Month: October 2005

Raw Story reports that the WSJ will print a story tomorrow that will say the Fitzgerald investigation is now investigating the White House Iraq Group:

Lawyers familiar with the investigation believe that at least part of the outcome likely hangs on the inner workings of what has been dubbed the White House Iraq Group. Formed in August 2002, the group, which included Messrs. Rove and Libby, worked on setting strategy for selling the war in Iraq to the public in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion. The group likely would have played a significant role in responding to Mr. Wilson’s claims.

Who is in the White House Iraq Group.  Oh nobody really important.  Just Karl Rove, Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin, James R. Wilkinson, Nicholas E. Calio, Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Hadley and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby.  This is the list per Wikipedia.  There are others who might push this list as high as 21 top administration officials.

Fucking unbelievable.

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Rhapsody on appreciation from Liberal Street Fighter

Have you ever reflected on the fact that so much that is uniquely American is born from the creativity of those most mistreated in this country?

America’s new jazz museum! (No poor black people allowed)

Much as we Americans like to pay lip service to jazz as “our national music,” with the Crescent City its seminal home, we tend to favor jazz’s quality as aural decoration over its contents as oral history; we stock up on classic reissues of past masters but rarely consider the music’s meaning in our current lives.

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(cross posted everywhere)

Here is your chance to stop Schwarzenegger and his true lies.  Earlier today, the Governor’s campaign team began airing a new 15-second advertisement that says Prop 76 “will increase funding available to school districts.”

That claim is bogus: according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analysts Office, Prop 76 will slash education funding by $4 billion – and gives the Governor even more power to starve our schools of funding during a “budget emergency.” The California Budget Project came to the same conclusion yesterday.

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The Huffington Post says:

The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are working on stories that point to Vice President Dick Cheney as the target of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation into the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s name.

My, my, my, my…..

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First diary… I think – bear with me anyhow on the kitsch but I’m in too good a mood to skip the song and dance….

Yankee Doodle Dandy
(reprised by me for 2005)

Rove’s about to be indicted
for jeopardizing our country
The great disgrace to dear old Uncle Sam
has stunk up the whole GOP

Ohhhhh

The Scoots has a co-indictee sweetheart
she’s his press pooch squeaky toy – hey!
Pat Fitzgerald came to DC
just to bust these phonies
Say, he’s the new Yankee Doodle Boy!

[CHORUS]
He’s a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
a Yankee Doodle, do or die.
A real live nephew of his Uncle Sam,
born on the 4th of July.

They all had the back alley streetsmarts,
but Judy’s no good at playing coy, Oh!

Yankee doodle came to town
to rope-a-dope the cronies. He is our Yankee Doodle boy!

[CHORUS]
Fitz is a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
a Yankee Doodle, do or die.
A real live nephew of his Uncle Sam,
born on the 4th of July. [Repeat to fade…]

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