Month: March 2007
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GOP on perjury: Then and now
When is perjury not perjury? When your party is under investigation! Washington Monthly has the goods: GOP Rep. Lindsey Graham (now Senator) on Clinton, 1998: “I believe it is a crime–it’s a high crime that should subject any president for removal.” Graham also served as one of the GOP’s managers of the impeachment case. And
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Hotsoup tanking
Via Atrios, Hotsoup co-founder and former hotshot Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier has fled back to the welcoming embrace of the AP. Why? Because the concept for the site — “the first online community that joins Opinion Drivers from across the spectrum” — makes no sense. As a result, no one is reading it. The
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Unity ’08 tanking
David Broder’s latest column on the utopian third party group Unity ’08 contains this damaging admission: I contacted [Unity co-founder Douglas] Bailey recently to ask what had happened to this bold gamble, and he was the source of that 35,000 figure for the number of people who have lent support to the scheme. They obviously
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Bob Dornan: Biggest hypocrite ever?
During President Clinton’s first term, former Rep. Bob Dornan (R-CA) was the worst of the worst among the scandalmongers. He routinely said things like this on the House floor (9/26/96): There are all sorts of ricochets flying around, like the center of the new book by Roger Morris called `Partners In Power.’ In the middle