"...The end of July 2002, they need $700 million, a large amount of money for all these tasks. And the president approves it. But Congress doesn't know and it is done. They get the money from a supplemental appropriation for the Afghan War, which Congress has approved. ...Some people are gonna look at a document called the Constitution which says that no money will be drawn from the treasury unless appropriated by Congress. Congress was totally in the dark on this."

That's what we call an impeachable offense. If this is true, Mr. President, you're going down.

Watch 60 Minutes Sunday.

That smirk is contagious.

Hillary wants to be on the VP ticket so that she dispels the notion that the Clintons are sabotaging the campaign and so that she can also go out there and really be the star. She'd be the star because she'll be the one bringing excitement to it. And, by the way, she'll get all kinds of criticism and the Republicans will launch all they've got at her, and she'll endure that. They know that they're pretty confident Kerry is going to lose and if Kerry wins there's always Fort Marcy Park. So they're rolling the dice on this.

Via No More Mister Nice Blog

Questioned by former Rep. Tim Roemer, D-Ind., Tenet said he did not speak with President Bush during August, 2001, a period marked by concern over possible terrorist attacks. ``He was on vacation and I was here,'' Tenet said, although he also added that he could have picked up the phone and called the president at any time if he had felt a need to do so.

"Bin Laden planning multiple operations"
"Bin Laden network's plans advancing"
"Bin Laden threats are real"
Wouldn't you have done something? Bush went on vacation.

"The indecency debate is traditionally a pendulum that swings -- there are reactions and overreactions," says Stuart Shorenstein, a communications attorney and partner at Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP. "But this is clearly unprecedented. It's a witch hunt. In 2001, FCC chairman Powell said the government is not my nanny. Well, the nanny is back."

"I'm confident I have [made mistakes], but you put me on the spot and I'm not quick enough on my feet to come up with one." -w.

"We'll give it another week. If it doesn't improve, we'll have to leave," says Trevor Holborn of the Amman-based Shaheen Group, one of hundreds of foreign workers who have suspended their operations and headed for shelter inside the walls of the Green Zone, the heavily fortified enclave where the occupation has its headquarters.

"We still have people in Iraq, but we may not able to work on a day to day basis," said a contractor with a big US energy company. "Right now Iraq is not a safe place to work, and the safety of our staff comes first."

The sign says “Lcpl Boudreaux killed my Dad, th[en] he knocked up my sister!”

The thing about the article is that the investigation is focusing on if the claims made on the sign are true. So, if he didn't actually kill Dad and didn't knock up Sis all's forgiven? Ugh...

The military's response to all this is astoundingly ham-fisted- check out this quote:

“This picture and sign directed towards a Muslim family is inexcusable,” [Gunnery Sgt. Jamal Baadani, the president and founder of the Association of Patriotic Arab Americans in Military] said via e-mail. “Inexcusable because if this lance corporal was given a basic class on Islam, he would have known that remarks such as ‘knocking up’ a Muslim Arab woman is not tolerated and violates the honor of a Muslim woman and her family."

You see Muslims, unlike those of us from other parts of the world, are sensitive about being raped and having their parents killed. They're wacky like that. Perhaps we should study their reactions to other atrocities so we will know how they will react in any given situation.

Update: Looking at the full size version it looks like a fake to me. Still, the military spokesman talking about Iraqi's like they're animals to be studied was what really annoyed me about this whole thing.

Until Air America's site has it's own archives, here's the place to get the shows.

Every day I pray for more smartantarianism from our president. Every day I'm disappointaged.

Question: Did you see . . . the President's Daily Brief from August of '01 as a warning?

President Bush: Did I see it? Of course I saw it; I asked for it.

That's a lie. The CIA confirms he never asked for the briefing.

President Bush: [T]hat PDB said nothing about an attack on America.

Perhaps the President neglected to read the title of the briefing, or the thing about the hijacking, or the thing about the casing of buildings in New York.

Moments later:

President Bush: The question was, who was going to attack us, when and where, and with what. And you might recall the hijacking that was referred to in the PDB.

So now the president is contradicting himself inside of a minute. As if we needed more evidence that this guy does not have the candlepower to be President of the United States.