In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the WP’s Dan Froomkin wrote (“Who’s in Charge? Karl Rove!”, 15 Sep ’05):
Rove’s leadership role suggests quite strikingly that any and all White House decisions and pronouncements regarding the recovery from the storm are being made with their political consequences as the primary consideration. More specifically: With an eye [...]
Jerry Sanders, the Mayor of San Diego, explains his change of heart:
He puts the lie to the stone-faced doom-mongering and martial mummery right-wing cowards are forever hiding behind.
According to Rebecca Abrahams (“White House Emails: The Missing Link?”, Huffington Post, 21 Oct ’08), Mike Connell,
the architect and cyber keymaster of George W. Bush election websites including GeorgeWBush.com and GWB43.com, the site Karl Rove used for 95-percent of his email communication…is also the CEO of Govtech Solutions, the company responsible for building and managing [...]
Did Rick Davis have his hooks in Dean’s operations in early ’04?
3EDC’s website as archived on 10 Jun ’04:
Who’s we?
So what was Rick Davis up to in early summer ’04?
3EDC’s website as archived almost three months earlier, on 18 Mar ’04, said: “Welcome nicco.trueserver.com to Your New Server!”
Who’s nicco?
How about Nicco A. Mele, former deanforamerica.com [...]
Martin Miller (“Is Campaigns’ Path to the Heart a Proper One?”, LAT [11 Aug ’00]), on Windy Smith’s cameo at the 2000 RNC:
“What the nation witnessed was the passing of the torch,” said JoAnn Simons, president of the Atlanta-based National Down Syndrome Congress. “Individuals with disabilities don’t necessarily need people to speak for them.”
More (“Tugging [...]
The first time it’s a tragedy, the second time a farce:
Those were the days, eh?
The text of Windy’s letter to Governor Shrub follows.
Right-wing Noise Machine Breaks Down
Repair bill high: vast conspiracy mulls new hybrid
Alas.
The Nexis search that DoJ White House liaisons ran on job candidates:
[first name of a candidate] and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or [...]
Cute:
The entire world drafted an open letter to Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) today, asking him to drop out of the U.S. presidential race and concede the presidency to Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois).
Scenario: McCain drops out of the election late, Obama wins uncontested, right-wing noise machine revs up the theory that “He isn’t really the president [...]