Liberal Talk Radio

It’s amazing how Meet the Press can suddenly turn into good television when you have a Senator like Jim Webb who’s actually willing to call out the Republican party for their B.S. about “supporting the troops.” Typically the politicians’ segment of the show is far less interesting than the journalists’. But today [...]

According to this NYT piece post-”surge” withdrawl plan is coming into focus in the White House, replete with off-putting metaphors:
Administration officials say that if Mr. Bush talked now about pulling back forces at the end of this year or next spring, he would only provide new ammunition for those Democrats and a growing number of [...]

Gonzales to Congress: “The buck stops… um… down there somewhere. I have no idea what I’m doing so I can’t tell you more than that.”
(PS: what’s with the short posts today? are we turning into Instapundit? Heaven forbid!)

I think we all know where this one is headed.
A “senior administration official” leaks to the press that Rove was knee-deep in the U.S. Attorney firings scandal. How long before the right-wing talking point on this becomes, “the ability to fire Attorneys was created by the Patriot Act. So clearly, the leaker needs [...]

Rep. David Obey seems to be warming up to the fund-it-for-a-few-months-and-see strategy that I outlined a few weeks back.
It makes sense: the President has said he wants until September to see if his new strategy is working, so give him until September and then hold him to it. Make it clear that [...]

It looks like Bush, as usual, is going to get exactly what he wants with respect to Iraq war funding. It’s funny how these things happen. For a guy with a 30% approval rating, he sure seems to get his way an awful lot.
On the plus side, the Democrats are going to force [...]

So it appears that there’s finally a bill on war funding that the House and Senate agree on.
In case you haven’t been following, the basic gist of the story is this: Congressional Democrats want to end the war (which is what they were elected to do last November), so they put together a [...]

E.J. Dionne puts the case against Democratic debates on Fox rather succinctly
Tell me again: Why do Democrats have an obligation to participate in debates on Fox?
I am an avid reader of conservative magazines such as National Review and the Weekly Standard. But if these two publications teamed up to sponsor a Democratic debate, would anyone [...]

This is hilarious:
Justice spokesman Brian Roehrkasse disputed the rankings. He said more than half of prosecutions involve immigration or drug offenses, so it is “no surprise” that numbers are higher along the Southwest border.
Shorter Justice Department: “The attorneys were fired because they didn’t prosecute enough immigration cases.”
Shorter USA Today: “3 of the 8 attorneys were [...]

I think David Brooks has the right idea in trying to distinguish among the eight US attorneys who were recently fired, but I think he’s wrong about which ones go in which boxes:
When you look at the prosecutors who were fired by the Bush administration, you see some who were fired for proper political reasons [...]