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An Interesting Comment on the Privilege-to-Avoid-Subpoenas Argume…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 31st 2008 by Cockney Robin
Posted by Damozel | I found this comment at the end of Larissa Alexandrovna's post (cited in my previous note). To quote Jeeves, it touches the matter with a needle: read more
More on the Bush Administration's Policy of Political Hiring: A…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 31st 2008 by Cockney Robin
Posted by Damozel | On May 17, 2005, the White House sent a letter to agencies throughout the executive branch instructing them to find jobs for certain 'Bush loyalists.' The passage shows that even if Goodling and Sampson weren't working under direc read more
Questions Remain on Transparency of Candidates' Campaign Financin…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 30th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Deb Cupples can follow up on this, but this article from Open Secrets makes it clear that the Obama campaign is holding back on providing full information about donors---though McCain has been more cooperative than Obama. read more
A Response to Michael Novak (With Bonus Poetry)
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 30th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | The Corner has posted the sort of inane self-congratulatory post on flag pins that I thought we'd seen the last of. It is founded on the smug belief that love of country can only express itself by unquestioning acceptance of whatever the read more
Another Death by Taser
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 30th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Via Digby, yet another tragic tale of death-by-tasering in circumstances in which the death penalty wouldn't have been an option if the offense were prosecuted. Why aren't people up in arms about this? You don't have to believe that a ta read more
Nancy Pelosi on The Daily Show: Congress Will No Longer be a Rub…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 29th 2008 by Cockney Robin
By Damozel | First Pelosi on The Daily Show. I want to be fair, so let's let her speak for herself. Man, only Nancy Pelosi could be so banal when chatting with Jon Stewart. Sorry...guh...LET HER SPEAK FOR HERSELF. read more
BN-Politics Extends Its Condolences to Elrod and to The Tennessee…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 29th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | The Moderate Voice's Elrod, a member of the church, has a beautiful post about how they are coping with this tragedy (discussed here in The Guardian). Elrod writes: Last night we mourned. We grieved.... read more
Senator Ted Stevens Indicted
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 29th 2008 by Cockney Robin
Today Sen Stevens was indicted by an Alaska Grand Jury (CNN). The indictment is here. Stevens, 84, is the man who once memorably described the internet as 'a series of tubes,' poor thing. Almost one year ago today, Deb Cupples wrote: In 2000, Sen. St read more
Will Goodling be the Bush Administration's Scapegoat?
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 29th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Yesterday, I posted in some depth about Goodling's work at what legal scholar Jonathan Turley has called 'The Voldemort Department of Human Resources.' (Countdown, embedded below) Via The Raw Story: The White House's silence on the Justi read more
Jonathan Turley: Two More Questionable Taserings
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 28th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Legal scholar Jonathan Turley---whose blog is on my personal 'read every day' list---has reported today on two more extremely questionable taserings. (See also: Police Taser a Blind Diabetic Women with Cancer 'to Facilitate Cuffing') Fir read more
Cause for Remorse: Robert Novak's Brain Tumor
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 28th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | I very sorry to learn that Robert Novak has a brain tumor. As I shall further addres, I feel bad for assuming that his recent accident was a hit and run. Michelle Malkin is, as usual, wrong, at least as regards the nutroots I know" 'Ther read more
The Monica Goodling Files: Notes on the Investigation
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 28th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Joe Windish has provided some background, some blogger reactions, and some other useful links. JI spent a couple of hours this afternoon browsing the report (h/t to Sadly No! where I found the link to the report (actually entitled 'Inves read more
Victory in Iraq: Not Ours to Claim?
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 28th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | It seems that Petraeus doesn’t accept the idea of a timeline. You can read his reasons here. Right-wingers, who have nothing else but the war to pin their hopes on, will tell you that this ‘proves’ that McCain knows more about war read more
Has Maureen Dowd Got a Big Swoony High School Crush on Obama?
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 27th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Based on this column (Stalking, Sniffing, Swooning), I could certainly make that case. read more
Note to Obama from a Supporter: Time to Dismount from the Flying…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 27th 2008 by Cockney Robin
Iby Damozel | All righty, then. We've seen that Obama can round up all the prettiest ponies and fly through space on the unicorn's back. Time for his campaign to start thinking about something other than making pretty pictures and generating stirring read more
Congress Considers The Culpability of the Bush Administration for…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 26th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | As you know, Congress is finally sitting down to consider the many offenses of the Bush Administration. H/T to Crooks and Liars for bringing these speeches (and a related discussion in the mainstream media) together for me.. Via John Ama read more
Karl Rove Accused by Attorney in Ohio Elections Fraud Case of Int…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 26th 2008 by Cockney Robin
Posted by Damozel | CAVEAT: The underlying facts are still in the process of development. At present, file it away under 'Interesting allegations' against Karl Rove. There have been plenty of others. According to Brad Friedman at The Brad Blog, Ohio read more
Performing Poodles Everywhere (World without Watchdogs)
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 25th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Discussing the torture memoranda which the ACLU have procured (discussed here), Glenn Greenwald discusses the culture of secrecy that has evolved in the executive branch---and how the press, the opposition party (the Dems, alas), and the read more
Obama's Berlin Speech--A Bloggerama
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 24th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | One quibble: If I were running his campaign, I wouldn't have described it at the website as his 'historic speech.' How the hell can the campaign say it's 'historic' yet? (Unprecedented, maybe.) Don't they listen? Aren't they paying atten read more
'A Landmark Day for Torture-Disclosure'
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 24th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | The ACLU has released some crucial memoranda which reveal the torturous path by which the Bush Administration's Department of 'Justice' taught the CIA to rationalize its way to a distinction between 'enhanced interrogation' and plain old read more
The Novak Jon Stewart Knows
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 24th 2008 by Cockney Robin
Apparently the pedestrian Robert Novak ran down isn't doing too well. Novak feels 'terrible.' But probably not as terrible as the man he hit. Meanwhile, Novak's had a $50 traffic citation. Jon Stewart puts this unfortunate incident in perspective. ' read more
Not Ignoring the Edwards Scandal....
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 24th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Yep, lots at stake here. But for me, the 'double standard' at play is the one between National Enquirer and other publications that don't sometimes turn out to be not quite accurate about their inferences. Reporting the details is fine. read more
Obama Claims Credit for the Wrong Thing; Meanwhile, McCain Demons…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 24th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Obama's getting called out for embellishing because of a misstatement to the Israeli Prime Minister. Responding to an Israeli reporter’s question Wednesday on his commitment to protect the Jewish state, Barack Obama pointed to a bill â read more
The Daily Show on the Congressional Hearings: Let Us Relish This…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 23rd 2008 by Cockney Robin
For we will never see their like again: read more
McCain Channels the Rove Within
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 23rd 2008 by Cockney Robin
By Damozel | Here's what McCain said: This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order read more
Bush Speaks About Wall Street: The Diagnosis
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 23rd 2008 by Cockney Robin
President Bush thought the cameras were off. He was at a fund-raiser and he'd asked them to be switched off. So he said: read more
McCain on the Surge: Deliberate Distortion, Memory Failure, or R…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 23rd 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Yesterday, Elrod commented at TMV on misstatements by John McCain which he made during his interview with Katie Couric. ‘Mysteriously,’ these were not aired. This misstatement isn’t another amusing gaffe by a crusty old maverick; t read more
A Small Digression
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 22nd 2008 by Cockney Robin
Sometimes you've just got to take a little break and embrace the cute. H/T Cute Overload: read more
Oil Executives Approve McCain's Awesome Drilling Plans
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 22nd 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Here's John McCain's energy policy: Via D-Day: My friends, we have to drill off shore. We have to do it. It's out there and we can do it. And we can do that. The oil executives say within a couple of years we could be seeing results from read more
Police Taser a Blind Diabetic Women with Cancer 'to Facilitate Cu…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 22nd 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Nationally recognized legal scholar Jonathan Turley calls it 'a very problematic rationale.' I'll say. The police came to her apartment looking for her son.(WDTN.com) Her family said she was yelling at officers because she was scared. "S read more
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