Politics

This blogger does a much better job of summarizing what’s going on in this post.

From transcripts of PBS Online Newshour regarding the White House Outing a CIA Operative to the press:

An Israeli doctor says to a small circle of physicians, “Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks.”
A German doctor says, “That is nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.”
A Russian doctor says, “In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks.”
A Texas doctor, not to be outdone, says, “You guys are way behind. We took a guy with half a brain out of Texas, put him in the White House for four years, and now half the country is looking for work.”
—Sent to me by my friend Doug

By the Democratic Underground. California Schemin’ Edition: Once upon a time there was an idealistic, principled conservative named Darrell Issa. And Darrell thought that the governor of California, the evil Gray Davis, was doing a terrible, terrible job of looking after the state (despite the fact that all the governors in the country were in trouble because of King George W. Bush’s irresponsible fiscal policies). So Darrell decided that he would spend millions of dollars of his own hard-earned money to try and boot the evil Gray Davis out of office, and install someone more suitable, such as himself. Darrell was a good, honest person who hadn’t stolen a car in years…

In July, two White House officials, in retaliation for former ambassador Joseph Wilson’s criticism of Bush’s false WMD info, revealed that Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA operative. To reveal something like this is illegal and a breach of national security. Apparently these two officials called six different reporters for different papers to illegally leaking the information; it was eventually printed by syndicated columnist Robert Novak. See the Washington Post story, and the New York Times story on this.

U.N. says “no money or troops for you” after Bush goes to them on his knees begging for help. Hmm. I wonder why?

Excerpts from Dean’s speech At Copley Square in Boston:

Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.