News from a slow Monday

There are several interesting news stories up today:

• FBI, IRS searching Stevens' Girdwood house
  Anchorage Daily News on FBI and IRS raid on home of Sen. Ted Stevens.


• FBI raid
  TPM report and video on the raid on Alaska Sen. Steven's home.


• Edwards: "They want to shut me up"
  From the Politico. Edwards recognizes the threat he is to conservatives and shows how they are trying to marginalize him.


• GOP: Want a Reagan? Look to Goldwater
  Michael O'Brien at Politico suggest that instead of modeling on Reagan, the Republican candidates for the Presidential nomination might do better by modeling on Goldwater.


• Mikey strikes again
  Jonathon Martin at Politico points to the anemic fundraising reported by Fred Thompson and suggests that he is not long for this campaign.


• Novak
  Laura Rozen links to the traitor Bob Novak who describes a risky Bush covert action trying to suppress Kurdish Guerrillas in order to keep Turkey from invading Iraq. Laura describes it as a PR leak to Novak designed to assuage Turkish feelings of being ignored.


• Cheney Big Brother?
  Laura Rozen published in Mother Jones - was it Cheney rather than Bush who sent Gonzales to strong arm AG Ashcroft into approving from his hospital bed the domestic spying program that then acting attorney general James Comey had refused to reauthorize?


• The Cambodia Card
  Rick Perlstein debunks the right-wing myth of the Cambodia "Killing Fields" as an example of Leftist politics.


• Chief Justice Roberts Suffers Seizure
  This is Robert's second seizure. The first was in 1993. A person who has two seizures meets the definition of epilepsy.


• Destroying The GOP's Congressional Approval-Rating Spin
  Republicans really, really want to ignore Bush's truly rotten approval ratings. This is another of their "Don't look at the little man behind the curtin" crap. Bob Geiger does a good job of debunking the conservative crap.


• Impeach Gonzales?
  Jay Inslee (D-WA) to drop the resolution asking the Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.


• When an Interview Is Definitely a Blow-Job
  EmptyWheel expresses her disgust at the apparent avoidance of real contact with the Press when faking an interview to describe his performance as Federal Reserve Chairman.


• The Rubber-Stampers’ Latest Contortion
  The Congressional Republican fake resolution introduced so that they can look like they are voting to get out if Iraq without in anyway forcing Bush to get out of Iraq. The original article is quoted and then debunked. Bush won't move to leave IRaq, and the Republicans won't vote to force him to leave. How do they run for reelection? Vote for fake withdrawal proposals.