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(Vol. Sixteen; No. 24) |
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Howard Dean? He's No Liberal "In some ways, he is a closet centrist." - Wall Street Journal Executive Washington Editor Al Hunt, agreeing with Dionne on the same show.
Arnold's Awful Tax Rollback Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: "I will sign Executive Order Number One which will repeal the 300 percent increase in the car tax." - CNN's Aaron Brown on the November 17 NewsNight. "Schwarzenegger takes office and goes right to work with a big tax cut adding to the state's huge budget deficit."
Spending Cuts Are Unthinkable "So what would you do about those deficits if you were Treasury Secretary today? What taxes would you raise?"
War Threatens Welfare State Dan Rather: "President Bush presided at a White House ceremony today that underscored just how costly the war in Iraq has become and how costly it may remain for the foreseeable future...."
Iraq War Worse than Vietnam "Reading through some of the
Face the Nation transcripts from the Vietnam era the other day, I was struck by how much what officials said then sounds like what the government has been saying lately. No matter how bad the news from Vietnam was, official after official came on Face the Nation to say progress was being made, the press just wasn't reporting it. From the day the war turned bad in Iraq, you could take the words that were said back then and put them into the mouths of today's administration spokesmen and never notice the difference." - NBC's Katie Couric to Ambassador Paul Bremer on the November 17 Today. The number of U.S. troops in Vietnam in the first three years was 17,000, a small fraction of the 130,000 presently serving in Iraq.
Bush Made U.S. a "Pariah Nation" "America is now something of a rogue state, a pariah nation. People repeatedly say it isn't Americans we don't like, it is just Bush. He pushes hot buttons. Bush has so much to do with this rather stupendous fall-off in American popularity. It is quite amazing to think where we were the day after September 11 and how much of that goodwill has been squandered."
Even Iraqis Hate Media Bias MSNBC's Bob Arnot: "This is one of the most beautiful mosques anywhere in the world. It's the main mosque in the holy city of Kazimayah, third most religious city in Iraq. We've been invited here by the ayatollah. Why? He is furious at the press coverage. He says not only American television, but Arabic satellite TV, such as Al-Jazeera and the Abu Dhabi station, have misportrayed the great success that is Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein....
ABC: Senate Wasted Thousands... "Beginning tonight, Republican and Democratic Senators face off in marathon debate over judicial nominations that could last 30 hours. Well, Senator Daschle's staff did some math and learned that at $540 for each Congressional Record page, at a rate of six-pages per hour, the 30-hour debate will cost taxpayers $97,200, and that's just the cost of the printing."
...While Failing to Spend Billions "Republicans want to tie the Senate in knots because Democrats are blocking six of President Bush's most conservative nominees to the federal appeals court....The stunts are consuming the Senate, even though Republican leaders have not produced legislation providing Medicare prescription drug coverage, an energy bill, and bills to fund the government next year."
Exploiting Private Lynch "Do you think that somehow, this, your rescue was, was manipulated by the government in order to, sort of, gin up support for this war?" Time's Nancy Gibbs: "I think that may be going too far.... She says the idea that this was staged or this was phony or this was all for propaganda is crazy." - Exchange on CNN's Paula Zahn Now, November 10.
"We" Democrats Did Okay "If you look at what happened in Philadelphia, if you look at some of the state senate seats in New Jersey, you can, down this way and toward Virginia, Democrats did pretty well. We took control, not only in terms of keeping control of the mayoral seat in Philadelphia, but took control of some seats in New Jersey, so, took control I should say of the state senate in New Jersey. So, there were some victories for the Democrats."
Will Rush Feel Bill Clinton's Pain? "Empathy has never been one of Rush's strongest suits. Do you detect anything in his broadcast yesterday that would suggest that Rush is now going to become a kinder, gentler Rush Limbaugh?" - ABC's Charles Gibson to Bill Bennett on the November 18 Good Morning America.
Conservatives Killed Free Speech "Does [it] bother you at all that one group in America, or many Americans...can basically exert this kind of political pressure and create an environment where, perhaps, free speech is not exercised?"
Surely He Jests "It's admirable for reporters to be skeptical, provided they're not cynical. But I'm not any more skeptical about Republican administrations than I am about Democratic administrations."
Bill Moyers = Smart TV "TiVo television recorders allow viewers to replay programs and skip commercials....Fanatical TiVo users complain that their TiVo quickly fills up with shows they can't bear to delete, from self-improving educational fare like Now with Bill Moyers and Chimps: So Like Us, to less cerebral programs such as
Sex and the City."
Couric's Mom a Condom Queen "[Katie Couric] is equally admiring of her mother, who was a homemaker and Planned Parenthood volunteer when Couric was growing up. 'She's clever and smart and she's a great artist,' says her daughter. 'She's very savvy.' Though 'she'll be embarrassed to hear me say this,' Couric goes on to relate that when AIDS first appeared in the press, her mother 'bought a lot of stock in condom companies.'"
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