Scott Shane wrote an article that is really about investigating Dick Cheney. But the whole thing is completely neurotic about any discussion of Cheney.

It seems that whether it is Henry Paulson, Tim Geithner or the yammering dipsticks on CNBC, it seems the there has been a headlong rush to seek analysis, wisdom and solutions from the very self proclaimed geniuses that put the US and the world in the problem to start with. Aren’t there any big bankers/finance ministers that really got it right? Yes, his name is Riad Toufic Salame and he is Lebanon’s Central Banker.

Why won’t the Appeals Court let Obama try to broker a deal between Harriet Miers and the House Judiciary Committee?

I tell you what, those Republicans may not have squat for rational ideas, but they sure have some humor. Heck, it was less than two days ago we were watching Steele and Boner in “DC Vice”. Fear not intrepid viewers, these jokers are bringin da funny all over. Now we have the humor of Lo

The legal games in the al-Haramain litigation have moved on to the question of who gets to determine whether litigants have the need to know that they need before getting top secret security clearance.

Via Laura Rozen comes reference to a chilling piece by Sam Quinones in Foreign Policyon the drug smuggling violence that has escalated to a total state of war rivaling levels in Iraq. it is easy to forget what is going on just across the border. Easy, at least, until you take in Sam Quinones’ tale:

As I indicated yesterday in the post “Why American Industry (And Its Future) Matters”, we have the privilege of having author William J. Holstein today at Emptywheel and Firedoglake to talk about his excellent book “Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon”.

I have a busy morning here, but want to draw attention to an article this morning in the New York Times by Robert Pear on the ongoing discussions of healthcare reform for the United States:Since last fall, many of the leading figures in the nation’s long-running health care debate have been meeting secretly in a Senate hearing room. It is not not a great plan they appear to be cooking up.

At the end of December last year, Emptywheel reported that noted high powered Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman had filed a defamation suit against the New York Times. What was at issue in the article behind the lawsuit was the appearance of an affair, not an affair itself, and the beliefs of McCain staffers about that appearance of an affair. That has been borne out by the complete dismissal of the lawsuit.

Well, you just knew that the GOP wouldn’t take the bonecrushing loss in last November’s elections to Rico Suave Obama and too cool for school Dems lightly. They were, like an octogenarian on Viagra, going to get hip. Or a hip replacement. Whatever. They started by electing the rootin tootin slick dick midnight mustache Michael Steele as DNC Chairman. Between Steele and Boner Boehner, what could go wrong?