Conrad doesn't actually believed what Alito told him. Conrad thinks he is playing some Jedi mind game with Alito. The way Conrad's grade school logic has it, he wins whether Alito keeps his word or not. If Alito keeps his word, it will be because Conrad made him feel like he wasn't a man of honor if he did otherwise (because he looked him in the eye and told him he would).

Of course we all know (including Conrad), that Alito, like Roberts, is not a man of honor. He will support his well-known ideologies on the bench, not the word he gave Conrad. Conrad thinks this is okay because he will be able to say that Alito lied to his face. Meanwhile, we've all lost more of our rights because Conrad was playing games with them.

I just read the transcript on MSNBC.com and that question and answer are not in the transcript. The first question ameriblog has on their website is in the MSNBC.com transcript, but the follow-up question that specifically mentions Amanpour is not there.

Let the Righties keep singing the "Bush shows resolve, Democrats want to surrender" mantra. They think nobody has caught on to what that nonsense really means. They have yet to learn the rule about when to stop digging.

Yes, there are different ideas on what to do about Iraq, and various Democratic leaders espouse different ideas. It is called liberalism. It is the opposite of the group-think mentality that has got us into the very inexplicable mess we are now in.

Republicans get into lock step upon the first (and worst) idea they come up with, then stand by that decision come hell or high water.

Isn't everyone glad that Bush isn't going to flip-flop on one of the worst decision and plans regarding war in the past two centuries? Whew, he's ruined the reputation of the finest country on the planet and killed many people in the process...but at least he's not a "flip-flopper."

What bothered me most about the Washington Post article about the Woodward-Plame revelation is how much Woodward curiously disagrees with the investigation overall. Contrary to the CIA officials who requested the DOJ to investigate the matter, the lifetime journalist thinks the harm done by outing the CIA operative Plame was "minimal."

I think Bobby is getting a little too big for his britches. A scandal just isn't a scandal without Woodward and Deep Throat I guess. Sure, outing an undercover CIA agent isn't as harmful to our national security as getting oral sex from an intern, but perhaps worth investigating and prosecuting none-the-less; so long as we get the okay from Sir Robert Woodward.

Maybe the point is too obvious, but the reason there is no turnover in this administration is because these people calling all the shots are not going to fire themselves. Bush is not in charge of that White House and everyone knows it, but nobody says it. The Washington Post article yesterday stating that WH advisors are considering whether Karl can stay or go is one of a million examples. Why are WH advisors debating this point? This should be clearly a decision that would be considered and made by the President himself in any other administration.

This President is not running this country, he is not running his own White House! It's obvious. Let's get those with press passes to ask why.