Plunderbund

This article by Rick Perlstein perfectly underlines what a bunch of sissies we’ve been over the entire Ahmadinejad visit. I’ve made this comparison elsewhere - why can’t be behave like we did when Nikita “We will bury you” Khrushchev visited during the height of the Cold War in 1959?
Nikita Khrushchev disembarked from his plane […]

No, seriously.
I meet Paul Giamatti in [the New York neighborhood] SoHo on the hottest day of the summer…He says he’d like his character to be based on Karl Rove — a seemingly bookish guy who exercises power behind the scenes. I like it. His character turns out to be way more flamboyant than Rove … […]

Frank Rich often leaves me thinking after I read his columns, and today is no exception. I do some work with a group focused on youth civic engagement, so I was interested in Rich’s reference to a new NYT/CBS poll showing that the percentage of young people (ages 17-29) who self-ID as Republicans […]

Karl Rove has resigned, and will leave the White House by the end of the month.
I can’t bring myself to believe he’s stepping down to spend more time with his family, as he says in the article. A man this unfailingly loyal to Bush doesn’t just up and leave. There is something more […]

Investigation Uncovers ‘Extensive Destruction’ Of RNC Emails, Violations Of Records Act
House investigators have learned that the Bush administration’s use of Republican National Committee email accounts is far greater than previously disclosed — 140,216 emails sent or received by Karl Rove alone — and that the RNC has overseen “extensive destruction” of many of the emails, […]

When I first heard about Karl Rove being investigated by special counsel, my first thought was “yeah, right”. Turns out that may have been a pretty good instinct. Should we believe it when Scott J. Bloch says:
“We will take the evidence where it leads us,”…”We will not leave any stone unturned.”
Uh, not really. […]