The morning papers, November 29
The New York Times: Alcee Hastings, a lawmaker who in a previous life had been one of only a handful of judges to be impeached and removed by the Congress, will not chair the House Intelligence Committee. Nor, it seems, will AIPAC tool Jane Harman. We shall see.
Also in the Times, a strange story about a leaked White House memo expressing doubts about the Iraqi premier; the chimp, of course, is meeting the Prime Minister in Jordan today. One wonders why and by whom that memo was leaked today; not very artful.
Get ready for hospital closings. Larry Littlefield on Room Eight discusses possible consequences.
The civil war in Iraq is not a civil war, says the White House. Just put your fingers in your ears, close your eyes, and sing La La La loudly; you'll be fine.
Speaking of which, Saudi Arabia may be preparing to intervene in Iraq, says DailyKos.
The Albany Times-Union goes into the details of Bruno and Silver's obfuscation on member item disclosure. The records were provided as a 3,000 page image PDF, rendering them largely unusable; the Assembly has now provided the earmark data in searchable format, which the Senate continues to refuse to do. See what a difference a republican Senate majority makes? Huh?
Lastly, The Washington Monthly has a portrait of incoming Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
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Yah yah
Submitted by Bouldin on 29 November 2006 - 3:10pm.
...the Times-Union article mentions that. We've been saying for a long time here that the Dems needed to be serious about taking back the state Senate and pointed to scenarios like this to explain why - but hey.
That's an excellent blog you have there, by the way.
don't get me started
Submitted by lipris on 29 November 2006 - 6:19pm.
i could (and often do) rant about that particular subject to anyone who will listen.
oh, and thanks. we just went live monday and we've been pretty pleased with the response so far.
what's even worse
is that senate staff deliberately put password protected security on the actual files so that you couldn't OCR them. fortunately they're not all that bright and we were able to strip out the security pretty quickly.
but still. they have done everything they possibly could to make that data as useless as possible.
what are they hiding?
oh, and joe bruno is a dick