There are some things you left out too. Or maybe didn't know.

"Karl Rove did not leak Plame's name to Novak (as was widely, falsely speculated)."

"Falsely" implies those speculating knew their speculation was false, or at least had no reason for believing it. Probably someone somewhere did assert they knew Rove leaked when they couldn't, but "speculation" was quite reasonable and, as it turned out, not far off the mark. He did confirm for Novak that she was a CIA employee, though it's not proven he knew she was covert. Maybe Libby will finally tell the truth or Wilson's lawsuit will find the evidence.

"Richard Armitage leaked Plame's name to Novak.

When is Fitzgerald going to prosecute Armitage?"

It's not enough to leak an agent's identity. You have to know she's covert. Though Armitage was careless at least, it's not proven he knew. Then again, he's a defendant in the lawsuit too.

"Wasn't that the crime that Fitzgerald was hired to investigate?"

Fitzgerald was brought in when the FBI said Libby was lying to them, and was indeed what Fitzgerald was investigating. Libby still hasn't told what he knows, so presumably the truth is bad for somebody. My guess is "somebody" is Cheney.

Glenn, I'm not sure you're being fair to Howard Fineman. It looks he's saying many voters DO want someone tough and manly, not necessarily that they SHOULD. It seems he's saying that Thompson is perceived as tough and culturally conservative. I have to agree with Fineman, many voters do want tough manly daddy leader guy, and Thompson is perceived as the tough cultural conservative the Republican base wants. I thought the Thinkprogress retort, that a poll shows 92% would be willing to vote fro a woman, is nonsense. That they would vote for a woman doesn't mean they don't want leader daddy guy. You do have the shallow Matthews and Halperin dead to rights, since they are saying Thompson is those things, but I think Fineman is just talking about how Thompson is perceived.

"Is Zionism by nature treasonous behavior? One wonders. We ought to round up all the Neocons and waterboard them @ Gitmo for a few decades just to be on the safe side."

I was trying to come up with a polite way to reply to this. Here's the best I can do. Some neocons are Jewish, but hardly all. I don't know what you think Zionism is. By the way, most American Jews are liberal. Something like 70% vote Democratic and have for a long time. Zionism has nothing to do with the subject of the blog post, what sentence Libby should get. Bringing it up out of context is what really made me notice.

I hope we all knew it was a only a matter of time before war supporters tried to cover up their incredible mistake by starting a phony "who lost Iraq" debate. It was inevitable they would try to blame the people who opposed the war and made no decisions for the failure of conservative policy.

That said, we deceive ourselves to think only this one senator thinks that way. I've not doubt many do, and their numbers will grow as conservatives move from "we're really winning" "we can still win" to "we failed and need to find out who is to blame --- not us of course". I hope we counterpunch better than after Vietnam.

Maybe Republicans were just stalling for time when they kept saying we would know if any progress was being made in September, but so be it. They mentioned September over and over. They made it important. They made their bed, and somehow come September they have to be made to lie in it.

Oh yes, I noticed the elephant in the room. I know a GOP logo when I see it. I also know neocons are strong supporters of Israeli interests, as they define them. I'm not so convinced the Israelis have the same definition. I'm also sure PNAC had lots of gentile names attached. So where you're going off track is it isn't about Israel, it's about America and neocon dreams of American empire. To keep raising Zionism -- and I don't know what you mean by that -- tells me you're missing the point.

This is a much a compliment to Breathed as a sign I read the comics too closely, but I recall in the early days of Bloom County when Binkley tried to counter his tyrannical father's charges of wimpiness but getting a macho pet, some sort of big dog, and his dog turned out to be a penguin.

Though I miss even more Milo's grandparents, who I thought were the funniest characters even though they disappeared. My favorite Bloom County was when the grandparents were trying to go to some amusement park and wound up on the space shuttle as it was taking off. I remember that 25 years later. Don't ask me what that means.

It was the Republicans who chose to make September an important date. Maybe they were just stalling for time, but nonetheless, they brought up September over and over again and now that it's looking like nothing will have changed by then, they want to wiggle out. Let's not let them. They said things would get better by then, so let's hold them to it.

The link to the Howard Kurtz column goes to a column about the coverage of Thompson's wife. This is the column I think Glenn meant to link to: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/06/05/BL2007060500451.html

Why is this twirp still on the air? I can't believe an alleged journalist responds to in inquiry on a story with such language. I suggest a bunch of letters to MSNBC including Carlson's quote, "CIA clearly didn't really give a shit about keeping her identity secret if she's going to work at fucking Langley." Add a pointed question about why he's still on the air instead of relegated to Fox Opinion.