doctrine of presidential infallibility

* Please Sign Petition Opposing Attack On Iran

* "Army recruiters hit their enlistment targets for the sixth straight month this fiscal year but will still need a strong summer push to reach their year-end goals." (link)
yay, army.

* "But the Army partly owes its success in reaching those goals to the fact that it reduced its monthly targets for six of the first eight months of fiscal 2006." (link)
oops

* wolcott: "Norman Mailer has described the Iraq invasion as the last stand of the white male ego, and the immigration battle may be the white male ego's last gumless roar. Not only because the demonstrations were conducted with such dignity, unanimity of purpose, and uniform discipline (a human river of white shirts and blouses as compared to the motley look of antiwar demos), but because the spokespeople for the other side are putting their case with a passion, logic, pride, command of history, and undauntedness that leaves their debate adversaries dangling off the hook... The grip of fear can't be sustained indefinitely in an open society addicted to entertainment and diversion, and Bush's grip has cracked. He seems a shrugging, camera-mugging irrelevance when you see him on the stump now. It's as if he's trying to convince us he's still in charge, or perhaps trying to convince himself."

* jeralyn: "So is this why Andy Card resigned so suddenly? Did Rove throw him under the bus as well in leading Fitz to the meeting and previously undisclosed e-mails and documents?
Two questions I have after reading Leopold's latest: Where is John Hannah in all this? Is Stephen Hadley a target or a cooperating witness? What will Karl Rove finally get out of all of this, a pass or a plea to a lesser charge?"

* digby: "The question for Bush, Cheney and Libby is whether Karl is cooperating even more fully with Fitzgerald than when he spoke proudly to the FBI of this campaign to discredit Joe Wilson (probably assuming that John Ashcroft would never let the information see the light of day.) His lawyer certainly has been tightlipped lately.
If Waas' story is correct, Karl Rove undercut Libby's defense from the get. No wonder Libby wants to see what Karl specifically said."

* digby on iran: "This president has asserted a doctrine of presidential infallibility. He does not believe that he can be stopped. And the way things are going I think he may think he has nothing to lose. There has been a sense of craziness in the air ever since 9/11, but it's just taken a very, very surreal turn."