David Corn

there is still plenty of time for bushco to fuck things up even worse.

Yeh, as_if he's done and his desk is boxed away. Still plenty to do like leases for drilling in the Grand Canyon. Two years ago they said impeachment was off the table. Too close to an election. If the man still has the job on 01/19/09 he will still manage to f**k something up.

No mas de Arbusto!

David, why does Obama have to pick from the hasbeens and wannabes?

I sent out a resume on Friday (not to Washington) and they made it clear that I should rat myself out if I had ever been indicted, even if I was found innocent, as it would have a bearing on the position. So 40 years after I put it on the line to end the draft for future generations, I won't be allowed to teach those generations because the government indicted me and then dropped the charges.

I can live with that, it was a matter of consicence and it doesn't back down. Obama should have the highest standards as well, and he has 300 million or more people to chose from.

DC,

"No Cabinet announcements this week," Stephanie Cutter, a spokeswoman for the Obama transition team, told Reuters."

So Vacation time! (kiddin)

I fully expect a few clunkers - just as it is likely Barack will make a few poorly received choices.

I think it is more exciting inside the beltway on this one. Most people care less about the names and resumes and more about the results.

Barack will hit the road running but that is still 70 days away +/- then we start the first hundred days of Obamanation.

If Barack doesn't or can't deliver something by mid April the names and appointments will not help him nor bear any blame.

Thanks

WOW!

70 days to set up the first 100 days of the first 365 days of the 1461 days of the first term in America's Obama Era!

I'll say it again...WOW!

-T

70 days for bushco to pull some kind of stunt that keeps them in office and effs things up even worse.

Documents linking Iran to nuclear weapons push may have been fabricated

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has obtained evidence suggesting that documents which have been described as technical studies for a secret Iranian nuclear weapons-related research program may have been fabricated.

The documents in question were acquired by U.S. intelligence in 2004 from a still unknown source -- most of them in the form of electronic files allegedly stolen from a laptop computer belonging to an Iranian researcher. The US has based much of its push for sanctions against Iran on these documents.

http://tinyurl.com/6ggjtt

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"bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran!"
.....Sen. John McBlinky

US Documents on Iran Nukes Forged?

I'm shocked, shocked that allegations are emerging at the International Atomic Energy Agency that US-supplied "documents" from a laptop acquired in 2004 indicating a secret Iranian weapons program were probably forgeries.

The IAEA clearly hopes that the Obama administration will stop trying to undermine it and will stop the Washington habit of using forged documents as a basis for aggressive military responses to nuclear programs and instead will opt for diplomacy.

JuanCole.com

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The documents were forged - I'm certain. I remember the "laptop" BS and thought it was a set up from the get go.

I hope Bunnypants is tired and wants a nap.

Now Cheney? We need to undisclose him to GITMO for about 71 days of R&R.

lol

Bush Spy Revelations Anticipated When Obama Is Sworn In

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2008/11/obama_wiretap

PNAC: Palin’s Pentagon In Waiting?

It looks like Bill Kristol may be making good on his threat to revive the Project for the New American Century. Since May, visitors to PNAC’s website were informed that “this account has been suspended,” but now the website is back up, though it does not seem to have been updated with any new material.

http://tinyurl.com/5vwp2k

Capt,

With Palin's brain-power...PNAC could REALLY be sumpthin' ooh, yeah, dontchknoo...

I mean, seriously, what possible damage could a small group of well-connected malicious, war-mongering, assholes with a direct pipeline to the seats of power in Washington DC, do?

-T

I got here by accident from over at Craig Crawford's.
Personally, I find the naming of staff and experts to be rather thrilling. It seems to me there are a lot of new names with good credentials.

Cooper sums it all up fra better than I ever could:

MarcCooper.com

While Bush and Cheney should be packed off to the Hague, Obama needs to look for progressives who know the ins and outs of DC but have never been in. Established Insiders tend to slide into a groove that will never benefit this nation.

Remember that any bureaucracy become more important than its mission thirty seconds after it is born. Established Bureaucrats jockey for power far more ardently than completing their assigned tasks.

Um, FAR better not fra