We’ve had to go back and revise and extend our comprehensive timeline of Les Affaires Ensign to account for all the new revelations.
In an interview with TPMDC, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) says a number of Democrats, himself included, would have “great difficulty” voting for a health care reform bill without a public option.
Spencer Ackerman is plowing through the joint IGs’ report on domestic surveillance that was just released. Among the conclusions he’s finding in the report: most leads secured by the secret surveillance program were determined not to have any connection to terrorism and — surprise!–then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ July 2007 testimony to Congress about the surveillance program was “confusing, inaccurate, and … had the effect of misleading.”
In addition to detailing how the White House (read: Cheney) basically turned John Yoo into a one-man OLC, the report also explains how the White House (Cheney again?) directed the CIA to provide the factual underpinnings to the President’s “legal” authorizations. Again no surprise, but let’s note for the record that this whole operation was run from the very top.
Late Update: Another aspect of this also has Cheney’s fingerprints all over it: Once DOJ began objecting to the program (that is, once anyone beyond Yoo at DOJ learned of it), those objections were kept from President Bush by White House staff, at least according to Bush.
I never fail to be amazed and amused that many right-wingers and Palinatics genuinely believe that everyone who thinks Palin is a grifter or a clown is actually afraid of her. As in when Bill Kristol recently wrote that Palin’s critics “tend not only to dislike and disdain Palin, they also want to bury her chances now as a presidential possibility. What are they so scared of?” Read More
The latest GOP angle on attacking Obama’s health care reform effort. Say we never should have founded Medicare.
David Brooks describes how an unnamed GOP senator fondled Brooks’ well-rounded thigh.
Has Krauthammer been driven off the deep end by his hatred of Obama. Jacob Heilbrunn peruses the evidence.