After this thread?

No mas.

Fodder for a post, GG?

The 3 "New" OLC memos were released. linkys to docs @ HuffPo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/02/secret-bush-memos-release_n_171221.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032403501.html?hpid=topnews

A rational citizen, by definition, praises and supports political leaders when they do the right thing (regardless of the motive) and only then, and criticizes and opposes them when they don’t.

How long before somebody shows up to explicitly delineate it?

"Greenwald doesn't have the info that POTUS has. Therefore who is Greenwald to judge the actions of the Leader? The ONLY thing that matters is the motive. POTUS*! is Pure, and Good, and wants only to make, is in fact capable only of making, the Correct choice. For all of us."

As was Chimpy before him.

THIS is the one to which you (especially) ought to pay attention:

http://gopkorea.blogs.com/flyingyangban/images/2008/03/17/obeyobama.jpg

We're through, you and I. I will never click on one of your video links again.

As (Col.) Kurz would say - "the horror"!

He actually wrote this sentence with a straight face: "there's such a built-in adversarial relationship between the press and the pols."

I daresay, you, Greenwald, have no knowledge of the precise orientation of Kurtz' face. And if you do, you probably wish you didn't.

My first tweet'll be -

"I wonder why Glenn Greenwald never seems to take a frickin' day off?"

;^)

...how to reconcile Holder's release of 2 addn'l memos w/ the CIA's refusal to release the 3000 pages worth of documents they have on the destruction of the Torture Tapes.

The "humorless scold" makea me laugh w/ this

For precisely that reason, it is unsurprising that Twitter has become a huge hit among our media stars, for whom triviality is a guiding principle.

And this is indubitably correct.

...(though it does seem to work reasonably well for concise derision).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/20/barack-obama-iran-message

h/t RawStory

linky @ sig

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=aBwUb_K6GQ7s

March 19 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush’s administration “specifically contemplated” paying bonuses to American International Group Inc. employees in its November agreement to provide federal bailout funds to the insurance giant, the inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program said today.

Neil Barofsky testified before the House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee. The panel held a hearing on the TARP program, which so far has spent $300 billion trying to reverse the financial meltdown.

The TARP contract between AIG and Treasury “specifically contemplated the payment of bonuses and retention payments to AIG employees, including AIG’s senior partners,” Barofsky said...

While acknowledging the fact that I feel like a drowning man grasping at a straw.

Trib peri - thank you for reminding me...

Glenn, you/others might find this worth looking at.

Linky @ sig

http://www.propublica.org/feature/changetracker-howto

Maybe we should all volunteer to do some monitoring for our wretched own selves...

Who's "moderating" over at your place?

Thanks, man. I'm assuming you were talking to me about never having degraded the space.

;^)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/business/17bailout.html?_r=1&ref=business

WASHINGTON — President Obama and his top economic advisers scrambled to calm a nationwide furor on Monday over bonuses paid at the American International Group, even as administration officials acknowledged they had known about the issue for months.

[snip]

But as anger from lawmakers escalated and criticism of the retention bonuses overshadowed other news for a second consecutive day, White House and Treasury officials offered only a general sense of how they would carry out Mr. Obama’s order and few explanations for why they had not acted earlier.

White House officials said the Treasury would recapture the bonus money by writing new requirements into a $30 billion installment of government aid scheduled to go soon to the ailing insurance conglomerate. The government has already provided $170 billion in taxpayer assistance to keep A.I.G from failing and now owns nearly 80 percent of the company.

But administration officials conceded that almost all of the most recent round of bonuses, totaling $165 million, had been paid last Friday, one day before the Treasury publicly acknowledged that it had reluctantly approved the payouts. The officials said that people who received the bonuses would probably be able to keep them.

By seeking to link repayment of the bonus money to the coming $30 billion in assistance, the administration seemed to leave open the possibility that the company would effectively be repaying taxpayers with taxpayer money. A Treasury official disputed that taxpayers would be repaying themselves, but could not specify how else the company would give back the money.

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/16/immigration/permalink/a7439799d1d654800e3f62325686021e.html

Thanks for the linky. That was worth rereading.

I think that about sums it up.

Look in the mirror.

You put up the first WATB "reply" to today's post. To whit, "Greenwald doesn't write about what I want him to right about!"

Piss off. It ain't all about you.

Yeah, and in this comments section people are free to prove they're ASSHOLES!

What's your address, pal? How would you feel if I dropped by to take a shit in your kitchen?

You MIGHT remember this, nitwit -

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/14/portugal/index.html

it was all of two or three days ago.

To paraphrase [somebody] - is it even theoretically possible to imagine a bigger fecking DICK?

I'm swearing off him. No more for me.

At least for the rest of the day.

There are some who would argue quite vociferously that the only "Good" Head is a DEAD Head.

I'm off to a St. Paddy's party. G'night all.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220526&title=Back-in-Black---Recession-Winners

or click sig

This is for you. Apology accepted. ;-)

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cramer_dodges_any_mention_of_Jon_0313.html

or linky @ sig