President Bush explains that you don’t need to support his policies to be patriotic. But you do have to fund them.

Hillary puts Bush on notice about Iran.

I had meant to link to this a couple days ago when it debuted. But the Personal Democracy Forum has just opened a new site about the online politics of the 2008 presidential race — techpresident.com.

House GOP: Media is “liberal” to let voters know what’s actually happening in Iraq.

Alleged (but with a ton of totally compelling evidence, believe me) Cunningham briber Brent Wilkes speaks!

Look at this.

All the other administration bamboozlement aside, we’re now supposed to believe that the central allegation in that Baghdad Iranian arms briefing was false. Not just in the real world sense, but even in the Bush administration sense. That is to say, the administration didn’t authorize him to say the arms transfers were authorized at the highest levels of the Iranian government. He just screwed up. He said something he wasn’t supposed to say.

Do we believe this? This is the kind of goof that starts wars. Government officials are fired for screw-ups of far less gravity. Is this unnamed ‘official’ getting fired? And why has it taken three days for anybody to say this briefer went beyond its brief.

Today’s Must Read: the full glory of the Pentagon’s pre-war planning for post-war Iraq revealed!

As Brent Wilkes boldly proclaims his innocence, House Democrats push for U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, who’s presided over the Duke Cunningham investigation, to stay on the case.

David Brooks heaps scorn on the people who were right about the Iraq War, thus proving our Doctrine of Pundit Infallibility.

Update: Check this out: Back in 2003 Brooks predicted that war foes wouldn’t admit they were wrong about Iraq

Sen. Reid (D-NV) calls their bluff …

REID: THE SENATE WILL VOTE ON IRAQ THIS SATURDAY

Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today released the following statement, announcing that the Senate will vote this Saturday on whether to move forward to debate the President’s escalation of the war in Iraq.

“For nearly four years, the Republican-controlled Senate stood silent on the President’s flawed Iraq policies and watched as the situation deteriorated into a civil war. The American people have chosen to change course. Democrats have chosen to change course. Unfortunately, Senate Republicans have chosen obstruction. Almost every Republican who expressed concern about the escalation chose to block the Senate from debating the issue.

“Today, Democrats offered Republicans another chance for compromise, suggesting the Senate debate one resolution in favor of escalation and one resolution opposed to escalation. Once again, Senate Republicans refused.

“Democrats are determined to give our troops and the American people the debate they deserve, so the Senate will have another Iraq vote this Saturday. We will move for a clear up or down vote on the House resolution which simply calls on Congress to support the troops and opposes the escalation.

“Those Republicans who have expressed their concern over the Senate’s failure to debate the war in Iraq will have another opportunity to let their actions speak louder than their words.”