Category: long story short

This whole question of reviving the independent council law used so effectively to torture Bill Clinton (when an ultrapartisan prosecutor was installed, unlike what Reagan and Bush were faced with for Iran-Contra – Lawrence Walsh only seemed partisan in the end after the stonewalling and before the pardons), and the attendant hypocrisy, misses the point.…

Months ago I suggested someone should be running a RoveWatch blog, and I nominated Oliver Willis. Oliver said that he felt that we should keep our focus on Bush and not any of his handlers, because of the way elections work. Bush is the front-man for the team, and so politically I agree with Oliver.…

Brad DeLong is surprised that it took an allegedly criminal conspiracy run out of the White House casually commiting treason (and undermining the effort to rein in weapons of mass destruction and fight terrorism) in the name of a tactical political payback to make some principle Republicans consider abandoning their party. (Reasons Not to Be…

My fellow Democrats: When Arnold wins in California next week, there will be lots of talk by the national party that this was a successful plot by the Republican Right to subvert the will of the state’s Democratic majority. But really, that’s missing the point. Arnold didn’t need the recall to beat Gray Davis. In…

Talking Points Memo has a transcript up of today’s White House press conference. Here are a few highlights: QUESTION: Ambassador Wilson has said that he has information that Karl Rove condoned this leaking, and I’ve seen your comment that that’s absolutely false — McCLELLAN: It is ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. (In the future will we hear…

When news breaks that calls into question some liberal or left-wing belief or assertion, the right-wing/libertarian sector of the blogosphere is all over it. Generally, the liberals and lefties have less relish for such stories and if they cover them they tend to minimize or debunk them as best they can, occasionally conceding one if…