Month: October 2005

Tuesday’s Washington Post throws this little tidbit out to the the starving masses anxiously awaiting manna from the Realm of the Great Fitzgerald.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff may have given New York Times reporter Judith Miller inaccurate information about where the wife of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson worked at the CIA, a former intelligence official said on Monday.

The possible discrepancy comes amid signs the federal prosecutor investigating who leaked the identity of Wilson’s wife, covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, will announce whether he will bring charges as early as Wednesday, people close to the case said.

Oh please, please, please let this be true!

more shameless begging on the flip side…

Along with the cartoon, The Conservative Voice Daily‘s e-mail sent “RNC Abandons Conservatives” by Nathan Tabor and, around the same time, BooMan sent me the link to John Fund’s shocker, in today’s Opinion Journal, on how Karl is selling Harriet with a lot of big promises or, if you’re Senate Judiciary chair Arlen Specter, “backroom deals.”

The nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court is such a below-the-belt blow to conservatives — leaving them angry, marginalized and ignored — that they’ve been protesting at full volume, and digging so hard for the goods on Miers that they make the Gannongate teams look like a bunch of “I Spy” kids.

The anger! Robert Bork to Chris Matthews: “Now I think we’re learning that she is disqualified or unqualified. … She can’t write, and she can’t think except in cliches, apparently.”

BORK: [S]he wrote a column for the “Texas Bar Journal” and it’s nothing but cliches of thought and the writing is terrible. It’s not anything like a Supreme Court justice should be.

MATTHEWS: So the tight, economic of a court decision, she is not capable of writing?

BORK: Apparently not, as far as one can tell.

NYT columnist David Brooks, reports The Washington Note, wonders as well: “Can She Write a Clear Court Decision? Can We Confirm a Ghost Writer?”

Beyond her, um, lack of skills, there’s her uncharted terrority on key conservative issues.

Armed with detailed notes provided to him anonymously, John Fund is able to describe, in-depth, the now-infamous Oct. 3 conference call to Christian conservative leaders about the Miers nomination. Fund’s Opinion Journal piece is titled “Judgment Call: Did Christian conservatives receive assurances that Miers would oppose Roe v. Wade?”

Here Come Da Judges

Fund tells us that “[a]lso on the call were Justice Nathan Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court and Judge Ed Kinkeade, a Dallas-based federal trial judge.” The two judges joined moderator Rev. Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association, James Dobson, and “Gary Bauer of American Values, Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation and the Rev. Bill Owens, a black minister.”

Mr. Dobson [interviewed by Fund for this story] says he was surprised the next day to learn that Justice Hecht and Judge Kinkeade were joining the Arlington Group call. He was asked to introduce the two of them, which he considered awkward given that he had never spoken with Justice Hecht and only once to Judge Kinkeade. According to the notes of the call, Mr. Dobson introduced them by saying, “Karl Rove suggested that we talk with these gentlemen because they can confirm specific reasons why Harriet Miers might be a better candidate than some of us think.” …

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It has been a tiring week for my husband and me, lots of medical tests, sitting in offices.  Tiring, and just in no mood for a couple of the paragraphs I read in the PDF version, the full report.  

Before I post the quotes that irritated me, I have noticed a lot of this lately.  This putting down of the “activists” in the party, calling them “liberals”, and admonishing them to keep their place.  It started in 2003 with the DLC memos directed to Howard Dean and his supporters….which we were.  They called us “fringe activists.”  Outrageous.  

What a damn crying shame that our own party would stoop to turning the word activist into a dirty word.  Gingrich did that to liberal, and now our own party is doing it to anyone who speaks out against their right leaning policies.

I hope everyone will allow me to indulge in a little self-congratulation: This comic marks #200!  I started making Political Animals as a way to voice my frustration with the way things are and try to expose the inconsistencies in the right wing’s logic.  Thanks to BooMan for providing this forum and thanks to all of you who read my attempts at humor and have such kind things to say.

That being said, today’s cartoon deals with an issue I find troubling, not just because of the issue itself but because of the lack of coverage it’s getting (we’ve all heard that before).  Now, I realize that there’s only so much time in a news show and the rumored Nick Lachey/Jessica Simpson break-up does take precedence, of course, but I wish the  MSM would spend just a little time on the government’s discussions on amending or abolishing the Posse Comitatus and allowing the military a police role here at home (because the National Guard is over fighting in Iraq).  The cartoon speculates on how things got so messed up.

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Political Animals – Featuring an All-Nude Cast!

Overture

Inspired by a poster who mentioned a family vegetable garden during the Depression.

Food and Class highlights the popularity of quality fresh produce, grown on small farms. It has become quite the trendy luxury for the affluent, those simple, honest vegetables from a bygone era. “Heirloom,” they call the tomatoes.

In the topsy turvy world of modern America, it is the rich who are thin and the poor who are fat.