Today’s Must Read: more on the Rick Renzi front. The Wall Street Journal reports that, as U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton’s office tried to push the investigation forward, his bosses in Washington delayed progress on the case for months.
Earlier this weekend, we told you to keep an eye out for news about Bradley Schlozman, who was up until recently the U.S. attorney for western Missouri. Here’s something to give you an idea of how he operates: the most important qualification a lawyer can have, apparently, is whether he/she is a Republican.
We now have an advance copy of the full speech Rahm Emanuel will deliver later this morning excoriating the Bush administration on everything from Katrina to Iraq.
âRudy Giuliani today has taken the politics of fear to a new low.”
Obama blasts Rudy’s claim that Americans would be safer under GOP President.
Update: We’ve now added Hillary’s statement, too.
House Judiciary Committee authorizes immunity for Monica Goodling.
Update: We’ve added details about the Republicans who objected, and when Goodling is likely to be interviewed by investigators.
Yesterday we showed you Karl Rove’s speech about the ‘hotspots’ of ‘vote fraud’ around the country. See it here if you didn’t catch it yesterday. Today we look at just where Rove was getting his information. Hint: it has something to do with sock-puppeteer John Lott …
Update: We’ve got a side-by-side comparison of Rove’s words and Lott’s words over at TPMmuckraker.
Ouch. Sens. Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) to Gonzales: maybe if you try a little harder, you might be able to remember something.
This should be a fun contest. White House spokesperson Dana Perino just said no one in the White House has ever ‘played the patriotism’ card in the Iraq debate. We’ll have video shortly.
Can you think of any examples? We’ll make a contest out of it.
Late Update: Here’s a little White House ridiculousness update. You’ll see in the video that Perino claims that yesterday Harry Reid called Dick Cheney a “dog” and used this as an example of the reckless attack rhetoric being used by the Democrats. I must confess that sounded a bit rough to me too. But we looked into it and what Reid said was that Cheney was an “attack dog” for the White House.
Extraordinary. Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post completely rewrites Associated Press story to slime Harry Reid and the Dems’ Iraq plan.
John Edwards to Rudy: A Democratic President, not a Republican one, will keep us safer.