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The Yoo-Sands Controversy
(Note: I'll be on vacation and posting infrequently, if at all, for the next several days.)
Yesterday, I reported on former deputy Attorney General (and torture memoranda author) John Yoo's none-too-subtle attempt to discredit critic and author Philippe Sands by suggesting he'd lied to a House subcommittee. As an attempt to clear the air, Sands has written a letter to John Yoo, which he's also submitted for the congressional record, and I've obtained a copy. The text appears below.
6th Straight Month of Job Losses
From Think Progress:
The monthly Labor Department jobs report released this morning says “payrolls dropped by 62,000” while the unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent. June marks the sixth month in a row that the economy has lost jobs. According to the Joint Economic Committee, nearly 440,000 jobs have been lost in 2008.
In a statement, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says, "Americans across this country are hurting and today's job numbers are just the latest indication. … At a time when our small businesses need support from Washington, we cannot raise taxes, increase regulation and isolate ourselves from foreign markets. These are the same old siren songs that have failed the American people time and time again."
What I Learned in School Today
As long as it's Barack Obama proposing it, mixing religion and government is OK.
He's not going to fund programs that don't work. There are plenty of groups that do good work. There are also plenty of faith-based groups that are not part of the religious right. Plenty who were shut out of getting funding who can get some now. There are also plenty of groups that are neutral, but no longer will be beholden to the right. Obama is weening faith-based organizations off the GOP. This is a move we should all applaud.
Clap, clap, clap.
It's now "liberal" to support an official White House office of mixing religion and government that hands out taxpayer dollars to religious organizations, done for political expediency.
Yay!
Side splitter
"Gephardt is the one we're most
afraid of"
Gawd.
Is the country fuvked up? "In a new poll from the marketing firm Affinnova, Gephardt ranks high on the favorability rating, just second among those polled behind Colin Powell as the choice for Obama's running mate."
In case you didn't know, Dick is a liberal: "Another strategist said that Gephardt presents a friendly face of liberalism that would be
hard to attack. "
The world upside down - Dick as the liberal side of an Obama ticket and the GOPers afraid of such a combination. Take my passport, please!
Schmidt takes control of day-to-day operation
Seems as if McCain't has shaken up his campaign staff and named a former Bush campaign aide his day-to-day chief of operations.
Maverick my ass.
Steve Schmidt is taking over the day-to-day operation of John McCain’s campaign, according to multiple campaign sources.
At a staff meeting in the campaign's Arlington, Va., headquarters this morning, campaign manager Rick Davis made the announcement about Schmidt's new role.
Schmidt, a bald and barrel-chested operative known for his aggressive brand of political combat, responded by exhorting campaign aides with a speech that one staffer likened to a locker room pep talk out of the football movie "Rudy."
McCain Warns of an Obama Court
J. Sidney Walnuts doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.
In the following article from the NY Times, Walnuts comments on Obama's criticism of the Supremes' ruling on the death penalty in child rape cases and then says this would be the type of decision that an Obama court would make. Being that the Supreme Court has been stacked by republics since the days of reegun, and the court made the current decision, I guess that fact is lost on Walnuts. This clown is dumber than dog shit.
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