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Liveblog - Rice testifying before Waxman Committee

by ecoast

Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 09:05:20 AM PDT

Sec Rice is testifying before Waxman.

Playing on C-Span3.

100 zingers for Pelosi - Need help to make the list  

by ecoast

Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 06:45:38 PM PDT

Spkr Nancy Pelosi hasn't taken oath yet, but running her down is in full swing already from Fox, rightwing talk shows and repubs.

Digby and others wrote about this.

Digby's take

Ms Pelosi has gotten better with her media appearances recently,
but she is not punchy enough. I want to make a list of
some zingers she can use in her speeches at media events, press conferences and floor speeches.

Details on the jump page.

 

Rangel calls Cheney "SOB" b/c Cheney said "he doesn't understand how economy works"

by ecoast

Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 07:44:58 PM PDT

When the Dems take over the House next week, Charlie Rangel, the gravelly-voiced Dean of New York Dem delegation, Korean war veteran and a former usher at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, will become the chairman of the powerful (yea, you always have to use this adjective for this committee) Ways and Means Committee.

More on the flip.

Wapo: Fitzgerald Slices Up Libby Witness in Pretrial Hearing

by ecoast

Fri Oct 27, 2006 at 04:35:49 AM PDT

While we are all caught up with midterm elections, the wheels of justice are grinding slowly but relentlessly and Patrick Fitzgerald is sharpening his ginsu knife.

Yesterday, there was a pretrial hearing in Judge Walton's court on bringing expert witnesses on human memory and its failings.

Details on Page Two.

CNN: U.S. deaths in Iraq, war on terror surpass 9/11 toll

by ecoast

Mon Sep 04, 2006 at 01:45:13 PM PDT

From CNN


As the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attack on the United States approaches, another somber benchmark has just been passed.

The announcement Sunday of four more U.S. military deaths in Iraq raises the death toll to 2,974 for U.S. military service members in Iraq and in what the Bush administration calls the war on terror.

The 9/11 attack killed 2,973 people, including Americans and foreign nationals but excluding the terrorists. The 9/11 death toll was calculated by CNN.

Maybe it is just a number, but tell that to the families of the soldiers who were not coming back.

Page two...

Talking pts/zingers for Lamont for tonight's debate w/ Lieberman

by ecoast

Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 04:54:28 AM PDT

Just a quick diary for holding talking points and one-line zingers for Lamont.  Let us throw everything in here and hopefully, Lamont campaign will pick up.

The debate is tonight at 7PM EDT to be teleivised on MSNBC and CSPAN. In CT, I think it is on some NBC channel, which is the sponsor.

Wapo: Tenet knowingly gave false info to Powell on mobile labs

by ecoast

Sun Jun 25, 2006 at 06:11:26 AM PDT

In a front page story, Washington Post revisits Curveball and mobile labs report today.  

The background.  Curveball, a former Iraqi engineer, was under German custody and he provided them info about Iraqi mobile labs for biological WMD. That info went into Bush's SOTU and Powell's UN speech.  All the info later turned out to be false.

Details after the break.

NYT and Wapo say Rice triumphant on Iran; I say what the...?

by ecoast

Sat Jun 03, 2006 at 07:13:09 PM PDT

NYT and Wapo in their Sunday editions give blow by blow accounts on how Rice convinced Bush to do a U turn on Iran and join the Europeans in talks with Iran. The papers have multiple sources (same sources, if you read both accounts closely), mostly from State.

Both reports give their accounts breathlessly, as if Condi averted a nuclear war or World War III. All she and Bush did was to face the reality, listen to Europeans and act from a position of weakness.

More after the break...  

Russert and Ariana go at it again, says E&P

by ecoast

Sat May 13, 2006 at 02:09:11 PM PDT

Trade mag E&P previews Russert's interview with NYT Sunday Magazine.

E&P Preview

Asked if he reads the popular Huffington Post online, which carries a regular critique of "Meet the Press," Russert replied to Deborah Solomon, "I don't. There are so many untruths, it is scary. You know, there's a long history there."

So Tim, if you don't read Huffington Post, how do you know it has so many untruths?

More on the flip...

Wapo: Condi, Rummy in separate orbits in Iraq

by ecoast

Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 07:39:26 PM PDT

Remember the "boy meets girl, they fall in love" kind of fawning coverage that the media gave to Condi and Jack Straw when the visited Baghdad couple of weeks ago?
This ain't one of those.


 BAGHDAD, April 27 -- A full 10 seconds of silence passed after a reporter asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld what the intense secrecy and security surrounding their visit to Iraq signified about the stability of the country three years after the U.S.-led invasion. Rice turned to Rumsfeld to provide the answer. Rumsfeld glared at the reporter.

More on the flip...


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