evil pletka

(btw - i think i maybe got my posting dates wrong - if you've read this post already, there may still be some new ones immediately below this one)

* oreilly 'discussed the geldoff/ebay thing: "these internet people need to be held accountable"

* brithume is bragging about a poll that says a plurality of people think that gitmo is acceptable.

* "The House handed President Bush the first defeat in his effort to preserve the broad powers of the USA Patriot Act, voting yesterday to curtail the FBI's ability to seize library and bookstore records for terrorism investigations.
Bush has threatened to veto any measure that weakens those powers. The surprise 238 to 187 rebuke to the White House was produced when a handful of conservative Republicans, worried about government intrusion, joined with Democrats who are concerned about personal privacy." LINK

* "Senior Justice Department officials overrode the objections of career lawyers running the government's tobacco racketeering trial and ordered them to reduce the penalties sought at the close of the nine-month trial by $120 billion, internal documents and interviews show.
The trial team argued that the move would be seen as politically motivated and legally groundless." LINK

* berniesanders was on cavuto, the text on the screen "un-patriotic?". cavuto told him that if there is another attack, sanders will be repsonible for it, in part.

* yesterday i said that the dsm " certainly qualifie(s) (as news) once conyers got 90 sigs on his letter to investigate the claims. surely that is news, even if you think its bonkers." - this from todays gaggle:

"Q Scott, on another topic, has the President or anyone else from the administration responded to the letter sent last month by Congressman John Conyers and signed by dozens of members of the House of Representatives, regarding the Downing Street memo? Has the President or anyone else responded?

McCLELLAN: Not that I'm aware of.

Q Why not?

McCLELLAN: Why not? Because I think that this is an individual who voted against the war in the first place [Conyers] and is simply trying to rehash old debates that have already been addressed. And our focus is not on the past. It's on the future and working to make sure we succeed in Iraq.

These matters have been addressed, Elaine. I think you know that very well. The press --

Q Scott, 88 members of Congress signed that letter.

McCLELLAN: The press -- the press have covered it, as well."

e&p has more LINK

* evil pletka writes a pice for the nyt on the iranian elections. i think she is worried that some guy will become president and not develop a nuke. im not sure why the AEI gets to place free advertisements everywhere. why does danille pletka eat children? LINK

* it looks like bolton will come up on monday. i wonder when larry flynt will print the article? btw, flynt was gonna publish that 911 article in just but i havent heard anything about it.

* "Bush's job approval dropped significantly since last month among people aged 30 to 44, from 52% to 40% now." LINK
theres a fucking 'middle'. whod have thought?

* cst: "It is not unreasonable to expect that other young men will soon be destroying themselves in this country as they blow up Americans in shopping malls and restaurants and hospitals and churches." LINK

* btw - the dms thingy has brought the nigeranium back to the fore. when will 60mins2 play *that* story? bastards.

* milbank makes fun of conyers little hearing. LINK - conyers fires back. LINK

* btw - fnc did a bit on the dsm hearings, incluind showing a guy standing outside with an 'impeach bush' sign. cnn have covered it a fair bit too. still no news on the beeb.

* "But Mr. Bush's policy on Iranian democracy of late has been largely rhetoric. The State Department has yet to spend a modest $3 million set aside by Congress for 2005 to fund democratic civil-society groups in Iran." LINK

* heres kr on thememo LINK
go read it. heres the thing - when u read kr, u dont just feel like youve just read a good article, or a good writer, you realise how corrupt every other journo is. and let me be clear, not 'accidentally incompetent', but constitutionally corrupt.