We’ve got hold of video of Sen. Vitter describing his secret plan to bankrupt the Canadian health care system.
Late Update: We’ve now contacted the Canadian International Trade Ministry. So we’re hoping to get comment or a response from them about Sen. Vitter’s plan to bring down their health care system.
Seems like Tom DeLay may have made up that story he told Chris Matthews about protestors bringing paraplegics in on gurneys to one of his 1980s-era town hall and dumping them in front of his podium. Hard to see that one coming.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN): No government control of my body!
Another left-wing freak says the Bush administration timed terror alerts to maximize political effect.
Only this time it’s Tom Ridge saying it, the guy in charge of deciding when to issue terror alerts.
Interestingly, Ridge refers to a terror alert Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and others wanted to have drop just before the 2004 election, one he eventually refused to issue. He doesn’t note earlier cases, like in the summer of 2004, of terror alerts that were issued under equally dubious circumstances.
Slideshow: NASCAR comes to the White House.
There’s video, too.
Eric Kleefeld sat in on the tonight’s conference call with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R) and just filed this initial report.
I feel like we’ve finally succeeded in exporting American style democracy to Afghanistan.