David Gregory goes oh-for-two guest-wise today, as he hosts the drab duo of John McCain and Timothy Geithner.
Bob Schieffer scores the big guest this week, as President Obama visits Faze the Nation.
On Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace has Defense Secretary Bob Gates, Canadian PM Stephen Harper, head wingnut at the Heritage Foundation Edwin Feulner, and a whole bunch of fuxheads.
Geithner pops up again on the Goebbels Network, and George Snufalufagus also hosts a roundtable with Paul Krugman, George :jerk: Will, Cokie “the hag” Roberts, and Republican toady Matthew Dowd.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl reports on computer viruses, Bob Simon reports on scumbags poisoning African lions to the point of extinction to protect their cattle herds, and Bob Simon reports on LeBron James, who, at 24, makes more money than God (to be fair, LeBron has better stats).
There’s also some sort of basketball tournament going on, but I don’t have time for such ridiculousness.
Have a good Sunday.
Just as news breaks that political fundraising is down for both parties, Republicans have lost one of their more generous contributors.
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In what one might call a biblical move, Christian philanthropist Howard Ahmanson — one of three major funders of the campaign for California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriages — has abandoned the GOP for the Democratic Party.
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Specifically, he was offended by the California Republican Party’s insistence during a recent state budget battle that there would be no tax increases for any reason, no matter what. “They’re providing one issue, and it’s just a very silly issue,” Ahmanson told me by telephone
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/27/AR2009032702568.html
When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, they were convinced that they had in their custody an al-Qaeda leader who knew details of operations yet to be unleashed, and they were facing increasing pressure from the White House to get those secrets out of him.
The methods succeeded in breaking him, and the stories he told of al-Qaeda terrorism plots sent CIA officers around the globe chasing leads.
In the end, though, not a single significant plot was foiled as a result of Abu Zubaida’s tortured confessions, according to former senior government officials who closely followed the interrogations. Nearly all of the leads attained through the harsh measures quickly evaporated, while most of the useful information from Abu Zubaida — chiefly names of al-Qaeda members and associates — was obtained before waterboarding was introduced, they said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/28/AR2009032802066.html?hpid=topnews
Aw, poor rich people.
Big deal, those making $300 grand get a 1% increase, while people making half a million or more a year get a measly little 3% increase. I think they can afford more than that.
Good thing our wonderful Governor was able to “win” cuts in health care and education.
And he calls himself a Democrat.
I thought Paterson was afraid that a tax increase on the rich would make them move to say…Alabma where they would pay very little and could rest assured that none of the little people would be getting an education or healthcare. In turn that would allow to engage in their favorite past time of grousing about not being able to find educated nannies for their little ninnies.
I saw Milk, last night and I really liked it.
The woman who writes the blog, Mudflats and calls herself AKmuckraker had her anonymity blown by Alaska state rep, Mike Doogan. Mr. Doogan actively sought to find the person behind the liberal blog and when he learned her identity published it in his online newsletter.
Many blogs, including DKos are adamant that a blogger who wishes to remain anonymous should be allowed to do so and are particularly upset that a gummint rep used his time and resources to find and out her.
The Anchorage Daily News, however, thinks that if you blog you should reveal your true identity. A sort of “If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen .”
It seems to me that as she is no committing a crime, she has every right to express her opinion anonymously. The reason she wishes to remain anonymous is immaterial.
oh, no… It’s blog-plamegate :knit2: