Newsie’s Week in Reviewsies: Rove Lies; Bush & Cronies’ Betrayal of Trust
This regular meta-diary focuses on the best overlooked diaries (didn’t get front-paged or on to the recommended list) from the past week; it was once called “Week’s Best Diaries You Didn’t Read.” This column also includes information from elsewhere in cyberspace, blogosphere PSAs, and my own commentary. Diaries are listed because:
- they’re fabulously written & have SUBSTANCE
- they’ll educate you on candidates and states.
- newsworthy items that got lost in the mix
- there was research involved (copyright rules must be followed)
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Note
Rove’s pathetic comments (projecting much?) regarding 9/11 got so much coverage. I’m not going to post many links here re: the Bush & Cronies bullshitting on this issue, because it’s gotten extensive coverage elsewhere. I have two slogans and themes that the Democrats should try to work in for 2006: “Actions, Not Words” and “Betrayal of Trust.”
Democratic Officeholder(s): The Good and the Bad
Blue Ribbon(s)
Blue Ribbon(s)
- Senators defend Durbin’s right (or any politician’s right) to not have their words parsed
- VIDEO: Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Mississippi)
- Democratic Governor expands kindergarten., by rolet
- VIDEO: Sen. Dorgan calls for new PBS chair to step down
Runners-Up
- Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) fights for our veterans
- Rove is right: there are differences
- Exclusive VIDEO: Conyers DSM hearing
- VIDEO: Sen. Boxer’s floor speech re: Bolton
- VIDEO: Senators defend Durbin’s right to misspeak
- Sen. Barack Obama on Fatherhood, by Eloy
- Kossacks Must Share the Democratic Party with Factory Workers, by Rep Brad Miller
Penalty Box
* House Dems and Investigating the DeLay Machine and DeLay-like cronies
Pinocchio Politicians…Phony, Weak, Useless, Incompetent, Hypocritical, Radical, Petulant, Regressive, Corrupt & Power Hungry Right Wing “Worse Than Nixon” Republican “Do As I Say, Not as I Do” Coward Watch!
From elsewhere around the blogosphere. Items (copied, pasted or reworded) from various sources or compiled by me; some commentary is mine.
Overshadowed News & Outrage(s) of the Week
Overshadowed News & Outrage(s) of the Week
- White House gets input from Christian group for next SCOTUS
- AUDIO: Dubya lies about why we went into Iraq
- RNC Illegally used CSpan footage in attack ad
- Right wing brainwashes young Republicans with specialized college
- Bush & Cronies Heart the White Out
- Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility will investigate whether political interference influence government lowering the amount of money the tobacco industry should pay
- Bush & Cronies don’t care about the law, and they certainly don’t care about the investigations showing that they’ve broken the law.
- Required Report on Trip by House Ethics Chairman Is Missing Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA) sez oops!
More outrages & news:
- Senators who didn’t cosponsor lynching apology managed to sponsor lots of comparatively useless and less important resolutions.
- What Conservatives Prepared For
- Ralph Reed Wants to Hump Corruption
- Crony Capitalism – Honest Graft. You might as well rename K Street, GOP Street.
- Rove-ing from the Truth
- Fact-checking Rove & Frist on their Slander of Durbin
- Bush touts SS privatization in MD, but the audience, as usual, is pre-screened. Your taxdollars at work to protext the Coward in Chief.
- US Sec. of Interior Gale Norton linked to Abramoff
- Newsweek: Documents: Anti-Gambling Funds–From Gambling? Abramoff related.
- Right-wingnuts lose all credibility when they look to Ed Klein as their savior from a Hillary takeover
- For all your CunningScam news, check out TPM.
- Cunningham gets a lawyer
- Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham served with four subpoenas.
- Other Republicans who could get mixed up in the Cunningscam.
- How Abramoff Cooked the Books
- Abramoff/DeLay: Bill Padding
- When do Bushies go to fight? The military is having trouble recruiting.
- Jonathan Alter calls out Jeb Bush and wingnuts on Schiavo case
- Sen. Domenici (R-NM) flip flops on energy vote
- Right wingnuts and their crocodile tears over Sen. Durbin’s comments
- Bill First cheated on fiancée
- Rep. Sherwood, accused of choking his mistress, votes to put the Ten Commandments in courts The Daily Show jokes just write themselves.
- Ehrlich (R) sinks to new lows. Using kids as partisan pawns. Disgusting.
- DeLay is a hypocrite; bloggers follow up on his comments about Pelosi
- There are no moderate Republicans Just robo-hacks.
- Sen. Burns, Abramoff and Trouble
- Ben Stein’s “Stupid Shoes”
More blogs that frequently have posts that deal with this topic:
- This Ohio blog has extensive coverage of Ohio Coingate
- DNC’s Case File. Scandal Man: A Guide to the Ethics Violations, Abuses of Power, and Corruption of DeLay
- Tom DeLay’s House of Scandal
- Jack Abramoff and Friends
- Drop the Hammer on DeLay
- Republican Noise Machine from MyDD
- DCCC blog: The Stakeholder
- First Draft
- For video on the worst of the phony Republicans, visit Crooks & Liars.
- The Daily DeLay is updated regularly & has action items.
- TAPPED from The American Prospect.
- The Fly Trap at The Gadflyer
Republican(s) Off Message
- GOP Sen. Says that the “time for happy talk’ is O-V-E-R
- Scott McClellan v. Trent Lott. See, Lott is good for something some of the time.
- TN Republican co-sponsors House bill to stop gerrymandered redistricting, by attydave
- Republican candidate calls Bush Admin ‘Nazis,’ quits party
Republicans Have the Wrong Priorities
Right Wing Corporate/Controlled Media (RWCM) Watch
- (Hotline) Sunday — Meet the Press hosts Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld and Bono. Face the Nation hosts Gen. John Abizaid. This Week hosts Rumsfeld and ex-FBI dir. L. Patrick Gray. Fox News Sunday hosts Rumsfeld. Late Edition hosts Abizaid, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), and Iraqi PM Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Other Weekend Shows — CNN’s Capital Gang broadcasts its final show at 7 p.m. C-SPAN’s “Road to the White House” travels with Sen. George Allen (R-VA) in Manchester and John Edwards in Nashua (6:30 p.m.). * Rocky Mountain News Dismisses DSM, by pacified
- Media News Monday 6/20/05, by Newsie8200 Non-DKos RWCM watch here.
- Penndit’s RWCM Watch & Media News Link Listing
National Security/Foreign Policy/War/International Issues, News & People in the News
Both DemBloggers and Crooks & Liars have relevant video on DSM coverage
- Richard Clarke in NY Times on military crisis, by teacherken
- Semper Fi? Out of pocket expense follow up, by Coldblue Steele
- Italy: “La Repubblica” publishes names of CIA kidnappers, by Donna in Rome
- WV Marine Interview: Iraq getting worse…, by ReddHedd
- Ohio Governor golf outings linked to U.S. Treasury head John Snow, by Hypothetically Speaking
- Bolton Nomination Providing Bush Cover on Right Flank?, by Meteor Blades
- DSM buried lede: It’s the Bombing Stupid!, by kant
From elsewhere around the blogosphere.
- Iraq: US Contractors Stealing Money?
- “Secret” Air Base for Iraq War started prior 9-11, by Duke1676
- “Fixed” means the same thing in the U.S. and the U.K. Who knew we had to translate English for the right wingnuts?
- Downing Street delusions Downing Street memos are real. Link goes to the evidence.
- Rice claims that BushCo. Told Americans Iraq would be a “Generational Commitment.” LMAO! That’s a lie.
- Who to believe? Military officials on the ground in Iraq v. Bush & Cronies
- Bolton leaves arms control… and suddenly we’re doing better in that department! LMAO.
- Sen. Roberts (R) says Bolton recess appointment would weakn the U.S.
- Someone Else’s Child, by Bob Herbert
For more on these issues, check these out:
PDBs from Soj Fantastic daily resource. Subscribe to Soj!
Daily War News from a veteran
Laura Rozen’s blog War and Piece
Juan Cole’s Informed Comment
The Washington Note
Flogging the Simian by Soj
Domestic Issues & Other Issues, News & People in the News
- MI – Higher Education Budgets, Equality, and Our Future, by shirah
- Something GOOD & EXCITING in Philadelphia, by teacherken
- The War On Science: When Mob Rule Prevails, by DemFromCT
- Health Crisis Mega Diary, by bonddad
From elsewhere around the blogosphere.
- Family Healthcare Premiums Increase 59% Since 2000, by bonddad
- Milwaukee School Vouchers
- How to reduce malpractice insurance premiums. Political Animal
- New Republican SS “plan” dumber than the old one
Series & Roundups
- Supreme Court Roundup, by hoyapaul
- Sunday Talk Roundups & Poll Screencaps, by Al Rodgers
- Jerome a Paris economic & international events diaries
- Investment Club, by CA Pol Junkie Link to first diary on this, titled “The Basics.”
- Healthcare News Round-ups by the holy handgrenade
- Daily Pulse, by dhonig Roundup of smaller newspapers.
- Reasonable Conservative bloggers
- CrooksandLiars’ blog roundup
- Basie’s interviews with prominent Democrats.
- DKos Diary Series: A Compilation
- NYers United to Portect Social Security
- DCCC: Privatize This! Anti SS Privatization website
- AARP Social Security Blog
- For the latest on Wal-Mart’s crimes, click here for JR Monsterfodder’s diaries.
- For the day’s Greatest Hits, Progressive Pundit Picks from baldandy
- For your LGBT news, please read pamindurham’s LGBT news roundups.
- For all your economy news, please read bonddad’s diaries and economic news roundups.
- For all your religious news, please read PastorDan’s religious news roundups. You can also check out his blog, Faith Forward
- Other meta-diaries: Tomtech’s this week in facism, SeattleLiberal’s Nerd Network News (Science Diaries), and jotter’s jotter’s Most Recommended Diaries.
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- Democrat running for AL Supreme Court, by leeroy
- Michigan Politics: The Week in Review, by Dump Terry McAuliffe Posted on Saturdays every week. Very informative.
- Colorado Political RoundUps, by Ralph Posted everyday, Mondays to Fridays. Very informative.
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