Lambert

Her masters at WaPo still aren’t letting Little Debbie Howell touch national politics, but today she does have this to offer:

There’s one big intangible in all this: a paper’s connection with its readers. Readers who feel respected and who love their newspaper don’t depart easily. If Post journalists write every story, take every photo, compose every headline and design every page with readers in mind, and the newspaper is printed well

Via ( Avedon (Rittenhouse Review (the Philadelphia Inkwire))):

I strongly disagree with the comments of Jennifer Stockman, on behalf of the Republican Majority for Choice, criticizing U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (“S. Dakota abortion law is an assault,” March 8).

While Sen. Santorum and I disagree on issues, I believe that he has done an excellent job for Pennsylvania and ought to be reelected.

Of course Iraq is a civil war.

At least that’s what everybody’s saying on This Week. C&L has the clip; Xan has the interpretive redaction.

The Times has an interesting juxtaposition today.

The Good Guy
From Deborah Solomon’s interview in the Magazine:The strongest part of your book argues that Democrats are in desperate need of savvier consultants, their own Karl Rove, to help them build [sic--remember Florida 2000] a political majority. Why would you want them to be more like Republicans?

[KOS] To get their message out, the Republicans created this entire conservative noise machine.

By now we know that not only does Bush conduct secret, warrantless, illegal electronic surveillance, He conducts secret, warrantless, illegal physical searches as well. So much for The Fourth Amendment.

But that’s old–and expected–news. (Would it be simpler just to make a list of Constitutional clauses these guys haven’t trashed?

Bush breaks the law, admits that he broke the law, claims he has the authority to break the law, and does all this with impunity. I don’t see how there can be a bigger issue than Bush’s impunity from lawbreaking. If Bush can cherrypick which laws to obey, and when and how to obey them, then he might as well be writing the laws and interpreting them too, besides executing