Alaska First

Not quite the same as McCain's Country First.

Amy Goodman and others arrested at RNC

I was going to link to Firedoglake about this since they've been covering it, but at the moment I can't get the page to load, but there's YouTube and Technorati links for the story.

Signed,
Not Atrios

Dinner Thread

Enjoy

Palin Lawyers Up

Time to start a candidacy dead pool?

JUNEAU, Alaska -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, has hired a private practice attorney to defend her and members of her staff in the investigation into the firing of her public safety commissioner.

Fresh Thread

Abstaining from Bill Bennett is the most effective method of maintaining one's sanity.

Although I do believe I just saw Wolf Blitzer demonstrate a vestigial spine.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE

48-40 in latest CBS poll.

The Proud New York Times

And their hackety hack hacks.

Consequences

My old friend Robert Stacy McCain shares his views with the world.

Fresh Thread

enjoy

Choices

What does it mean when the candidates who want to coerce every pregnant woman into having the baby release a statement designed to reassure us that this particular woman wasn't coerced.

Deep Thought

I wonder if Jay Carney is discomfitted by any of this.

But Policy Matters

And the consequences of being against contraception distribution and pro-abstinence only education are rather obvious.

Poor Thing

I hope the media largely gives Bristol Palin the privacy she should be entitled to. Her mother is the candidate, not her.

Zombie Lies

Cannot be killed.

At Least The War Is Over

Reed Hundt, April '07.

Other Republicans, especially those in the Senate and the House, will find that they simply cannot stay in support of this occupation through November 08. The White House won't like to bring the troop force down, but they will have to start that process before the election. And the Democrats will be obliged to continue to press for withdrawal. All that because of popular opinion. Democracy, for all its flaws, has one big thing going for it: the people feel empowered, and that makes their opinions valuable.

I highlight quotes like this because there has been, since after the '04 election, this weird faith in the fact that electoral politics would cause the Iraq war to magically end itself. Some things are just more powerful than popular opinion.

Wanker of the Day

Ed Rendell.

Downgraded

Gustav not as mighty as feared.

Morning Thread

Rise and shine!

--Molly I.

Overnight

Rock on.

Overnight

Rock on.