Month: June 2007

Novak advises Bush on how to rescue his water-treading, kiddie-staffed administration.

Amazing he’s still doing voice-overs for radio ads. Especially for a sketchy guy like this. Marc Ambinder has more campaign crack here.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

This YouTube is interesting. And the questions are starting to fly. Money quote:

I do not believe abortion should be criminalized. This battle will be won in the hearts and souls of the American people.

Another pro-choice Republican for the presidency?

A profile of Harvard’s incoming president, Drew Gilpin Faust. For a grim recap on how she got the job, read this.
 

Lake City, Michigan, 2.30 pm.

For an interactive gallery of Dish readers’ window views across the world, click here.

My take on the fun and games on the campaign trail so far can be read here. Money quote:

Former New York mayor Giuliani is always entertaining, and he hasn’t disappointed. The most remarkable aspect of his candidacy is its complete immunity from anything that has actually happened in the last five years. For Rudy, it’s still 9/12 and always will be. And why not? He hasn’t felt so significant since – although his speaking fees have. He has no qualms about Iraq. It’s simple, after all. We just have to win.

His entire analysis of the war on terror can be reduced to the notion that we stay "on offense". Offense means anything aggressive, it appears. He wouldn’t rule out a nuclear strike on Iran, for example. He endorses “any methods necessary” to extract information from anyone who might seem like a terrorist.

He spoke of two recent terror plots – one involving a handful of loons who wanted to invade a military base, another a crew of Caribbeans who dreamt of blowing up JFK airport (they had no weapons and no firm plans) – as if they were an imminent threat to America’s very existence.

As his eyes flash through his wire-rim glasses, and he bobs up and down on his shiny corporate shoes, you can just see him drooling over the chance to fire a few missiles, round up a few immigrants, strip a few more Americans of habeas corpus rights and nuke Tehran. This is the man, remember, who banned ferret-ownership and jaywalking in New York City. Next stop: Falluja. Piece of cake.

"The Internet has not, as some predicted, brought about the demise of such great newspapers as the one you are holding in your hands. But it has gotten the hookers off the street,"-  Paul Mulshine, New Jersey Star-Ledger.

Well, HHS secretary Michael Leavitt is on the ball. God, what an embarrassment.

A reader thinks out loud:

Looking at that quote about Gitmo, wouldn’t life be sweet if Powell, the anti-Cheney in every way possible, became the next VP. If we had an Obama-Powell ticket, the election would be over.  Certainly would take care of the "experience" question, and would flip world perspective on the U.S. overnight.

Is such a ticket likely? Probably not. Powell remains too much of the good soldier. But I can dream, can’t I?

Stranger things have happened.