Earlier today, Karen asked where I thought things were headed with Gonzales. The truth is, it’s hard to think of anything at this point that could make him leave. He’s been abandoned by moderates on both sides of the aisle, and he’s repeatedly given some of the most astonishing and embarrassing Congressional testimony in recent [...]
As it happens, my last day on Swampland will be my last day as president of People For the American Way. I’m stepping down after eight years to become President Emeritus. You can read my announcement here. I have enjoyed every moment of defending the Constitution and expanding PFAW and its related programs to better [...]
The New York Times gets it exactly right in today’s editorial on the Padilla conviction: It is hard to disagree with the jury’s guilty verdict against Jose Padilla, the accused, but never formally charged, dirty bomber. But it would be a mistake to see it as a vindication for the Bush administration’s serial abuse of [...]
Hey, you know who that whole “being in New York on 9/11 makes Giuliani TEH AWESOME” logic appeals to? None other than noted political theorist Adam Sandler. The Bushes had Toby Keith, Rudy gets “Opera Man.” It all makes sense now. Especially having seen this: Giuliani x2 WHY must you ever be gone-y 2 more [...]
• When Gonzales said John Ashcroft was “lucid” and “did most of the talking,” what he really meant was that Ashcroft was “feeble, barely articulate, clearly stressed.” No perjury here! [WP] • Giuliani’s time at Ground Zero? Twenty-nine hours. In fairness to the mayor, that many television interviews would wear anyone out. What’s more, this [...]
This is a pretty good preview of the next big battle in Iraq–over Basrah and its adjacent oil fields in the south. There are three contending Shi’ite parties: SIIC [formerly SCIRI, the Hakim family organization including the Badr Brigade militia] has the overt backing of Washington and, ironically, having grown up in Iran for more [...]
Michael Gerson awards Karl Rove the Nobel Peace Prize in today’s Washington Post. I thought Rove’s finest Mother Theresa moment was when he allowed the McCain-has-an-interacial-baby rumor to spread during the South Carolina primary. And then there was the high patriotism of the Swift Boat veterans for Truth…oh, but those had nothing to do with [...]
FBI Director Robert Mueller’s notes (redacted text linked here) serve largely to confirm, contemporaneously, the accounts of that now-famous 2004 scene at then-AG John Ashcroft’s hospital bedside that he and former Deputy Attorney General James Comey offered in earlier congressional testimony. And they don’t shed any light on what remains the central mystery in all [...]
