And What of It?

McClatchy Newspapers -WASHINGTON – The White House acknowledged on Sunday that presidential adviser Karl Rove served as a conduit for complaints to the Justice Department about federal prosecutors who were later fired for what critics charge were partisan political reasons.

This came as a Scooty Libby to me,  I had forgotten that both Hillary Clinton (House) and Fred Thompson(Senate) had both worked as staff lawyers on Watergate.   As they are potential rivals for the presidency, a comparison their Watergate careers

Is there a market for Chuck Hagel as a presidential candidate in the Republican Party? Short answer: No

Scott Johnson, Powerline.

… starts getting interesting, that is.

Former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) is contacting powerbrokers in the Republican Party to build support for a 2008 presidential campaign by his one-time protégé, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.).

Baker, who

On the American Thinker, J. Peter Mulhern makes a bold charge:
 

Patrick Fitzgerald is a disgrace both to the legal profession and to the human race. His partisan allies, such as Senator Chuck Schumer and certain nameless bureaucrats at

What I find easy to believe about Susan Estrich is that she is a blonde.   What I find hard to believe is that she actually managed a presidential campaign. Micheal Dukakis   That her candidate lost, is quite believable.

Estrich is 

John McCain has spent six years working diligently to offend the conservatives whose support he now needs. Right now he trails Giuliani by 20 points. That may well represent the high point of his campaign.

Hugh Hewitt.   Read Hugh’s column, 

As Bit said, Howard Dean is mad because Ann Coulter inferred that John Edwards is a faggot.  

“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have

McCain has no business running for the Republican nomination.

Ed Morrissey.  Read the full story, here.

“Nobody will out-mud the Clintons.

Newt Gingrich

I suggest that David Geffen be made an honorary Snarker.   While I neither patronize his movies nor endorse his left wing politics, Geffen appears to have broken the MSM taboo not discussing Mrs.

The Morrises, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, attempt to explain John McCain’s campaign collapse.   The Morrrises attrit over seventeen hundred words in the process, and fail.  Don Surber does the job in but two words  — McCain-Feingold:

Americans do

Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters, thinks the media is really despereate.  Kevin Hayden, American Street, tells the MSM to “Stop this shit.”

I say, briing it on.  The Associated Press has just changed the rules of

Joe Lieberman is a Democrat, but apparently not for long, or so says Carrie Budoff of “The Politico”:

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut told the Politico on Thursday that he has no immediate plans to switch parties but suggested

I see via email that Nathan Tabor has announced he will be serving as Director of Internet Outreach for Duncan Hunter’s presidential campaign.

Says Tabor:

“I joined the Hunter campaign because of his commitment to conservative principles. Duncan Hunter is

Forget,the catchy headline,‘McCain Comes Alive in Iowa.”    If you actually read Dan Batz’s Washington Post article, unlike the headline writer, you will note the McCain comes across as anything but alive:

In interviews, the Arizona Republican has spoken