Democrats invoked a rarely used rule today that sent the Senate into a two-hour closed session, infuriating Republicans but producing an agreement for a bipartisan look at whether the Republican leadership was dragging its feet on a promised inquiry into the Bush administration’s use of prewar intelligence on Iraq.
The Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat […]

“EVERYONE THINKS IT IS OVER FOR KARL AND THEY ARE WRONG”…
Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, is expected to plead not guilty to charges that he lied and obstructed justice in the CIA leak probe when he is arraigned Thursday, setting the stage for a possible courtroom fight in which […]

And so I have Schadenfreude. The Palestinians will not export flowers to Holland or fruit to France. The greenhouses will not be rebuilt. The Palestinian economy, such as it is, will continue to be mired in corruption, hatred and violence. They will suffer- Schadenfreude-but still they’ll never admit that it was their own fault.