Demander In Chief

* from kathleen in the comments:

"Democrats consistantly gobble up Repugnican spin poop. They consistantly allow them to define the issues and can only be reactive instead of proactive. Unbelievably, they're afraid of Bush' brain who is on his way to the can. When Rove runs around saying the Dems are coming, the Dems are coming and they'll impeach our Demander in Chief Dems should laugh in Rove's face and say, "You must be convinced there are sufficient grounds for impeachment. You oughta know, your the Deciderator's brain, right?" Dems better support stem cell research. they'll need it to grow spines."

funny. funny. i particularly like the "Demander in Chief "

* willbunch on judy/911:

Three points here, one about Bush and two about journalism:

1) This has been said so many time before, so we won't belabor the point, but how much more evidence do people need that the Bush White House had plenty of information about the pending 9/11 attacks, and failed to take the threat seriously? The relatively high marks that Bush gets on terrorism issues, even today, just aren't supported by the facts.

2) As for the New York Times, the decision not to publish pre-9/11 is a toss-up. But why, in God's name, was this information not published in any clear and meaningful way immediately after 9/11, on the pages of the Times itself. Doesn't anyone think that information of advance warnings of the attack in the highest levels of Washington is something that the public needed to know in those early days after the attacks?

Instead, from what we can gather, the information has dribbled out... some of it in a 2005 article in Columbia Journalism Review, and some of it today in a story on an alternative, progressive Web site. Who exactly was the Times protecting in not writing this article in September 2001, immediately after the attack, and why?

3) Another stunner from the new article: One reason that Miller wasn't able to do the additional reporting that might have added enough meat to get the al-Qaeda story in the paper pre-9/11 was because she, Engelberg, and another reporter were all busy trying to finish a book