There’s a pretty high bar on posts that note dishonest links on Drudge’s website. But TPM Reader DP correctly notes that the top headline “Hillary Clinton’s Former Campaign Finance Director Indicted …” is to a story that ran in 2005.
By the way: President Resigns!
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) offers the extremely rare criticism from a GOPer of Bush’s commutation of Libby’s sentence, calling it “unfortunate.”
Beautiful. The nutball meme spreads.
Now from MSNBC: Terrorism one of the “unintended consequences of universal healthcare.”
First heard on Fox yesterday.
Late Update: It’s one of the features of our age that there’s a very fine line separating ideas that are too silly to even take note of and ones that quickly began to have a real effect on the public policy debate. Here we have one that clearly should be in the former category but is more likely in the latter. So if you see this line of reasoning popping up on the web or on tv, please let us know.
Poll finds 45% of adults support initiating impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush, 54% support pursuing impeachment of Cheney.
Triple mega ouch. Ron Paul has more money on hand than McCain.
New Iran regime-change think tank hits the scene in D.C.
The meme spreads! New York Sun picks up on the universal healthcare/terrorism link.
Alabama congressman raises new questions about Siegelman prosecution.
Bye, Fred …
(From the LAT … )
Fred D. Thompson, who is campaigning for president as an antiabortion Republican, accepted an assignment from a family-planning group to lobby the first Bush White House to ease a controversial abortion restriction, according to a 1991 document and several people familiar with the matter.
A spokesman for the former Tennessee senator denied that Thompson did the lobbying work. But the minutes of a 1991 board meeting of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Assn. say that the group hired Thompson that year.
His task was to urge the administration of President George H. W. Bush to withdraw or relax a rule that barred abortion counseling at clinics that received federal money, according to the records and to people who worked on the matter.
Eleanor Clift points to the ‘tell’ that still hasn’t gotten enough attention …
Fitzgerald said he wasnât able to uncover the conspiracy because of all the sand thrown in his eyes by Libby to obstruct the investigation. Looking back at the trial, it was as inevitable as night following day that President Bush would find a way to get Libby off the hook. The fix was in when Libbyâs high-priced legal team mounted a curiously passive defense. After pointing to Vice President Cheney as an instigator in the Plame naming, hinting they might even call the veep to testify, they abruptly backed off, slow-walking Libby toward conviction with no alibi for his lies other than that he didnât remember. As legal eagles, they didnât impress, but they did preserve the pardon option.
There was a promise: you’ll never do a day in jail.
And metaphorically at least, as the trial got underway, he got it in writing.