Fitz says Cheney may be called to testify against Libby.

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From YouTube.

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Seems to me the Republicans have a lot more reason to worry about the FBI searching their offices than the Democrats (*cough* Denny Hastert *cough*) and that’s why the indignant stand on separation of powers - the first time in six years they’ve remembered that particular principle.
They have rubberstamped every single power BushCo demanded [...]

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Opening this weekend. Go see it. In the meantime, here’s the trailer, and here’s a Newsweek piece by Howard Fineman:
So why would he even fleetingly consider politics again?
For one—to paraphrase a slogan once applied to Barry Goldwater—in his heart, Gore knows he’s right. He’s been ahead of more curves than a NASCAR driver: the [...]

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Looks like Hastert’s being, er, probed:
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, is under investigation by the FBI, which is seeking to determine his role in an ongoing public corruption probe into members of Congress, ABC News has learned from high level government sources.
Federal officials say the information implicating Hastert was developed from [...]

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In any rational world, Fred Clark would be a columnist for the New York Times and John Tierney would be working the night shift as a copy editor. This is Fred’s reaction to a letter to the editor complaining about why poor people have a clinic in their neighborhood and the working poor in the [...]

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Saviors, or insect overlords? Who knows, only time will tell. At least Will Bunch and Dan Rubin have jobs, and we bloggers are always happy to see someone actually get paid for this insanity.
They check in here and here. You can also read other takes on it here, here, here, here and here.

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Al Gore speaking on global warming on this morning’s Today Show. (Via Stolen from Duncan, who is very happy he figured out how to post video and is now referring to himself as “the next Crooks and Liars.”)

From YouTube.

Imagine what it would be like, having a president who talks about moral issues and actually means [...]

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Gene Lyons:
Many pundits who helped publicize the 1,000-odd subpoenas that congressional Republicans dispatched to the Clinton White House find the prospect of Democrats issuing subpoenas terribly alarming. Slate’s John Dickerson worries that a Democratic-led House might “get bogged down with investigations and embrace the worst Bush-hating tendencies of its members.”

Silly. It’s OK if you’re [...]

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Still feeling safer with the Republicans in charge? I know I am:
PHILADELPHIA, May 23 (Reuters) - Millions of residents of the central U.S. East Coast are at risk of death or injury from release of toxic chemicals because of lax security at chemical plants in New Jersey, a study released on Tuesday said.
New Jersey has [...]

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I’m still waiting for the details, but it looks like EschaCon’s Annual Moonbat Convention (not the real name - it’s the confab of Eschaton readers) will be held in Chee-CAH-go this Labor Day. Last year’s was a lot of fun. (If you’ll remember, that’s when I had lunch with “My Friend Paul Krugman.”)
If you [...]

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Another clusterfuck. My, aren’t we well-prepared?
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A mock evacuation that was supposed to be part of a two-day statewide hurricane preparedness drill was canceled after a misunderstanding about who had jurisdiction over a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer park.
The two-day statewide drill that began Tuesday was aimed at avoiding the chaos [...]

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I’m sure BushCo sees this as a benefit:
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government’s use of private military contractors to conduct interrogations in Iraq and to transport suspected terrorists creates “rule-free zones” and allows abuses to go unpunished, Amnesty International charged Tuesday.
There are 20 known cases of civilian contractors suspected of committing criminal acts while handling detainees [...]

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Republicans in Congress are starting to realize that everyone is a subject of the new regime:
WASHINGTON, May 23 — After years of quietly acceding to the Bush administration’s assertions of executive power, the Republican-led Congress hit a limit this weekend.
Resentment boiled among senior Republicans for a second day on Tuesday after a team of warrant-bearing [...]

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WashPo columnist David Ignatius gets through an entire wonky column about how we need to get the intelligence right on Iran without once mentioning the fact that the intelligence on Iraq wasn’t wrong - it was simply ignored or spun because it didn’t fit the ideological requirements of this administration.
Rather a large omission, don’t you [...]

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One step closer to bird flu pandemic.

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This isn’t about the customers. It’s about the workers:
TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian anti-smoking campaigner who contracted lung cancer from second-hand smoke after years as a waitress has died, Ontario’s Heart and Stroke Foundation said on Tuesday.
Heather Crowe, 61, became a public icon after winning a landmark 2002 labor compensation case by arguing that [...]

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As usual, a plethora of bloggers at tonight’s DL. Somewhere in this picture: Somegirl, Spin Dentist and Richard Cranium from All Spin Zone; Chris from Rowhouse Logic; Albert of Dragonballyee; Booman and Atrios. I probably missed some.

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Republican Rubber Stamp of the Week.

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Will Al run? Great article from New York magazine (not completely great, as it leaves out the savage attacks on Gore by the press):
Looking back, I ask, are you happy with the campaign you ran?
“I think it was a tough environment,” he replies. “It’s now clear that a fairly significant recession started in the spring [...]

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I spent Saturday with my best friend, shopping for stuff for her new apartment.
First of all, she hates to shop. Second, she’s a Scorpio and like many of that sign, she has, shall we say, issues with money. (She has more than enough, she just can’t stand to spend it. Because then you don’t [...]

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He actually believes in the truth:
NEW YORK A former Reagan administration official has written another blistering column about the Bush administration — and the U.S. media.
Creators Syndicate columnist Paul Craig Roberts said in a Monday piece: “The American public has been trained to obediently accept their government’s lies fed to them by their government’s handmaiden, [...]

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People are wondering: Is he or isn’t he? Eric Alterman:
In truth, I don’t think Gore was planning to run, but now I think he’s thinking about it. He’s run what turns out to be a perfect non-campaign-campaign. And after all, he’d clearly like the job. He’s prepared for it his entire life. [...]

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I read the New York Times prurient tabloid piece on the Clintons this morning and was frankly astounded. The whole tone just reeked of “Don’t worry, ladies and gentlemen, we will be watching every single move they make and we’ll be the first to let you know if the Clenis is up to his old [...]

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Gee, Libby said it was reporters who told him:
WASHINGTON - Two top CIA officials will bolster prosecutors’ charge that Vice President Cheney’s chief aide lied to them, court papers show.
Prosecutors say disgraced Cheney chief of staff Lewis (Scooter) Libby learned CIA spy Valerie Plame’s identity from, among others, agency officials who will be called to [...]

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Here.

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He’s No. 1!

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Seems like a good idea, huh?
SALEM, Ore. - Oregon legislators and staff members should not be drunk while performing their official duties, a citizen panel says.
The Public Commission on the Oregon Legislature adopted that recommendation Monday, although the panel decided to leave it to House and Senate leaders to draft rules against intoxication and [...]

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And since it’s Drudge, it’s invariably excrement:
Matt Drudge is looking for any excuse to smear Al Gore and his new movie, An Inconvenient Truth. He’s been running this story, unsourced, all day. [...] (Saying Gore took an entourage of SUVs to the premiere of his movie in Cannes.)
ThinkProgress contacted Gore’s representatives, who unequivocally confirmed that [...]

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