Today's TRMS
Today's show will feature a very special reading from Winnie the Pooh that relates to foreign policy (you'll have to listen to find out how) and the Rachel Maddow Show debut of a video made by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) that professes his, um, largeness.
Rachel's guests today are David Bender, host of Air America's Sunday show Politically Direct, and Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
MENTIONED ON TODAY'S SHOW
You can donate to the American Red Cross for flood relief here
John McCain's website now has a handy timeline of McCain's leadership on Iraq. Strangely, it begins 5 months after the war began
Commies are drilling for oil off the coast of Florida! Actually, they are not. But that doesn't stop Mean Jean Schmidt
Another opportunity to hear Rachel say "procurement"
Dagnabbit, David Safavian goes free:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/washington/17cnd-lobby.html
A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a former Bush administration official caught up in a lobbying scandal, finding that part of the prosecution’s case was faulty and that the trial judge was wrong to exclude expert testimony for the defense.
The conviction of David H. Safavian, the head of procurement policies at the White House Office of Management and Budget until he became entangled in the affairs of the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was thrown out by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, two years after he was convicted of lying to government investigators.
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By chemgirlJune 17, 2008 - 5:27pm