Predictably, Joan Vennochi & Eileen McNamara have come down hard on AG Tom Reilly for making a phone call on behalf of some bereaved parents. All he asked was that the local DA not release the autopsy report to the press out of respect for the bereft.
Well, to hear Joanie and Eileen tell it, you'd think that Tom had just worked over Nancy Reagan with the business end of a shovel.
Mind, you this wasn't a smart thing for Reilly to do, especially in a governor's race that is supposed to highlight his law and order props....but its not like he held up a liquor store or anything. It is rather, the sort of lapse the vengeful geeks on the Boston Globe's editorial page eill try to build up into a catastrophic character flaw. One So Terrible that it will "force" them to reconsider Christy Mihos or Achille Starace or whoever.
Which only underscores the vital necessity for any sensible gubernatorial minded democrat to avoid listening to Joanie, Scot, Brian and Eileen at all costs.
In the words of the late William S. Burroughs, They have nothing to offer but their bad intentions.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Friday, January 06, 2006
Convening the "Wise Men"
is always a bad sign.
Lyndon Johnson didn't meet with the democratic party's idea of Old Money until his administration was well into the "hunker-down-like-a-jackass-in-a-hailstorm" phase.
It is the same with Bush, he convenes a gathering of former Secretaries of Defense and State to discuss Iraq policy as the bodies and grisly bits pile up ever higher.
Shit, Bush talks like a winner but acts like a bankrupt mooch, is there any question that if the Iraq adventure was going well that Bush would cut these guys dead with a unpleasant little snicker?
No he is in trouble and out of ideas, hence the gathering of Messrs Haig, Schultz, Perry, Schlesinger & McNamara et al to help the President think.
Frankly, I'd think twice about bringing Bob McNamara back into the White House on any pretext. Even at age 89, the former Secretary of Defense has plenty on the ball...if he so chose, he could easily spirit the President, the Veep & the Whole Cabinet off to Saint Elizabeth's in straitjackets and then settle down in the Oval Office to get the Government back on track.
Lyndon Johnson didn't meet with the democratic party's idea of Old Money until his administration was well into the "hunker-down-like-a-jackass-in-a-hailstorm" phase.
It is the same with Bush, he convenes a gathering of former Secretaries of Defense and State to discuss Iraq policy as the bodies and grisly bits pile up ever higher.
Shit, Bush talks like a winner but acts like a bankrupt mooch, is there any question that if the Iraq adventure was going well that Bush would cut these guys dead with a unpleasant little snicker?
No he is in trouble and out of ideas, hence the gathering of Messrs Haig, Schultz, Perry, Schlesinger & McNamara et al to help the President think.
Frankly, I'd think twice about bringing Bob McNamara back into the White House on any pretext. Even at age 89, the former Secretary of Defense has plenty on the ball...if he so chose, he could easily spirit the President, the Veep & the Whole Cabinet off to Saint Elizabeth's in straitjackets and then settle down in the Oval Office to get the Government back on track.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
NBC News is apparently investigating whether or
not the NSA wiretapping program extended as far as bugging CNN Reporter Christine Amanpour and or other reporters.
In an interview with the New York Times'James Risen Andrea Mitchell asks the following:
Mitchell: Do you have any information about reporters being swept up in this net?
Risen: No, I don't. It's not clear to me. That's one of the questions we'll have to look into the future. Were there abuses of this program or not? I don't know the answer to that
Mitchell: You don't have any information, for instance, that a very prominent journalist, Christiane Amanpour, might have been eavesdropped upon?
Risen: No, no I hadn't heard that.
Subsequent to the above posting, the MSNBC website scrubbed the this exchange off their transcript...this according to Americablog.
Apparently NBC IS investgating the possibility that the NSA was bugging US Journalists, the investigation isn't complete hence the excision.
Dunno what it all means, but a mere two weeks ago I opined that we'd soon find out that the President was wiretapping Senator Kerry and his campaign staff. We seem to a bit closer to that revelation after a mere fourteen or so days.
Amanpour is married to Jamie Rubin himself a former Clinton Administration Official and a Foreign Policy adviser to Wesley Clark and John Kerry....and reasonable tap on her communications would have to include material germane to his political activities last year.
Think about that.
Long and hard.
In an interview with the New York Times'James Risen Andrea Mitchell asks the following:
Mitchell: Do you have any information about reporters being swept up in this net?
Risen: No, I don't. It's not clear to me. That's one of the questions we'll have to look into the future. Were there abuses of this program or not? I don't know the answer to that
Mitchell: You don't have any information, for instance, that a very prominent journalist, Christiane Amanpour, might have been eavesdropped upon?
Risen: No, no I hadn't heard that.
Subsequent to the above posting, the MSNBC website scrubbed the this exchange off their transcript...this according to Americablog.
Apparently NBC IS investgating the possibility that the NSA was bugging US Journalists, the investigation isn't complete hence the excision.
Dunno what it all means, but a mere two weeks ago I opined that we'd soon find out that the President was wiretapping Senator Kerry and his campaign staff. We seem to a bit closer to that revelation after a mere fourteen or so days.
Amanpour is married to Jamie Rubin himself a former Clinton Administration Official and a Foreign Policy adviser to Wesley Clark and John Kerry....and reasonable tap on her communications would have to include material germane to his political activities last year.
Think about that.
Long and hard.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
The Boston Herald and USA Today print
the "good news"...(12 Miners found alive), whilst the Boston Globe simply goes for the truth.
Shit, the Herald's street edition even uses the same picture as the Globe to tell a completely erroneous story.
I criticize the Globe a lot, but there are times when they do their job and do it well.
Peace to the ashes of those miners.
Morrissey Boulevard even found space to remind readers of the Bush Admin's predictable attempts to gut mine safety regulations...hell you could set your watch to the reliable corruption of this gang in the White House.
Shit, the Herald's street edition even uses the same picture as the Globe to tell a completely erroneous story.
I criticize the Globe a lot, but there are times when they do their job and do it well.
Peace to the ashes of those miners.
Morrissey Boulevard even found space to remind readers of the Bush Admin's predictable attempts to gut mine safety regulations...hell you could set your watch to the reliable corruption of this gang in the White House.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Mitt has been quietly signing...
Special Justice of the Peace Applications for those who wish to officiate at gay weddings.
Que' Lastima!
The Governor's inglorious mouthpiece Eric Fehstrom huffed that Romney is "only" obeying the law.
Ah....that may be so in the liberty lovin' environs of the Commonwealth, but out in Wowserdom fealty to the law is conflated with church arson and child stealing. Whatever it is that Spartansburg S.C. wants in a President, they don't want some wanker who will enforce laws they themselves hate and loathe.
No my friends, they want a glorious Presidential outlaw someone who will send in the Fear Patrol to save the next Terri Schiavo statute or no statute.
This mealy mouth nonsense about enforcing the law won't go down well among the grass-eaters in the GOP primaries.
You'd think Mitt would get that by now, but alas, being clueless about politics he does not.
Que' Lastima!
The Governor's inglorious mouthpiece Eric Fehstrom huffed that Romney is "only" obeying the law.
Ah....that may be so in the liberty lovin' environs of the Commonwealth, but out in Wowserdom fealty to the law is conflated with church arson and child stealing. Whatever it is that Spartansburg S.C. wants in a President, they don't want some wanker who will enforce laws they themselves hate and loathe.
No my friends, they want a glorious Presidential outlaw someone who will send in the Fear Patrol to save the next Terri Schiavo statute or no statute.
This mealy mouth nonsense about enforcing the law won't go down well among the grass-eaters in the GOP primaries.
You'd think Mitt would get that by now, but alas, being clueless about politics he does not.
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