NUTHIN' BUT 'NET
Posted: Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:31 PM by Daily Nightly Editor
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Nuthin' but 'Net
by Chris Colvin
Hi. Still battling it out over Iraq in Washington.. with the new twist that Bin Laden seems determined to attack inside the U.S... again. Also, nervous knots over the state of the subprime mortgage debt situation, Fred Thompson runs a reverse, and a history lesson on the claims of the Swift Boat veterans.
With everyone reporting on Iraq's benchmark progress getting an Incomplete, Bob Woodward weighs in with a nice little nugget about how the CIA knew the Maliki government was hopeless eight months ago. DevilsTower at DailyKos doesn't think much of that interim progress report. But Kimberly Kagan says the surge is working. (should the Wall Street Journal have pointed out she's married to surge architect Fred Kagan?, Just askin')
Joe Sudbay at Americablog bemoans the defeat of the Webb troop readiness Amendment. But Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters explains why the defeat of the Webb Amendment is good.
The newly-minted Pentagon spokesman in Iraq, Gen. Kevin Bergner, insists that al-Qaida (not even al Qaida in Iraq--now it's bin Laden's al Qaida) is enemy number one now. And Moon of Alabama notes that Bergner's last job... was on the White House staff.
Speaking of al-Qaida (the bin Laden AQ not AQI) Newsweek tells us that al Qaida terrorists are gearing up to come kill Americans. But Rick Santorum via InformationLiberation wants you to know that there's an upside-- it will vindicate the Republican Party. Atrios is mystified by that analysis.
And Professor Bainbridge wants to know, "what's the point?" of the war in Iraq given the latest news on al Qaeda (that's bin Laden AQ Qaeda not AQI.)
Oh and Josh at TalkingPointsMemo notes that the President matter-of-factly acknowledged his staff outed a covert CIA agent today.
The economy-- the markets are roaring skyward today, but there's worry over billions in subprime mortagge debt. The New York Post sums up in plain language what's happening.
Business Week takes a look at who some of the Bear Stearns hedge fund bagholders are.
Michelle Malkin points out that it's not just mortgage debt that's distressed these days.. the New York Times had its bond rating downgraded.
Politics: Fred Thompson tacitly admits lobbying for an abortion rights group just days after his spokes people flat-out denied the original report in the LA Times.
So you have Tucker Carlson calling Barack Obama a "wuss" and Maureen Dowd referring to him as "Obambi." Now there's this from Michael Scherer of Salon.. who finds an academic in Iowa who tells him that Obama is "the woman" in the Democratic race while Hillary Clinton is "the man." Not sure what it's going to take for this to stop passing as political analysis in this country... but whatever it is, it probably won't be "pretty."
David Corn unearths some quotes from Senator David Vitter on the Clinton sex scandal.
And Sister Toldja explains the difference between preaching the goodness of living a moral life and being immune from temptation.
And there's more where that came from? RawStory says Hustler is tracking 20 DC sex
scandals.
The New York Times covers the NYC firefighters who have some issues with former Mayor Giuliani. And for everyone who keeps comparing the firefighters video to the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry, Eric Boehlert has a helpful reminder of the "truthiness" that was contained in all those Swift Boat claims.
