Tom DeLay Denies What is in His Own Book – Here is what happened during a Chris Matthews’ interview of Tom DeLay today: Chris Matthews grilled DeLay about passages in his book where he apparently ripped into fellow corrupt Texan Dick Armey, eventually asking the Hammer about describing Armey as “drunk with ambition.” DeLay denied writing that. “I wrote that he was ‘blinded by his ambition.'” Matthews starts flipping though the book and finds the “drunk with ambition” quote and reads it to Bug Man. And DeLay keeps denying it. Finally, Chris hands the book to Tom and tells him to read it himself. DeLay looks down, pauses, and says “I don’t have my glasses.”
Turkey Prepares To Invade Iraq To Contain US-Backed Kurdish Push For Independent State – Media reports from Turkey appear to confirm weeks of rumors that Turkey is moving forward with its long-planned invasion of Northern Iraq. The Turkish Military, by far the most powerful in the Middle East, has cancelled all leave and has moved “additional forces” up to Iraq’s northern border. The target of the presumed invasion will be the ‘outlawed’ PKK, otherwise known as the Kurdistan Workers Party.
Internal email appears to confirm prosecutor who helped convict congressman was fired for personal and policy reasons – A sarcastic internal e-mail message from one top Justice department official to another appears to confirm that personal and policy differences drove the termination of Carol C. Lam, the San Diego prosecutor who initiated investigations of Randy Cunningham when he was a Republican representative from California and Representative Jerry Lewis, as well as some defense department officials
Cheney office’s involvement in manipulation of global warming documents – “A House probe into reports that the Bush administration improperly edited federal climate studies took a new turn yesterday,” writes Lauren Morello for E&E, “as Democrats focused on interactions between the White House Council on Environmental Quality” (CEQ) and Cheney’s office.
Republican Senator James Inhofe asks Al Gore questions but won’t let him answer
During today’s hearings on global warming, global warming denier James Inhofe was asking Al Gore questions, but didn’t want to hear the answers because he thought the responses would take “too much time”. Inhofe kept cutting Gore off. Barbara Boxer then explained to Inhofe how things work in Senate now. Boxer told Inhofe while holding the gavel in his face, “You’re not making the rules. You used to when you did this, you don’t do this anymore. Elections have consequences” There was a big round of applause from attendees in the chamber.
Fox News’ Sean Hannity Chickening Out of Debate – Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity has claimed on his syndicated radio program that Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson is putting up roadblocks to get out of their proposed debate. But it is Hannity who is balking based in part on e-mails between Anderson’s office and Hannity’s staff.
Nixon had an 18-minute gap in his tapes; Bush has an 18-day gap in his e-mails – Anyone remember what Nixon’s excuse was for the 18-minute gap?
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Jim
Andy Hailey