5 Counts: Obstruction of Justice Perjury (2x) False Statements (2x) Nothing regarding the actual leak, all behavior during the investigation. Stupid and inexcusable. But not treason. Fire him and move on. *** Update *** Libby resigned. *** Update *** Oddly enough, Slate is describing me as ‘downplaying the charges.’ I am not sure how calling …
Archives for October 2005
Peak Oil
Interesting diary at dKos on oil profits and oil production. See also this on oil sands (h/t Malkin).
Take The Week-end Off, Hugh
Hugh Hewitt continues his rearguard defense of the now dead Miers nomination, and writes: Everyone can say it isn’t raining where they live, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t raining in a lot of places. Professor Adler needs to go back to The Corner’s archive, to October 3, and start reading. (I can’t find the …
BlogFights Update
Steve Gilliard’s public meltdown continues as he rants incoherently in a public letter to Robert George (George’s latest take is here): Dearest Robert, I would e-mail you this, but since you monitor my site, I will just post it up. Robert, Robert, Robert, why did you need Andy Sullivan of all people, to stick up …
Just A Little Longer
I know everyone is waiting for the indictments- just wait a little bit longer. This NY Times story seems to claim Rove will not be indicted: Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, is expected to be indicted today for making false statements to the grand jury in the C.I.A. leak case, …
More Buffy
While a lot of people did not like season 6, and some even have written off season 7 and did not watch them, with the second viewing I am finding that there are some episodes that are really great in both seasons, and my opinion of them has risen. For example, Selfless is just spectacular, …
Time To Strangle Another Meme
Hugh Hewitt writes: Let me be the first to say that whomever the president nominates, he or she deserves an up-or-down vote in the Senate. The clear implication, of course, is that somehow the principle of an ‘up-or-down’ vote for judges was dismissed or ignored during the Miers affair, and that folks like me acted …