by smintheus
Sun Jan 14, 2007 at 12:18:39 PM PST
Dick Cheney gave an interview this morning on Fox in what clearly was an effort to stem the onslaught against the administration's Middle East plans. The White House must be feeling the heat from Congress, to risk sending a deeply unpopular Vice President out on such a mission. You get the impression that they're now worried about holding onto their base.
Cheney botched the job even worse than might have been predicted. Unprepared perhaps for a surprisingly aggressive line of questioning from Chris Wallace, Cheney came across as surly, evasive, and delusional.
What's worse, while barely trying to conciliate the administration's critics in Congress, again and again Cheney essentially dismissed their relevance and insinuated that they were incapable of challenging Bush's policies. He couldn't even resist claiming that they were undermining the troops in Iraq.
Cheney's intervention is such a colossal failure at so many levels that it may provoke Congress to take a tougher stance than it might otherwise have done.
more... by SusanG
Sun Jan 14, 2007 at 05:47:07 PM PST
And a jaw-droppingly beautiful one it is, dead smack in the middle of its news section, mind you – not as an op/ed.
McClatchy (formerly the excellent Washington bureau of Knight Ridder) begins:
Administration leaving out important details on Iraq
By MARK SEIBEL
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - President Bush and his aides, explaining their reasons for sending more American troops to Iraq, are offering an incomplete, oversimplified and possibly untrue version of events there that raises new questions about the accuracy of the administration's statements about Iraq.
more... Shock and oil: Iraq's billions & the White House connection