The Alberto Gonzales Legacy.

The LAT says the torturers never saw the Bybee Two Memo placing limits on how they executed waterboarding. But chances are very good they saw a memo authorizing far more abusive waterboarding.

The more these town-hall screamers (as well as their corporate enablers and media jesters) make clear that they’ve got health insurance and like it just fine, thankyewverymuch, the evident it is: there’s no such thing as compassionate conservatism. Never was. It’s all Katrina Konservatism: you’re on your own.

At last night’s town hall in Towson, MD, Ben Cardin sketched out his case for health care reform. Unfortunately, he concentrated on the “Why we need reform” aspect (possibly thinking it would keep the rabid pack at bay? Ha!), and stayed purposefully vague about the “How we’re going to fix it” part of the conversation. I need to go back and watch his presentation again, but I’m pretty sure the words “public option” never escaped his lips. He spoke of an “exchange” in which consumers could shop for health care, but he left more undefined than defined. In fact, throughout his speech and the Q&A answer that followed, he frequently spoke of things he wouldn’t vote for – a bill that didn’t pay for itself would lose his support, for example – but he did not once tell us what he wants in a bill. But to be fair, he never really had the chance.

President Obama is holding a town hall discussion on health care reform in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Live video feed here.

Davies, the North Carolina speech therapist, said she attended a recent organizational meeting but left “without any clear script or anything to do.”

Organizing for America “hasn’t contacted me with a really clear mission,” Davies said. “If they came to my door and said, ‘Here are the 10 things we want you to do,’ then I’d probably do it.”

One complication is that activists are being asked to sell an evolving plan; even Obama hasn’t committed to details.

The Washington Post opens its op-ed page to political scientist Danielle Allen who proceeds to tell us that Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck really do have a valid point in protesting the death panels that will urge the elderly to die and decline to treat disabled people.

Wu takes his place in the “weasel words” category: he’s all for a public option as long as he doesn’t have to fight for one.

Listen my children and you shall hear, of the continued obstruction and gooberish fear… The Grand Obstruction Party and weak-kneed Democratic leadership. Still at it: Still unconfirmed are three circuit court nominees and four nominees for assistant attorney general positions, including Dawn Johnsen for the Office of Legal Counsel. Democrats need Republican agreement in order to move the nominees forward, unless they want to use days of time on the Senate floor.

Here’s the pro-euthanasia Johnny Isakson (R-GA).