Author: Time Waits for no Woman

Oh my God. Oh my God.  This guy was going to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge!  And our president stopped him, with his decision to let the NSA wiretap domestic foreign communication.  Thank goodness.  I go that way, every day I go to work.  (Actually I go on the subway over the nearby Manhattan Bridge, but still, the Brooklyn Bridge going down is sure to make a real splash!)

From the NY Times article yesterday: “Several officials said the eavesdropping program had helped uncover a plot by Iyman Faris, an Ohio trucker and naturalized citizen who pleaded guilty in 2003 to supporting Al Qaeda by planning to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with blowtorches.”  Source here

Get a grip, people.  This guy was going to come from Ohio, in a truck, and bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with a BLOWTORCH!  Don’t you think that might have taken awhile?  It is a pretty big bridge, after all.  Don’t you think someone, say, one of the many workers who are always working on the bridge, might have noticed?  No!  Undoubtedly this guy would have succeeded in his nefarious scheme.  (I will let the writers here comment on the probability of this plot.)

Thank God for our president. <snark>

I just received a mailing addressed to the person who used to live at my house from the Forrester for Governor campaign of New Jersey.  I thought that I was no longer naive about the depths to which Republican politician will sink, due to my education here and at other blogs.  But I am both sickened and amazed by what I read in this flyer.

The Republican candidate, Forrester, picked up on certain quotes from Corzine’s ex wife’s interviews with New York City newspapers and splashed them all over this ad.  It says that Jon Corzine:

let his family down, and will probably let New Jersey down too. [He] will do whatever and say whatever to get elected. He surrounds himself with people he pays or needs, then on to the next.  It’s all about him.  He’ll never be satisfied.

I mean, this is his ex-wife.  Anyone who has been divorced or who is friends with divorced people knows how their bitterness can completely distort their opinions of their ex.  It was stupid of her to talk to the newspapers.  But it is absolutely disgusting for a political opponent to use these types of statements in a political campaign.

I mean, this entire mailing, which I am now holding in my outstretched fingers like it was a stinking fish, is entirely a personal attack.  Am I naive to be so horrified?  Is this what politics is like in the USA?

Of course, Cheney lies.  We all know that.  But how does he get away with it again and again?  In all the attention that has been given the indictment of Lewis Libby by Patrick Fitzgerald, one detail has been overlooked so far.  What is stated in the indictment directly contradicts public statements made by the Vice President.  For instance, the indictment reads:

On or about June 12, 2003, LIBBY was advised by the Vice President of the United States that Wilson’s wife worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Counterproliferation Division. LIBBY understood that the Vice President had learned this information from the CIA.

However, on September 14, 2003 Cheney told Tim Russert the following on Meet the Press:

No. I don’t know Joe Wilson. I’ve never met Joe Wilson. A question had arisen. I’d heard a report that the Iraqis had been trying to acquire uranium in Africa, Niger in particular. I get a daily brief on my own each day before I meet with the president to go through the intel. And I ask lots of question. One of the questions I asked at that particular time about this, I said, “What do we know about this?” They take the question. He came back within a day or two and said, “This is all we know. There’s a lot we don’t know,” end of statement. And Joe Wilson–I don’t who sent Joe Wilson. He never submitted a report that I ever saw when he came back.

(The source is here–a very good source to ferret out more of Cheney’s lies)

Cheney sure as hell knew who Joe Wilson was back in June, and was interested enough in him to find out who his wife was and where she worked.

Yet in the presidential press conference on this last Tuesday, October 25, Scott McClennan said it was a “ridiculous suggestion” that the VP doesn’t always tell the truth.  (Link to BooTrib diary here.  See Catnip’s comment towards the bottom.)

Is Cheney going to get away with his lies again?