Did anyone else find that one a bit odd? I don't recall ever even thinking about, let alone caring, whether the TV in my hotel room was cable or satellite. Maybe Dick has to know whether or not to bring his tinfoil hat.

It would've been nice to see the press ask the obvious question: if that same son were captured by the enemy, would you want them to imprison him without trial, torture, and possibly execute him? Why do our leaders seem to so easily forget that the Geneva Convention isn't some sort of liberal love-fest for our enemies, it's a reasonable pact to try to keep all sides from engaging in the most heinous and inhumane of behaviors, signed to protect our own soldiers.

Sometimes, I think we take bits of evidence a bit too far in our zeal to drive out the GOP, but you don't make 75 phone calls to the White House in two months without a reason. I don't call my mother 75 times in two months. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever called a single person, office, or client 75 times in a two-month period.

Why can't Mehlman just answer the question: Tobin called you 75 times, what did you talk about? Somehow, I don't think anyone's going to buy the foggy memory excuse on this one.

There are about as many retired generals as there are "#3 men" in al Qaeda. Somehow, we just keep finding more of both.

Let's not forget that this is the same Pentagon whose accountants just write off whatever mistakes they make as one line item: "My bad: -$1,000,000,000". In the Fortune 500 in the 21st century, that wouldn't just be reason for dismissal; that would be prison time.

Sadly, I think many of the hawks really did believe their own rhetoric. I think they really believed that we would march into Baghdad, flag waving and tanks gleaming, and Saddam would fall to his knees while the people cheered, drank Coca-Cola and bought Haliburton t-shirts.

While I tend to agree with the election point (that is what he does best, theoretically), I think the announcement is little more than a distraction. Among the other staff changes, Bush wants to give us the impression that Karl is out of the picture. Personally, I'm not buying it.

If Bush was upset because he couldn't rise up and punch Colbert, maybe that begins to make up for the fact that 67% of America can't rise up and punch Bush. I'm sick and tired of these bullies who cry every time someone pokes them.

How much ass do you have to kiss? It's sickening how quickly the press grouped McGovern with the "hecklers", as if he was some college kid throwing a pie at Rumsfeld. I don't know much about McGovern, but his tone and answers in the interview were dead on, and he had every right to ask those questions, probably moreso than most of the press.

For someone who goes out of his way to pat everyone who resigns on the back, Bush's "He's led ably" comment sounds like the kiss of death. Even the Reuters' release title was judgmental: "Porter Goss abruptly resigns as CIA chief". I think we can count on something fishy about this one.

Katie not only gets a brand new name (first and last, unlike those poor brides who only get to change one name), but she's on the fast-track to learning all of Xenu's secrets. What a lucky girl...

BTW, I misread the punctuation in the synopsis and thought that their baby was named "Barf". Now, that would be precious.

Bush catching that fish was the high point of his presidency for me, too. He should fish more.

One of the most interesting things that I heard during the Clinton impeachment proceedings was a consitutional scholar suggesting that the founders intended impeachment to be used much more frequently than it has been. Elaborating on his point, it really begs the question of what it takes to impeach a Congressman. Even if we don't use the founders' bar, Congressional impeachments should be about 500 times more likely than Presidential impeachments, if only because we have 500+ (535?) Congressman to one President. It's an affront to our process that our Senators and Representatives are so eager to protect their own power that, time and time again, they won't even throw out the most heinous offenders. It shouldn't take a prison sentence to lose a position that should, in a perfect world, demand the highest accountability.

There are days, Tim, when I really hope your posts end with "April Fool's!" (regardless of the time of year). So far, that hasn't happened.

I'm too tired to be shocked by this ongoing feigned outrage over things that don't matter. Let's say, for argument's sake, that I was against the Star Spangled Banner being sung in anything other than English (frankly, I think anyone who cares enough about this country to bother to translate a mediocre anthem into their own language is probably pretty patriotic, but that's another story). Even then, has anyone reading this ever even been in a place where that was going on, and if you were, were you harmed by it? I just can't even begin to imagine how this is a real, practical problem in America. Meanwhile, 2,000+ Americans are dead in Iraq (30,000-100,000 Iraqis), a major U.S. city is still essentially in ruins (and it wasn't hit by terrorists), the bottom 80% of money-makers can barely afford gas or healthcare, and on and on and on.

Senators, don't you have something better to do?

Much like Bush's plan to reduce our dependence on foreign oil in the SotU was "just an example".

They don't sell a pair of waders big enough for how deep it's starting to get. Why is it that, no matter how bad things get, the mainstream media still can't seem to utter the word "liar"?