We'll miss you.
Jack Abramoff, the once-powerful Republican lobbyist involved in ethics allegations facing Representative Tom DeLay, was indicted in Florida on Thursday on unrelated fraud charges involving his purchase of a fleet of gambling boats from a businessman who was slain amid bitter wrangling over the sale.
Between saying that the deceased Casey Sheehan would not approve of his mother's actions and likening anti-war protesters to Communist sympathizers (this is by someone who the KKK would lynch in a breath) I think Michelle Malkin needs to own up that she is an awful human being.
What other kind of person would write a book in praise of the interning Japanese Americans during WWII?
Watch the video at Crooks and Liars.
Either Roberts is good enough to be confirmed, or he is as ugly as the giant, hairy mole you know is on Dick Cheney's ass and will not be confirmed. A Supreme Court justice is nothing more than a man and he cannot be perfect. Democrats cannot block him if there are a couple stains on his record (although racism and anti-privacy are pretty bad). The least you can do is be honest about who he is and get on with it. Instead, we have this:
Thrown on the defensive by recent revelations about Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s legal work, White House aides are delaying the release of tens of thousands of documents from the Reagan administration to give themselves time to find any new surprises before they are turned into political ammunition by Democrats.
We are in the middle of a bubble and the 'good' economy cannot last that much longer. Read this dkos diary as well as the links, the case is growing more solid every day.
Bush signed the energy bill yesterday, telling us that he's the kinda guy who wouldn't give another guy a reacharound. (hint hint)
What bothers me (besides everything in the bill) is that we have all this flag waving and rumblings about Iran not being allowed to start up nuclear reactors and such when look at what is in the energy bill:
The new energy law weakens limits on exports of highly enriched uranium, a change opposed by people who fear the spread of nuclear weapons and by the top nonproliferation official at the Energy Department.
The NYT:
Judge John G. Roberts Jr., President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, has written quite a bit in opposition to a constitutional right to privacy that has served as the basis for Supreme Court decisions protecting abortion and gay rights. But his writings, though distinctive and consistent, were always on behalf of superiors and clients and might not reflect his own views, then or now.
By which I mean Libby, Libby, Libby.
In the bad news department, we might be in trouble.
Think on this for a second and then I have a couple questions for you:
President Bush crowed about the strength of the U.S. economy on Saturday and credited his hotly debated tax cuts for the growth.
Don't conveniently forget this or give equal time to something that is wrong!!!!
A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years, according to government sources with firsthand knowledge of the new analysis.
We all knew it was coming:
President Bush sidestepped the U.S. Senate on Monday and installed controversial nominee John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, saying the post was "too important to leave vacant any longer."
Speaking at the White House, Bush said he was sending Bolton to the United Nations with his "complete confidence."
documents that Democrats wanted before they would give Bolton his confirmation hearings. Looks like Bush has a lot to hide. The silver lining is that Bolton will not get any of his reforms done at the UN because global trust and sentiment for America is as high as sentiment for the clap.
