Top GOP aide implicated in attorney firing probe

Clipping Cheney's Wings

John Nichols writes that the Libby trial revealed stunning details about Dick Cheney's aggressive efforts to attack his enemies and cherry-pick pre-war intelligence. Will Congress now conduct hearings to call the Vice President to account?

Why the Libby Verdict Is So Damning
by Arianna Huffington

Suicide Blasts Kill More Than 100 In Iraq

Nine US Soldiers Die In Separate Bombings

Harry Reid: Bush Must Not Pardon Libby
By Greg Sargent

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Libby verdict:

“I welcome the jury’s verdict. It’s about time someone in the Bush Administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics. Lewis Libby has been convicted of perjury, but his trial revealed deeper truths about Vice President Cheney’s role in this sordid affair. Now President Bush must pledge not to pardon Libby for his criminal conduct.”

Note that he, like Nancy Pelosi, cast the verdict as a broader indictment of the Bush administration, but did her one better by demanding that the White House pledge now not to pardon Libby.

Meanwhile, White House spokesperson Dana Perino is declining to comment on Reid's call for a no-pardon pledge.

Libby Found Guilty of Perjury, Obstruction

Libby's Lawyers May Have Botched Case

Hey Ann Coulter:

Is Rudy a faggot?

Coalition Airstrike Hits Afghan House

Afghan Opium Poppy Cultivation Could Rise

Faggot Feud

by Richard Kim

Ann Coulter's gaydar is off, way off. But what else is new? And what's in a word anyway?

Newt Blames The Victims of Katrina

By: Nicole Belle

Newt Gingrich, speaking at CPAC blamed the residents of New Orleans' 9th Ward for a "failure of citizenship," by being "so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane."

And he called for a "deep investigation" into this "failure of citizenship."

Here's the full quote:

How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane. (emphasis original)

To listen to the audio, click here.

I tell you, this CPAC convention really highlights the humanity of these conservatives. And the worst part? It's not the first time Newt's put this in one of his speeches. Jeffrey Feldman has more…

The best-ever one-sentence explanation of Bush domestic policy

From today's Wall Street Journal: "President Bush said he intends to nominate Michael Baroody, a lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers, to be chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission."

-- Walter Shapiro

Oprah's ugly secret

By continuing to hawk "The Secret," a mishmash of offensive self-help cliches, Oprah Winfrey is squandering her goodwill and influence, and preaching to the world that mammon is queen.

By Peter Birkenhead

You Know Me, Al

David Remnick on the man who might have been—and could still become—President.

WHITE HOUSE BACKED U.S. ATTORNEY FIRINGS

BUSH VOLUNTEER: STAFF ORDERED 3 OUSTED FROM EVENT

CALL TO REOPEN OKLAHOMA CITY BOMB CASE

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NY Times Editorial: List To Reverse "Lawless Policies" Of Bush And Cheney

Last Throes of Cheney’s Credibility

by Joe Conason


While Americans grow increasingly frustrated with the Democrats for failing to end the Iraq fiasco (after a whopping two months), the vice president, one of the war’s chief architects, spent the week doing away with the last shred of a possibility that he either knows what he’s talking about or is telling the truth.

Freak speech

Nobody should be surprised that Ann Coulter would refer to John Edwards as a "faggot"; it wasn't long ago that she called Al Gore "a total fag," and said that Bill Clinton had "the whiff of the bathhouse" about him. It's a pretty desperate schoolyard stunt from a celebrity sideshow rapidly running out of gas. (And a weirdly self-defeating one at that: Most of the only people we know who have ever gotten a kick out of Coulter are gay men who manage to enjoy her as bitch-queen theatrical performance art.) She was speaking at a top conservative conference, where all the major 2008 party candidates showed up except for McCain (smart move).

Edwards Responds To Coulter "Faggot" Slur

Deep thoughts for those who take life too seriously:

1. Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

2. A day without sunshine is like . . . night.

3. On the other hand, you have different fingers.

4. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

5. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

6. Remember, half the people you know are below average.

7. He who laughs last thinks slowest.

9. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.

10. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.

11. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

12. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

13. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

14. How many of you believe in psychokinesis? Raise my hand.

15. Okay . . . so what's the speed of dark?

16. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

17. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

18. Every one has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

19. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

20. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

21. What happens if you get scared half to death.........twice?

22. I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

23. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

24. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened?

25. Just remember - if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.

26. Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.