Picking up on the implications for evangelical Christianity, the Christian Coalition condemns Pelosi …
Christian Coalition of America condemns the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from San Francisco, for trying to get luxurious travel paid for by the American taxpayers. Is a first class seat on a commercial jet no longer good enough for Speaker Pelosi? Nancy Pelosi is demanding that the Air Force provide her with a large jet on demand – “Pelosi One” – so she can transport her political cronies, favorite Members of Congress, congressional staffers, friends and relatives back and forth to her district in San Francisco every week.
And of course Lou Dobbs keeps flacking the story even though it’s been completed discredited. Lou Dobbs.
Today’s Must Read: a new report has more details on how the administration got the intelligence they wanted to hear in the run up to the Iraq War.
When is intelligence analysis not intelligence analysis? Why, when it’s against the law.
Spencer Ackerman explains.
Update: We’ll have running updates on this over at TPMmuckraker.
House Dem leaders maintaining unity on planned anti-escalation resolution.
At The Blotter, TPM alum Justin Rood reports that though the GOP’s congressional majority may be gone, their scandals have a lot of life left in them — Reps. Lewis, Miller, Calvert, Cunningham, et al. Plenty of fun to go.
More absolutely dismal coverage of Pelosi plane story.
Update: Another bad one, courtesy of Howard Kurtz.
Yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said she doesn’t remember hearing about a diplomatic overture from the Iranians in 2003 — despite the fact that the proposal circulated among the highest levels of the government.
Well, here’s a refresher, the actual fax circulated at the time that detailed the terms of the deal.
New MoveOn.org ad slams GOP Senators for stalling escalation debate:
“They’re willing to send tens of thousands more troops to face danger in Iraq, but they don’t have the courage to face a vote.”
Video here.
On offense …
Meanwhile, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pennsylvania, chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, said on Thursday that he’s planning hearings this spring on executive and congressional travel on military aircraft.
Murtha said he’s requested from the Defense Department records on travel and logistics from the past two years. He asked the Defense Department to hand those over within a month.