The campaign has released the following statement on Bush’s decision to commute the sentence of Scooter Libby: “This decision to commute the sentence of a man who compromised our national security cements the legacy of an Administration characterized by a politics of cynicism and division, one that has consistently placed itself and its ideology above [...]
Think they will retire his number?
I still think he should be emptying bedpans at Walter Reed… I guess Bush feels, given his Guinness-worthy record of shameful dealings, that he had nothing much to lose by pardoning the meretricious neocon. And much to gain: Libby probably won’t write that tell-all memoir now.
Bush has commuted Libby’s sentence. Some animals are more equal than others.
Story here.
Steyn also writes: The second-quarter fundraising numbers are somewhere between bad and disastrous. Campaign is set to announce their second-quarter numbers at 2 p.m. The over-under between “bad” and “disastrous” appears to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 million. UPDATE: Campaign just announced it raised $11.2 million, but has only $2 million left on [...]
[Concept stolen from the inventive Ryan Sager.] The Corner’s Mark Levin Steyn gets suggestive: “I’ve had a couple of ostensibly well-informed e-mails suggesting that John McCain will quit the race in the next few days.” Oooh, I get emails, too! And I’ve had a couple of actually well-informed ones suggesting that Levin Steyn’s emails are [...]
Joe Lieberman (Connecticut for Lieberman-Connecticut) on ABC’s “The Week”: “I hope these terrorist attacks in London wake us up here in America to stop the petty partisan fighting going on about…electronic surveillance.” You know, I’ve never really considered debate over the abdication of civil liberties “petty” or “partisan.” No wonder he’s an independent! He gets [...]
Like Spencer Ackerman, I was struck by the candor and clarity of Ambassador Ryan Crocker’s remarks when I interviewed him in Baghdad last week. In fact, I wish I could have included more of what Crocker said in the print version of the piece. Ackerman’s right about Crocker’s obvious frustration with Maliki–but that doesn’t mean [...]
This past Saturday morning, the hundreds of reporters subscribed to the White House press release service received something they should have already read: a full text copy of the NYT article about the Supreme Court’s decision to “hear claims of Guantanamo detainees that they have a right to challenge their detentions in American federal courts.” [...]
