Category: Edgewise

  • It’s beginning to look a lot like Rovegate

    Quoting from James Wolcott: Blowback Is a Bitch: When word broke that Karl Rove’s name was the live hand grenade rolling around in Matt Cooper’s notes, I immediately flashbacked to this almost Elizabethan scenario of palace intrigue and betrayal from From the Wilderness. Its author, Michael C. Ruppert, author of Crossing the Rubicon. Its title,…

  • Wanting to Get to the Bottom of It

    The very next Q&A in the press conference xian links to below is also a prize specimen of weasel-wordedness: Q Two questions. First, you’ve said in the past that, on the matter of Matt Cooper and Judith Miller that the President supports the investigation. What specific steps is the White House taking to support it?…

  • Schwarzenegger’s popularity down to Bush levels

    The Field poll says only 39% of respondents would vote for Schwarzenegger again. Going, going, ….

  • Conflict, schmonflict

    Thanks to John Berger on the Well, I ended up reading this interesting exchange between administration spokesweasel John McClellan and the usually prostrate White House press: Q: When the President talks about high gasoline prices, he often cites the demand for gasoline and crude oil from China. Is the President comfortable that the company partly…

  • Karl Rove prepared for war

    I’m not sure Rove is prepared for the way these liberal soldiers and veterans are pissed at his divisive comments about how different Americans responded to 9/11: Take it to Karl

  • Public Television vs The Klan

    Full disclosure: I have a liberal viewpoint. That means primarily that I believe in taxes, free speech, and that Abraham Lincoln was right. And sometimes I wish The North had let The South secede. Then we wouldn’t have today a national leadership lording their prejudices over us from the legacy of a constitutional compromise. That’s…