] The White House has acknowledged that it was a mistake to
] have included the uranium allegation in the State of the
] Union address. But an examination of how it originated,
] how it was repeated in January and by whom suggests that
] the administration was determined to keep the idea before
] the public as it built its case for war, even though the
] claim had been excised from a presidential speech the
] previous October through the direct intervention of CIA
] Director George J. Tenet.

I do so love the fact that these guys think it is ok to lie so we can send a few hundred of our guys halfway around the planet to get killed. One more reason Shrub isn't fit to carry his dad's jockstrap.

Yahoo! News - Bush Team Kept Airing Iraq Allegation

This is too funny. The guy makes a political statement (like we haven't been slamming the frogs for the last year) and these people have the balls to call him a hypoocrite? I especially love the hate mail he's been getting.

Axis of Weasels

] President Bush (news - web sites) ordered U.S. troops
] into position off the coast of Liberia (news - web sites)
] Friday to support the arrival of a West African
] peacekeeping force, as renewed violence in the capital
] brought despairing pleas for American help.

So we've sent ships there that may or may not have troops. What are they going to do? Sail in little circles taunting these people? And these people (unlike the Iraqis) really DO want us there!

Yahoo! News - American Troops Sent to Liberia's Coast

Do the Darwin Awards people know about these guys?

] British police charged two men with manslaughter Tuesday
] following the death of an Oxford University student who
] was flung from a giant catapult.

Yahoo! News - Two Charged After Human Catapult Death

Will the real Ann Coulter please step off the National Socialist Party recruiting poster and find a nice hole to fall in?

] Ms. Coulter's work includes an admiring if brief
] biography of McCarthy's political career. One that for
] some reason excludes the senator's remarkable efforts on
] behalf of the members of the SS battle group who executed
] 86 American POWs in the Ardennes campaign in December
] 1944; otherwise known as the Malmedy Massacre. In his
] impassioned efforts on behalf of the accused--one never
] to be repeated in his investigative career--the senator
] charged that the U.S. Army had cruelly mistreated the
] former SS men.

Wall Street Journal - Opinion Journal

] Federal energy regulators on Wednesday barred Enron Corp.
] from selling electricity and natural gas at market rates
] anywhere in the United States, in response to findings
] that it manipulated Western power markets two years ago.

I hate to tell you this guys, but have you even heard of locking the barn after the animals have already left?

Yahoo! News - Enron Barred From Selling at Market Rates

In An extremely cynical move spokesmen for the administration today said, "Fuck the poor. They don't vote anyway." When asked to comment, no poor could be found at home, they were apparantly all in sweatshops.

] "I don't know why they would cut that out of the bill,"
] said Senator Blanche Lincoln, the Arkansas Democrat who
] persuaded the full Senate to send the credit to many more
] low income families before the provision was dropped in
] conference. "These are the people who need it the most
] and who will spend it the most. These are the people who
] buy the blue jeans and the detergent and who will
] stimulate the economy with their spending."

Yahoo! News - Tax Law Omits Child Credit in Low-Income Brackets

] On the eve of a trip to Europe, US President George W.
] Bush said that he was "disappointed"
] by Paris' opposition to war in Iraq
] but that he would not seek sanctions against France.

Huh? We go after other countries for *NOT* going to war? Does this mean we may declare declare sanctions against Switzerland?

Yahoo! News - Bush says

] In the midst of negotiating a steep tax cuts package, the
] US government shelved a report that showed the United
] States faces future federal budget deficits of more than
] 44.2 trillion dollars.

My immediate reaction to this was three words. "Mother of God."

My secondary reaction was, if I needed another reason to tell me that these guys (the Shrubbery) have their necks as the only visible portion of the cranial anatomy visible and it's protruding from their posterior, well this is it.

Yahoo! News - Washington shelved report of 44-trillion-dollar deficit

] If confirmed by the Senate, Bolten, 48, would succeed
] Mitch Daniels,

This is basic boilerplate off the AP wire, But let me see if I understand this. W has lost, an SEC chair, OMB, Treasury, Spokesman, Political Director, head of EPA, and Tommy Franks who ran Iraq II is retiring. Some of these people left under a cloud of scandal (Harvey Pitt) ineptitude (O'Neil in Time with Bono sealed his fate) and most recently protest (Whitman).

I'm starting to wish W was screwing his interns. He'd have less time to do damage in.

Yahoo! News - Bush Picks Bolten As His OMB Director