Every time I think that I could not possibly be more disgusted with him, Sen. Joe Liebertoad (CT 4 Liebertoad) proves me wrong.

Apparently, Sen. Liebertoad, like Dick Cheney, has not yet realized that "The Google" permits discerning citizens to instantly expose their blatant inconsistencies.

If only more members of the press were equally as discerning -- or good with The Google.

Maybe she's the one who gave Matthews the idea that women find Thompson sexy because he smells like English Leather and Aqua Velva and cigar smoke.

Oh yeah, Sally and Chris, this Upper West Side working mother is just LOVIN' Eau de Fred, and will gladly throw away my vote for president in 2008 to such a manly, charismatic geezer with bad dentures who was too lazy to serve more than one term in the Senate when he could get an easy acting job that took five minutes a week of his time. Yeah, that's some powerful cologne that Fred's got there!

I fear the subpoena will disappear down the same black hole into which the Condi Rice subpoena disappeared.

The one good thing about this,however, is that Cheney can no longer cast any tie-breaking votes in the Senate. If he enters the Capitol, he can be arrested by the sargeant-at-arms for inherent contempt.

Thank you for helping to explode the myth of Rudy the Heroic Savior of 9/11. We New Yorkers who saw the attacks that day live, and not on their television screens, know all too well that Rudy did little to prepare for or prevent terrorist attacks on the City before 9/11, including such elementary things as providing first responders with a functional communications system and locating the emergency command center in a site OTHER THAN a proven terrorist target. Let's not even talk about his efforts to promote Bernie Kerik -- who adulterously screwed his girlfriend in a city-leased apartment overlooking The Pile, as firefighters and police without protective masks toiled below -- as a terrorism expert. As with so many other things, Rudy ignored advice he didn't like and took his own instead.

1. Paul Clement is THE Solicitor General, having been confirmed as such after the resignation of Ted Olson in 2004. Fielding's FU letter describes him as both Acting AG and Acting Associate AG for purposes of the USA investigation. In any event, he is the highest ranked DoJ official not currently under investigation in connection with the firings, Gonzales, McNulty, Elson, Battle and Mercer having either recused themselves and/or resigned over the scandal.

His legal opinion that Bush has properly invoked executive privilege, of course, now means that he's conflicted with respect to any request that he appoint a special prosecutor, or enforce a contempt citation with respect to Congressional subpoenas.

2. Is the assertion of executive privilege a "hypothetical" or "alternative" argument for not producing the subpoeaned documents, in the same way that Dick Cheney's "Fourth Branch" argument was a hypothetical or alternative basis for being exempt from oversight by the ISOO? In Cheney's case, the President's "intention" to exempt both himself and Cheney from the oversight requirements of the Executive Order (unexpressed in the order itself) became the rationale for Cheney's refusal to permit oversight, after the Fourth Branch argument was universally ridiculed. What will the "real" reason for White House contempt for the subpoena, after the contradiction between the assertions of executive privilege and White House non-involvement become untenable?

Spector is waiting for the Gonzo letter because the McConnell letter is crap.

The url for the letter is below.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/07/31/31.july.2007.dni.lette.tohon.specter.pdf

Specter engineered the whole letter-writing debacle so that after reading the crap that McConnell and Gonzales tossed back, he'd be able to reluctantly conclude that Gonzales is not a perjurer, but merely a con artist. As if "not a perjurer" is an acceptable standard for an Attorney General.

Specter is worse than someone who huffs and puffs and then "tucks his balls" back into his shorts. He's an active aider and abettor of this Administration's lies. His function is to project an air of reasonable moderation so that the High Broderists of the world can use him as a cover for their own complacency. And behind the scenes, he tips of the White House of impending dangers and ASSISTS in concocting the latest subterfuge to stave it off.

The man disgusts me even more than Orrin Hatch. Hatch doesn't pretend to be anything but the useless hack he is. Spector's sanctimonious pronouncements on the rule of law makes his collaboration with the enemy even worse.

So Novak is suggesting that conservatives not reveal their true colors when they get hired. Is he also suggesting that conservatives should pretend they are not conservative as they regurgitate the White House talking points?

No wonder Jon Stewart created the nickname for him used in the subject line of this post.

He wants the next bill to FURTHER EXPAND the Administration's powers.

The fact that this Congress caved to a procedure in which Abu Gonzales and Mike McConnell (who played bait and switch with the Democrats at Bush's command) certify their own compliance with the procedures they designed is like letting Abu G determine whether his own lies to Congress constitute perjury.

Asked about the fact that he doesn't get along with his kids, or that his kids won't support his presidential campaign: "That's private."

Asked about how he met his third wife (which occurred while he was still married to Mrs. Giuliani Dos): "That's our romantic secret."

Asked about what specifically he would do to turn things around in Iraq: "That's not my business."

In other words, "If it's damaging or embarrassing, I am not going to talk about it because it's private."

is Judy Miller Lite but I see someone beat me to it upthread.

Between Bumiller and Michael Gordon, the Times is now set to serve as an echo chamber for the Iran War Marketing Campaign.