nominatrix

AMDOM
* wolfowitz is committed to development, and is a compassionate, decent man. apparently. according to blinky. indonesia, iraq, worldbank. praps blinky should have nominated bankrobber chalabi to the position instead.
when you fall uphill, do you bump the back of your head? or do you do frontal lobe damage?

* in unrelated news, does anyone remember that dbrooks article LINK last week on how cool wolfowitz really is? it opens: "Let us now praise Paul Wolfowitz"

* dcorn: "Have you been worrying about the image of the United States overseas? Have no fear, Karen Hughes is here. George W. Bush is nominating Hughes to be under secretary of state in charge of public diplomacy. That's the administration official who oversees the government's efforts to sell the United States abroad. No one has been in this position since the summer--which indicates just how much of a priority Bush has assigned to this task." LINK

* in other news: "... in spite of the apparent urgency of her task, Hughes is "not going to start it full time until later this summer."" LINK
this position has been empty for 9 months., and 6 of the previous 12 months.

* "Amid the backdrop of soaring oil and gasoline prices, a sharply divided Senate on Wednesday voted to open the ecologically rich Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, delivering a major energy policy win for President Bush."
ummm - surely this isnt an "major energy policy" issue. its apparently a budget issue - isnt thats why its in the budget bill? or maybe, just maybe, its pure cronyism. or another babytax, stealing the environment from our kids. LINK

* nader slams ahnuld. LINK i wish ralph was president.

* Collins, Snowe, Dewine, Specter, and Graham, all R's, voted *for* this: "It is the sense of the Senate that Congress should reject any Social Security plan that requires deep benefit cuts or a massive increase in debt."
if we can keep specter carved out, praps we can get him on the good side of the fight wrt judicial noms. and lindsay? phew! how long till they get him back in the box? LINK

* in case u missed, a cia spook has been picked to head up nasa.

* and a 38 yearold bushcheney lawyer is taking michael powells place at the fcc. oh, and he is from the ashcroft school wrt to boobies and "cable television and satellite radio should be policed the same way over-the-air radio and television broadcasts are." the internet is toast. LINK

* here is a video of the first 3 mins of blinkys press conference. its hard to tell whether his drugs are getting better or worse, or what the metric is. LINK
and here he is look/sounding even dumber in response to a question from davidgregory LINK

* www.stopbolton.org - check out the shortvideo there - i hope he loses himself like that at the confirmation hearings.

* apparently bolton is a good choice for the UN cos he is close to the egadministration and so can reflect their views.

* apparently wolfowitz is a good choice for the WorldBank cos he is close to the egadministration and so can reflect their views.

* apparently khughes is a good choice for the public diplomacy role cos she is close to the egadministration and so can reflect their views. btw - when did khughes last manage $1.5bn? and how many pundits can u buy for that?