No really, just read this from lefty Firedog lake, dreaming about “what if” Gore had become president in 2000.
“August 10, 2001: Coleen Rowley, an FBI agent in the Bureau’s Minneapolis offices, is contacted by John Rosengren of the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Eagan, Minnesota. Rosengren informs her that a student at the academy is not interested in learning takeoffs or landings. Rowley investigates the man’s background, and discovers through French intelligence services that the student, Moroccan-born French and British resident Zacharias Moussaoui, has connections to Al-Qaeda. …

I’ve long since cared about the media “finding” those who once supported President Bush who now have “lost faith” because their “dissappointed” about the Iraq war, his management style, the color of his hair, etc.
Via the NY Times:
“AUSTIN, Tex., March 29 ‚Äî In 1999, Matthew Dowd became a symbol of George W. Bush‚Äôs early success at positioning himself as a Republican with Democratic appeal.
A top strategist for the Texas Democrats who was disappointed by the Bill Clinton years, Mr. Dowd was impressed by the pledge of Mr. Bush, then governor …

Or so said an unnamed US official in the third page of this report in the New York Sun.
Another American official yesterday said that plans were underway to move rapidly to escalate economic pressure and other measures on the Iranians. “The Iranians are going to be shocked to find out how badly they have miscalculated,” this official said. “Remember, Jimmy Carter is not the president of the United States these days.”
At the moment of this writing, CNN is carrying on their front page an article with the following headline:
Britain sends …

Speaker Pelosi’s decision to embark on high-profile tour of the Middle East is, in my opinion, a serious mistake. It will damage the US, the Democratic Party, her own stature in the foreign arena, and only serves to enable our rivals.
While political leaders in the various countries of the Middle East might be of varying capacity in fields such as military strategy or economics, they are all very astute in the game of politics. It is how they survive. Pelosi’s motives are not going to be lost …

Schumer is really begining to grate my arse.
“A New York senator is demanding a retraction from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on behalf of New Mexico’s former U.S. attorney, who was fired along with seven other prosecutors last year.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote Gonzales on Friday demanding that the attorney general clear David Iglesias’ name. Schumer’s letter came the day after Gonzales’ former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, testified before Congress that in hindsight, he would not have recommended Iglesias for dismissal.
Sampson orchestrated the firings for department officials as part of …