hit the correct note for the Democrats against Ralph Nader: For Ralph Nader, but Not for President in an op-ed piece today.
Archives for April 2004
The US Attorney General goes before
the Sept 11 Commission tomorrow. Salon.com has posted 10 questions for John Ashcroft. This is one of a series of such articles, which neatly summarize many of the questions surrounding this whole sordid affair.
Here’s the transcript
of the Condi Rice show today. Short summary: the bureaucracy was broken and we were committed to fix it entirely before considering anything else.
The New York Times
is providing internet access to Condoleezza Rice’s public testimony before the Sept 11 Commission.
It’s amazing though – she lies as easily as she breathes, as far as I can tell. She just now was talking about the Department of Homeland Security and how important it is to US security. Trouble is, the Bush Administration blocked the formation of such a department, which was proposed long before Sept 11 by the Hart-Rudman Commission.
Later…I can’t believe this – now she’s straight out blaming Clinton. “We were in office for 238 days” she said, “Why didn’t the previous adminstration address these structural issues…” etc etc. Clue: they DID. They got the ball rolling, but for purely ideological reasons the Bush Administration shelved everything they did and tried to start again. They threw out the baby with the bathwater and then turned around and used their utter failure on terrorism to justify an illegal war on an unrelated state. Simply amazing.
I’ll admit it,
I like the “X Idol” shows. I’m not a fanatic, but I watch when I remember and keep track of who I like and don’t like. For the most part it’s fluff: a karaoke contest on steroids, masquerading as a something we should take seriously (but not that seriously).
This season, though, one of the rejects on American Idol has somehow become a phenomenon. A phenomenon that makes me very uncomfortable. They have taken this radically bad singer and seemingly convinced him he has potential, to the guffaws of accepting crowds everywhere.
Emil Guillermo of the SFGate has more: William Hung – Racism, Or Magic?.
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