What Your Average GOP Congressman Has On His Mind
What Your Average GOP Congressman Has On His Mind....
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If The Shoe Drops, Bear It (Or: Sole-full Goodbye)
A few takes: The media would never have had the balls to run an image like this while DeLay was still politically viable. My finger got tired clicking through Kay Bailey Hutchison's Senate photo album. One thing I found out though, is that the Senator rarely wears black and hardly ever...
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How Karl Rove Took The Drama Out Of The First Bush-Abramoff Photo. (And How He Didn't.)
The much anticipated first photo of George Bush and Jack Abramoff together has come and gone. The question is, who noticed? If you didn't, don't feel bad. It was designed that way. According to the NYT summary, the shot was taken at a meeting in May 2001 in a conference...
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Brimming With Bravado
If it looked like Jack could simply be pigeon holed as some wannabe gangster, his choice of dressing in a style traditional with his Jewish Orthodox faith as he left court in Washington Tuesday made these initial characterizations seem insensitive at best.... From PBS: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/jan-june06/abramoff_1-4.html JIM LEHRER: The hat...
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How The Lincoln Group Likes To Shades Things
for convenience, I collected 12 of these pictures and posted them at my homepage: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~kline/Lincoln%20Group/ ok, here are a few thoughts - - the pictures are all clearly modified, the technique of choice seems to be tinting.... Some seem just odd (like the chopsticks for sale) while others are...
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All's War In Vanity Fair
It's beginning to look like yesterday's SCOTUS announcement marked the beginning of a Rovian counteroffensive. If the most obvious first strike involved the base-rallying nomination of Sam Alito, a less noticeable action that got underway involves the undermining of Joseph Wilson. If the cabal couldn't discredit Wilson before, it...
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Your Turn: Rove View Mirror
If there's one image I found most interesting over the past few days, it's this one, from Friday's NYT — published the morning of the Fitzgerald press conference. Considering the number of photos I mull over, my reaction to this one was unique. When I came across it in...
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Portrait of Conspiracy: The Cabal At Work
(click image for larger version) As more and more information spills out about the deception and double dealing involved in the selling of the Iraq war, you have a paper trail and you have a pictorial trail. Of course, the two are profoundly different. With the former, you get...
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