Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2005—Nice job, George. You stepped in a whole lot of bird... virus:
This week, Bush took a considerable beating for his nomination of Harriet Miers for Supreme Court Justice, most noteably from the right. George Will is seriously bent out of shape, Krauthammer does some handwringing, the Red Staters aren't happy campers, Novak whines a bit ... well, you get the idea.
What flew under the radar on many political blogs was the rather negative reaction to Bush's "use the military to fight the War on Flu" statement:
... it's one thing to shut down airplanes; it's another thing to prevent people from coming in to get exposed to the avian flu. And who best to be able to effect a quarantine? One option is the use of a military that's able to plan and move.
And so that's why I put it on the table. I think it's an important debate for Congress to have.
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Bush's statement was referred to as "dangerous" and "Draconian" by the director of theNational Center for Disaster Preparedness |
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On
today's Kagro in the Morning show, we cover the weekend chatter about the right wing planning leading up to the shutdown & default crises, and Justice Scalia's batty interview.
Greg Dworkin rounded up the punditry, the continuing false equivalence, and crazy shutdown rumors. Plus the wonkish writing on discharge petitions, some reform history, and some voting dynamics, just for "fun." Next, a read through the
NYT's "A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning." And while we're on the Koch subject, Frederick Clarkson's summary of Mark Ames's "Charles Koch's Brain Shuts Down the Holocaust," plus some excerpts from Ames' original. Scary!
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