AP is reporting that Michael Powell is to step down as FCC chief today.
With the Economist commenting on his "zest for public office" (just not this particular office, apparently) is he now in line for a run at the Virginia senate seat which would be left vacant if George Allen runs for Governor in 2006?
Nice backstory on yesterday's hootenanny by Adam Nagourney in the Times this morning, about where we might go from here...
Not sure about this argument, though... I watched both CBS and ABC, and thought they did a decent job within the obvious constraints of format. I particularly liked Jim Axelrod's segment on CBS on what the day meant to two families - the Bushes and the family of a soldier killed in Iraq.
Tom Shales in the Post gets it about right when he says:
"Unfortunately, [the speech] will probably be more impressive in print than as Bush, in his usual baby-blue necktie, delivered it. [His] capabilities as an orator fluctuate from speech to speech, and this time they were at low ebb. The delivery lacked heart and soul."
As far as the content goes, the devil, as they say, will be in the detail, and how the administration will be able to square the rhetoric with its existing support for countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
As my colleague Quentin Peel writes this morning, a speech that was anxiously awaited outside the US merely showed the rest of the world that the president has a full agenda but few ideas. Quentin concludes:
"Ms Rice says things will change. She wants 'a conversation, not a monologue'. Fine words. Four years of Bush have simply proved that the US has a blinkered third-class president and an ideologically led second-class administration. An optimist would say that it cannot get any worse."
And on the subject of foreign policy, Paul Rogers' piece in OpenDemocracy about the US and Iran is well worth reading.
Finally, Whatever happened to "thanks for getting us on TV now and then"...?
Definite shades of David Icke. But this is hilarious. Just keep clicking the button that says "And on tomorrow's show..."
With the Economist commenting on his "zest for public office" (just not this particular office, apparently) is he now in line for a run at the Virginia senate seat which would be left vacant if George Allen runs for Governor in 2006?
Nice backstory on yesterday's hootenanny by Adam Nagourney in the Times this morning, about where we might go from here...
Not sure about this argument, though... I watched both CBS and ABC, and thought they did a decent job within the obvious constraints of format. I particularly liked Jim Axelrod's segment on CBS on what the day meant to two families - the Bushes and the family of a soldier killed in Iraq.
Tom Shales in the Post gets it about right when he says:
"Unfortunately, [the speech] will probably be more impressive in print than as Bush, in his usual baby-blue necktie, delivered it. [His] capabilities as an orator fluctuate from speech to speech, and this time they were at low ebb. The delivery lacked heart and soul."
As far as the content goes, the devil, as they say, will be in the detail, and how the administration will be able to square the rhetoric with its existing support for countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
As my colleague Quentin Peel writes this morning, a speech that was anxiously awaited outside the US merely showed the rest of the world that the president has a full agenda but few ideas. Quentin concludes:
"Ms Rice says things will change. She wants 'a conversation, not a monologue'. Fine words. Four years of Bush have simply proved that the US has a blinkered third-class president and an ideologically led second-class administration. An optimist would say that it cannot get any worse."
And on the subject of foreign policy, Paul Rogers' piece in OpenDemocracy about the US and Iran is well worth reading.
Finally, Whatever happened to "thanks for getting us on TV now and then"...?
Definite shades of David Icke. But this is hilarious. Just keep clicking the button that says "And on tomorrow's show..."
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