What do Democrats do with the Roberts nomination? Do we give him a pass and focus on the Rehnquist retirement, hoping we get lucky and he turns out to be another Souter? Do we “Go to the Mattresses” and smear the guy? Do we just provide token opposition? Or do we do some “jujitsu” . . . → Read More: Elevating the Debate
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Nearly four years after the US invaded Afghanistan and ousted the ruling Taleban from power, the US commander of operations there has discovered that the young men who constitute the bulk of Taleban and al Qaeda recruits in that country are less likely to take up arms if they are employed. The U.S. military operational commander in Afghanistan, Maj. Gen. Jason Kamiya, believes that the more Afghans being put to work helps take away some of the enemies’ ability to recruit. Isn’t that touching? Somehow, our most senior leader in that battered country has arrived at the same formulation as every generation of parents in recorded history. Continue reading The Army learns that idle hands are Satan’s tools I went to the White House twice last week, trying to ask a question that had been suggested to me by Brad Friedman when I was on his Brad Show a couple of weekends ago. . . . → Read More: More blogging from the White House Rabbi Marder, however, pulls no punches in describing criticism of Israel’s role in the US invasion of Iraq as anti-Semitism. It appears that only a Zionist costume, tailored to fit Israel’s tactics along its strategic designs, patterns acceptable criticism of Israel. It therefore shouldn’t be surprising that the knee-jerk tendency to clothe critics of Israel with a latent desire to destroy the Jewish state will continue to mutate and stifle most reasoned analyses of the subject. Israel has historically followed a strategy of territorial expansions and tactical consolidations that has allowed concessions at a net territorial gain, giving Israel the appearance of compromise in the face of intransigence, and Israel’s present strategy explicitly affirms that trend. Thus substantive criticism of Israel’s policies is now, as has been, equated with extremism in the face of Israel’s fashionably manufactured moderation. . . . → Read More: The Duality of Al Franken Karl Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, has been one of the more entertaining elements of the seriously entertaining Rove-Plame saga to this point, grabbing the lead from White House spokesman Scott McClellan, whose struggles with the White House press corps have degenerated into poorly wrought Kabuki. Luskin, on the other hand, brings a delightful sense . . . → Read More: The unbearable lightness of Luskin Vermont Republican Dennis Morrisseau wants two things: To fill the House seat being vacated by long-time Congressman Bernie Sanders — Sanders is planning a run for the Senate — and to impeach George W. Bush. Despite his French-sounding name, Morrisseau says he is a traditional Republican, and thinks the Bush administration have abandoned Republican . . . → Read More: Vermont GOP candidate: Impeach Bush Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo, who is perhaps best known outside Colorado for his recent remarks about nuking Muslim holy sites such as the city of Mecca, wants to run the US. Tancredo has already visited New Hampshire and Iowa this year, and says he found a welcome audience among voters who are fed up . . . → Read More: Tom Tancredo for President Gonzo Republican legislators are threatening radical measures that will “interfere with the protection of Americans from terrorism by diverting resources from the war,” according to the White House. Claiming a constitutional responsibility for oversight of the executive branch, the legislators want to weigh down a massive defense spending bill with measures “defining the legal . . . → Read More: White House to Congress: Yours is not to wonder why Walter Pincus at the Washington Post advances the Karl Rove saga by providing more details on the June 10, 2003, memo, regarding Joe Wilson’s Niger trip, that was circulating on Air Force One the week Bob Novak burned Wilson’s wife, CIA agent Valerie Plame, in his newspaper column. Pincus says that two only sentences . . . → Read More: Leaks and the leaking leakers who leak them |
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Former CIA spokesman: Plame “an undercover operative”
Former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow told the Washington Post in an interview that at the time he spoke with columnist Bob Novak, a few days before Novak’s column outing CIA agent Valerie Plame, Plame was an undercover operative. . . . → Read More: Former CIA spokesman: Plame “an undercover operative”