Daily Archives: 06/24/2010

(Community Matters) Too funny, Steven was just imagining this while we were exiting the Tube

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(Community Matters) Politico’s inside view of McChrystal decision from Mike Allen’s Playbook:

Good Thursday morning. HOW OBAMA TOOK COMMAND — INSIDE THE WEST WING: Vice President Biden was the first top administration official to know about the Rolling Stone article. He was flying back from Chicago after a campaign event when Gen. Stanley McChrystal called him on Air Force 2 around 5:30 p.m. to apologize for comments in the article. The vice president had no idea what he was talking about, so the call was brief, and Biden asked his aides to get a copy of the story. Shortly before, Tommy Vietor, the assistant White House press secretary who handles national-security issues, had been e-mailed a PDF of the article by a colleague in the U.S. government. Vietor forwarded the PDF to a few officials who tried in vain to read the tiny type on their BlackBerries. So Vietor printed out a bunch of copies for the national-security inner circle. He walked one into Robert Gibbs’ office and handed him a copy, with key passages marked.
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(Community Matters) http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/democrats-head-to-court-in-effort-to-stop-765678.html

I don’t begrudge Perry & his campaign for this not-surprising move (all’s fair in . . . ) but their bold face lies denying involvement are so indicative of the dishonesty & corruption now ruling our state from the governor’s office

Update: busted – Tommey behind this; no surprise at all

btw, Toomey makes hundreds of thousands of dollars each year pimping the governor’s office