A South Dakota Moderate

I just finished up a long day behind the wheel so I don’t have much time but I did come across a few interesting tidbits besides the Shell Oil poverty post below.
It’s been a good week for Conservative Republican scourge John McCain who not only picked up the endorsements of Rudy Giuliani earlier this week [...]

You might want to stay indoors for a few days.
Vice President Dick Cheney is back in Central South Dakota today – and as always, he is hunting birds, not votes.
Cheney arrived aboard Air Force 2, which landed, coming in from the south, at about 10:58 a.m. at the Pierre Regional Airport. He is making [...]

“Dick Cheney“
Quote from Charles Rangel (D-NY) during an interview with Wolf Blitzer last week when discussing the corruption in the Bush Administration.
It’s not Gonzales. The corruption with the vice president, Scooter Libby and the president covering up and saying, “You’re guilty but you shouldn’t do time” — Gonzales is a classic example of what the [...]

Those of us that were under the belief that there are 3 branches of Government were blindsided today with the revelation by White House spokesperson Dana Perino that it was debateable as to whether the office of the Vice President is part of the Executive Branch or not and therefore is exempted from a Presidential [...]

Especially if you live in the Pierre area. Dick Cheney is coming to South Dakota for his first hunting trip since he “accidentally” shot his hunting companion. Cheney will be flying into Pierre tomorrow (election day?) for several days of target practice, oops hunting, at a local private lodge.

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Dick Cheney and Josh Bolten where on Capitol Hill yesterday attempting some damage control when they met with members of their own party trying to get them to go along with King George’s plan to prosecute suspected terrorists (a plan that has long since been set in motion). It seems the administration is having a [...]

According to Dick Cheney, that’s the number of terrorist supporters living in Connecticut. In other words that is the number of votes Ned Lamont received in the Democratic primary.
(From a Ted Kennedy action mailing list via Crooks And Liars)

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What does the Bush Administration do to turn a negative into a positve. They play the terror card and that is exactly what Dick Cheney is an expert at doing. Dan Froomkin documents Cheney’s scare tactics regarding the Bush war advocate Joe Lieberman’s defeat in an article in todays Washington Post.
By insinuating that the sizeable [...]

That is the new talking point by the GOP in the wake of the Lamont victory in Connecticut. The message being spewed by everyone with an elephant lapel pin is that the Democrats don’t want to fight terror and if they win in November the terrorists win as well.
Dick “One Percent” Cheney fired the first [...]

Vanity Fair has a story today documenting the timeline of the morning of 9/11 taken for the NORAD tapes. Other than being an interesting look into the events of the morning, some supposed facts given by the Administration are also called into question.
As I wrote about yesterday, the 9/11 commission has called into question portions [...]

The Cheney Doctrine or the One Percent Doctrine which was described in Ron Suskind’s best seller of the same name is starting to have an effect now in the latest conflict in the Middle East. The policy, which basically states that if there is even as little as a one percent chance that an attack [...]

I recently garnered the wrath of a right-wingnut that took offense to one of my more unflattering posts regarding the tendency of those on the far right to throw around the term treason especially when it is directed towards the New York Times.
The latest episode dealt with the photo essay by times photographer Joao Silva [...]