more army recruiting bollox

* "According to Friday's Wall Street Journal: "Six in 10, including 43% of Republicans, say there should be a public investigation and hearings into exposure of operative Valerie Plame's identity." The statistic is published in the paper's Washington Wire.
"Fully 69% of Americans hold Cheney personally responsible for the matter; 54% hold Bush responsible." (link)

* " The public's view of the likeability of the affable president has dropped from 63 percent in August to 52 percent now." (link)
a 20% collapse in 3 month - where the fuck have these people been?

* "Eighty-two percent of those polled describe Bush as "stubborn," with seven of every 10 Republicans agreeing with that description." (link)

* back in AUG 04, 68% of americans thought Blinky was stubborn - including 60% of repugs. they *finally* have come to the realisation that stubborn=bad, not stubborn=good.

* "The Defense Department opened its new recruiting year with good news: announcing yesterday that the Army met its goal for October. But officials also said that the Army lowered the October recruiting goal by about a third from last year's." (link)
their annual goal hasnt changed, they missed their annual goal last year by 8%, and they lowered this october target by a third.
same old, same ole.

* " In recent days, Fitzgerald has reinterviewed several witnesses with knowledge of Rove's role in the Plame leak and talked with attorneys of other potential witnesses." (link)

* campusprogress interviewed krugman - quite a few interesting tidbits - including a well-deserved smack-down of the nyt getting into bed with the IDiots. (i think wilgoren wrote most of that series, but i think there were others who joined in)

* 2 amazing things i saw on fox in the last 2 days a) they actually referred to plame as 'covert', and b) they actually referred to 'global warming' (curiously, they wrote 'global warNing' on the screen)