MadCountDisease

* " President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales, was all but guaranteed Senate confirmation today when a leading Democrat expressed fondness for the nominee and signaled that he would not stand in his way. "I like him," said Senator Patrick J. Leahy"
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/politics/17cnd-couns.html

* "Introduced at the Air Force Association Convention in September 2000 as an adviser to candidate Bush, Hadley said: “Space is going to be important. It has a great feature for the military.”... He wrote in the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, “To say that a security policy based on nuclear weapons was ‘irresponsible’ and ‘immoral’ from the outset is to accuse the United States government of pursuing a policy that was irresponsible and immoral. Such a serious and false accusation against a democratic government destroys public confidence in our institutions and our leaders. ..." http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2004/0411hadley.php

* parently 'dr rice is affectionatley known in the white house as Warrior Princess' - its all so comforting.

* "The U.S. electoral system looks increasingly dysfunctional, and those of us who used to mock the old Soviet or Iraqi "elections" for lacking competition ought to be blushing." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/opinion/20kristof.html?oref=login&hp=&pagewanted=print&position

* "In this supper of swagger, it's clear that Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld are Cheney's boys, and Powell his adversary. Seen in such a light, the changes Bush has announced in his cabinet take on an unmistakable meaning: This is Cheney's government." http://www.progressive.org/webex04/wx111704.html

* wheres scooter?

* it looks like someone has finally taken a look at the early voting patterns - this time in NC. it seems that with 30% of the count done b4 electionday ('no longer a sample but a benchmark') - the exit polls coincided with this early voting, and it was only late on election day that we got a 6% swing to bush. "I also think it reveals the three objectives of the Bush re-election campaign: 1) re-election 2) mandate 3) strong Senate majority." it seems to me this is exactly the rove strategy - steal votes from *everywhere*, so that the mandate is there to enable them to do woteva *and* make the result look so overwhelming that any specific example of fraud/mistake looks too small to justify fighting. (i cant vouch 4 the sauce)
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/NorthCarolinaAnalysis.html

* i wonder if 43 would look less stupid if he stopped sniggering in the middle of issuing dire warnings and pronouncements. i just saw him do it re nthkorea - and he did it re palestinian democracy last week... and and and.



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