Beldar implies that Senator Kerry may be afraid to defend his service record. At least in a venue where actual rules of evidence apply, and people can be issued subpoenas, instead of just repeatedly screaming “LIAR” on cable news.
…some folks might draw the inference that rather than your having just forgotten the one-year anniversary of the publication of Unfit for Command
Beldar implies that Senator Kerry may be afraid to defend his service record. At least in a venue where actual rules of evidence apply, and people can be issued subpoenas, instead of just repeatedly screaming “LIAR” on cable news.
…some folks might draw the inference that rather than your having just forgotten the one-year anniversary of the publication of Unfit for Command
Stephen Moore has a depressing column in today’s WSJ on the big-government Republicans:
Both political parties are now willing and eager to spend tax dollars as if they were passing out goody-bags to grabby four-year-olds at a birthday party. The Democrats are already forging their 2006 and 2008 message: We will spend just as many trillions of dollars as Republicans, but we will spend them better than they do. After witnessing the first few Republican misappropriations for Hurricane Katrina, the Democrats may very well be right.
Mark Steyn is less than impressed with the Senate:
With enemies like Chuck, who needs amigos? Whatever happened to the party’s fearsome forensic skills at “the politics of personal destruction”? Granted, blathering on about how, if the other guy doesn’t agree with your views, he must be deficient in “compassion and humanity” is a lot of baloney even by mawkish Dem standards. But, if you’re going to twitter about the fullness of somebody’s heart, why get Chuck Schumer to play Senator Oprah? He has the shifty air of a mob accountant, even with every intern on his staff holding onions under his eyes. Likewise, sneering at Roberts’ life of privilege may be a smart move, but not if you entrust it to Dianne Feinstein, one of the wealthiest women in the galaxy.
John Podhoretz, on Republicans:
Sometimes…they’re just…indefensible.
Hard to imagine Kos, or Kevin Drum, or Yglesias saying that about Democrats.
Claudia Rossett says that President Bush should spoil Kofi’s party:
When we have a clean, efficient U.N.
Here are some thoughts from incoming Chief Justice John Roberts:
Ensign said they discussed only one case specifically
James Lileks expounds on the continuing national tragedy that is Bush Derangement Syndrome:
One theory
The corruption at the UN is even more wide spread than most imagined (though I’m not surprised at all):
Procurement and budgeting corruption may escape Volcker’s scrutiny, but they are central to the mandate of Annan.
This scandal touches on almost everything the secretary-general is supposed to control. It is by way of procurement contracts, for goods and services ranging from cappuccino and paper clips at U.N. headquarters, to air freight services and food rations for peacekeeping troops worldwide, that the United Nations spends the billions contributed every year by member states
The corruption at the UN is even more wide spread than most imagined (though I’m not surprised at all):
Procurement and budgeting corruption may escape Volcker’s scrutiny, but they are central to the mandate of Annan.
This scandal touches on almost everything the secretary-general is supposed to control. It is by way of procurement contracts, for goods and services ranging from cappuccino and paper clips at U.N. headquarters, to air freight services and food rations for peacekeeping troops worldwide, that the United Nations spends the billions contributed every year by member states