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- Souter Roundup: It's Biden's pick as much as Obama's; is Lindsey Graham a key player in the nomination battle?; Obama shockingly sticks with his campaign-era criteria for picking a judge; and nothing fires up the right wing like a good old fashioned nomination fight.
- Not to diminish the psychological impact of the Specter defection, but what does the Democratic Party have to gain by throwing its full weight behind Specter's re-election and letting him keep plum committee seniority? I hope a real primary occurs so we can learn what Pennsylvania Democrats -- who should be the most important group to render judgment on the party switch -- think about this.
- Nobody could have predicted that the the xenophobic right wing (and some Democrats!) would use the spread of a viral disease as an excuse to bash illegal immigrants. I take it this is part of the conservative movement's grand strategy to attract Latino voters to their caucus.
- I still believe that investigations of the Bush administration's crimes is politically feasible if enough pressure is brought to bear, but that won't stem the tide of responsible journalists like Dana Priest from arguing that waterboarding isn't torture solely because someone in the Bush administration said it wasn't. Keep in mind this is the same Priest who reported on the CIA "black sites" back in 2005.
- The biggest credibility problem that the most prominent voices of the would-be conservative intelligentsia have is their continuing defense of George W. Bush's presidency. Marvel at The Corner's Jay Nordlinger as he asserts that only morally good people admire the 43rd president and ask yourself how deluded you have to be to think that 74 percent of the country are moral degenerates because they rightly concluded that George Bush was national catastrophe. True, this is just Norlinger's (a former Bush speechwriter) opinion but when was the last time you saw a Cornerite being comprehensively critical of W.?
- Remainders: Shapiro asks whether Obama believes cable news is a journalistic wasteland; six years ago today, it was "mission accomplished" in Iraq; and Bunning's future is uncertain in Kentucky.
--Mori Dinauer
