Why are a number of OLC’s opinions on torture for DOD included in CIA’s torture Vaughn Index?

“Fiscal responsibility” is the last thing the Blue Dogs are interested in. Their prescription drug and Medicare positions alone add $148 billion to the cost of the bill without adding any value, and their insistence on “paygo” means those cost gets passed on directly to consumers in the form of higher premiums.

There’s an expansion of bodies dedicated to military efforts in Afghanistan, but it’s not clear who’s given the orders.

• What does Iran want?
• Well, but…Hitler gave everyone health care. 
• Yet another “it’s awesome to be a Republican” story.
• And another!
• RIP.
• They got their man. (sarcastic applause)
• TBogg on Clark Hoyt.
• The Secret Service is awfully busy these days.

And inside account of Palin’s visit to Hong Kong

The Rat Pack live at The Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, June 20, 1965.  Hosted by Johnny Carson.

What’s on your mind?

In yet another surprising Rahm-is-wonderful NYT paean, we learn that sexy Peter Orzsag was sent to dine with Maine Senator Susan Collins, and that West Virginia’s Jay Rockefeller got an Oval Office sit-down with President Obama. Maria Cantwell of Washington was also summoned to the Oval for a one-on-one with the President. The head of the White House Office of Health Reform, Nancy DeParle, even visited Dianne Feinstein in her storied DeeCee den, the place where Barack and Hillary made their peace last summer. But what of Holy Joe?

Today on Meet the Press, former President Bill Clinton talked positively about Sen. Snowe’s trigger proposal.

The McChrystal PR Campaign moves into high gear. Has he crossed the line?

In a stunning show of tolerance, that defies theocon C-Streetism, the GOP in Queens, NY will not replace Dan Halloran their candidate for city council. Halloran is a pagan high priest in his faith Theodism, a reconstructed/revisionist form of pre-Christian Northern European polytheism, which differs from the similarly Norse-based Astaru and the more familiar Celtic based-based Wicca.