Yes, there will be liveblogging. Oh, there will be lots of liveblogging.

The two weirdest letters on behalf of Scooter Libby are from gender studies theorist/linguist Deborah Tannen and TNR literary editor Leon Wieseltier. Weird because they’re both, you know, presumably kinda not Republicans* and because of what’s blacked out in both of them. Tannen:

Wieseltier:

Tannen is Libby’s WHAT? He helped Leon

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TalkLeft has thoughtfully posted the cache of letters written to Judge Walton about the Scooter Libby sentencing. Entertaining reading and I’ll post whatever amusing excerpts I come across. Until then, have at it.

I’d like to join in thanking Dick Armey for entering Swampland this week. He may remember that I spent some time covering him, Newt Gingrich and the rest of the GOP leadership that took over the House after the 1994 mid-term elections. I wrote one story in 1997 I doubt he liked much, after the failed coup attempt against Gingrich. A year …

No one knew what would happen to Scooter Libby when we walked into the courthouse this morning. While the government suggested as much as 3 years, as a first time offender and public servant, he could receive as lenient as sentence as probation, or house arrest.

It quickly became clear, however, that Judge Reggie Walton was not in the …

Joe Klein and Justin Fox raise some excellent questions. What role does government play in our current health care system? How much of a role should it play?

Despite Klein’s interest in playing between the 40 yard lines, I believe we are in the red zone. Government already purchases 45 percent of health care in America. To keep …

There is an old joke about how every morning there are 100 U.S. Senators who wake up in the morning and look in the mirror at the person who they think should be president. I’m not saying it is funny, but it has a certain resonance these days. When it comes to the presidential candidates of either party, I’m reminded of what Shania …

There are two ways to organize economic resources in a society. On one hand are market forces guided by millions upon millions of individual decisions made by consumers. This type of social organization rests on freedom, as the late Milton Friedman said, the freedom to choose. On the other hand, we have collective decisions. Absent …

I, too, would like to welcome Mr. Armey to the Land of Swamp and I look forward to trying to mediate some kind of discussion between him and our faithful commenters during the week.

But my first duty is to put a tiny condition on Joe’s point to Dick (in an altogether delightfully feisty post):

None of the Democrats is proposing that.

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