Apr 10, 2008 at 9:46 AM by David Pleasant
You might have already read this, but…Politico’s Amie Parnes captured perfectly best buds John McCain and Lindsey Graham. They’re quintessential BFF’s. If you’re familiar with Graham, this is a must read.
Some call Graham a lapdog. Others say he acts as though he’s one of McCain’s legislative aides. One Senate aide, who called Graham and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) “Pips” to McCain’s Gladys Knight, said that Graham “fawns over McCain like there’s no tomorrow.” In the run-up to this week’s hearings for Army Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, The Washington Post’s Tom Ricks said Graham “sometimes seems like McCain’s ‘Mini-Me.’”
Read all of "Lindsey Graham: McCain’s ‘little jerk’ "
Apr 10, 2008 at 8:45 AM by David Pleasant
The Very Serious Iraq War Cheerleader, Ken Pollack, is enraptured, if not outright giggly, over the next president’s inheritance — Bush committing to leave 15 brigades in Iraq to serve as a quaint housewarming present for the next president.
"From the interests of the next president, the best thing this president could do for the next is to keep all 15 [combat] brigades there and give Dave Petraeus and Ryan Crocker everything they need," said Kenneth M. Pollack of the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy. "It is likely to allow this president to put the next president in the position to do something that is likely to make everybody in the country happy — which is to withdraw troops in a responsible fashion," said Pollack, who has been at odds with fellow Democrats over Iraq policy.
Why would anyone consider withdrawing earlier, when so much killing and maiming of soldiers can be accomplished over the next year? The incoming president can even have an additional gala he or she had not planned — the Writing Letters to Family Members Inaugural Ball.
Pathetic. Brookings actually pays this guy to come up with "ideas" like this?
Apr 10, 2008 at 3:27 AM by David Pleasant
Strong, provocative title, I know. Regrettably, it is appropriate and applicable.
On March 10, 2005, I wrote that Bush and Cheney should be impeached. With stories like Jan Crawford Greenburg’s — "Top Bush Advisors Approved ‘Enhanced Interrogation’ " — it is appropriate to add War Crimes and a few other names to the list, starting with Condoleezza Rice.
The video is the report ABC had on World News Tonight.
(h/t Think Progress)
