Friday, September 30, 2005

what issue torpedoed David Dreier?

* yesterday josh marshall asked: "Who will bag tomorrow's big story: what happened inside that House GOP caucus meeting this afternoon? Just what issue torpedoed David Dreier after Speaker Hastert had given him the nod? What about the folks outside the meeting? Rove weighed in. What did he say? Time for DeLay to go? How about Spongebob nemesis James Dobson? Would he not abide David Dreier?"

* billmon today: "I'm having a 1984 moment on the Internet tonight -- one in which the "news" I thought I read just a few hours has already been replaced with a different set of facts, without any acknowledgement from Minitrue that something has changed....
The stories I'd read earlier in the day seemed to have all changed. Now Roy Blunt was moving up, and Dreier had turned into someone who would be "helping out" in some vague, unspecified way."
the answer to Josh's question: No-one.

* "A Pentagon analyst (larry franklin) charged with providing classified information to an Israeli official and members of a pro-Israeli lobbying group (aipac) will plead guilty" (link)
i wonder what deal he got? i wonder how nervous everyone is?

* "A defense official who asked not to be named said the (abu grahib/ darby) ruling does not necessarily mean the immediate release of the images, noting the possibility of appeal." (link)
thats some pretty non-specific language. maybe we will see the pix - the release date is oct 18 or thereabouts.

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