Alphonso Jackson is the HUD Secretary who told that delightful "anecdote about rescinding a HUD contract because the successful bidder said he didn't like Bush.

Big Alphonse has said other things, of course--you don't get to be a big enough Bush crony without saying a Bush load of absurd things.

Things have definitely heated up on the NSA program.  And who would have thought that USA Today, of all papers, would break the story that the NSA has been collecting phone calls (& presumably e-mails and more) from "tens of millions" of Americans?

But break it, they did, and the snowball's rolling down the hill, now folks.

If you were outraged that the President wants all cabinet and subcabinet level offices to include terrorism and Iraq talking points in all public speeches, try this one on (thanks to Raw Story for the lead):  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson told a Real Estate Executive Council forum audience a story about a  a prospective HUD advertising contractor who was awarded a contract, met with Jackson to thank him for being selected, then was essentially deselected after telling Jackson that "I have a problem with your president...I don't like President Bush."

You'd think that a president would remain eternally grateful to a woman who helped deliver the presidency.  But this is politics, and the woman is Katherine Harris, now known as the Senate Candidate from Hell.

What happens when the Candidate from hell greets the reluctant president, and grabs the president's hand in a death grip?

Karl Rove's alleged "genius" doesn't extend to anything that's legitimate, above board, honest, or any other term meaning something similar to "honest."  Yet KR is once again largely responsible for resurrecting the dead duck known alternatively as "the Bush presidency" and "Republican control of the federal government."  Step 1 in the Rovian attempt: continue to beat the dead horse you rode in on.

The deserting rat-sinking ship association is in the process of being played out yet again in life, this time in the Republican Party.

What to do when you belong to an all-powerful party which is now anathema to a growing number of voters?  No, you don't switch parties, that would be too honest.  You switch your beliefs within the same party.

I've written before about the use of the "Ask the White House" web page to spread admin propaganda.

My complaint then was that the Q&A was obviously contrived to get out the White House message.

New complaint: sometimes it simply ignores what appears to be a real question, and STILL contains contrived questions designed to spread the talking points.

In Bush's America, bad news and PR campaigns go together like Ohio and corruption, or Florida and vote suppression--you can't have one without the other.

So, of course, the news that Bush's poll ratings have hit a new low in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll is datelined the same day that the Washington Post reports that federal agencies (all cabinet level and subcabinet groups) are being told to work the good news about Iraq into all speeches, no matter what the hell the actual subject is.

Ahh, perspective.  Great thing to have, horrible thing to warp.  And the religious right is indeed in full warp.  Forget the rights of gays, what about their right to not be gay?  And so it goes.

Say, didn't there used to be a wall there?  Right there, between that federal building and those churches?  Huh?

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