Bastille Day
This is the day that proves that even the French, still much maligned in this country, can reach a point where they're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore. The White House press corps celebrated the occasion by again storming Scott McClellan. They were on Air Force One on the way to the Indiana Black Expo in Indianapolis (where, for some reason, W was presented with a lifetime achievement award). The White House hasn't posted a transcript yet, but Raw Story has a partial one. The most sarcastically disingenuous moment comes at the top:
Q Will Karl come back and talk to us at the event?
MR. McCLELLAN: No, I don't expect that today.
Q Why not?
MR. McCLELLAN: I just don't -- there's no plans for him to do that.
Elsewhere, Kevin Drum offers an unflattering comparison, pointing out that in outing Valerie Plame, Rove has blundered into territory where not even Richard Nixon would venture, even to save his failing 1960 bid for president. Drum closes out his comments with: "Welcome to the leadership of the modern Republican party. Who would have thought that one day the White House would be run by someone who made Richard Nixon look responsible and forbearing?"
John at AMERICAblog reports that Harry Reid offered the following amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill:
No federal employee who discloses or has disclosed classified information, including the identity of a covert agent of the Central Intelligence Agency, to a person not authorized to receive such information shall be entitled to hold a security clearance for access to such information.
posted by Doug @ 5:41 PM
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One Tony Adler, of Evanston, Illinois, had his letter to the editor printed in Friday's Chicago Sun-Times. I thought it was funny enough to pass along (though if you're under 40, you may not be familiar with the individuals being referenced):
"We really can't expect President Bush to dismiss Karl Rove. That would be like asking Charlie McCarthy to fire Edgar Bergen."
That's a pretty funny line, but it's been going around for a few days. It appears to have been coined by Marshall Wittmann, who used it twice on Tuesday, once at his own Bull Moose blog and once at TPM Cafe. Due to the ambiguities of blog time stamps, I don't know which followed the other. (You'll also hear it again over the weekend on NPR's Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!)
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