Uh oh. More muck in New Jersey. This time Sen. Robert Menendez’s (D-NJ) close advisor was caught on tape asking a contractor for a “favor.” That and other news of the day in today’s Daily Muck.
Mark Schmitt with the very latest in journalistic weaseldom.
More revelations from the new Congressional report on Abramoff’s White House doings.
Ralph Reed to Jack Abramoff: “talked to rove about this and i think i killed it.”
And, boy, is Ken Mehlman in trouble.
From a live chat at WaPo …
Washington, D.C.: Your wrote today “…a prominent Democratic polling firm tried to raise alarms yesterday with the release of focus group findings… that attacks on Democrats for opposing any efforts to stop terrorists…were highly effective.” Despite these warnings, you also report that Sen. Reid said it was “beyond (his)ability to comprehend” how a member of Congress could be accused of supporting terrorism.
This situation is a little like Rice and Bush ignoring intelligence warnings that bin Laden was planning to attack with planes. Despite Bush’s non-stop speeches over the last three weeks detailing all the ways in which Democrats can’t be trusted to protect against terrorists, the Democratic “leadership” apparently aren’t going to explain themselves or fight back. Can you explain what the Democrats think their passivity will accomplish; other than to allow Bush and the Republicans to completely assassinate their characters in order to keep one party rule humming along?
Jonathan Weisman: I’m as amazed as you are. The Democrats keep saying the Republucans did it to them in 2002 and 2004 and they’re going to do it again in 2006. Yet they say it won’t work. I’m not so sure.
I’m really hoping Reid’s point is being misconstrued. But is it?
Greg Sargent talks to Jennifer Duffy, the Senate expert at the Cook Political Report, on the Dems’ chances for capturing the Senate this November.
How long before the torture bill the Senate passed yesterday is challenged in court? “Days.” And even those who voted for it don’t seem too keen on its chances.
Bush was told violence would increase in Iraq in 2007, but failed to share that information with the public.
I think we’re getting down to that true last refuge of the scoundrel marrow.
According to the president, those who think he’s created a mess in Iraq which is making us less rather than more secure are “buy[ing] into the enemy’s propaganda.”
Isn’t this what the president’s own intelligence agencies are telling him? I guess they’re buying into the enemy’s propaganda. From what the polls seem to say, more than half the country is buying into the enemy’s propaganda too. Pretty much everybody does, I guess, beside the president and those who sign on to his dogmas.
What’s actually just as revealing is the president’s own argument about the Iraq-Terrorism NIE, which amounts to a sort of covert play for double-or-nothing with the American people.
Pick it apart and the argument is that Iraq’s a disaster which has made us less safe. And if we can’t change it from a disaster to a success it will be even worse than it is now.
So the argument amounts to, Stick to The Incompetent Crew Who Created the Mess!
Give Us Your Vote Because Who Better to Trust Than the Guys Who Created the Mess!
Or Maybe, Vote For Us Because Don’t We Have to do Something Right Eventually!?!
Rolls right off the tongue.
Hitting the wires: Mark Foley (R-FL) considering resignation after emails flap.
Update: It’s done. Those emails were just the beginning, apparently.