Oh flippeter floppeter! Remember how Barack Obama made so much fun of John McCain for wanting to form a “9/11 Commission” to investigate the terrorist financial bomb that hit Wall Street this weekend so that the commission could, in a year or two, make a bunch of recommendations for everyone to ignore? Well it turns out that Obama used to love commissions and voted in favor of a number of them over the years, so now he will be found guilty of treason and banished to outer space to count rats forever. [YouTube via Instapundit]

Sandy Berger deserves a medal just for allowing this lede to exist: MORE »

True, it’s already old news that the 9/11 Public Discourse Project gave the Bush Administration and Congress a lousy report card for their efforts to ensure our homeland against future terrorist attacks. But while we know the Project handed out plenty of D’s and F’s in esoteric, post-graduate subjects like “Improve airline passenger pre-screening” and “Maximum Effort By U.S. Government To Secure WMD,” we decided to tally up all the grades and determine an overall GPA. MORE »

The 9/11 Public Discourse Project, known to old-schoolers as simply the 9/11 Commission, today announced the state of preparedness for a U.S. terror attack is dismal. Commissioners examined 41 points of federal preparedness, and gave the feds less than passing grades on many fronts: MORE »

• Roberts supports privacy rights, wavers on Roe; Schumer is “pleasantly surprised.” Gary Bauer: “A careful reading of the transcript shows he committed to nothing once [Roberts] is on the court. We are left with what we always had. . . a new conservative majority.” [WP, WP, NYT, NYT, WSJ, LAT, USAT]
• Bush: “Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government, and to the extent that the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility. I want to know what went right and what went wrong.” [WP, NYT]
• Roberts remained posed and cautious: “He listened. He smiled. He nodded.” Brownstein: He “exuded the quiet confidence of a man who knew that he was ahead in the game during a lengthy but mostly sedate confirmation hearing Tuesday. . . Roberts’ performance marked a bright spot for a White House battered by criticism of its response to Hurricane Katrina, and demonstrated the inherent vitality of presidential power.” [NYT, LAT, NYT]
• FAA knew Al Qaeda wanted “to hijack a commercial jet and slam it into a U.S. landmark” in 1998 and knew vulnerability of airports. Kean: “[Katrina] is not a terrorist incident, but it brings into play all of the same issues and shortcomings. . . Whoever is responsible for acting in these places hasn’t acted. Are they going to do it now? What else has to happen for people to act?” [NYT, WP]
• Democrats, led by Hillary, seek investigation of government’s response to Katrina. [NYT]
• Homeland Security officials will oversee distribution of Katrina relief funds to ensure responsible spending. [WSJ, NYT]
• Texas grand jury issues more indictments in DeLay case. [WP, LAT]