What is America if it doesn’t believe that all citizens have the rights of habeus corpus? What will America’s message to the world be? Most of you are ok — but some of you evil ones will be tossed into prisons with no recourse, none.
I thought Bill Frist still had a chance to eke out a decent performance in the Republican presidential primary, even though the White House has been jacking him around like a raggedy-Andy doll — but no more. He admits that his priority is secret-keeping, not legal behavior behind that shroud of secrecy.
Just got word that Congressman George Miller and Senator Richard Durbin, in a joint news conference later TODAY, will be calling for Ahmad Chalabi to be subpoenaed. Good call.
Democrats won big in the New Jersey and Virginia Governor’s races — and a pragmatist who happens to be Republican won big in New York City. Lots of folks don’t like Bloomberg, but in my mind, he’s an old-line Republican centrist, and we need those back in bigger numbers.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the time to greet Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi at 1150 17th Street, NW in Washington, D.C.
Arianna Huffington reports that Judy Miller is doing a gig in New York tomorrow evening (Wednesday) that will run guests $375.00 a head.
Iraq Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of Duplicity and Deceit before America’s Iraq Invasion Ahmad Chalabi has arrived in Washington. He is going to speak at the American Enterprise Institute at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. The event is so full that several of my New America Foundation colleagues have been uninvited.
Sometimes in this business of political commentary and blogging, certain things happen that just push one over an emotional edge. I like to give people — including politicians — the benefit of the doubt. I also tend to want to give our elected leaders and policy practitioners a chance to redeem themselves after bad decisions….
Chris Nelson has a dynamite commentary tonight in the much-sought-after but hard-to-get Nelson Report. My obligations to Chris Nelson are growing as he allows me to share with you in the non-paying public excerpts (long excerpts) of his let-things-fall-where-they-will commentary on the big debates of the day.