Media Matters: Will WaPo reconsider its Supreme Court endorsement criteria? - no, but they should. this court is a disgrace.
ABC News: White House ‘Duplicity’ Over Pork Spending Draws GOP Ire - With a straight face, the White House defends more than $1 billion in earmarks by saying: “Our earmarks are better than their earmarks.”
WaPo: […]
Bush loses on immigration; his presidency fading fast too McClatchy Washington Bureau (6/28/07):
“It’s the incredible shrinking presidency. He’s lost battles in the courts. He’s lost battles in Iraq. He’s lost battles on Capitol Hill,” said Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University.”His bank account is empty and there’s nowhere to go […]
Obama: Impeachment is not acceptable - USA Today (6/29/07):
“I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breeches, and intentional breeches of the president’s authority,” he said.
Now in a practical sense, I’m not for impeachment. The votes aren’t there, and even if they were, I don’t think anyone wants Big Time taking over. But […]
This is, of course, still very tentative, but here’s what The Telegraph is reporting about the London car bomb:
Whitehall sources said that the police and security services were looking at possible international links — including similarities to car bombs used by insurgents in Iraq.
Tentative, yes. But presumably Whitehall sources wouldn’t be saying it, and […]
The grim Iraq war statistics continue. The number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq has just hit 100 for June. This calls our attention to two new records set by the Sacrificer-in-chief this month.
It is the first time since the war began that more than a hundred U.S. soldiers have been sacrificed in […]
On Monday, Sen. Dick Lugar, described by one and all as a respected Republican, practically a party elder, stood up in the Senate and offered what was described as an “unusually blunt assessment” of President Bush’s Iraq policy:
In my judgment, the costs and risks of continuing down the current path outweigh the potential benefits that […]
When I wrote on Monday about Zoila Meyer, little did I know that on Thursday I would be rubbing her story in the California Republican Party’s face.
To recap the basic lessons from Zoila Meyer’s story:
• Immigration law is implacable.
• You may have been a model citizen all your life. You even may have been elected to […]
It’s really quite difficult to be more cynical about the mainstream media than I am, and even I am thoroughly taken aback at ABC’s continued employment of Fred Thompson as a paid political commentator.
It has been abundantly clear for a very long time now to one and all that Fred Thompson is almost certainly running […]
Cheney part of executive branch again - The Politico (6/27/07):
Vice President Cheney’s office will not pursue the argument that he is separate from the executive branch, senior administration officials tell The Politico. The decision follows a threat by Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), the No. 3 House Democrat, to try to cut off the office’s $4.8 […]
Guantanamo has been much in the news lately. And, conscientious blogger that I am, I have duly read vast quantities of that prose. My favorite paragraph of the whole lot comes from WaPo’s Josh White and Robin Wright:
Still, officials said the discussions are not yet at a decision point because too many issues […]
