TPM MUCKRAKER is On the Job updated UPDATE: AP runs credit clarification. This morning, I'm going to take just a moment and congratulate Justin Rood and Paul Kiel of Josh Marshall's new TPM Muckraker. They've broken more than one story, but now their reporting is so good they're getting ripped off by the traditional press. [...]
Antonin Scalia: The King of Coarse
Antonin Scalia: The King of Coarse “Vaffanculo.”The Right's King of Coarse. “The judge paused for a second, then looked directly into my lens and said, ‘To my critics, I say, ‘Vaffanculo,’ ” punctuating the comment by flicking his right hand out from under his chin, Smith said. The Italian phrase means “(expletive) you.” Photographer: Herald [...]
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D.C. Democrats and the Damnable Details on Iraq
D.C. Democrats and the Damnable Details on Iraq Short version: if someone has an explanation for why Democrats aren't running on withdrawal when they themselves support it, when it is extremely popular nationwide, when it draws a contrast between congressional Democrats and congressional Republicans, when it creates a wedge in the Republican voter base, and [...]
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Democrats on Iraq and National Security
Democrats on Iraq and National Security In a (perhaps) historic shift, more Americans now consider themselves Democrats than Republicans, the Gallup organization revealed today. – Editors & Publishers (via Americablog) BUSH LOST IRAQ. Democrats will change course. With Bush and the Republicans controlling Congress, Democrats can only offer ideas, a pledge and a plan. They've [...]
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What REAL SECURITY Means
What REAL SECURITY Means Democrats are just minutes away from announcing the differences between what REAL SECURITY means, as opposed to Bush's weak leadership that has led us to lose Iraq. Get ready for the criticism. Get ready to hear the question HOW? Well, until we're in power there is no HOW, because Bush and [...]
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Republicans Are Brand W.
Republicans Are Brand W. Brand W isn't selling so well, but it's all the Republicans have got. They simply cannot get around it. Republicans = George W. Bush. In the face of a fairly strong move to warn Bush and the Republicans, Democrats today are formally challenging brand W. on national securit. Poor Georgie's boys [...]
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DEMOCRATS: Take Back National Security
DEMOCRATS: Take Back National Security Something is stirring and it's good. Congressional Democrats promise to "eliminate" Osama bin Laden and ensure a "responsible redeployment of U.S. forces" from Iraq in 2006 in an election-year national security policy statement. In the position paper to be announced Wednesday, Democrats say they will double the number of special [...]
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Homeland Insecurity, Republican Style
Homeland Insecurity, Republican Style Congressional investigators testing U.S. port security smuggled enough radioactive material into the United States last year to make two dirty bombs, officials told a Senate panel today. In a test in December, undercover teams from the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, carried small amounts of cesium-137, used in [...]
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Charles Taylor on the Lam
Charles Taylor on the Lam –updated– Why should we care that Charles Taylor has disappeared? Oh, besides the fact that he was on his way to being tried for war crimes, after having backed butchers in the war in Sierra Leone. Where is Charles Taylor now? The announcement of Taylor's disappearance came the day before [...]
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Rubber Stamp Republican Congress
Rubber Stamp Republican Congress Christy has the details, but the bottom line is that we're trying to get as many rubber stamps as possible to the rubber stamp Republicans, which will be delivered once enough are received. The Stamp Maker is offering a 20% discount, so it doesn't cost much. But it's hard to put [...]
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Dubya’s Document Dump
Dubya's Document Dump Peter Bergen lays it out. What do the new documents establish? According to ABC News's translation of one of the most credible documents, in early 1995 Mr. bin Laden — then living in Sudan — met with an Iraqi government representative and discussed “carrying out joint operations against foreign forces” in Saudi [...]
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Never Fear, Rummy’s Still Here
Never Fear, Rummy's Still Here Bye-bye, Andy. Card has held the top staff job at the White House longer than any person since Sherman Adams under President Dwight D. Eisenhower and had earned enormous respect within the building and around Washington for his calm professionalism and stamina. But his stewardship of the Bush team had [...]
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The Referendum
The Referendum Q. So how do you see the strategies shaping up for the two parties? Do the Democrats need an agenda of their own, similar to the Contract with America that you ran on in 1994? A. Here's the core thing for you to think about: The Republican challenge is to get back on [...]
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Ken Doll and his Cabin Boy
Ken Doll and his Cabin Boy –updated– “Hannity is the Larry Flynt of talk-radio.” This is too hilarious not to share. Alec Baldwin was being interviewed last night, when Sean Hannity called up to complain that he didn't come on his show first. In tow was Hannity's runt Mark Levin. Below is what ensued. First, [...]
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IRAQ: A New Type of Occupation
IRAQ: A New Type of Occupation Our tall tale Texan sretching the truth on Tall Afar.photo: Mark Duncan/AP What it is, though, like so many places in Iraq now, is a city increasingly divided along sectarian lines. The neighborhoods we patrolled were largely Shia; those our reporter found barricaded and dangerous were mostly Sunni. “I'd [...]
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Justice Scalia’s Christianity in Action
Justice Scalia's Christianity in Action Conservatives sure have an odd way to express their Christianity. Via Americablog. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by flipping a middle finger to his critics. A Boston Herald reporter asked the 70-year-old conservative Roman Catholic if he faces much [...]
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FEINSTEIN: Making Illegal Agro Workers Legal
FEINSTEIN: Making Illegal Agro Workers Legal –updated– This is being debated right now, but I wanted to give you the up shot while it still is breathing, because it's a Democratic proposal that deals with real issues, lives and an industry desperately needing to LEGALIZE their employees. It shows that Democrats understand there are people [...]
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Fax the Fockers on Judiciary
Fax the Fockers on Judiciary The Rubber Stamp Republican Congress is about to get a wake-up call. For Phase One: The Senate Judiciary Committee will be holding more hearings on the illegal domestic NSA spying without a warrant on Tuesday. They will also be holding hearings on Sen. Russ Feingold’s censure resolution on Friday. We’d [...]
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Another D.C. Democrat We Don’t Need
Another D.C. Democrat We Don't Need This coming Friday, Russ Feingold will get to talk about his censure resolution. So, does anyone else find conversations like this one on Fox to be counterproductive for our side, if not downright infuriating? Meet the latest D.C. Democrat without a clue, Carl Levin, who couldn't be more out [...]
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IRAQ: Another Excuse Against Growing Anarchy
IRAQ: Another Excuse Against Growing Anarchy “… Saddam was not related to the events of September 11th. But if you really believe that the only thing that happens on September 11th was people flew airplanes into buildings, I think you have a very narrow view of what we faced on September 11th. We faced the [...]
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