Where’s the Outrage?

So, I’m chilling in the Atlanta airport on my way to St. Louis.  Travelling used to be easier or at least it seemed easier.  Now, travelling is a series of hurry up and wait then hurry up and wait then sit and hope.  You hope that your luggage will get to where you are going at the same time that you get to where you are going. 

Also, blogging from an airport and trying to add video is the ultimate in pain in the butt. I’ll be blogging from the road most of this week.  Wish me luck because I’ll need it.

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The resignation of McNulty is other of the parade of justice officials who have resigned over the last 2 - 3 months.  Alberto is doing a great job (injecting as much sacrasm as I can) but it looks as if Alberto just continued policies that were started under John Ashcroft. 

Alberto Gonzales’ official statement on the resignation is here.  Don’t look for anything thoughtful or insightful.  Alberto’s shallow words of praise were very predicable. 

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From USAT:

Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said Monday he will resign, becoming the highest-ranking Bush administration casualty in the furor over the firing of U.S. attorneys.

McNulty, who has served 18 months as the Justice Department’s second-in-command, announced his plans at a closed-door meeting of U.S. attorneys in San Antonio. He told them he would remain at the department until late summer or until the Senate approves a successor, aides said.

He also sent a one-page letter of resignation to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose own job has been put in jeopardy by the firings and their aftermath. (more…)

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I can’t really describe how painful this is to the American economy. Chrysler was the come back kid. Lee Iacocca had turned the company around. He left a solid company. Daimler-Benz buys Chrysler then the problems start. I’m not sure what happened. All I know it that MB is still sitting pretty and Chrysler is in the toilet. Just very sad.

Update: more from WaPo.  This can’t be good for labor or America for that matter.

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From WaPo:

DaimlerChrysler is closing in on the sale of Chrysler to the private financial firm Cerberus Capital Management in a deal expected to be announced as early as today. The sale would unravel a mega-merger of the 1990s and highlights the growing influence of private equity on American business.

Dieter Zetsche, DaimlerChrysler chairman, put Chrysler on the block in April, opening a high-stakes bidding war for the third-largest U.S. automaker. Chrysler is the kind of company that private-equity firms like to target: a distressed operation with strong cash flow and potential for turnaround. (more…)

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I would like for there just to be one once of good news from Iraq. Just once. I would like one piece of genuine good news. Not something made up by the Bush administration, either. Is that too much to ask?

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From NYT:

About 4,000 American ground troops, supported by surveillance aircraft, attack helicopters and spy satellites, swept towns and farmland south of Baghdad on Sunday, searching for three American soldiers who disappeared Saturday after their patrol was ambushed, military officials said.

The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella insurgent group that includes Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, said it had captured the three missing Americans and claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed four other American soldiers and an Iraqi Army soldier. The group offered no proof for its claims.

The intensive search coincided with two deadly car bombings in Baghdad and northern Iraq that killed at least 55 people, wounded 155 and further underscored the challenges facing the American and Iraqi security forces, which have been unable to thwart such attacks by the Sunni Arab-led insurgency despite the infusion of new American troops. (more…)

 

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