According to a story in the Washington Post, Republicans plan to attempt to pass $35 billion in spending cuts, part of a plan set forth in the spring, although some conservatives want to see further cuts to make up for Katrina and other emergency spending. This at a time when pork projects have helped push our national debt over Eight Trillion dollars.
Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor in the Plame case, has posted a website. The site has the blogosphere in a titter as to whether it will be used to post indictments in the case -- according to a Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post, a spokesman for Fitzgerald told him not to read too much into the new site's timing.
The Flyer takes a look at the Plame situation and "handicaps" the odds of the various types of indictments that could come as early as next week from the grand jury that expires on 10/28/05 and is looking into the case. The Gadfly columnist (in a very Archie Goodwin sort of way) stacks up the "odds" that a particular type of indictment will be brought in the case, including what amounts to a decent summary of the laws involved and a look at the typical sort of thing that people get indicted ... read on »
That's pretty cool...
Hat day, bobblehead day, umbrella day -- the usual baseball promotions might seem a little blah after Saturday, when XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. plans to give an XM-compatible radio to every ticketholder who enters Chicago's U.S. Cellular Field for the first game of the World Series.
According to a piece in U.S. News and World Report, rumors are flying around Washington that Vice President Cheney might resign if "Plamegate" indictments reaches into the V.P.'s office. Further speculation suggests that Bush would nominate Condolezza Rice as Cheney's successor.
In related blogging Raw Story is reporting that Patrick Fitzpatrick, the special prosecutor in the Plame-outing case, has the cooperation of former Cheney and John Bolton aide John Hannah, who may have cut a deal ... read on »
According to CNN, the Chinese sent a manned spacecraft into orbit and brought it back safely on Monday, calling it a victory for the Communist Party in China and saying that it completed the first phase of their space program's plan to prove that China could compete in the global scientific community.
Today finds a 'recommended' diary over at DailyKos, about a visitor to our lovely state and his "blue state" reactions to the people he encounters when he's working on Katrina relief in and around Laurel, Miss.
Here's the all-important light-up-the-phone-lines nut graf:
But they want me to know there is no racism in MS. Then they often proceed to tell me something racist. I quickly learned racists introduce themselves by saying, `there is no racism in MS today.'
Actually, the diary ... read on »
In a Bloomberg news piece that's entertainingly titled Cheney May Be Entangled in CIA Leak Investigation, People Say (I love that "People Say" part...talk about your reportorial specificity), we're told that special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is looking into the role that Vice President Dick Cheney played in the outting of a CIA agent as political retaliation by the White House. As I mentioned yesterday, Fitz seems to be focused on WHIG -- the White House working group put together to "sell" ... read on »
Sojourners, an active Christian organization that supports a variety of social justice efforts, has announced a campaign to draw attention to the budget cutting that Congress is planning for October 17-21 as well as tax-cut initiatives that the group disagrees with. According to the Sojourners, Congress plans to cut key programs for the poor despite the recent spotlight on poverty issues that resulted from Hurricane Katrina.
Click here to learn more.
In an Op-Ed for the Sunday New York Times, columnist Frank Rich has the best explanation I've seen of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), the group of White House staffers (including Rove, Libby and V.P. Cheney, among other familiar Bush Admin officials) that would meet to discuss the strategy of "selling" the war in Iraq to the American people. Starting with the timeline -- Rich says that WHIG was in operation in the summer of 2002, or well before the American people were told that war in Iraq ... read on »
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