Steve has some thoughts about Abramoff and the Democrats in the Washington Post: "...Third, and most importantly, the controversy surrounding Republicans like DeLay is not just the fact that they took Abramoff's cash — it's that they did favors for Abramoff's clients as a result of the contributions. It's the apparent quid pro quo that makes it a scandal, not just a lobbyist directing some contributions around the Hill. The Post story documents some Dems getting checks, but points to literally no examples of the Dems doing anything for Abramoff as a result.

This isn't front page news. Hell, it's hardly news at all."

The Daily Show's the latest update in Iraq from our fearless leaders via Jon Stewart.

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QT coming.

Starring of course the usual cast of characters.

"It's not that they live in a world that doesn't really exist. It's that they really don't actually know what the the word progress means."

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Download | play -MP3 Dick Cheney, National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Nashville, TN, 26 August 2002:

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction; there is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.

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These sites hold the truth:

Downing Street Memo....Awaken the MSM....Big Brass Blog Alliance....Brad Blog

reader mcmanus says : "star tribune editor:"Thank you for the positive feedback! Since several readers inquired about the memo, we are actually planning to publish it on our op-ed page later this week."

They posted the article here-reg req.

the Geneva Conventions

via Talk Left

We may finally get to the bottom of the Administration's "few bad apples" meme. The ACLU won another round in federal court today in its FOIA lawsuit. read on

Talk about chutzpah, the Administration invoked, of all things, the Geneva Conventions to argue against release....

Can you believe this one? Yes I can.

Mr. Atrios (Duncan Black),David Corn, Jerome Armstrong, Stephanie Miller and Christopher Rabb.

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It will be a few minutes before its running because of the size.

I didn't have time to edit it so I posted the whole forum. It's a long clip so downloading will take a little bit. If anyone wants to make a Bittorrent or whatever and pass it around, be my guess.

This is a public service from C&L and a thank you for the donations that are coming in so far!

You know you're doing something right when the Family Research Council personally attacks yours truly in today's email update. "The next shots are coming from homosexual activists who are trying to get Scott Bloch fired. One particularly angry activist, whose last claim to fame was harassing Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter in the last election, vowed to dedicate his life to ruining Mr. Bloch."...read on

Go get em' John.

Michael Connelly's new police detective novel starring Harry Bosch just came out and I'm loving every page of it. I liked it even more after reading this:

page: 187 : Mr Verloren: Yea but I don't miss it. Not at all. Just a stop off on the road to finding the place where I belong. But I'm here now thanks to the Lord Jesus, and this is where I want to be.

Bosch nodded. Whether intentionally or not, Verloren was communicating to Bosch that his new life had been achieved by the intervention of faith. Bosch had often found that those who talked about it the most had the weakest hold on it.

BALANCE, CABLE NEWS–STYLE

via Tapped ...Nothing quite captures the storied revolving-door problem in American political punditry like seeing old Watergate players themselves (or, in the case of Pat Buchanan, not a Watergate participant but certainly a loyal Richard Nixon soldier) playing disinterested pundit-analysts on one talking-head show after another discussing Mark Felt. At this point maybe it shouldn’t seem so bizarre to me to see Chris Matthews chatting with G. Gordon Liddy about this story as if they were David Brinkley and Chet Huntley chewing over the day’s headlines.

That these characters have carte blanche on the cable chat shows to serve as credible Felt naysayers is just one more illustration of the wonderful cloak of immunity enjoyed by all right-wingers in the clubby, insular D.C. punditry world. Lying, stealing, prison time -- literally nothing can discredit a conservative gabber enough to cancel their membership card to the commentariat. And today we have Peggy Noonan to thank for granting some establishment pundit legitimacy to Ben Stein’s thoughtful Deep Throat-as-genocidaire thesis. Can’t wait to hear Liddy’s thoughts on it tonight on Hardball.

They made their first appearance talking about Deep Throat.

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