TPC Pre-Roundup
I will be posting a TPC Round shortly. There has been a lot of activity over the past 24 hours and I want to make sure we capture at least the highlights. Having to deal with implementing significant site changes yesterday certainly hasn’t helped.
While I finish working on the roundup, let me briefly point you to a couple of important items.
Congress is rapidly losing its grip, if they ever had it. They are on the verge of giving President Bush everything he wants on the FISA revisions bill, including amnesty for him, his administration, and the major telecom companies that put big bucks into the pockets of his campaigns. It is unconscionable of Congress to do so for many reasons, most of which I have already written about. (More here or here) More on that to come, but in the interim you might want to read the latest piece from the Post. You might also want to get a different perspective on the issue by reading the Washington Times’ piece.
Senate confirmation hearings on Judge Mukasey continue today. Live coverage on C-SPAN3 and streaming video.
Turkey has approved attacks on northern Iraq. Nothing’s happened yet, but there is little doubt the Middle East is as unstable as it has been in many years — more than I can remember. And to top it off, George Bush just could not resist referencing World War III in his press conference yesterday just to insure America and the rest of the world recognize he is relevant.
I would like to do a TPC Roundup everyday, but it is very labor and resource intensive, which would take away from detail coverage of important issues. It can’t be whipped out in a matter of 30 minutes to one hour. If TPC had more resources, then that would be a priority…I’ll talk about that more later.
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