The President just enraged his base by attempting to push a deeply unpopular immigration bill through the Senate. He could regain a lot of that ground with a commutation of Libby's sentence
And so he did.
Me, I would have commuted the sentence to exactly what Sandy Berger got for illegally removing highly classified documents from the National Archives and intentionally destroying some of them: $50,000 fine, $6,905 for the administrative costs of his two-year probation, and 100 hours of community service.
Speaking of what the media doesn't cover, Michelle Malkin has a sensational round-up of the Gathering of Eagles. Follow every link! Jane has the pictures.
Patrick Hynes has a post and video of McCain's New Hampshire visit, and notes,
My friend Hugh Hewitt makes a point that candidates for high public office cannot reach their target audiences without the aid of conservative media. Hugh says this not because he is a member of the conservative media, but because it is true. No candidate, including my client John McCain, will successfully navigate the primary process without communicating with and through the talk radio/blog/Podcast/YouTube nexus.
If you haven't watched it yet, you must: Make time today and watch the entire 1-hour-and 15-minutes of The Great Global Warming Swindle: Update: Dr Sowell writes,
"Global warming" is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.
Ace explores why Why Are Women So Easy When It Comes To Giggles? I laughed so hard when I did my podcast with Steve of Hog On Ice that one of his commenters asked if I have a speech impediment. (Steve's making pizza - go check it out).
I'll be blogging more later. Possibly because of the Gore effect (was Al in NJ two days ago?) we still have a couple of inches of ice on the driveway, so I'll be staying in today - might as well blog! Update The temps went up to 40F and the ice melted enough that it could be scraped off the driveway. I like that.
Into every bully boy's world a tougher opponent will appear. Today the prosecution gets to meet the defense, and the defense has landed some blows designed as much to undercut the challenger's confidence as to get into the record what they need.
Shorter Armitage on Joe Wilson: Wilson turned the Bush Administration upside down in order to satisfy his ginormous ego. He didn't like being designated as a low-level guy.
Fausta was born and raised in Santurce, Puerto Rico and is a long-term resident of Princeton, New Jersey. She discusses New Jersey, taxation, current events, and how news are reported in the French and Spanish-language media at Fausta's Blog.
From Enlighten-New Jersey, "Fausta's Blog has a great new look, very easy on the eyes"
From Francis, "she writes at length, and very well. She also posts quite frequently, making Bad Hair Blog a treat for the voracious reader."
From Jane "Hey You, Yeah You- You belong at the Bad Hair Blog"
From Jim "Very cool." ". . .one of the Garden Stateâ??s premier bloggers"
From Kathleen "Fausta has a great handle on all things European and political. Go and read her!"
From Ken: "a lady who writes prolifically, intelligently, and beautifully: Fausta"
From Mahablog, "Fausta, dear, you are extremely dim. And extremely dangerous."
From The Manolo "You remain as always super fantastic!"
From Philomathean, "The inestimable Fausta has been doing a fine job covering Latin America's accelerating slide into socialism, nationalism, dictatorship and economic chaos."
The Dems are angry, the WaPo says this was A Decision Made Largely Alone (imagine that!) and Olbermann throws a snit and calls Pres. Bush "Worst Person in the World".
