Oh, and the news is still all Virginia Tech, all the time.
So, how do you think Alberto Gonzales did on his testimony last week? Personally, I think he did a great job - if his job was to piss Congress off just as much as he could.
And with this Administration, it might have been.
But how bad can it be when Republicans are referring to Torturin' Al as "Dead Man Walking"?
With the Daily Kos meetup coming up, though, I'll probably be too busy to post much.
Well, between that and Second Life, of course.
So yeah, if you've been keeping up with the US Attorney firing scandal, you've discovered that there is evidence that David Iglesias was fired for not bowing to political pressure to meddle in an election.
If this is news to you, you can catch up here and here.
Here's another fine example of the liberal media in action. Yes, that was irony. No, that did not mean "sort of like iron".
So, how's that surge working out? We're down to "Go Big or Go Home" and, surprisingly enough, Go Big isn't working. Not even when we throw in the Luftwaffe Air Force and Kreigsmarine Navy.
Glenn Greenwald notes a pattern of document control issues over atthe White House. I'm supposed to believe that the White House has a worse document control system than I do, and I store my important papers in a box in the garage marked "Whatever".
And here I as wondering, with the highest-paid job in my life, why I still feel poor.
Okay, that's it for now. Time to try and get some sleep.
Yes, astounding as it is, California's answer to Joe Lieberman piles on to the attorney purge scandal with this little tidbit (courtesy of McClatchy Washington Bureau via Atrios):
Like the philosopher said, it don't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.WASHINGTON - Fired San Diego U.S. attorney Carol Lam notified the Justice Department that she intended to execute search warrants on a high-ranking CIA official as part of a corruption probe the day before a Justice Department official sent an e-mail that said Lam needed to be fired, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Sunday.
Feinstein, D-Calif., said the timing of the e-mail suggested that Lam's dismissal may have been connected to the corruption probe.
