MM is liveblogging the latest round of posturing going on on Capitol Hill from opportunistic politicians like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker prepare to brief congressional ‘leaders’ on where we stand on progress in Iraq.
From the Department of Self-Loathers:
The NYT reports that telecoms won a small victory today in the Senate regarding the FISA reform bill:
Fresh on the heels of finding out that ranking Democrats knew of the CIA’s videotaping of aggressive interrogation techniques of suspected terrorists, and the later destruction of two of those tapes – all the while doing nothing about it, anti-Bush liberals learned today via the Washington Post (h/t: Jimmie) that in secret briefings dating back to 2002, ranking Democrats raised no objections to the now-discarded practice of “waterboarding,” an interrogation technique Democrats have held over the administration’s head for the past couple of years as an example of “torture” (emphasis added):
You knew it had to happen. Someone, somehow, somewhere was going to take the opportunity to blame the wildfires raging in Southern California on global warming. Sure enough, Senate Majority Leader stepped up to the plate. Duane Patterson at Hugh Hewitt’s blog writes:
