More stuff you should be reading instead of this lousy blog… #

• Digby? At Hullabaloo? Rocks.
• John Kerry saved a man’s life in 1988. Bush must be seething. I mean, what do you do to top this guy? Gotta go negative, I guess. (via Atrios)
• I’m loving First Draft, the new blog run by Pie, Athenae, Holden, and the rest of the gang who filled in for Atrios. Athenae has this snippet of a Salt Lake Trip editorial telling the national media to go home and quit covering the Lori Hacking case. Well said.
• Brad DeLong links to a website for “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” Republicans. Nice to see the pendulum swinging back the other way a bit.
• Over at Fanatical Apathy, Adam Felber nicely co-opts his hypothetical spawn into helping him make a point about why the charge against Kerry’s flip-flopping on war support is invalid.

  I still have a problem with the senators who supported the war resolution, however, including John Kerry. I understand the political landscape of a post-9/11 world, yet nothing in our history lent any credence to the claim that Congress had to forfeit their oversight in order to keep us safer. I and many of the people I talked to were against the resolution at the time. Other presidents have been able to deal with national crises without Congressional pre-approval, and I expect our representatives to jealously guard the separation of powers outlined under our Constitution. Kerry’s statements during the debate may explain his thinking – and his thinking may even be understandable given the tenor of the times – but they do not excuse his dereliction in his sworn duty to protect the Constitution. #

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