New US Embassy in Baghdad: Size of Vatican City

Who would think my little brown puppy would turn into a black dog? Her puppy fur is giving way to longer black hair. Special to Rachel: Is Mikey turning black too?

The preznit doesn't seem to like "oversight" all that much, does he? It is certainly something he is not used to. Did you see that the documents concerning the firing of U.S. Attorneys that have been submitted by the White House for perusal contain a 16-day GAP. That's not 16 minutes missing on the tape thank you, but SIXTEEN DAYS OF CORRESPONDENCE, missing. Oops. It seems pretty clear that this goes directly to POTUS, and thus the cover up. He's not going to release the correspondence. In fact, it's systematically being destroyed now, unless I miss my guess. You'll have to impeach the guy to get his attention, even if you don't have the votes to convict, he certainly deserves the indictment.

And now a word from the media.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

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New US Embassy in Baghdad: Size of Vatican City

Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The fortress-like compound rising beside the Tigris River here will be the largest of its kind in the world, the size of Vatican City, with the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water, and a precarious perch at the heart of Iraq’s turbulent future.

Who's watching the president?

The GOP abandoned White House oversight, and the results were disastrous.
Ronald Brownstein
LA Times

March 21, 2007

AT TIMES, President Bush's second term has resembled a laboratory test of what happens to a large institution when all mechanisms of accountability are disabled. The results have not been pretty.

Hurricane Katrina, the chaotic occupation and reconstruction of Iraq, the breakdown at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the FBI's abuse of Patriot Act powers, the troubling dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys — everywhere, the administration has been plagued by an epidemic of incompetence.

Bush has stumbled so badly at managing the basic responsibilities of government that even the National Review, the flagship magazine of the conservative movement and hardly a traditional critic of the president, used its latest cover to plaintively ask: "Can't anyone here play this game?"

How did it come to this for an administration that, as the National Review noted, initially portrayed itself as buttoned-down "adults" returning to Washington after President Clinton's baby boom bacchanal?

[I told you so.]