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Just Say "No"

Jon Stewart's sound advice: If you're presidentand someone in the audience asks you whether "recent events in Iraq" portend the apocalypse, just say "no."

Get Sharp!

If Bob Novak is to be believed, Bush almost certainly knows who leaked Plame's name.

Perhaps Pat Fitzgerald will want to be setting up a meeting with President Bush sometime soon? We won't be able to rely on congressional follow-up, that's for sure.

(Via Slate.)

C'est la Meme Chose. (Um, ne pas.)

The Bush administration and its co-operatives in the faux news media have been pushing the notion that Congress saw the "same intelligence" the President did precedent to authorizing military action in Iraq. This (supposedly) exculpates the administration from any differential responsibility in deciding to invade liberate Iraq.

Which, I suppose, might be fair enough. Except that it's pure fantasy.

(Via Talking Points Memo.)

DOJ Ball

The DOJ has "barred staff attorneys from offering recommendations in major Voting Rights Act cases," leaving the relevant investigatory process (that is, whether indeed to have an investigation) completely in the hands of conservative hacks political appointees.

Not to worry, though. They're only doing this because elections matter.

In-Dubyatably

"[T]hose who enter the country illegally violate the law."
--President Bush from a speech yesterday or the day before.

UPDATE:  Slate now has this up as a Bushism of the Day, and Eugene Volokh links to the full statement, arguing that it doesn't sound as silly in context. I offer a counterargument in a comment there. (I've corrected my original quotation, which was from memory.)