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I mean, like, yeah. Who among us would have doubted the notion that organized moonbats were carrying all the water in Crawford? The camp at Crawford is full of Cindy Sheehan supporters, people from all walks of life. But off...

Captain's Quarters has about the most thorough and detailed treatment of the Able Danger situation where advance information about BinLaden and el Qaida was discovered, but then not passed to law enforcement because of an administrative wall of separation between DoD and the FBI.

As a result, 9-11 took place, and later, the 9-11 Commission was caught with their facts down, to what will be their ultimate shame, and loss of credibility due to 5 or 65 different versions of response in the week and a half the story has been out.

The inside-the-beltway media/political axis has circled the wagons big-time on this one. As it is developing, every time they have come up with some objection, it has been met, with first one, then three named sources corroborating the event(s).

Check it out for the whole run down. This one has legs.

The global economy is amazing. A couple months ago I saw an amazing live performance DVD of Pete Townshend of The Who performing music from the legendary Lifehouse project (if you've heard Who's Next, you've heard about half of Lifehouse)....

The master of kinder, gentler conservativism has a good piece on the Iraqi constitution in the New York Times. A fervent critic of Bush's policies has this to say (from Baghdad): The Bush administration finally did something right in brokering...

The LGF Kos Kountdown of Dooooooom. Technically, today we're 13 days away from the pending "radioactive" status of the Democratic Leadership Council, but I'm sure that the Kountdown will be making the rounds on many blogs today. After the disaster...

Powerline:Ellsworth survives John Thune's crusade to save South Dakota's Ellsworth Air Force base has succeeded . The base closing commission has voted to reject the Defense Department's recommendation that the base be closed. Thune unseated then-Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle...

SDP links to a Bount Blogmaore post containg the opposes SDDP and SDGOP press releases on the SDDP new communications director?s vegetarian support. Today, David Kranz weighed in, and guess whose side he is taking:You can tell it is an...

GOP hopefuls breaking from Bush

This is illustrative of why the Chief is not very excited about most of these GOP thus far noted as possibles for the top of the ticket in '08.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee staked out his own ground on the issue of stem-cell research.

Supporting federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research (prior to last week's announcement by Harvard that they could convert skin cells to embryonic type stem cells) constitutes a Federally established demand for fetally derived embryonic stem cells, which in turn converts abortion into an even more commercial proposition to meet that demand.

Sen. George Allen of Virginia publicly disagreed with Mr. Bush's refusal to meet a second time with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.

Yech! Why would anyone want to meet with that whiney left-wing frump and give her the platform and added attention (Film at 11!) she craves.

Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska compared the war in Iraq to the Vietnam War, an analogy that is anathema to Mr. Bush. Sen. John McCain of Arizona has long disagreed with the president's tax cuts and confidence in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

In the case of both Hegel and McCain, having an excellent and heroic war record in Viet-nam is apparently gives no guarantee of having a cogent and rational capacity for political thought 35 years later.
'nuff said.

Yet none of these senators has positioned himself as more conservative than the president, a move that might appeal to disaffected sectors of the Republican base. "It's a real dilemma for these Republican senators," said Democratic strategist Mary Anne Marsh. "They're trying to differentiate themselves from Bush on certain issues. And yet the Republican activists who dominate the nominating process are sticking with Bush on those issues."

HAH! This Donk has figured it out, on this at least.

Analysts from both parties said Republicans would do well to tap into the biggest sources of discontent among conservative Republicans -- lax immigration laws and excessive federal spending. Although no candidate has taken a prominent stance against the expansion of government under Mr. Bush, a dark horse is strongly challenging the administration on immigration. Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, adamantly opposes Mr. Bush's plan to grant legal status to millions of Mexicans who illegally entered the U.S. Although Mr. Tancredo's White House prospects are considered remote, his candidacy could pull the Republican field rightward in the way former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean pulled the Democratic field leftward in last year's primaries.

Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) is far and away ahead of the pack as far as the Chief is personally concerned!

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