Alaskan oil execs plead guilty, get set to finger 1,2,3,4,5…. Alaskan state legislators.
The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to talk to Bradley Schlozman.
To refresh the memory of those whose heads are spinning with DoJ ne’er-do-wells, that’s this guy.
Chris Matthews, overwhelmed by winger talking points, just can’t take it anymore.
Now CNN’s on the Bradley Schlozman story. Ya heard it here first.
Is Rep. John Doolittle’s (R-CA) career going down the tubes for Alberto Gonzales’s sins? That’s Doolittle’s story. Doolittle has made a number of wild claims in recent days. But on Saturday he wrote a guest column in his hometown newspaper, the Auburn Journal. In the column Doolittle claims that the Justice Department raided his home in Northern Virginia and subsequently leaked news of the raid in order to give AG Alberto Gonzales ammunition to argue that he’s evenhanded in pursuing Democratic and Republican corruption.
Doolittle notes, accurately enough, that the leak (from what source we don’t know) came the day before Gonzales’s ill-fated testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 19th.
Romney bobs and weaves on whether he believes in evolution.
Apparently Romney got in some trouble when he wasn’t one of the three candidates at the GOP debate to say he doubted the validity of evolution.
Today’s Must Read: the real, actual, no-getting-around-it deadline for President Bush to show progress in Iraq is September, reports The Washington Post. Really.
You’ve probably seen the reports out this morning of six New Jersey men (“Islamic radicals“)arrested for plotting to attack Fort Dix. We’ll have to see how this one pans out. But it’s worth remembering that we’re coming up on the one year anniversary of the raid on the headquarters of the ‘Seeds of David’ terror cult in Liberty City Florida.
It’s always hard for me to see how these aren’t as serious as they appear. But there is a record.
Why is the Senate Dem leadership wary of supporting the emerging House Dem proposal for short-term funding of the Iraq war? Here’s one possibility.