don't miss Josh Micah Marshall today on AWOL

[democrat in Tallahassee]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Josh is doing...

Some of the best reportage in Washington. If not the best.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. this is a deeper cut

they are dying a death by a thousand cuts.

This will not play well with the armed forces

The boy played hookey

The boy shirked his duty

This is the way REAL fighting men and women will see it

[Bunny]

3. Wow! Who was that reporter?

John something? He was just hammering little Scottie!!!

[cosmicdot]

4. can't believe someone is asking questions beyond the script

or, that's the impression I got ... Scott says something, yet it generally leads to further refinement of 'the information gap' ...

would *'s credit report have addresses where he hung his coke straw?

or tax returns possessing some helpful data?

MR. McCLELLAN: And we also will include a statement from Mr. Lloyd, who's now retired from the Texas Air National Guard, who lays out some of the facts about the President's point summaries.


http://bushbodycount.com/

Can't call the following people for statements:

Lt. Colonel William Harris, Jr.

Lt. Col. William Harris was one of two commanding officers who could not perform George W. Bush's annual evaluation covering the year from May 1, 1972 to April 30, 1973. They stated in their filing that "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report." Fortunately for George W. Bush, Lt. Col. Harris is not here to verify his 1973 statement. He's dead.

Lt. Colonel Jerry B. Killian

Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian was another of George W. Bush's commanding officers. He cannot testify in a court of law as to George W. Bush's dereliction of his sworn duty. Lt. Col. Killian is dead.

Note: we were unable to find details on the deaths of Lt. CoLs. Killian and Harris, only that they were dead. The names are included because they were relatively young men, whose deaths were convenient to Bush.

James Downing Aalund

Mr. Aalund's name is the first on a long list of young Texans who died in Vietnam. These young men did not have influential fathers to pull the strings necessary to get them into the Texas Air National Guard. If they had been so lucky, they would surely have fulfilled their responsibilities to the ANG, if only out of gratitude that they did not have to die, thousands of miles away in a strange land. They surely would not have disappeared from duty for over a year, as did our fearless leader George W. Bush.




Given the president's record as a businessman, and since he's now run the country hopelessly into debt, isn't it about time he sells the country off to some rich friends who will swallow the loss so he can move on to greener pastures?

-- Josh Marshall

[aquart]

5. What a strange little press briefing.

Carefully vetted script of allowable phrases.

My, my, my.

Press never asked why the records would be in Colorado, if it was normal for Texas and Alabama records to be in Colorado, fun stuff like that.

Didn't ask what kind of unit Colorado was.