Other Klein not just clever, but closer to the truth than he may think. In Ron Suskind’s excellent book, the One Percent Solution, there’s a hilarious scene–p336– that takes place in the inner sanctum of the CIA right after Osama issued his last minute verbal assault on Bush just before the 2004 election. The consensus [...]

These are not the emails you’re looking for. UPDATE: Yeah, this is all dead tree and whatnot.

President Bush–unplugged, unhinged, unscripted, incoherent–at a town meeting, via Atrios and You Tube.

John Podhoretz steps in to show that the NRO’s Corner is not the moral wasteland John Derbyshire would have you believe: The notion that a human being or group of human beings holding no weapon whatever should somehow “fight back” against someone calmly executing other people right in front of their eyes is ludicrous beyond [...]

Josh Tyrangiel, the with-it whiz kid who is going to save Time from dead tree hell, tells me that we will soon (-ish) be adding video to the Swamp. One idea for incorporating this new fangled technology is to have it be a Q&A between you, the citizens of the commentsphere, and us, your humble [...]

In which the legislative battle over funding the Iraq war is discussed. Key statistic that many Swampland readers are missing: According to the CBS poll, only 9% of the American people want to cut off funds for the troops. The Democrats are trying–given the Constitutional powers of the President and the public’s opposition to cutting [...]

John McCain in South Carolina: Another man — wondering if an attack on Iran is in the works — wanted to know when America is going to “send an air mail message to Tehran.” McCain began his answer by changing the words to a popular Beach Boys song. “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran,” he [...]

What’s the senate hearing version of the “mercy rule”? Here’s where it would have made sense: Feinstein: “You’re testifying to us that you made these decisions without ever looking at the performance records?” Gonzales: “Yes.” I mean, game over, right? The next sentence out of Gonzales’ mouth should have been, “And on that note, I [...]

I’m not going to attempt to live-blog, as I can’t possibly keep up with all the spectacular senatorial fury that’s being laid down on Alberto (who now looks like he’s passing a kidney stone). But I’ll try to drop in for highlights. Favorite so far: Specter makes a snarky remark about how, “I know you’ve [...]