Black Friday

I shoulda stayed in bed. Morning headlines have curled the milk on my oatmeal.

Read all about it: "Capitol Hill Blowout," money drunk congress passes bloated transportation and energy bill. It will stick since Bush bargained away his veto in order that congress pass CAFTA. Also Bush caves again - there will be no drilling in ANWA.

More, Hillary moves-to-the center tripe, from the Dallas News.

According to the NY Times Majority Leader Frist, breaks with Bush, supports stem cell research. (The only chuckle I got this AM was the thought of Frist running for president - when pigs fly). Bush sends 75,000 document to Judicial Committee. And Air America steals from old people and kids.

In the nomination cave, Bush sends some 75,000 documents to the Judicial Committee regarding Supreme Court nominee John Roberts's tenure with the Reagan administration. This administration has done more to weaken the presidency then any contemporary administration and are inhibiting those aides who are expected to supply candid advise to the president. Steven Calabresi, former staffer, writes in the Weekly Standard,

"IN MY EXPERIENCE as an executive branch staffer, I became persuaded that some senators and congressmen simply do not appreciate how intrusive and improper their document requests are in terms of the chilling effect they have on the internal deliberations of a co-equal branch of the government. I think that is the case here."

If the administration thinks that these documents will win PR points, then once more the Dems have pulled away the football - witness the latest knee jerk statement by Senator Kennedy in which he questions Roberts's "Commitment to Civil Rights." Its doubtful whether Kennedy has read any of the 75,000 document or has found any basis for his charge, but facts has never gotten in the way of the" bloated one" before.

And there is more Hillary, as a centrist, propaganda with her call for unity among Dems at the DLC. The only redeeming facet of this story is the negative reaction by moveon.org and other usual suspects.

Air America; the liberal, would be, answer to Rush Limbaugh, is being accused of diverting money for the elderly and inner city children to itself, but only a few blogs and a community newspaper are reporting the scandal, although the Washington Times has picked up on the story here . The real scandal is that we haven't read about this in the NYT or Wapo.