Juan Cole explains it all for you.

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Not only does my internet work now, it’s really, really fast.
It turns out there are two lines strung down the alley, and they were testing the wrong one. (I was, of course, hooked up to the bad one they didn’t check.)
Hooray!

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Let’s all try bellowing that, overdramatically, like William Shatner would. Couldn’t hurt.

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My access has been out since yesterday morning, so it’s unlikely I’ll be posting before my Special Comcast Die Hard team of internet assassins fixes it tomorrow. Until then, happy trails to you…

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Which Dems did what? Fill me in on your local Congress critters voted on the Iraq supplemental. We need a Hall of Shame.

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See, I really didn’t want to go back to the coffeehouse tonight, but I did want the free internet. What to do?
I went to Chef Ken’s for dinner - which happens to be right next door to the coffeehouse. And unlike the coffeehouse, Chef Ken’s is air-conditioned. (Did I mention it was in the 80s [...]

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So I got this call late last night. I didn’t pick up, because I don’t answer the phone late at night unless it’s someone I know. Oddly enough, it was from Comcast.
I returned the call, left a message and assumed it was about the exercise in futility my service call this Friday.
I was pleasantly surprised [...]

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Greg Palast:
Goodling testified that Gonzales’ Chief of Staff, Kyle Sampson, perjured himself, lying to the committee in earlier testimony. The lie: Sampson denied Monica had told him about Tim Griffin’s “involvement in ‘caging’ voters” in 2004.
Huh?? Tim Griffin? “Caging”???
The perplexed committee members hadn’t a clue — and asked no substantive questions about it thereafter. Karl [...]

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Are we willing to pay the price?
Yesterday I had lunch at a cute little place on the Main Line. The place was filled with rich, pampered women, and every last one of the cars in the parking lot was a big, honkin’ SUV. Like, the V-8 models.
Yet my friend tells me the anti-war movement is [...]

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Antifreeze in your toothpaste. No, really.
Did I ever mention that Free Trade is right up there with Holy Communion?

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The King of Zembla puts it all in perspective.

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I promised the President today that I wouldn’t say anything bad about … this piece of shit bill.
- John Boehner at a private Republican reception, when asked about the immigration bill.

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Good catch by Lambert re: Abramoff emails.

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To Duncan. Don’t piss on our leg, etc.
Sometimes you do the right thing because it’s the right thing, and then you kick the shit out of anyone who didn’t go along. WE ELECTED YOU TO STOP THIS WAR.
Dear God, if only ActBlue had an un-donation button. Even though they can’t actually take the money back, [...]

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But then again, too few to mention. - Paul Anka, writer of Frank Sinatra’s My Way.
Ah, yes:
“I may have gone too far in asking political questions of applicants for career positions and I may have taken inappropriate political considerations into account,” Ms. Goodling said. “And I regret those mistakes.”
Oh, Monica.
Mistakes. Were. Made. You’re not old [...]

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So, what do you think of his Senate leadership so far?

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Don’t get too excited, kids. My internet access has been down since yesterday morning, and I’m writing for a bit from the local coffeehouse. This whole situation puts a decided crimp in my job hunting.
Anyway, I don’t even know the details of what happened with Monica Goodling yesterday, since I didn’t read the papers this [...]

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Even Steve Jobs wants Al to run:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has stated that Al Gore, an Apple board member and former US vice-president, would win the presidency if he ran for election.
“If he ran, there’s no question in my mind that he would be elected,” Jobs told Time magazine. “But I think there’s a question [...]

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Will has a new book. Go buy it.

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To Sir Oolius and Anita Job. Sniff…

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Keith Olbermann:

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Apparently being on the outs is good for coverage, because they’ve been doing a great job:
NEW YORK Staffers at McClatchy’s Washington, D.C., Bureau — one of the few major news outlets skeptical of intelligence reports during the run-up to the war in Iraq — claims it is now being punished for that coverage.
Bureau Chief John [...]

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Russ Feingold says no.
I say, WTF?
Why the hell did we elect these people, if not to stop this terrible war? What are they waiting for? This just makes me want to break something.
People need to stop making excuses for them. There are no acceptable excuses for an Iraq bill without a withdrawal turntable, period. [...]

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Why do they all keep pleading the Fifth?
Karl Rove’s former secretary, Susan Ralston, will plead the Fifth if she is forced to testify about White House dealings with Jack Abramoff, according to a memo released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today.

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So. Was there another surveillance program?

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Jamal tells me the problem might be in the outside line, but he has to check the basement first - and my landlady’s not here to let him in the basement.
“I’m-a have to cover my ass, know what I’m sayin?” he tells me. “I have to reschedule this for when your landlady’s here, ’cause I [...]

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I’ve never liked Bob Kerrey, and this just proves me right:
WASHINGTON - Raising a lonely voice in the Democratic Party, former Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska says he strongly opposes any dramatic U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.
Withdrawing troops too soon would hand terrorists a victory, says Nebraska’s former Sen. Bob Kerrey.
Such a retreat, Kerrey says, [...]

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Things are going well, don’t you think?
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraqi police pulled the body of what they said was a Western-looking man apparently dressed in U.S. military uniform from a river south of Baghdad Wednesday, an official told CNN.
The body was handed over to U.S. military authorities, who have been searching since May 12 [...]

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Gee, I wonder why?
The United States plans to let a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia expire in 2009 and replace it with a less formal agreement that eliminates strict verification requirements and weapons limits, a senior U.S. official says.
This would continue President George W. Bush’s practice of repudiating arms control as a means [...]

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I forgot. Monica Goodling testifies tomorrow.
And speaking of Monica:
Former top Justice Department aide Monica Goodling was chided by the House Judiciary Committee for failing to turn over documents that had been subpoenaed as part of the investigation into the firing of 8 US Attorneys. Goodling is set to testify before the Committee on Wednesday.
“I [...]

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