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Speaker-elect Pelosi is going to tighten oversight on intelligence to make sure Mr. Bush and his bunch are spending the money properly. Go get \’em, Madame Speaker.
Wait for it… Eason Jordan invites Malkin
to Iraq. Will
she go? Gilliard
responds.
Today\’s radio show available through podcasts, including the conference call where Johnson fell ill, though now there is great hope for a full recovery. Also, I\’ll be be trying out a new radio venue for me over the holidays, which should be a lot of fun. They have an email feature to alert you right before my show will air. Hope you can tune in.
Scott Lemieux
comments on Jonah Goldberg\’s disastrous idea that \”Iraq
Needs a Pinochet.\” Like Scott submits, any state
is better than a failed state, but that\’s hardly the point, I agree, given the lives lost
and the whopper of lies loaded up and dumped on the American people, not to mention the mess left behind.
On the same subject, Kevin Drum offers NEXT
UP: LEX LUTHOR vs. THE JOKER. Indeed.
Stoller\’s got an excellent post about the
Goodyear union strikers. He goes after CEO Robert Keegan.
\’Tis the season to make nice. Tony Snow apologized to David Gregory.
TONY SNOW: OK, before I get to that, I want to address something else. Because
you and I had a conversation last week that got a whole lot of play in a lot
of places, where I used the term \”partisan\” in describing one of
your questions.And I\’ve thought a lot about that, and that I was wrong. So I want to apologize
and tell you I\’m sorry for it.DAVID GREGORY: Thank you.
Aaaawww. Isn\’t that sweet? Snowjob apologized to David Gregory after
acting like an ass because Gregory was doing his job. Wow.
Warren Jeffs has to stand
trial. This is so important, though it\’s likely Romney will continue
to ignore the situation. Or maybe we\’ll get another bad joke from him,
who knows. I covered this on my show here,
here,
here,
here,
offering the girl\’s testimony at the first hearing. It\’s a tough subject, but
forced child brides and the abject subservience of women in FLDS must be highlighted.
CNN reported today that when Jeffs walked into the hearing room the FLDS women
all stood and looked at him as if he were a holy man, which is how they regard
Jeffs, believing he speaks to God, calling him The Prophet. Fundamentalism is
dangerous, no matter the religion.
But speaking of Romney, Andrew Sullivan blasts him today in a post that is
positively delicious called \”Romney
Recants.\” Think snake oil salesman, good looks (according to some)
and all.
Pachacutec
talks about the immigration raids, as does Jeralyn
Merrit.
Oh, and the wingnuts are worried that Rush may be playing up the fact that
Obama
supposedly doesn\’t like Modo: Note to Rush: do we really want to play
up the fact that Obama doesn’t like Maureen Dowd? He could win a few red
states running on that platform. They don\’t call it \”Hot Air\”
for nothin. It illustrates why Dick Morris is nuts, which I covered today on
my show (podcast).
Best headline of the day comes from my friends at Huffington
Post: MCCAIN PLAYS PRESIDENT IN IRAQ.
The most alarming story of the day comes from Steve Clemons: Prince
Bandar Allegedly Advocating Military Response Against Iran. Not good, people.
We knew something was up with the recent resignation of Prince Turki al-Faisal,
but, well, here\’s a teaser. Read the whole post.
Sources also confirm that Ambassador Turki\’s decision to resign not only
had to do with his refusal to tolerate the unprofessionalism of Bandar and
Massoud — but with the signals that Bandar and Massoud have sent to Cheney,
David Addington and others on Cheney\’s national security staff that Saudi
Arabia would \”acquiesce to, accept, and not interfere with\” American
military action against Iran.This is the core of the deep divide between Prince Turki and Bandar — which
is also a divide between Foreign Minister Saud and Bandar as well.The tension is about Iran and how to contain Iran. While Bandar and Rihab
Massoud allegedly have affirmed Cheney\’s views and are perceived to be Bush
administration sycophants, Turki was charting a more realist course for Saudi
interests and advising the White House to develop more serious, constructive
strategies toward the region that would produce stability and not lead to
\”a terrorist super-highway stretching from Iran through Iraq and rushing
through Syria and Jordan to the edge of Israel.\”
Good grief.
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