Republican or Democrat, American or Foreign, the politicos are fine subject for speculation, rumination and a bit of derision
Not Even Feingold Stuck Around
One of the biggest giggles these past weeks across the political spectrum is Russ Feingold's attempt to boost his 2008 presidential campaign by offering a suggestion to censure the President for the NSA wiretaps.
This is an act for which the American populace offers a collective ho-hum because, silly Americans, they have no problem with intercepting phone calls between so-called American citizens and terrorists abroad.
Now Feingold is a Democrat and I watched his boring and politically expedient speech with my own eyes the day he suggested the President be censured. The most galling, the most despicable of all, even beyond the silly actions described below by the WAPO, has to be how Feingold didn't even stick around after his speech! Indeed he ran like the dickens because the beloved cameras were waiting.
Democratic senators, filing in for their weekly caucus lunch yesterday, looked as if they'd seen a ghost."I haven't read it," demurred Barack Obama (Ill.).
"I just don't have enough information," protested Ben Nelson (Neb.). "I really can't right now," John Kerry (Mass.) said as he hurried past a knot of reporters — an excuse that fell apart when Kerry was forced into an awkward wait as Capitol Police stopped an aide at the magnetometer. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) brushed past the press pack, shaking her head, and waving her hand over her shoulder. When an errant food cart blocked her entrance to the meeting room, she tried to hide from reporters behind the 4-foot-11 Barbara Mikulski (Md.).
Hillary hid behind my own former Senator Barbara Mikulski? Mikulski's what, maybe four and a half feet tall! What a bunch of cowards.
How About Those Saddam Documents?
The government, under pressure from the Blogosphere and Congress, has begun putting non-classified documents on a web site available to the public.Government Site for Iraqi Document Release.
Already bloggers have circled the wagons and mind-boggling revelations are pouring forth.
Like this, from Laura Mansfield:
March 17, 2006: Documents confirm Saddam Hussein government knew Zarqawi headed Al Qaeda cell in Iraq in August 2002
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