Independence Institute? That's the best you can do? A bought-and-paid-for astroturf organization?

Not credible. Go back to being irrelevant.

Posted at September 20, 2007 3:19 PM in response to The Case of Colorado

Grover:

When Italia Federici registered your old DC townhouse address as her business address for her fraudulent CREA organization, did she do it with your blessing?

Did you launder money for her?

And just how much of Abramoff's and Ralph Reed's illegal cash did you keep?

Posted at September 20, 2007 3:12 PM in response to The Case of Colorado

I think the World Bank has enough money to charter an appropriately sized airplane for this purpose. They would have had to reimburse the US government anyway for use of a military airplane.

Posted at June 5, 2007 2:12 PM in response to Bob Zoellick's Global Listening Tour: US Government Would Not Help on Plane

What are the mailing companies they are using?

You of course know that Olsen-Shuvalov and Upstream Communications are run by Rove's former assistants. Those assistants may just be "holding" those companies for Karl's post-government return. They've been extremely profitable between 2000 and now from RNC/Bush-Cheney business... What a shame Karl couldn't share in the wealth.

You also know that Thomas Graphics, Inc is run by Bob Thomas, who is a Rove friend. Thomas Graphics used to do all of the printing for Rove's company Karl Rove and Co. In fact, their website credits Karl for them getting into the big leagues!

http://www.thomasgraphicsinc.com/history.html

Posted at April 18, 2007 9:24 AM in response to Protection Money, Part II.

Is there some seething base level of Republicanism that resents "our troops" because a sizeable portion of them are, in fact, not US citizens? Or is it just hubris?

About 35,000 non-citizens are currently serving on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces, while another 12,000 serve in the Reserve Components. The navy has the largest proportion of non-citizens on active duty, almost 16,000, nearly half the total. The Marine Corps has about 6,500, the Army about 5,000, and the Air force about 3,000. The differences are the result of variations in the service regulations governing the re-enlistment of non-citizens. The Navy and Marine Corps place no restrictions, while the Army allows them to stay in for only 8 years of service, and the Air Force limits them to no more than 6. (http://strategypage.com/dls/articles/200581622640.asp)

Posted at February 23, 2007 10:49 AM in response to Walter Reed: Is The Worst Yet to Come?

Stating the obvious, I pose these questions.

-How could BRAC logically recommend the closure of this critical medical facility by end of 2011, when a war is raging and the replacement facilities (to be spread out around Virginia and Maryland) are not even begun?

-With the BRAC closure mandate of WRAMC, how could anyone expect the Army or DOD to pour in building maintenance or facility funds for a campus that would be closing in four years?

-WRAMC is located in Washington, DC, a city that has no representation in the Congress of the United States. How is anyone to be surprised at the state of its disrepair when there is NO home state political muscle available to support the facility? (All other Members of Congress have their various home state bases to support and jobs to worry about -- and they do it effectively even if the facilites are not needed).

Posted at February 23, 2007 10:37 AM in response to Walter Reed: Is The Worst Yet to Come?

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Posted at February 23, 2007 10:26 AM in response to Walter Reed: Is The Worst Yet to Come?

Can this Administration field anyone for a senior position who is not tinged by scandal?

Negroponte and Gates, two Iran-Contra alums, should be very comfortable working together.

I've always wondered how Negroponte even got back into prominence. Is it a coincedence that he was serving as US Ambassador to the Philippines when that government barred it's citizens from working in the sweatshops of the CNMI in 1995? Did Jack Abramoff lobby Negroponte to get the Philippine government to throw the doors back open (it sure didn't take them long to reverse policy)?

Posted at November 8, 2006 12:57 PM in response to Bob Gates, He's Back

I have to agree. Bush, Rove and to a lesser extent Mehlman are the Republican standard bearers. If they do damage control then volunteers, donors and voters will stay home.

They have to spin it positively. That's their job.

Posted at October 17, 2006 8:44 AM in response to Why So Confident?

Recall way back in 2004, during the election, the Post slipped in a relatively unnoticed story about the political appointees who would rule Baghdad.

Was it strange or unusual that the Heritage Foundation was filling key jobs? Absolutely. And not probed enough in 2004.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48543-2004May22.html

Posted at October 11, 2006 10:52 AM in response to Response to Dan Senor's WashPost Op-Ed