TalkLeft: "Senate Judiciary Committee hearings begin Monday on Bush's warrantless NSA domestic electronic surveillance programs. The star witness is Alberto Gonzales. Here's some background and topics you can expect him to be grilled on.."
Oval Office 2008: "It is, reckons Ruth Marcus in this column in the Washington Post, the key dilemma facing Republicans running for the White House in 2008: what to do about President Bush. The President remains reasonably popular with the party's core base of support - 'that is, the Republicans who turn out in primaries' - but his poll numbers are 'dismal overall.' It's a delicate dance, and one that Marcus is clearly enjoying watching...
"Barring a major upset in the mid-terms this November, the Republicans will go into 2008 still in control of every branch of government. It's not going to be much fun for them if they feel they have to keep running away from their own record. Whoever is the candidate in 2008 is going to want to promise four more years of something."
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer: "U.S. Senators Harry Reid, Charles E. Schumer, Ken Salazar, and others sent a letter signed by a majority of Democrats to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales asking him to appoint a special counsel to continue the investigation into and prosecution of the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal. Schumer called for a similar special counsel to head the investigation into the White House leak of a covert CIA operative and persisted until Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed in 2003. The scope of the Republican-centered Abramoff scandal is still growing, and it is clear that there are so many officials in and around the White House and Congress are involved. Continuing the investigation and prosecution under a special counsel would ensure that it would proceed without favor or fear of reprisal within the Administration." Thanks to beSpacific for the link.
The Move On kids are also asking for a special prosecutor.
Oval Office 2008: "We've already heard how Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh are doing in the fundraising stakes, now the Green Bay Press-Gazette tells us that Wisconsin Democratic Senator Russ Feingold 'had roughly $1 million in cash available at the end of 2005 that could be used for exploring a possible bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.'"
Captains Quarters: "The Guardian reports that American crops have been left to rot in the fields, thanks to a sudden dearth of migrant workers for farm work. Is this the result of better border enforcement? No -- it turns out that the illegal immigrants that do the work Americans don't want have decided they don't want them either..."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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