Exercise your mind with this illuminating conversation between Ezra Klein and Charlie Peters.
Harry Reid’s spokesman confirms it: The short-term Iraq war funding bill that would have allowed Congressional Dems to continue standing up to Bush on Iraq is a dead letter in the Senate.
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.