Meanwhile, many Dems are still somewhat skeptical of the presidential hopefuls to date; hence the draft Gore movement gains more and more steam.
Speaking of Gore, ultra-conservative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia says “get over it” to critics of the Unconstitutional selection of Bush in 2000.
VIDEO: It’s another creepy, surreal media appearance by Nosferatu Cheney
VIDEO: Republican Senator Chuck Hagel blasted his gutless colleagues yesterday for failing to stand up against Bush’s Iraq escalation.
Also from Hagel, a stunning revelation that Bush’s original “use of force” resolution for Iraq actually covered the entire Middle East (page 3).
As General Petraeus prepares to carry out Bush’s BS escalation, one must wonder why he’s so optimistic given that it goes against everything he said needed to be done.
With more blood and treasure being dumped into Iraq, the handful of forces struggling in Afghanistan receive their stop-loss orders.
Vietnam and Iraq headlines…déjà vu all over again.
Bush has created 1.6 million new veterans, but that’s not anything he’s particularly interested in dealing with.
On the TreasonGate front, a CIA briefer testified about how outing Plame could result in the arrest, torture and killing of anyone she came in contact with.
And we learned that Libby gushed over meeting Tom Cruise to discuss the plight of Scientologists in Germany. Just another way Scooter was soooo busy defending the nation that he couldn’t possibly remember a little thing like outing an undercover CIA operative who worked on matters of WMD.
Senate Repugs insist on giving billions to the rich as a condition to not block the minimum wage increase. Getting a 60+ seat majority in 2008 is almost as important as taking back the White House.
India’s getting nuclear gifts from both sides. First Bush gives away oversight-free nuke technology in exchange for mangos and now Russia will give India 4 more reactors.
Bush’s State of the Union forgets that Louisiana and Mississippi are states in the union.
And it’s MLK Day Texas style: afro wigs, fried chicken, etc. That meshes nicely with Limbaugh’s latest racist Obama slur. Geez.
Meanwhile, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) actually upstages the president’s State of the Union speech with the Democratic response.
Little wonder given the pile focus-grouped happy talk Bush spewed last night. Watching Pelosi and Cheney bob up and down was the most entertaining part of the evening. Randi will handle debunking the BS.
VIDEO: Bush’s SOTU Speech
VIDEO: Webb’s Response
VIDEO: Did Grandpa McCain fall asleep?
Also, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee gives a thumbs-down to Bush’s Iraq escalation.
A brief look at cronyism and war.
Five American contractors are killed in Iraq when their helicopter either crashed or was shot down. 4 of the 5 were shot in the back of the head.
Scooter Libby claims that he’s just a patsy and the White House set him up.
House Dems push though a bill that would cut pensions for felonious Members of Congress.
And John Kerry is to announce today that he is NOT running for president in 2008.
And ThinkProgress
VyanSenate conservatives yesterday blocked legislation to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25, “insisting it include new tax breaks for restaurants and other businesses.”
The Congressional Budget Office reported yesterday that President Bush “can balance the budget within five years, or he can get Congress to extend his tax cuts beyond their scheduled expiration — but he can’t do both.”
In the Scooter Libby trial yesterday, former Associate CIA Deputy Director Robert Grenier testified that — pursuant to a request — he told Libby that Valerie Plame worked at the CIA in June 2003, a month before Libby claimed to have learned that information from NBC’s Tim Russert. Another CIA employee said he delivered a stark warning that the Bush administration’s leak “could lead to the deaths of people who aided American intelligence gathering abroad.”
Christine Todd Whitman, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency under George W. Bush, said the president “missed the ‘perfect opening’ to call for a cap on greenhouse gas emissions in his State of the Union address Tuesday night
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