So Karl "am I indicted yet" Rove spoke to members of the Republican National Committee today, and continued to be Karl Rove. Just to keep the universe from rupturing, Ken Mehlman also continued to be Ken Mehlman, but lets make this Rove's day.
Two things he said really struck me as the epitome of what's wrong with Rove specifically, and the current crop of Republicans generally:
"Republicans have a post-9/11 view of the world. And Democrats have a pre-9/11 view of the world."
"We need to learn from our successes, and from the failures of others."
Now that the final tallies have been published for the December elections in Iraq, it's time to review the results, the way they've been portrayed, what they mean for trying to form an Iraqi permanent government, and what it means for the U.S.
Interesting, no? Seems our fascist goons also want to know what me and you are surfing for these days...
Huffpo contributor Bob Cesca goes off the deep end with this mad piece...
Since we know are inextricably linked to China in both debt and trade, it pays to pay attention to economic news from China.
This past weekend, China's central bank announced that the nation's foreign currency reserves had increased to a record $819.9 billion, with almost $50 billion of that having accrued during the fourth quarter of 2005.
As Watching the Watchers wrote back in November, the President's "Iraq Plan" unveiled then really didn't give a realistic description of Iraqi insurgents.
Now, an article in the UK's The Guardian, based on an assessment of the US's own Agency for International Development (USAid) paints a far grimmer picture of Iraq in general, and the insurgency in particular.
Monday was Dr King's birthday. You wouldn't know it with some....or do we?
The Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) just released their data on wages and prices for December, 2005, with comparisons of December to the prior month, and all of 2005 with prior years.
Not particularly good news.
If that headline didn't spin your head around I don't know what will. Actually, I do: how about if being GROSSLY underpaid means that you aren't underpaid at all? Read on. It makes a kind of sick, 21st century PR spin sense.
What's an agency to do when it wants to perform cost comparison studies with an eye to privatizing functions, but congress won't fund the requests? Well, if you're the VA: you do the comparisons anyway, using funds and people earmarked for providing medical care to vets.
A press release from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) today announced that the union's president has formally requested that Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, commence "an immediate criminal investigation of current management at the VA" for violations of two laws by diverting money that had been appropriated for health care to pay for outsourcing studies.
