I suppose that like a good pundit, I should punditize about Obama’s veep choice, whomever it might be. But the truth is I’m far more interested in what’s going on economically - in particular, the incredible surge last week of oil prices - falling today, down $1.99 per barrel as of this writing although traders […]

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Peggy Noonan, whom I seem to agree with more and more these days, weighs in on the McClellan business in a piece titled - as Bigby asked in a previous thread -  “But is it true?”:

The left, while embracing the book’s central assertions, will paint him as a weasel who belatedly ‘fessed up. They’re big on […]

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McClellan goes on Olbermann last night to talk about his book and says something destined to outrage the 28 pecenters, but which makes perfect, unfortunate sense for everyone else:
I think that you would need to take [the administration’s] comments [on Iran] very seriously and be skeptical.

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Honor, duty. But how about, as John Lennon said, Gimme some truth:
Some former White House spokesmen think Bush’s one-time press secretary, Scott McClellan, should have stepped down if he really believed, as he says in his new book, that Bush “signed off on a strategy for selling the war that was less than candid and […]

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Unless you’re a winger.
Mike Turk served as the eCampaign director for President Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign. As such, his tenure corresponded with that of McClellan’s. No longer connected to the administration, Turk is now one of the few (if any) voices with connections to that crowd who are saying, quiet simply, that the book “What […]

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Sadly! No sums up the right’s reaction to the McClellan memoirs:

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Right.
“The president was very clear about the reasons for going to war,” she told reporters at a news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in Stockholm where she is attending an international conference on Iraq.
Chief among those reasons was the belief, shared widely before the war, that Saddam Hussein had or was developing weapons […]

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War on drugs? I’m sorry, make that a war on foreigners, waged with drugs…

The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have […]

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