Per aspera

What were the Democrats of Connecticut thinking when they voted against this man?
During last nights debate, Sen. Lieberman, noting Abraham Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus, declared, “We’re in another time like that.”
Can America afford to have a Senate that lacks Joe Lieberman’s honesty and integrity?

From some guy on blogspot:
There’s this attitude out there where one’s foreign policy abilities are judged by whether you supported the right wars, with people like Peter Beinart checking off their little lists. The foreign policy hawks see supporting wars as courageous acts, as if sending other peoples’ kids off to die and voting for […]

Kathryn Cramer is looking into the case of Joseph Cafasso, lately a Fox News consultant, whose military career turns out to have been a good deal less glory-saturated than he has claimed.
He claimed he was a SEAL, among other things. I will never, to my dying day, understand why someone would falsely, in public, […]

It’s only one poll, but that’s a hell of a big number:
Mr. Bush’s job approval has slipped to 34 percent, one of the lowest levels of his presidency, posing a complication for the White House as it seeks to send him out on the road to rally base voters. Mr. Bush’s job approval rating has […]

Henry at Crooked Timber has Dennis Cardinal Hastert’s Galbraith Score at three so far.  (”Anyone who says four times that he won’t resign, will.”)
Of course, the very first comment brought up Donald Rumsfeld, who must have a score well into the double digits by now, so make of these predictions what you will.

R. Kelly Tom Reynolds, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, held a press conference surrounded by a children’s choir a bunch of the children of local Republicans, so that he could explain the fascinating story about how the coverup of Mark Foley’s sex scandal is totally Denny Cardinal Hastert’s fault and not his.
The reporters […]

John Rogers:
The anecdote … it was stirred by the latest from famous lawyer Alan Dershowitz, in which he argues that there is a scale of innocence, and anyone but the infirm and elderly who has not fled forthwith from Israel’s assualt on Lebanon is some sort of Hisbollah collaborator. Not may be. IS.
To wit, we […]

A commenter at Firedoglake explains to Digby that Condi’s “birth pangs” comment wasn’t merely ridiculous, it was actually quite deliberately crazy:
I brought up the Condi Rice “birth pang” comment in passing and one of the commenters pointed out that it’s actually Rapture talk, if you can believe that.
I checked it out and over at the […]

From Sisyphus Shrugged:
The functioning portion of Ken Lay’s heart failed this morning at his vacation home in Colorado.
You know he knows people who can get their hands on that poison that causes a death indistinguishable from a heart attack, which you always read about in the finest spy novels. Think he got the hookup […]

Via Hullabaloo, more Republicans offering, as a public service, electoral analysis for Democrats:
The number of prominent Democrats urging pre-emptive action against North Korea’s ICBM grows as Walter Mondale chimes in.
…
These are the Democrats who can win elections because they are serious.
Wrong on both counts, my ideologically provincial friend.
(This, by the way, follows the WP editorial […]

Apparently, you get to 29% in the polls, and the crazy gets so deep you reach for the Mike Dukakis playbook.