Archive for the 'Andrew Card' Category

Kute Karl was only practicing for his role as Keeper of the Keys at W’s library.

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Think Progress had this story from the Morning Joe program on MSNBC…
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This morning, former White House chief of staff at the time, Andrew Card, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and completely discredited Rove’s argument:
SCARBOROUGH: We have to start with something that we all are talking about a couple of days ago where Karl Rove […]

Bush lied??? To get re-elected??? N’ah…

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

The following excerpt is from the November 20, 2007 POLITICO story about Scott McClellan’s book’s revelations about the deceit used during the Plame affair.
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“Shortly after news of the McClellan excerpt broke, Politico caught up with Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper, two reporters who received information about Valerie Plame’s identity and were caught up in […]

Since they’re mammals, the salt on the tail trick may only make them angry.

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

Bush’s Monica Problem: The Gonzales Mess
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Stephanie Kuykendal for Newsweek
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Gonzales, the president’s lawyer and Texas buddy, is twisting slowly in the wind, facing a vote of no confidence from the Senate.
By Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas
Newsweek
June 4, 2007 issue - The United States Department of Justice has not always been above politics. John F. Kennedy, after […]

When it comes to erosion of freedom, repetition of warnings is a good thing.

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Just because the Bush administration employs the theories and practices of the Simpson’s Itchy ‘n Scratchy does not mean it is not dangerous.
These are mere excerpts from a column worth your time.
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The Gonzalez-Card caper: Why the Bush administration can not oversee itself
By Eric Mink
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Wednesday, May. 23 2007
It was crude and almost ludicrous: […]

The bobbleheads helped explain the unvbelievable situation.

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

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Jim Comey tells of Alberto Gonzales’s bedside manner. Jim Comey tells of Alberto Gonzales’s bedside manner.Photo Credit: By Susan Walsh — Associated Press
Ashcroft and the Night Visitors
By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, May 16, 2007; Page A02
As if Attorney General Alberto Gonzales didn’t have enough trouble, now comes word that, before coming to the Justice Department, Gonzales preyed […]

Had Ashcroft fallen back on his statue-borne lunacy…

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Tony may have said “No comment.”
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Snow: Ashcroft Wasn’t That Ill, It Wasn’t Like ‘His Brain Didn’t Work’
In March 2004, then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and then-chief of staff Andrew Card attempted to go around acting Attorney General James Comey and get John Ashcroft, who was debilitated with pancreatitis, to sign off on an extension […]

Nice try, Andy. You seem to have forgotten that your former boss isn’t Lewis Stone, so rationalism is verboten!

Friday, September 29th, 2006

According to Bob Woodward’s new book, STATE OF DENIAL, Andrew Card wanted “Ill W” to replace Rumsfeld the Destroyer with James Baker III after the 2004 election, but Dick ‘n Rover convinced him that it would show weakness. Lady Laura joined Card in his Thanksgiving, 2005 attempt to deep-six the Secretary of Defense–to no avail. […]