Ella Fitzgerald & Frank Sinatra
“The Lady is a Tramp”

In my last post I spoke of republicans being “whiny-ass, lying hypocrites.” I’d like to append that statement; they are “greedy, whiny-ass lying hypocrites.”

Mark Rey’s critics say talk of “treatment” and “thinning” is code for Rey’s real goal: cutting more trees in service of his former timber industry cronies.

Environmentalists routinely denounce Rey as the “Karl Rove of the forest”: a Machiavellian figure who serves as the brains behind the Bush administration’s aggressive effort to reverse Clinton administration policies that sought to rope off broad swaths of forest land for preservation. One group even declared Rey “Public Lands Enemy No. 1″ after he proposed a failed plan to sell surplus forest land to private interests.

“He’s tried to oversee a radical dismantling of the safeguards that the public really wants for its public lands,” said Doug Heiken, conservation coordinator for Oregon Wild, an environmental group.

It’s good to see that it’s all one big f*cking joke to Rey:

“I’m not sure forests need Karl Rove,” Rey said, laughing.

Josh Kardon, chief of staff to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Rey revels in his notoriety.

“Mark has always enjoyed a good joust and likes reliving those battles while he sips wine and strokes that legendary goatee,” Kardon said.

What they call bombshells, we call FACTS. Republicans truly are whiny, crybaby bed-wetters aren’t they!

My apologies. I’ve been out of the loop for several days now but, from what I have been able to keep up with, I haven’t seen anyone tie this unfolding drama to the Clinton/Lewinsky saga. Am I the only one that sees the similarities? Am I the only one to notice the HYPOCRISY of the right for not wanting to fire up a multi-million-dollar investigation into McCain’s past? Where’s the attempt by the high morals crowd to have McCain impeached (from something, anything)? This kind of thing is important, is it not? They said it was during Clinton’s presidency. What’s changed?

Must be another case of the IOKIYAR. F*cking hypocrites.

White House accuses NYT of anti-GOP bias

WASHINGTON - The White House sided with Sen. John McCain and accused The New York Times on Friday of repeatedly trying to “drop a bombshell” on Republican presidential nominees to undermine their candidacies.[...]

“And that is something that the Republican nominee has faced in the past and probably will face in this campaign,” [White House deputy press secretary Scott Stanzel] said. “And sometimes they make incredible leaps to try to drop those bombshells on the Republican nominee.”

As for the allegations about McCain, Stanzel said, “I’m not going to speak to the specifics in that story but it’s been our impression that they do drop those bombshells.”

In a statement Thursday, Times Executive Editor Bill Keller said, “We think the story speaks for itself.”

UPDATE:

“I will fight every moment of every day in this campaign to make sure Americans are not deceived by an eloquent but empty call for change,” McCain said after winning the Wisconsin primary. It was a thinly veiled suggestion that the Illinois Democrat, who has now won 11 straight primary and caucus contests over Hillary Rodham Clinton, lacks the experience, judgment and character a president needs.

Obama, (surely with the White House at his side!), should accuse McCain of “repeatedly trying to undermine his candidacy”.

Obama at Texas debate:

It seems the Public Affairs Office at the DOD has a spokesliar named Bryan Whitman running around the MSM calling Obama a liar. It also seems Mr. Whitman is lying……..but then again, this is nothing new, as Scott Horton at Harpers tells us.

DOD = Department of Disinformation. Same shit, different day.

Obama and Clinton were asked at the debate in Texas about the surge working. They need to hammer home the message that it IS NOT WORKING. That in the long run, the end result is not worth the lives lost.

What the US has been calling the success of a “surge,” many Iraqis see as evidence of catastrophe. Where US forces point to peace and calm, local Iraqis find an eerie silence.

And when US forces speak of a reduction in violence, many Iraqis simply do not know what they are talking about.

Hundreds died in a series of explosions in Baghdad last month. This was despite the strongest ever security measures taken by the US military, riding the “surge” in security forces and their activities.

The death toll is high, according to the website icasualties.org, which provides reliable numbers of Iraqi civilian and security deaths.

More at AntiWar.com

Broadcaster Lowell “Bud” Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson’s behalf.

Paxson said he talked with McCain in his Washington office several weeks before the Arizona Republican wrote the letters in 1999 to the FCC urging a rapid decision on Paxson’s quest to acquire a Pittsburgh television station.

Paxson also recalled that his lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, likely attended the meeting in McCain’s office and that Iseman helped arrange the meeting. “Was Vicki there? Probably,” Paxson said in an interview with The Washington Post yesterday. “The woman was a professional. She was good. She could get us meetings.”

The recollection of the now-retired Paxson conflicted with the account provided by the McCain campaign about the two letters at the center of a controversy about the senator’s ties to Iseman, a partner at the lobbying firm of Alcalde & Fay.

More at the Washington Post