Today, Bush’s spokesman, Scott McClellan, was asked repeatedly if President Bush would denounce the obviously-false allegations made in the Swift Boat ads. Check out this ridiculous series of exchanges between McClellan and various members of the press: MR. McCLELLAN: The President has condemned — well, first of all, the President has called on Senator Kerry …
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Swift Boat Veterans for…uh…Truth.
Lest there be any question that the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” (the group attacking Kerry’s war record) is nothing more than a front for the Bush campaign, The New York Times has put together this handy chart. The group is a who’s-who of buddies and business associates of President Bush.
Blogger Boucher.
My representative in the House, Rick Boucher (VA-9), is guestblogging for Larry Lessig this week, and it seems that the whole of the ‘net is abuzz about it. Yesterday he blogged about the Induce Act, and today the DMCA and fair use. He’s not only writing up entries, but then engaging in discussion with the …
Some animals are more equal than others.
Compare. All week long, President Bush traveled the country, cheerfully telling audiences that ”we’ve turned the corner” on the economy. But on Friday, in the face of the government’s paltry new numbers on job growth, the president’s new slogan suddenly sounded premature at best. […] Rather than address his vulnerability head-on Friday, Mr. Bush delivered …
Bush’s approval ratings, terror warnings.
At left is a chart overlaying a history of Bush’s approval ratings (using a scatterplot of all of the major polls) with his issuance of terror alerts, based on this raw data. (Reading through that data will be quite helpful in fully understanding the correlation, if not causation, between the two datasets.) Writes Julius Civitatus, …
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Kilgore’s magic-computer warning.
Writes Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore (PDF), in his and his fellow attorneys general new fight against computer-to-computer communication: P2P file-sharing technology can allow its users to access the files of other users, even when the computer is ‘off’ if the computer itself is connected to the Internet via broadband. Shoo-whee! That must be some …
July surprise.
Three weeks ago, The New Republic reported: A third source, an official who works under ISI’s director, Lieutenant General Ehsan ul-Haq, informed tnr that the Pakistanis “have been told at every level that apprehension or killing of HVTs before [the] election is [an] absolute must.” What’s more, this source claims that Bush administration officials have …
Flip. Flop.
A year ago, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show aired a great debate: 2000 George Bush vs. 2003 George Bush on the matter of Iraq. It was funny then, but it’s much funnier now. Flip-flopper, indeed.
Eavesdropping case getting closer to Kilgore.
It’s great to watch the other shoe slowly drop in the Kilgore case. When last we left our intrepid Virginia Attorney General, some of his staffers had been accused, indicted, and even convicted for eavesdropping on a Democratic teleconference, but our bold adventurer continued to maintain that he didn’t know nothin’ ’bout nothin’. Now, the …
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Mark Warner: Blogger?
I don’t know if Virginia Governor Mark Warner actually wrote this in Movable Type himself, but either way, I’m impressed — Virginia may be the only state with a blogging governor. (Somebody should tell him not to write “blogs” in quotes, like that. Blog is a word. We accepted this years ago. At least it’s …