....he was a Bush insider and I am very interested in what he has to say. He obviously had a bone to pick, since Libby. Rove and maybe Cheney threw him under the bus about what they knew about the Plame thing.

I have never been a liberal that believed Bush led us into a war based on lies, but I am very interested on what he has to say about twisting evidence.

What is the answer to 99 out of 100 questions? Money. -vanilla sky

He can make a buck and get lots of media hoopla for it (in fact I bet the MSM were frothing at the mouth to get this out).

"They need to have a course in college called common sense and everyone should take it. Problem is there isn't too many people that could pass or teach it." -my grandfather

It is sad to see that there is no more honor in many in this country. Scott, shame on you. You are selling out someone who believed in you and gave you a prestigious opportunity for a buck. You created a big batch of koolaid for the drinkers on the left just to make some money. Shame on you! I for one will not be adding to your fortunes, but unfortunately, there are far too many who will.

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." - C.S. Lewis

A Pro Bush book would get no press and no sales.  The dude is strapped for cash.  Whatever. 

Noli habere bovis, vir!

....pushed McClellan to get the book done BEFORE the general election in order to get as much bad press for the GOP (I know, how get it much worse, right?) out there as possible.

What he says may be true, but it still stinks of financial opportunism and stabbing your boss in the back.  I guess it would've been too much to ask to wait until Bush is out of office to release it.

Mark Jabo

How about a multiple choice question? Does the book claim:

a) The White House used political spin to further its goals

b) McClellan was lied to by other people in government

c) Washington D.C. is a byzantine bureaucracy that is inefficient

d) None of this is McClellan's fault

e) All of the above

I may have to sit down and pause to catch my breath after those startling revelations.

Let's give credit where credit is due, though. A self-proclaimed "open and honest" book being written by a guy who spent his career as a professional B.S. artist accomplishes the difficult task of raising the Washington irony bar another notch.

Three people were killed this weekend by a drunk illegal imigrant on the beltline around Raleigh. Here's the story.  

“A debate is a conflict which clarifies a position. A dialogue is a conversation which compromises a position.” –John E. Ashbrook, The New Neutralism II, P. 7

Well i don't know how to go about this are exactly where to post this "idea", but i think folks need to go on the attack against the CS-MSM,(CS stands for chicken droppins). Folks are always sayin the media ia biased, unfair, and untruthfull, and i agree with that, but i'd like to do somethin about it, maybe a petition and/or boycott callin for the firein of the talkin heads on abc. nbc. and cbs., the evenin news, the mornin shows, the news magazines, and shows like matthews and olbermann, etc.etc. Maybe if the networks got a long series of e-mails with millions(maybe even thousands) of names callin for the firein of them people, we could get some fair and honest objective news coverage, at least they would have to acknoweldge the problem and their advertisers might put some pressure on em. Some of you folks on here seem to know how to go about somethin like this are know who could,??, any way i'd like to see it happen.

(Grins)

kilrod

And now, today's Shrub Report®:

Holy crap, can the Penguinis play any worse? Inconceivable!

Mr. Excitement embarks on his "Lull Asian leaders into a deep sleep" tour.

Mexico has a navy? Inconceivable!

Introducing, The Genius Democrat of the Week.

I thought Musharraf was a puppet of the Republicans?

Homosexual couples might be child molesters? Inconceivable!

This shrubber is happy to note that his most-favored actress has bad days, too…

It's time again for Jihadi Bloopers!

Introducing Female Genital Mutilation Light!

The chorus from the DNC: "Dammit".

Eveeeel Karl Rove will be in Rochester, NH this weekend, speaking at the NH Republican state convention. Ron Paul will be in the Wendy's parking lot across the street.

The DNC is too inept to raise money for its national convention, but the Republicans aren't? Inconceivable!

254 years ago today, the first shots of the French and Indian War were fired, in SW PA. A young George Washington survives the humiliating defeat at nearby Fort Necessity, and those life lessons help him become the leader he became, 20 years later.

I'm trying to figure out how he can say that he "...stood at the White House briefing room podium in front of the glare of klieg lights for fort the better part of two weeks, and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

There was one problem. It was not true. I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libbey, the Vice President, the President's Chief of Staff, and the President himself."-Scott McClellan's new book "What Happened".

First of all, if he was such an unknowing dupe, how can we take anyghing he says as fact.

Second, where is his proof? It will be interesting to see how he backs his claims up in the book.

New Yorkers get saved from a true menace. And the blog post features bonus-questions for conservatives, greens, etc. so enjoy.
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

http://www.breitbart...

Talented class act vs. Babbling Buffoon.

Prayers are with you Tony.

Alas, things are so tight---I have had to give up two of my young mistresses. I also drink Thunderbird instead of Moet. What's a geezer to do????

All kidding aside--the gas price surge hurts me more than the rest. We have 3 cars--two students. My gas bill last month was almost $800. Up about $400/mo. My utilities went up about 20%, food too. They did not increase as much as the gas bill did.

It ain't hard to get there.

2 commuting students, one working Mom,

one infant to go to day care

and one Dad who goes to the Y 3 times a week

= approx 130/140 gals and about 60 gals shopping, entertain, etc= approx 200/210 avg/month * 3.95/gal /avg= $790. /mo.

I went back and checked some monthly gas bills from about a year ago. They were in the $350-$370 range. I am retired, my wife works--no one has told me that we received a $400 raise, yet. I do not expect they will.

Here's something for those who care about the SCOTUS and possible nominees from McCain and Obama.

I'm sure most of you had heard this before, but here is video of Maxine Waters threatening oil execs with the govt. taking over their companies.

If anyone is interested, "Texas Monthly" has a small piece on this. Doesn't shed much light, but...

Bishop says collapse of Christianity is wrecking British society - and Islam
is filling the void

The collapse of Christianity has wrecked British society, a leading Church of England bishop declared yesterday.

It has destroyed family life and left the country defenceless against the
rise of radical Islam in a moral and spiritual vacuum.

In a lacerating attack on liberal values, the Right Reverend Michael
Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, said the country was mired in a
doctrine of 'endless self-indulgence' that had brought an explosion in
public violence and binge-drinking.

In a blow to Gordon Brown, he
mocked the 'scramblings and scratchings' of politicians who try to cast
new British values such as respect and tolerance.

The Pakistani-born bishop dated the downfall of Christianity from the 'social and sexual revolution' of the 1960s.

Accusation: Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali claims radical Islam is filling the moral vacuum left by the decline in Christian virtues

He said Church leaders had capitulated to Marxist revolutionary thinking
and quoted an academic who blames the loss of 'faith and piety among
women' for the steep decline in Christian worship.

Dr Nazir-Ali said the ' newfangled and insecurely founded' doctrine of
multiculturalism has left immigrant communities 'segregated, living
parallel lives'.

Christian values of human dignity,
equality and freedom could be lost as the way is left open for the
advance of brands of Islam that do not respect Western values.

The Bishopric of Rochester is one of the ten most powerful positions in the Church of England.

Dr Nazir-Ali's attack on the decline of Christianity appears to put him in
the opposite corner to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams,
and many of his fellow bishops.

But he holds some views in
common with the Church's other widely-heard and popular prelate,
Ugandan-born Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York.

Over the past six months, Dr Nazir-Ali has made a number of criticisms of Islam and its influence.

Among them have been charges about the spread of no-go areas for non-Muslims and worries over the impact of new mosques.

Last weekend he was one of just three bishops who backed a move in the
Church's parliament, the General Synod, to encourage the conversion of
Muslims to Christianity.

His latest attack once again criticises
Dr Williams's backing for sharia law, saying that 'recognising its
jurisdiction in public law is fraught with difficulties, precisely as
it arises from a different set of assumptions than the tradition of law
here'.

Dr Nazir-Ali detailed his arguments in an article in the newly-launched political magazine Standpoint.

The bishop, himself an immigrant from Pakistan in the mid-1980s, admitted
that he might be thought the least qualified person to discuss British
identity. But he quoted Kipling: 'What should they know of England who
only England know?'

The bishop said 'something momentous'
had happened in the 1960s. He quoted historians who point to a cultural
revolution in which women ceased to uphold or pass on the Christian
faith and to the role of Marxist revolutionaries.

Dr Nazir-Ali pointed with approval to a finding that 'instead of resisting
this phenomenon, liberal theologians and church leaders all but
capitulated.

Criticised: Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams has controversially backed sharia law

He said: 'It has created the moral and spiritual vacuum in which we now
find ourselves.' In the place of Christianity there was nothing 'except
perhaps endless self-indulgence'.

The bishop said the
consequences were 'the destruction of the family because of the alleged
parity of different forms of life together, the loss of a father
figure, especially for boys, because the role of fathers is deemed
otiose, the abuse of substances (including alcohol), the loss of
respect for the person leading to horrendous and mindless attacks, the
increasing communications gap between generations and social classes -
the list is very long.'

Another result, he said, was that
immigrants had been welcomed, not on the basis of Britain's Christian
heritage, to which they would be welcome to contribute, but by the
'newfangled and insecurely-founded doctrine of multiculturalism'.

The bishop warned that views not founded on Christianity would not produce
the same values. 'Instead of Christian virtues of humility, service and
sacrifice, there may be honour, piety, the saving of face, etc'.

He questioned what resources were available for an ideological battle
against radical Islamism, saying 'the scramblings and scratchings
around of politicians for values which would provide ammunition' were
hardly adequate... More >>

Source: The Mail (UK)

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