And yes, I remember well the IAEA, El Baradei and other inspectors (including American vet Scott Ritter) being pooh pooh'd during and after the run-up to the Iraq invasion.

Of course they did the same thing to France, Germany, NATO etc. whenever the message was contrary to the Neocon/Vulcan meme.

I've also noticed that the media now addresses the issue as "the Iran nuclear WEAPONS program", having morphed from their "nuclear program". They don't seem to need any factual basis or proof for the morph. We can all just assume it is so.

To define the man it's hardly complete without the word 'integrity'. And it wouldn't really be polished without a few words like 'honest'. 'Sincere' comes to mind as well.

I wonder if Glenn Beck will say..."this was an honest, sincere man with integrity".

I take it back. I don't wonder at all.

Specter fears losing to the point of grasping at nothing. They just don't get it. "By the people and for the people" doesn't even seem to enter his mind.

Like our 'Uncle Ted Stevens', Specter faces the big boot. His twisted logic suggests maybe by going with the flow he stands a better chance as a Democrat. Like waving a magic wand. Maybe he expects to turn into some Prince by kissing a friggin frog.

Again and again we are taken as fools. Time for Specter to get his lunch and go sit in the caboose with Ted.

Say what you want about Uncle Hugo. He's a very popular guy with some of us.

"He called President Bush the "devil", huh?

Chavez: "He called me worse!"

I liked the guy right then and there. It was a typical move for George. He just had a hard on for the guy and started badmouthing him. THEN Hugo threw Exxon et al out. So who won that round George?

We get a lot of oil from Venezuela. Best not to shit in their Wheaties, especially if it is unwarranted.

Which one would you pick in a fistfight?

Just funnin' ya Barney. (Sherrif Taylor aka 'Ange')

Do you suppose that being a Harvard Law dude of all dudes, Obama is telling us the Executive doesn't demand the investigation/prosecution of the Executive? That the Legislative and the Judicial should hold the Executive accountable? Should initiate the checks and balances?

After all, the cat's out of the bag on a host of issues that should call our Congress to immediate and rigid attention. They should call for a special prosecutor to investigate the Executive. The Judicial backs them up like the rules say, and the Executive complies with subpoenas.

The cat is then fully out of the bag, scratching and bawling. The current Executive, having nothing to do with the previous Executive, shrugs at W and says "The Legislative and Judicial just smoked all your sorry asses like our Constitution calls on them to do.

I feel like you do, and wish Obama would take the lead. But I'm not the Executive Harvard Law Dude of all Law Dudes.

I give him the break for now, thankful for the gains we've made. I've got my fingers crossed it will all come out in the end, and move along towards the recovery Obama is promoting...walking away having never attacked the Executive.

Perhaps Tweet is being coy and laying for piss ants. I'm with bheart on this one. Tweet's a piss ant and he needs to get his mound together or crawl on over to CNN.

I'm not ready to call him ready for FOX quite yet though.

No damned wonder we haven't graduated to counties.

Right there by Hawaii. One man's tumbleweed is another man's tundra, and another's surfboard.

We put Mark Begich in the US Senate. A promising young Democrat I shared my first Democratic Caucus room with, trying to vote now President Obama into office.

We lost, on one hand. Alaska provided our measly 3 electoral votes to McCain/Palin. On the other hand, Mark went on to replace 'Uncle Ted' Stevens in the US Senate.

Watch Mark. He's sharp, and in a mass of confusion at our Caucus he rolled up his sleeves and weathered the storm with the rest of us in a grossly overcrowded Anchorage high school classroom.

The bottom line Deanie, is to start from the bottom line and work our way up.

And no, I can’t see Sarah’s house from my house in Wasilla.

We could divide Alaska in half and make Texas the third largest state. (Alaska/Texas joke :-D) But we love Texas too.

Coleman will drag this out to the federal court level no matter what the state courts decide. It is mandated and supported by the GOP to delay that ugly # 59.

Sit back and enjoy the fray instead of letting it eat your guts up.

Let The Rude One[ http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html ] ease the pain this frying pan faced jerk has blessed us with (scroll down to Lee’s post on 3/9/09) “Photos That Make the Rude Pundit Want to Snort Lutefisk”.

They don't seem to understand its appeal only appeals to people who don't need any more appealing.

Their crap doesn't appeal to moderate thinkers, who are running away from this mindset like they're the living dead.

Like Bush, puff up your chest and intimidate the first string axis of evil, then threaten attack (or screw the threats, just attack).

The talking point though, seems to be that Obama now "has an opportunity" to prove his True Grit by solving the wider problem not... just this one little episode.

This was just a primer for the big Obama test, and the "opportunity" Obama will now enjoy following the primer to the "opportunity".

Time for "opportunity" watch?

It is the cable press play that is my point, and what we might expect tomorrow from Newt and the gang.

Good for a week. And I express my thoughts above, on what I see as a likely response tomorrow. You know it won't be praise for the President from Newtster.