Watch the Press Briefing LIVE with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan.
Today’s Press Briefing is scheduled to begin at 12:45pm – about 20 minutes from now. I suppose that C-Span Iwill cut off Henry Hyde to show Scottie. Note: Today, it’s on C-SPAN 2, not regular C-Span.
This will morph into an OPEN THREAD.
Read MoreI’m gonna tell you about a little hunch I have. We are on the eve of a new political era. All the battles we have been fighting among ourselves? We are going to be fighting new ones soon. All this argument about why we keep losing elections (by absolutely miniscule to non-existent margins)? We are going to move on.
We won’t be seeing stuff like this from Kos anymore:
New school progressives are also less tolerant of ideological orthodoxy. We don’t fall in line with the “acceptable” liberal position, frankly, because we’re not trained to fall in line. We are more likely to be educated in an economy that values “proactiveness” and “self-initiative” and “problem solving” over blindly following the orders of our boss.
Why? I’ll explain below the fold.
Read MoreJeff Huber’s new column at the ePluribus Media Journal In An Arms Race with Ourselves, identifies the who is who in the Industrial-Military Complex, Bush Style.
What Huber reveals is who controls the roughly $500 billion that we will commit to our armed services in 2006.
Read MoreMore than a decade after the demise of the Soviet Empire, and with no peer military competitor on the horizon, America is in an arms race with itself.
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In 21st-century America, however, we’ve refined this form of military-industrial “bedfellowing” to a fine art. You can’t count the hands of everyone who’s knocking down a piece of the defense pie because everyone’s hands are in somebody else’s pockets. It’s a complicated web to untangle, but we can get a sense of it by starting at the top of the arms business food chain.
Booman People. Please meet my novel. Novel, the Booman People.
[An awkward silence falls between the potential readers and the unassuming novel. Cricket song rises from the relative peace of a pastoral night. Fade to black.]
More about Direct Actions after the flip (if you’ll join me).
Read MoreWhen Michael Bloomberg was first elected, I didn’t mind him. He was kind of Republican Lite Dem turned Republican. But slowly I have grown to hate him. Many things added up to turn me against him–his calling us protesters “terrorists,” his persecution of Critical Mass, his trying to buy the election. But overall it was his dictatorial style. By contrast, I find Freddy Ferrer (who I have met a few times) friendly and willing to listen to people. He has a more grassroots approach and voters who he meets directly respond warmly to him.
What about Bloomberg? What is he like personally? I am sure I will never know because I am not rich enough for him to bother with. But, someone on myDD pointed out an interesting resource I had never heard of: The Portable Bloomberg. It has been reviewed by New York magazine, so it must be real. In it are Bloomberg’s views as CEO, in his own words.
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