What's the Biggest Story of the Day?

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

 

This is just what I've heard on the radio today.  It's like this pretty much everyday.  What I will do is jot down a brief notation about these items I find to be important off the top of my head every day for a week or so and we'll see where we stand...

Everybody on McCain Staff Quits or is Fired:

I'm not sure if it was firings or resignations this time around, but after 50 campaign staffers were "cut loose" last week, John McCain's campaign manager and all top staff today announced they were leaving the campaign, too...The suggestion is being floated that McCain may drop out of the presidential race by the weekend. It's that bad.  How long ago was it that McCain was the favorite to win the '08 GOP nomination? 

LA Senator (R-Naturally) Named Client by DC Madam:

I'll have to look the guys name up on "ThinkProgress" or "Huffington Post, but it's true.  One of Louisiana's two United States Senators has released a statement to the Associated Press expressing regret for "the harm he's done to his family, etc." after it became known or was about to become known that his name was the "DC Madam's" address book. 

The story is that Senator got a call from "Hustler Magazine" (did "Hustler" publisher Larry Flynt buy that address book?  I may have read that he had).

Within hours of the call from the magazine, Senator's office released a statement in which he expressed regret the way you want to see it expressed, not merely "profound" but "profound" and "heartfelt".   The phrases "years ago" and "I asked for the forgiveness of God and my wife" were prominently used. 

Here's the best part: this guy got into congress when he replaced a congressman (Livingston?) who had been forced to resign when his extra-marital affair had been made public by "Hustler" publisher Larry Flynt.  He just looked like too big a hypocrite.  Whining about Clinton's dalliance by day, banging a whore by night.  It was all so, You know, unseemly.

Here's the second-best part:  on "The Stephanie Miller show this morning, they read a quote from the John's wife you had to like.  Back in the 90's, during her husband's first term in the house (where he spent plenty of time on the record calling for Clinton to quit over a, well-you-know, the wife gets asked if she would be as forgiving of her husband as Mrs. Clinton had been of Prsident Clinton.  She  said something along the lines of how she'd be more like Lorena Bobbitt.  Lornea Bobbitt got in the news a number of years ago (but they never leat you forget, do they Lorena?) by cutting off her cheating husband's, you know.  Ouch.  I saw the procedure called a "bobbittectomy" on a post at the popular "Jesus' General web site. 

Iraq "Oh-For" in Benchmark-Meeting

The troublesome mainstream media reports today that when President Bush reports to congress Sunday on the situation in Iraq he will reveal that the Iraqi government has achieved exactly none of the benchmarks by which their progress of lack thereof is being measured.  The report was mandated by congress as part of a previously-approved  Iraq spending bill.

Former Surgeon General Decries Political Meddling

The former Surgeon General of the US testified congress that political considerations routinely won out over public health policy considerations during his four-year tenure as the nations top doc. 

Bush Blames Al-Queda for Iraq Violence

In a speech in Cleveland the president said, "the crowd (oh, that crowd) who are attacking us there is the same crowd that attacked us on 9-11." 

And With All That Going On...

The lead story on the ABC Evening News on Monday the 1oth and the lead story on all three of the morning shows on Tuesday the 11th was none of the above. 

Chertoff, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, told a Chicago newspaper that he had a "gut feeling" that there could be a significant terrorist event on US soil this summer, noting that terrorist are "active" during the summer months.  He said, apparently missing that the point he was making is that the current administration has done nothing, no thing, to make us safer in the last 6 years, "We are at as great a risk of attack today as we were on Sept. 10, 2001."

 

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Again, this is just what I've heard on the radio or seen on the internet today: 

New Orleans Hooker says Louisiana Senator Was Customer

Same Senator who was busted  yesterday, just to update that another call girl, this one in the home district New Orleans, says the GOP Senator was a regular john there, too.

I have got to get this guys name.  Stephanie Miller, on Guess the Quote today, read a long list of 1990's quotes from this twit when he was a congressman calling for Clinton to resign the presidency because he had cheated on his wife.  Hi again, everybody. 

Rachael Maddow cited five instances where hookers and the repubs have had brushed up against one another, so to speak.  Let's see, there was Jeff Gannon/Guckert, the White House "reporter" and gay escort who, if the Visitors Log is accurate, may have had numerous sleep-overs at the White House itself;  The Fabulously Revered Ted Haggert who was president of the largest evangelical Christian organization in America, busted for drugs and hanging with a male prostitute; the State Department official previously disclosed to have been a "client" of the DC prostitute, and I can't remember the others although Dusty Foggo's name came up in connection with the defense contractor scandal which resulted in the conviction of San Diego congressman Duke Cunningham because there was some whoring around going on there, too. 

I Don't Recall

A former aide to Karl Rove testified before the US Senate today regarding the US Attorney resignations, but in the main couldn't remember anything of significance about her days in the White House.  The Bush White House had demanded that the woman not testify, but there she was today so I'm not sure what the deal was.