The Texas Blue: News
News Roundup, 5/14/08: Special Victories
By Joseph Vogas
Wed, 05/14/2008 - 10:23am
A special election day round up: election results, movement on FISA, and why torture doesn't work. It's all here.
Misrememberance: The Prequel
Tue, 05/13/2008 - 11:30pm
There is one word and one phrase I could gladly live the rest of my life without hearing after this nomination battle: Misremember (in any iteration) and "throwing ___ under the bus".
Alas, I can't even find solitude from this word and this phrase in the nightly half hour of The Daily Show. Last night Master of Iraq Disaster, Bush apologist and intelligence masseuse extraordinaire Doug Feith fired the latest volley from the quiver of misrememberances during an interview with John Stewart:
I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday For Some Scrutiny Today
Tue, 05/13/2008 - 11:08pm
The Washington Post's Dan Balz echoes Tim Russert's sentiment that it will only be a matter of time before the media start scrutinizing Senator John McCain the way that they've scrutinized Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama:
Mississippi's 1st Congressional District Goes Democratic
Tue, 05/13/2008 - 8:18pm
The Associated Press is calling the Mississippi special election tonight for Democrat Travis Childers over Republican Greg Davis for the remainder of Republican Roger Wicker's House term.
Torture Doesn't Work
Tue, 05/13/2008 - 6:00pm
Six men were facing trial yesterday before a military tribunal for involvement in the September 11 attacks. But only five will be prosecuted. The sixth? He was one of the detainees subjected to torture.
West Virginia Polls Close; Called For Clinton
Tue, 05/13/2008 - 5:41pm
The polls in West Virginia just closed, and NBC is already calling the race for Clinton.
A Possible FISA Compromise
Tue, 05/13/2008 - 5:10pm
Finally, there is some movement on the FISA domestic surveillance bill.
Repub Memo
Tue, 05/13/2008 - 4:53pm
In recent weeks, the GOP faced major beatings in the political arena. The leaders of the GOP decided to “stop the bleeding” with a memo.
The American People Deserve An Obama Presidency
Tue, 05/13/2008 - 11:29am
Thus spoke Robert Novak.
Novak's assessment of some of the evangelical community is that they will not support John McCain's Presidential aspirations this year, deciding instead to wait for 2012 when Mike Huckabee will run for office again (they hope). In the meantime, an Obama Presidency would be a plague upon the nation.
A New Cold War
Tue, 05/13/2008 - 10:16am
They've had military parades. They've thrown our diplomats out of the country. Recently Mikhail Gorbachev has also accused the United States of running 'an imperialist conspiracy against Russia.' Russia is being awfully hyper-aggressive lately. Can't we be friends? Is it 1987 or something?