Thursday, January 27, 2005
"Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two feet."
The Tsunami Distaster is orders of magnitude bigger, but I'd be remiss if I didn't acknowledge the flooding disaster that occured last week in the East Coast region of my parents' nativeland, Guyana. Click here for links to more photos, news sites and relief donation organizations. (link via Bill C.)
In the end it looks like Armstrong Williams was honest about at least one thing.
Let's recap:
January 10: "I’m not aware of any others that are under contract other than the one that’s been reported on in the media. As a matter of principle, we believe very strongly that the media ought to be reporting in an objective, unbiased and fair manner." -- White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan at a White House press briefing.
Yesterday: "I expect my Cabinet secretaries to make sure that that practice doesn't go forward. All our Cabinet secretaries must realize that we will not be paying commentators to advance our agenda." -- President Bush as quoted at CNN.com.
in response to: another Writer Backing Bush Plan Had Gotten Federal Contract.
But, unlike Williams, she's not getting hung out to dry.
I guess you don't need to pay pundits under the table any more to advance your agenda if you're willing to do it yourself now though, right?
Wonder if Bush got the government to cut a check to cover expenses incurred here?
Starkly put, Iraq's capital city is not under control, either by the Iraqi interim government or the American military.
Which is no surprise really if you just look at what's going on over there.
Oh yeah, "Condoliezza" was confirmed by a Senate vote of 85 to 13 as the next Secretary of State. FYI: the last nominee to receive any "no" votes was Alexander M. Haig Jr. in 1981 according to The New York Times.
