After a day spent trashing the administration for doing their job, the Political Animal now grudgingly concedes there may just me something to the latest terror threat:
After spending some time reading about the CIA’s “multiple streams” of intelligence regarding uranium from Niger, I’m not as impressed by this as I might have been a year ago. Still, even though my trusting nature has taken a beating lately, for now it looks like this is probably the real deal, not just a politically motivated announcement designed to scare everyone into voting for George Bush (The Only Candidate Who’s Tough on Terror
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Gee, John, you’re certainly not the first right-winger to favor euthanasia.
By the way, Wilson’s exposed showboating hardly resuscitates the verity of the sixteen words. They were crap then, as “a confused White House”–to use Tom McGuire’s own telling words–admitted then, and they’re crap now.
As for Hugh Hewitt, it’s funny how he condemns Dean for painting with a broad brush re: the GOP (though my reading of Dean’s words was that they were meant only for our confused White House), and then proceeds to tar all Democrats, despite the fact that most prominents have distanced themselves from Dean’s remarks. Not as funny as Hewitt’s face, however: I saw the guy for the first time on Dennis Miller’s show the other evening (and he was saying how the Berger affair was the biggest scandal since Watergate). Did he receive severe burns as a child? There’s some sort of facial reconstruction going on there.