the Congressional cafetarias, issued a statement from his jail cell in response:

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Monday May 21, 2007 · 10:07 AM PDT

2007/05/21 · 10:07

Reps. Adam Schiff and Artur Davis have raced ahead to introduce their resolution of no confidence against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before Senators Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer could debut their own.

Resolved: That the House of Representatives and the American people have lost confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and urge the President to request his resignation and to nominate a new candidate more capable of serving as head of the Department of Justice.

But does it have a snowball's chance in hell of passing? House Republicans have been much friendlier with the hospital-bed-hopping Attorney General than their Senate colleagues.

More at RAW STORY.

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Will House Republicans get behind a 'no confidence' vote against Gonzales?

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Will House Republicans get behind a 'no confidence' vote against Gonzales?

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They won't need to.

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Did Gonzales just prove that Bush fibbed?

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Thursday May 10, 2007 · 9:21 AM PDT

2007/05/10 · 09:21

It would seem so. The Attorney General at this morning's session of the currently recessed House Judiciary Committee hearing said the President was looped into a discussion of three US Attorneys who weren't doing the work on voter fraud that Karl Rove wanted.

"I've now been made aware of the fact that there was a conversation with the President that basically mentioned the same thing in October of 2006," Alberto Gonzales told Rep. Bobby Scott.

Oops. That wasn't on the White House's script a month ago.

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Monday April 30, 2007 · 1:00 PM PDT

2007/04/30 · 13:00

Kathryn Jean Lopez at the National Review opines:

Save for Rich reading George Tenet, it feels like summer break. I headed to D.C. this morning for some meetings and an event tonight and all I see is tourists or government workers taking the day off because it's 80-something degrees.

I guess when your magazine has decided that the US Attorneys firings, missing White House e-mails, the CIA's secret prisons program, the regression of the war in Iraq, botched response to Hurricane Katrina, the 'DC madam' and Paul Wolfowitz are off-limits, then, yes, it's very easy to take a break today.

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Thursday April 26, 2007 · 11:15 AM PDT

2007/04/26 · 11:15

How do we know the 'surge' is working? Apparently, only because the US and Iraqi governments say so. Otherwise, why else would the Maliki Government stop the United Nations from receiving civilian death data that it has published in ten previous quarterly reports?

The US government supported the move. A Human Rights Watch researcher said stopping up the free flow of this data was an awfully convenient change as the White House builds the case that its troop escalation is succeeding. "Taking a page out of the US book," she said.

More at RAW STORY.

Pelosi to be confronted with impeachment message in California this weekend

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Wednesday April 25, 2007 · 12:39 PM PDT

2007/04/25 · 12:39

Progressive Democratic delegates to the California Democratic Convention are planning to confront the Speaker with their desire to put impeachment back on the table this weekend.

Well, there's one problem - the Speaker may have a scheduling conflict with the funeral of Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald.

But beyond that, Progressives will be engaging in procedural jiujitsu to get a resolution passed calling on the California State Legislature to petition the Congress to imipeach.

More at RAW STORY. Check out the California resolution after the jump.

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Tuesday April 24, 2007 · 2:56 PM PDT

2007/04/24 · 14:56

Rep. Dennis Kucinich finally got out of the gate and filed impeachment charges against Vice President Cheney today. In a press conference at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, Kucinich offered his three charges agianst the VP, and discussed the possibilities for the measure getting anywhere in Congress.

Speaker Pelosi told us today that this one isn't going anywhere.

Also, check out the link to the charges themselves.

More at RAW STORY.

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Should VP Cheney be impeached?

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Waxman to ex-White House Chief: You'll appear on Daily Show, but not before my committee?

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Friday April 20, 2007 · 11:57 AM PDT

2007/04/20 · 11:57

Rep. Henry Waxman announced today that he'll consider issuing four subpoenas in a meeting this coming Wednesday, April 25. In a letter to one subpoena target, the Oversight Committee Chairman complained that a former White House Chief of Staff appeared on Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show,' but has so far refused to testify before his committee.

"On April 16,2007, you appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and discussed the leak of [former covert CIA Agent Valerie Plame] Wilson's identity," Waxman (D-CA) wrote to Andrew Card, the former White House Chief of Staff. "[White House Counel Fred] Fielding's position appears to be that it is appropriate for you to discuss these matters on The Daily Show, but not before a congressional committee. You will not be surprised to learn that I take a different view of this matter."

More, with video, at RAW STORY.

Pulitzer-winning story came from the blogosphere

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Monday April 16, 2007 · 3:36 PM PDT

2007/04/16 · 15:36

My congratulations to Charlie Savage who cornered the market on the "presidential signing statements" story and did a really awesome job of reporting it throughout 2006. I can't wait to see the book he's apparently away writing right now.

Also worth reminding all and sundry that this was a story that first bubbled up from the blogosphere, and more on that after the jump.

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Friday April 13, 2007 · 12:28 PM PDT

2007/04/13 · 12:28

At Raw Story we completed a lengthy review of the first seven documents...only to discover there were hundreds of pages more. Sigh. Nonetheless, we have some interesting highlights for you, with scans. Kyle Sampson discussing his plan to "talk some sense" into Senator Schumer's staff; the Ashcroft Justice Department's concerns with Carol Lam's "independence"; the Justice Department's politicking with GOP Congress members to get out the right message in committee hearings; and continued redactions where the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena ordered none.

Enjoy at this link.

Obama admits hiding 2 Playboys from his mom at age 14

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Thursday March 08, 2007 · 4:12 PM PST

2007/03/08 · 16:12

No, not really. But I call shenanigans.

With this amusement about how he's finally paying long overdue parking tickets from his Harvard law school days, what do you think? Did his campaign leak this story in the hopes that it would get the campaign air time on The Daily Show?

It's not bad strategy. And for an important voting bloc of 18-34s or whatever it is these days, it sure is a good way to get your candidate free advertising.

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Did Obama's campaign deliberately plant the unpaid parking tickets story?

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Did Obama's campaign deliberately plant the unpaid parking tickets story?

Yes! Brilliant!

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No, they're not that clever.

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Unpaid parking tickets story?

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