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Ugh. The Plame games are making me ill. And it’s not just the rhetoric on the left that is causing nausea. I am now seeing many of my friends on the right invoke the “John Kerry did it” card to pooh-pooh Rovegate.
See here, here, and here, for example.
I addressed this incident back in April: Did [...]

From Karl Rove, quoted in today’s NY Times:
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
Right. On.
Democrats are now calling on Rove to apologize. Apologize? For what?
For distilling [...]

Power Line has them up now. Take a look.
Update: More here and here.

One of the most common complaints about Guantanamo Bay is that the detainees have been denied trials.
Sen. John McCain made these charges on Meet the Press yesterday: “The weight of evidence [in Guantanamo Bay] has got to be that we’ve got to adjudicate these people’s cases, and…if it means releasing some of them, you’ll have [...]

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Camp Delta) refuses to apologize for his unhinged remarks likening American interrogators and Gitmo military staff to Nazis, Soviet gulag operators and genocidal maniac Pol Pot. (Radioblogger has the audio; Trey Jackson’s got video.)
Earlier today, as you know, White House spokesman Scott McClellan castigated Durbin.
What America needs is for President Bush himself [...]

Bob Novak visits California and finds “surprising and substantial opposition” among Democrat elites to nominating Hillary Clinton for President in ‘08:
At a dinner party in a private room of a Los Angeles restaurant attended by eight Democratic politicians (including City Council members and a county supervisor), I was asked to assess the political scene. I [...]

Apparently, John Kerry has released his Navy military and medical records to the Boston Globe. The paper reports:
The records, which the Navy Personnel Command provided to the Globe, are mostly a duplication of what Kerry released during his 2004 campaign for president, including numerous commendations from commanding officers who later criticized Kerry’s Vietnam service.
The lack [...]

As you may know, left-wing activists held a conference in D.C. this week called Take Back America. They invited Howard Dean and John Kerry to speak. Neither mentioned Iraq, which has the “progressives” up in arms. Reports David Corn:
Former (and current?) presidential aspirant John Edwards addressed a crowd of hundreds at lunch. He talked earnestly [...]

A new state report shows the abortion rate in Wisconsin is at its lowest since the state began tracking abortions in 1974, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Wisconsin was one of the states that professor Glenn Stassen said was experiencing an increase in abortions. He later retracted that claim, but his now-discredited conclusions were [...]

Enjoy…
- Yet another liberal talk radio show… this time it’s Al Sharpton. Brian Maloney provides background and explains why it will fail.
- More dismal ratings for Air America in Boston and San Francisco (scroll to end of post).
- PoliPundit wonders if John Kerry really signed his SF-180 form. Tempus Fugit says the signing of the [...]

During an interview yesterday with Boston Globe editorial writers and columnists, John Kerry said he signed Form SF 180. The form will be sent to the U.S. Navy within the next few days.
Globe columnist Joan Vennochi writes:
During an interview yesterday with Globe editorial writers and columnists, the former Democratic presidential nominee was asked [...]

Reader M.E. points out:
Just for the sake of argument let’s say the Newsweek article was true. No one’s pointing out that Newsweek is the same publication that had a non-disclosure agreement with the Kerry campaign last fall. The editors agreed that anything their reporters discovered while “embedded” with Kerry/Edwards would not be published until after [...]

They just won’t give up. When Bush-bashers have no substantive criticisms to make, they resort to Michael Moore’s “My Pet Goat” strategy.
“My Pet Goat,” you’ll recall, was the book the president read to Florida schoolchildren for several minutes after he was informed of the terrorist attacks on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. (Correction: Children [...]

100pm. No. He. Didn’t.
Sen. John Kerry just pontificated about the importance of treating people well and the importance of credibility and the importance of telling the truth all in the same breath. “The record speaks for itself,” he says. Um, yeah.
Flashback from my 9/29/04 column:
Throughout the course of the campaign, Kerry has [...]

Pajamas Media blogger Roger L. Simon has done excellent reporting on the U.N. Oil For Food scandal.
Now, U.N. Dispatch–the U.N. Foundation’s blog run by former John Kerry campaign aides–is lamely attacking Simon’s motives. They are outraged, outraged that Simon is not a shill for U.N. projects that have yet to be corrupted (just wait, it’s [...]

Have you seen Sen. Kerry’s statement on the failure to release his 180s? Mark Coffey has the “exclusive:”
I have a plan that addresses not only my Form SF-180, but also the Form SF-180s of all Americans…

Blogs for Bush and Polipundit are also having fun on this 100-day anniversary. They’ve made an easy-to-fax copy of the [...]

News and views to go with your morning coffee…
- States are threatening to disobey the Real ID Act.
- The FBI may question journalists and bloggers about Larry Franklin’s alleged leaks of classified information.
- Power Line muses about AOL’s “Name that blogger” feature.
- Brenda Walker says the story of Muslim terrorists residing in the U.S. remains [...]

Milbloggers and MSM watchdog bloggers continue to put heat on the New York Times’ Bob Herbert for his hearsay column on conscientious objector and moonbat darling, Aidan Delgado.
Last year, the liberal media elite savaged the hundreds of Swift Boat Vets who documented their claims of John Kerry’s dubious Vietnam War activities. Now, [...]

This just in from the Seattle Times: Judge allows GOP’s statistical analysis
Judge John Bridges this morning said he would allow Republicans to offer statistical analysis to show how illegal voters cast ballots in the November governor’s election.
In Chelan County Superior Court, Bridges denied a Democratic Party motion to exclude the evidence, saying he [...]

John Kerry has a brand video: Giving voice to our values.
Here’s how DNC chair Howard Dean gave voice to the Democrat value of compassion.

As noted over the weekend, Ann Coulter is on the cover of the most recent issue of Time magazine. Fans noticed the cover photo’s strange distortions immediately. Drudge follows up here with reax from Coulter and also mention that the photog–”Platon“–snapped the notorious Esquire magazine cover photo of Bill Clinton, shot at Monica Lewinsky-level.
“Why [...]

John Kerry will be the official starter of the wheelchair division race at the Boston Marrathon on Monday, a Boston Athletic Association press release announces. As Marathon Pundit notes, there is “[n]o mention of his fabled ‘marathon run’ of circa 1980.” (Hat tip: Ankle Biting Pundits.)
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My new column looks at increasingly unhinged Democrat leaders, seemingly inspired by Teresa “They hacked the mother machines” Heinz Kerry.
Here’s the story on John Kerry kvetching about “trickery.” James Taranto traced the origins of the “Vote on Wednesday” joke that Kerry complains about to…Al Franken. RedState reports on “Ohio’s not-so-odd numbers.”
Trey Jackson has video highlights [...]

Yesterday, Drudge linked to a nasty anti-Tom Delay t-shirt being hawked at Cafe Press. The shirt urged the GOP congressman to commit suicide. Sold by artist Christopher Godwin, the product has now been removed (though you can still see it on Cafe Press’s search engine complete with the caption “We can dream, can’t we?”).
Not to [...]

The other day, during his rant about intimidation of Democrat voters, John Kerry mentioned leaflets that said, “Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday.”
James Taranto thinks Kerry learned about the alleged flyers from this satirical story, which appeared in The Onion a week before the election.

Mentioned this question briefly in the Boltonblogging post below. There’s plenty to criticize John Kerry for, but this isn’t one of them. The Associated Press now asserts that both Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Richard Lugar “may have blown” a CIA agent’s cover during the Bolton hearings. (Lugar mentioned the name in his opening statement; [...]

A quick round-up…
Jim Geraghty at TKS has global reaction to U.N. ambassor nominee John Bolton (North Korea calls him “human scum”). Eric Pfeiffer at Beltway Buzz has more. National Review’s endorsement is here.
John Hinderaker at the freshly redesigned Power Line reacts to Code Pink protesters who disrupted Bolton’s nomination hearing: “Whose side are they on?”
Betsy [...]

The Washington Post’s managing editor, Philip Bennett, gave a fascinating interview to People’s Daily Online, the official mouthpiece of the Communist Chinese regime.
Assuming Bennett’s remarks were correctly transcribed (and there is a significant possibility that they were not), it seems fair to say he has bad feelings about the Bush Administration, which he says [...]

Our reaction to the nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the U.N.? Two thumbs up. Way up.
Jon Henke at Q&O has some of Bolton’s notable quotables and observes:
One doesn’t appoint a hardliner to appease the Belgians, so realignment is obviously afoot. It will be interesting to see what reform measures this appointment presages. [...]

Just happen to be on sick baby overnight shift and caught The David Letterman Show, which I never usually watch. MSM relic Dan Rather is on his farewell tour and bloviated for a few segments about his 1968 Democratic National Convention scuffles in Chicago, his Deep Thoughts on Iraq, and, yes, the little “error” (too [...]