11-17-08

11-17-08—Those hard dates [in the US pullout agreement from Iraq with Iraq] reflect a significant concession by the departing Bush administration, which had been publicly adverse to timetables. –NYT A1 mission accomplished

--Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS, claiming a slanted investigation into his report on President Bush’s National Guard service, seems to have unearthed evidence of political influence. NYT A1, B1 fancy the Bushies trying to politicize something...!...

--“The work of this Congress will be seen as a watershed, where we turned away from the outmoded, Depression-era approach to financial regulation and adopted a framework that will position our financial services industries to be world leaders into the new century.”—Phil Gramm, Dec. 15,2000, NYT A1 short century

--[After National Review columnist Kathleen Parker] wrote in her syndicated column ... arguing that Gov. Palin was unfit to be vice president, Ms. Parker received nearly 11,000 e-mail messages, one of which lamented that her mother did not abort her.—NYT B9 Right wingers carve out special cases exception for abortion