FORD MOURNING PERIOD, NEW YEAR’S HOLIDAY STALLED POLITICAL NEWS; AND A SATIRICAL EDITORIAL.
Continue Reading January 1st, 2007
TUESDAY NEWS UPDATE.
FORD MOURNING PERIOD, NEW YEAR’S HOLIDAY STALLED POLITICAL NEWS.
With the US in an official period of mourning for the death last week of former President Gerald Ford, nearly all political news has dried to a trickle — and will likely stay that way out of respect to Ford until after the burial service on Wednesday. Sometime after Wednesday, we’ll likely soon hear the official announcement from US Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) of his decision on the 2008 White House race. Also expect some additional P2008 announcements before the end of the month from others … In Iraq, former dictator Saddam Hussein was executed early Saturday morning. Also, on December 31, the US military death toll in Iraq sadly passed the 3,000 milestone.
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BUSH REJECTS STUDY GROUP REPORT: AN EDITORIAL IN THE FORM OF SATIRE.
President George W. Bush over the weekend rejected the recent recommendations of the Baker-Hamilton Calendar Study Group. The bipartisan group recently suggested that 2006 should end at the close of December 31. “I’ll follow those recommendations that make sense, but we’re not going to ‘cut-and-run’ from 2006 until we finish the job in 2006 that we set out to do — like winning in Iraq and holding Republican control of Congress. We’re making good progress on both those fronts, but much still needs to be done before we can leave 2006 and move forward,” Bush explained. The Calendar Study Group suggested that 2006 should be viewed as having been divided into 12 months and 365 days, with the year ending on December 31. “That’s just ‘Washington bureaucrat thinking.’ It’s not ‘American thinking.’ I’ve made it clear that I’m not gonna pick an arbitrary date like December 31, or announce a timeline for when 2006 should come to an end. If we go down that road, then our enemies will win. You know, there’s no federal law that says a year must only have 365 days. There’s nothing that says 2006 can’t have 400 or 600 days. Let me be very clear: I’m not a quitter and this Administration will not quit on 2006 until we meet our mission objectives and the time is right. We owe that much to the American people,” said Bush.
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FREE SPEECH ZONE.
Your daily open thread.
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