Good News: White House exploring rapprochement with Syria.
Bad News: Our point man is Ahmed Chalabi.
Someone’s finally posted the video of Jeff Greenfield’s riff on Barack Obama and the President of Iran.
As long as we’re on the subject, I know David Kurtz responded to Greenfield’s rejoinder here yesterday at TPM. Let me just add my own bit here too. Greenfield says it was a joke. No kidding. Of course, it was a joke. I know that. It was a just a very odd one — picking up on an association I really don’t think had occurred to anyone else, and which builds with an odd eagerness on the already iffy focus on finding which of Obama’s names sounds like which terrorist mass-murderer. I’ll stand with my initial remarks. Hand me the inkblots.
On Tuesday, DHS executed the largest federal immigration raid in U.S. history.
Over at TPMmuckraker, Justin Rood has doggedly been trying to track down what happened. And cracks are showing in the government’s official version of events.
But like he said yesterday, we need your help on this. Are you in any of the six states where the raids occurred? If you see anything in the local press — especially pictures from the raids — let us know.
There was pretty good evidence Michael Crichton had become a worthless jerk when he got together with President Bush to exchange notes on their joint theory that global warming is a sham perpetrated by various eggheads, homos, longhairs, treehuggers, liberals and assorted freaks. This new development pretty much seals the verdict.
Update: If you don’t subscribe to The New Republic, you can read the relevant passages here.
Tony Snow responds to new reports that Ahmed Chalabi is working the Syria front for the White House. Sorta responds …
Who’s the best friend of Jack Abramoff you’ve never heard of?
Hint: Senator, Republican….
The administration claims its “Operation Wagon Train” targeted “hundreds” of aliens using stolen identity papers belonging to U.S. citizens. But Tuesday’s raids only netted a handful of arrests on identity crimes. So why the misleading rhetoric?