Revolving doors discard ethics.

So we get transcripts and documents after the interviews are over. No one hold your breath.

Senator Evan Bayh frets over the fact that the current fiscal year budget reconciliation bill will increase government deficit spending. Someone should remind the clueless Bayh that he just voted for a $787 billion stimulus bill. . . because deficit spending is exactly what the economy needs.

Sometimes, the jokes write themselves. And with Newsbustards, sometimes is pretty much always.

PhRMA to AHIP: “People who are interested in health care reform need to be focused on building support for the President’s efforts right now. This is the time for coming together, not engaging in the kind of scare tactics we all resorted to in the past.”

AHIP, in their previous incarnation HIAA, produced the famous “Harry and Louise” ads. So I think we all know what tht means.

Looseheadprop asks some good questions about the September 25, 2001 opinion on FISA David Kris requested from OLC. While I think I can explain the timing of that opinion, what truly disturbs me is the move to eviscerate the Fourth Amendment (to justify warrantless wiretaps) precisely as PATRIOT went to Congress.

Secretary of State Clinton has left the Middle East,and she has also left an opportunity on the table, an opportunity to speak clearly of a new approach to the issue of Palestine.

I know, I know. This subject has been talked to death. But there is a huge vacuum at the top of the Republican Party that is currently being filled by Rush Limbaugh’s ever-expanding ego. We’re about half way through some Joseph Campbell hero cycle, where many noble challengers have boldly stepped forward to slay the beast but all have been forced to kneel and kiss the cyst.

The House Judiciary Committee will question Karl Rove and Harriet Miers regarding two distinct but interrelated subjects: the USAtty firings and the Siegelman prosecution. As Marcy reported, the questioning will be done on the record, transcribed and given under penalty of perjury. More importantly, the committee will also receive all of the documents they’ve been requesting for quite some time prior to the testimony, including a number of missing e-mails.

• Turdblossom to testify before Congress.
• The GOP pie fights over Rushbo? All the Democrats’ fault.
• Meanwhile, they continue!
• How long before economy is Obama’s?
• Elections have consequences.
• Health care reform kickoff today.
• Why don’t they just go to the emergency room?
• Study: Palin too sexy in ’08.
• The Lion gets Knighted.
• Prop 8 hearing in Cali.
• Hehindeedy.