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Robert Gates Expects to Step Down as Defense Secretary in 2011
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyRobert Gates, who defied expectations – and even surprised himself -- by staying on as secretary of defense once George W. Bush left office, now says he expects to retire in 2011. Gates, who turns 67 next month, tells Foreign Policy magazine that "it would be a mistake to wait until January 2012" to step down, with just one year to go in the president's current term. "This is not the kind of job you want to fill in the spring of an election year," he said. Gates took over for the embattled Donald Rumsfeld following the 2006 midterm elections. He did not foresee himself in the role once ...
Colin Powell Portrait Unveiled to Tears and Cheers
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGen. Colin Powell returned to the State Department Monday for an emotional unveiling of his official Secretary of State portrait. Powell and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presided over the unveiling of the portrait, which will hang with those of the other former secretaries of State in the secretary's suite of offices. When Powell was introduced to speak in the Ben Franklin room on the top floor at the department, the crowd cheered and applauded loudly. Powell was surrounded his immediate family -- wife Alma Powell, daughter Linda Powell, son Michael Powell, daughter-in-law ...
Donald Rumsfeld's Dysfunctional Pentagon
By David Corn - Politics DailyThis seems to be the season for books from political insiders. Taylor Branch's "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President" is loaded with intriguing info on the Clinton years, courtesy of Bill Clinton himself. Ted Kennedy's "True Compass" offers posthumous reflections on life as a Kennedy brother. And Matt Latimer, a former White House speechwriter for George W. Bush, has written a memoir entitled "Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor," which garnered early bloggable attention for disclosing that Bush was not so kind when it came to talking about Sarah Palin, Hillary ...
Jesus Retires From Department of Defense
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyEver since George W. Bush left office, we've been noticing a dearth of tactical weapons experts at the Pentagon. For much of Bush's eight years, we were treated to war savants like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his "special" assistant Douglas Feith and Iraq War architect Paul Wolfowitz-- all of whom have presumably gone on to bigger and better things.But the greatest loss at Defense has to be Bush's personal favorite military tactician, Jesus Christ. Whether he was healing the sick, feeding the hungry or crafting the "shock and awe" strategy with Air Force Maj. Gen. Glen Shaffer, the Son ...
Obama, Gates Propose 4% Increase in Defense Spending
By David Knowles - Politics DailyContrary to the way it is being portrayed by many media outlets and blogs, the Obama administration has put forth a plan that increases overall defense spending by 4% for next year. Over at TPM, Josh Marshall and crew have been monitoring the media meme, stoked by such GOP luminaries as Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich, that Obama's priorities may be making the country less safe. Here's an exchange between MSNBC and former Defense Secretary William Cohen, who tries to set the record straight:One might reasonably speculate whether ending extraordinary rendition, and returning to the Geneva ...
The Affirmative Case: Dave for McCain
By Dave - Politics DailyThis is in response to an interesting assignment from our blog overlords. Instead of concentrating on all the problems of the other guy, why are we voting FOR our candidate of preference? For this article, choosing the area to focus on for John McCain is easy. In terms of foreign policy experience he is exactly the kind of president we need. But it's not just his experience that distinguishes him, it's several character qualities that he has exhibited over the past few years during our battle with the forces of terror. Unlike many politicians, John McCain is not afraid to speak up when he ...
European Vacation
By David Knowles - Politics DailyJust back from three weeks in what Donald Rumsfeld famously termed "Old Europe." And all over Holland, France and Germany, I heard the same question: Who is going to win the American election? Most of the people I talked to knew the general outline of race, but not the specifics. The day to day boxing match to determine who is more patriotic, Barack Obama or John McCain, is lost on them. Of greater importance is an end to all things George W. Bush. There's a great sense that people are anxiously waiting for the present U.S. administration to be relegated to memory. In the same way that German ...
Obama AG May Review Bush Administration
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyWhen Nancy Pelosi took impeachment off the table before the 2006 midterm elections, many staunch critics of the Bush administration felt betrayed. That betrayal was aggravated when none of the so-called mainstream Democratic Presidential candidates uttered a word about holding the Bush administration accountable for a variety of misdeeds. Now, after 18 months since Pelosi's declaration about impeachment, Will Bunch of Attytood reports that Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama said he would allow his Attorney General to "immediately review the information that's already there". Bunch ...
935 Reasons to Impeach
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Center for Public Integrity has released a report detailing at least 935 false statements made publicly by President George W. Bush and seven of his top officials in the two years following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Those 935 false statements, made by Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and White House Press Secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan, are in addition to many more misleading statements by the administration ...
Rumsfeld's Snowflakes
By Denise Williams - Politics DailySnowflakes just sound nice. It makes me thing of the beginning of winter, that smell in the air right before it snows, fireplaces and snuggling and Santa. Rummy's snowflakes? Not so much. These snowflakes refer to the memos that former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld used to rain down on his department. According to WaPo, as many as 20-60 in a day. So not the pretty snowflakes, but the free-associating of a very grumpy man. The Washington Post got its hands on some old Rummy memos. They're not classified, but marked as "for official use only". ...
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