I know I should be resting to try and rid myself of this cold that has me by the throat, but I couldn’t resist blogging about this fascinating story from the Washington Post written about the Nutroots and a Democrat Representative they are targeting. It’s Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-CA), who is the Chair of the centrist New Democrat Coalition. Why are they after her? Read on:
I am currently under the influence of Sudafed – supposedly the non-drowsy version, but you wouldn’t know it by how sleepy I am – as I try to get rid of this nagging cold that won’t let me go. Here’s an open thread for you to discuss the hot topics of the day, until I return, which will hopefully be this evening.
The big news today as reported is British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s announcement that Britain will withdraw about 1,600 troops from Iraq by the end of the summer:
Interesting poll results on the Iraq war from a recent Public Opinion Strategies Poll, via James Joyner:
The Washington Post has gotten around to discovering what the conservative blogosphere, including yours truly, has already documented, and that’s that the Democrats who rode Congress on the promise of “bipartisanship” and “open debate” and who complained for years and years about the lack thereof on both counts under Republican control aren’t practicing what they promised and preached, surprise surprise. Lyndsey Layton writes:
Is this guy playing with a full deck? Methinks not.
