Thursday 14 September 2006

Political news roundup

More on interrogation...
Former General and previous Secretary of State Colin Powell has finally shown him self and stood up to the Bush administration by opposing their proposals for interrogation methods. Powell still has a long way to go before he redeems himself to the moderates and left.

More confusing politics...
Remember Robert Novak, the conservative syndicated 'journalist' who had a hand in the entirely-too-confusing Valerie Plame CIA leak affair? Well he has spoken up again about his not having a roll in revealing Plame's identity to humiliate her, and accuses one of his alleged sources in what has been dubbed "Plamegate" of distortion.

This whole matter has been entirely too confusing, with Neocons/conservatives and the White House insisting nothing wrong was done, some left and left-of-centre accusing the aforementioned party of lying and says that the Bush administration did it on purpose, and some, like Christopher Hitchens of Slate saying that the whole thing is over and agreeing (to an extent) with American conservatives that nothing wrong was purposely done. If you do a Google for "hitchens+slate+plame" and you will come up with a slew of conservative websites, such as Rush Limbaugh's and ConservativeUnderground, quoting or citing Hitchens — surprise, surprise.

I will dig up some of the pieces I have written on the Plame issue and post them soon.

On the November elections...
News on the latest primaries and polls.

Pretty much what has been expected and anticipated has happened in primaries the past week or so. Still four or so Senate seats are a tossup.

And some good news...
I had a hard time finding a good link on the matter, but I have read from a recent summary of politics today that the House of Representatives has approved a measure for a website that would let taxpayers see what their money was being spent on (besides some defense and some... shady... matters). The bill for the website was meeting some resistance, no need to explain why.










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