will not.  That should have said, will not like the source... Oy.

Posted at September 7, 2005 5:10 PM in response to SORTING OUT OPINION FROM FACT ON KATRINA

I know most here will like the source of this timeline, but it is detailed and provides links for everything.  Timeline

If nothing else, it's a good way to get links in order to fill in other timelines.

Posted at September 7, 2005 5:10 PM in response to SORTING OUT OPINION FROM FACT ON KATRINA

Maybe he missed the pictures of 3,000 prisoners sitting hand-cuffed on a highway overpass in New Orleans -- awaiting transfer to another prison and getting far more attention than the people scavenging for food and wandering aimlessly around them.

I don't know if someone already made this point, but Sen Landrieu mentioned yesterday on This Week that the reason for that was so those prisoners, many of them the worst New Orleans had to offer, could not escape and do more damage to both the people and the city.  I can see where the police would feel that was an important first step in trying to maintain some order in the city.

Posted at September 5, 2005 6:54 AM in response to Cronyism Has Consequences Too

Ah, but I had a Washingtonian upbringing and a Manhattanite partial-adulthood and if I had to pick which one is easier to navigate, I'd pick Manhattan every time.  Whether walking, driving or taking the subway, Manhattan is so very much better.  Though I will grant you that the subway on weekends is a pain in the ass and everything below, say, Prince Street, requires a map.




Still, I would rather drive the twisty streets of the Financial District during rush hour than any part of the DC-metro at any hour.  Mass Ave has seven (7!!) traffic circles between Maryland and downtown DC.




Did I really just move back here?  Oy.

Posted at August 6, 2005 8:27 AM in response to Quadrant Trouble

I wasn't saying that any of those issues are on the radar of the Religious Right.  I'm saying they should be on the radar of the Left.  I'm saying that given those recent SCOTUS decisions, I don't think the Left should accept Gonzalez solely because he's possibly more moderate on abortion.  I think the danger of his views on the role of the Executive as relates to the other two branches of government outweigh the benefit of his unproven moderate abortion views.

Posted at July 9, 2005 12:34 PM in response to Supreme Shell Games

It's probably because I'm not a liberal that I have trouble with this line of reasoning.  Despite the obssession, as Ed Kilgore highlighted, of the right wing, abortion is in fact NOT the only issue.  How people can have missed that salient fact after Kelo, Grokster and the medical marijuana case, I don't know.  Gonzalez seems in all ways incompetent to me and as an idealist about The Court, I don't want an incompetent political hack sitting there for the rest of his life.




I didn't even want him as AG for 4 years, because the one cabinet position on which I generally don't subscribe to the "President's Choice" argument is that one, because it's theoretically the highest law enforcement officer in the land and should therefore have higher standards.

Posted at July 9, 2005 8:41 AM in response to Supreme Shell Games

it bothers me when it seems people jump to conclusions




I completely agree with you.  I heard first on CNN as I was getting ready for work and at the time, the group's claim either hadn't been found or wasn't being reported.  And although my instinct was that it was al Qaida related, I remember Oklahoma City and there was no reason it couldn't have been the IRA.




If I came off short, it's just because I was posting from work and in a hurry.

Posted at July 8, 2005 2:27 PM in response to 7/7

How did - I'm sorry, I haven't been around much and so maybe I'm missing a big piece of the puzzle here - but how did Alberto Gonzalez come to be seen as an "acceptable" Associate Justice of the Supreme Court?  Putting abortion aside (I know it's hard, but just try for a while), this is a guy who, based on his record as legal council to President Bush, believes that the President (presumably any president) is above the law virtually whenever he/she says so.




Furthermore, this is a man who couldn't even be bothered to seriously review petitions for clemency that came across his desk, which speaks either to his general sloppiness, his willingness to put aside his duty as a lawyer in order to placate his boss, or his belief that no death row inmate deserves clemency.




I'm not naive - I know we're not likely to get a good Justice out of old George - but I just want to know at what point a man like Gonzalez becomes not only acceptable to Democrats, but the preferred choice?

Posted at July 8, 2005 2:06 PM in response to Supreme Shell Games

Check the other thread for a quote from this AP story.

Posted at July 7, 2005 6:17 AM in response to 7/7

According to the AP:




A group calling itself "The Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe" posted a claim of responsibility for the blasts, saying they were in retaliation for Britain's involvement in     Iraq and     Afghanistan. The Web statement, republished on the site of the German magazine Der Spiegel, could not be immediately confirmed.




CNN and Fox are reporting similar news.

Posted at July 7, 2005 6:15 AM in response to Wake-up Call: Terrorist Bombing in London