bizarre

* jeralyn: "There's some ingenuity in Rove's plan. If Americans accept it for the Congressional races in 2006, those of us who could make a difference in the Presidential election of 2008 will all be in jail."

* "Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's lawyers said Sunday they are seeking to file a case against President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair." (link)

* "Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday ridiculed as "bizarre" a U.S. report that senior al Qaeda leaders were killed in a CIA attack on a home along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border." (link)

* jane used 'threnody' in a sentence. (link)

* Glenn: "What lies at the center of so many of our current political controversies is fear. Fear-mongering is the one and only weapon which Bush followers use time and again to solidify their support. When Karl Rove says, as he did yesterday, that "national security" is going to be the centerpiece of the GOP pitch leading into the 2006 elections, what he means is that they are going to spend the next 10 months doing everything possible to scare Americans as much as possible so that they once again dispense with all other issues and throw themselves into the arms of the party which promises to be their Protector."

* glenn: "Saddam Hussein's defense theory at his war crimes trial in Baghdad sure does sound an awful lot like the Bush Administration's theories as to why they have the right to violate the law... Hussein must somehow be obtaining copies of the letters which Alberto Gonazelez has been writing in order to defend George Bush and is apparently taking copious notes, because he has almost every one of Gonzalez's points down pat. Uncanny, isn't it? Bush and Saddam have exactly the same view of what it means to be President and how it means that they get to break the law as long as they are doing it to defend the country. " (link)

* "The Bush administration has just named a lobbyist as deputy director of intelligence in the homeland security department." (link)