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Twin Cities Pioneer:The State Bar's Disciplinary Board recommended Tuesday that former South Dakota Gov. and U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow should regain his license to practice law next February. If the state Supreme Court accepts that recommendation, it would mean Janklow...

From Reuters:Democrats on Wednesday celebrated a closer-than-expected loss in a special House of Representatives race in Ohio and called it a warning sign for Republicans entering the 2006 congressional elections.That was the introduction to a report they titled, Democrats celebrate...

Democrats vow not to take out anger on Roberts

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who is expected to help lead his party's opposition to Judge Roberts, called Mr. Bush's recess appointment "shameful and irresponsible" and lamented that the "cloak of secrecy from the White House continues."

That's rich coming from HIM! He STILL hasn't come clean about killing that girl in the car when he drove off the bridge at Chappaquidak (sp?). Last time I looked Bolton didn't have manslaughter to contend with.

"There's little appetite in the Democratic caucus for further abuse of power by the president or stonewalling," said one aide, adding that the party will be even more insistent on information about a Supreme Court nominee than they were about Mr. Bolton.

Let's see now - the administration already said it wouldn't give the Donks all the working papers that they are demanding. So how does this mesh with the bit about not being so obnoxious on the Roberts debate?

Republicans said Democrats left Mr. Bush no choice. "Although I would have preferred an up-or-down Senate confirmation vote on John Bolton ... the president's appointment of Secretary Bolton was necessary to ensure our representation at the United Nations and to provide momentum to the vital process of U.N. reform," said Sen. Richard G. Lugar, Indiana Republican and Foreign Relations chairman. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Tennessee Republican, noted that Mr. Bolton has won majority support from the Senate four times -- although he never reached the 60-vote plateau necessary to break the Democratic filibuster.

Still the filibuster - what about the "new spirit of cooperation from the gang of 14"????

And finally, from Sen. Voinovich:

Sen. George V. Voinovich -- the Ohio RepublicanRINO who broke with his party by saying he couldn't support Mr. Bolton -- said he was disappointed with the recess appointment, but will stand behind the president's decision. "I am truly concerned that a recess appointment will only add to John Bolton's baggage and his lack of credibility with the United Nations," Mr. Voinovich said. "That said, the president has made this decision, and I will do everything in my power to support Mr. Bolton as he takes his new position."

WOW! Talk about an almost perfect weasel statement - a truly masterful job of planting himself firmly on both sides of the fence on this one! This is almost up to Daschle quality!

How Chuck Schumer spent his summer vacation. Just go read it. [Via Ace]...

...when the Democrats once supported privitization of Social Security? Jonathan Swanson at SSC is asking the same question and supplanting the answer:Remember when Democrats used to favor Personal Retirement Accounts? Here are some of the Democrats? greatest hits. You?ve got...

Backlash ends Chinese bid for Unocal

China's CNOOC Ltd. on Tuesday abandoned a bold $18.5 billion offer to acquire Unocal Corp. (UCL) in the face of strident political opposition

This generated enough of an uproar, that the ChiComs' CNOOC gave up on trying to snarf up UNOCAL in an $18B+ deal. IT seems that lots of folks here felt pretty queasy about this one, and that concern managed to penetrate into Congress and elsewhere in D.C. Finally the ChiComs decided that it was more trouble than it was worth.

The Chief has a hunch that there's a bit more to it than that - perhaps the backdown was to keep us from getting too riled up at them before they're ready for their moves on Taiwan. In other words, they want to keep the sleeping giant asleep. Hopefully it doesn't work out for them that way.

Shamelessly Plagiarized from South Dakota Politics!

This is just TOO choice to pass up, so the Chief is going to take Jaso at SDP up on his invitation to pass this along. If you see it over there, well and good. If you don't look at SDP for some reason (like maybe not being in SD), here it is:

A Soldier tells about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha. He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the US flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock.

The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly, "Yes, I always wear it and I probably always will."

The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.

A gentleman standing behind the soldier stepped forward, putting his arm around his shoulders, and nodding towards the soldier, said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: "Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are obviously here in MY country to avoid."

Everyone within hearing distance cheered.

HOO-RAH!

Here is an excerpt from a Ben Stein speech that I found thanks to South Dakota Straight Talk. [I just blog rolled this relatively new site who is authored by Joel Rosenthal] Here is an excerpt:The GOP is the party...

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