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Seven sounds like a good number

For seven weeks, in the seventh year of the new millennium, the Congress will sit in session, without break, to put both houses in order.

This will be an historical Congress, whether they succeed or fail, and I wish them every success, and a well deserved rest every seven days.

Read Oreo’s diary for the story.

Hat-tip to Athenae.

Speculation on 2008

Since everyone seems to be doing it in blogtopia (y!sctp!), here’s my projection for the 2008 match-up:

John Edwards / Barack Obama
Democratic Party
versus
John McCain / Joe Lieberman
Vanity “Independent” Party

Consider this an open thread.

A Christmas carol

Live in peace again.

Hat-tip to FoM.

Agree

Impeachment is about getting to a formal charge of high crimes and misdemeanors, it does not need to be named to be the process which a Congressional inquiry is likely to lead to.

Watch out for that tree

For those who tell the truth

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“I will give to eat from the tree of life.”

Is John Bush suicidal?

At this point, his “stay the course” plan is to play a game of Russian Roulette until discharge is accomplished.

Does this seem like an unserious question? A man who has lost all credibility and respect in the world, and refuses to admit defeat, has little else to consider.

Will the secret service protect him from himself?

Karma does not end.

Update: Oh go see Echidne and watch the video.

Lying to start a war is a war crime

Colin Powell despises his employers, but serves them without compunction,

Walking into the United Nations, Powell understood he was being used by the administration to persuade not foreign governments but the American people. And persuade them he did. Before his speech, DeYoung points out, two-thirds of Americans were against going to war; after it, half of them favored war. Three-quarters of those polled by The Los Angeles Times said they felt Powell had proved the case against Iraq. Before the speech Colin Powell was the most unambiguously admired figure in public life. “You’ve got high poll ratings,” Cheney said to him beforehand, as he poked Powell in the chest. “You can afford to lose a few points.” “They needed him to do it,” Powell’s wife, Alma, says here, “because they knew people would believe him.”

How you feel about all this will probably say as much about you as it does about Powell. On the one hand, it would have been useful, in retrospect, if he had sacrificed his career for the sake of his country; on the other hand, at the time it wasn’t clear, even to Powell, that his country was making a colossal mistake, or that he had the power to prevent it. But because his decision not to take Bush on directly had the pleasant side effect of preserving his job and his status, it feels, again in retrospect, as if it was another case of Powell being unwilling to do anything that might damage his career.

Read the whole article by Michael Lewis in the New York Times.

Hat-tip to Jerome Doolittle.