• Once democrats retake the congress, Bush will be headed to South America, after the impeachment. [FrontPage Magazine]

• Bill O’Reilly is so far in Bush’s head, he sees what the president sees, knows what he knows. [300 Dollar Wonder]
• Oh God! Yeah, God. Just like that, God. Don’t stop, God! [Boozhy]
• Curt Weldon emails his supporters to let them know the “left wing liberal attack machine” is much more dangerous than his Serbian warlord golfing buddies. [Hotline on Call]
• Weldon apparently not just blaming Democrats out of paranoid reflex, actually believes in a DOJ conspiracy to get him. [TPMMuckracker]
• Rick Santorum knows Pennsylvania loves killin’ terrorists. With just one shot, cause “two is pussy.” [Tristram Shandy]
• RNC uses fear mongering technique pioneered by LBJ in the ’60s. [The Swamp]
• Blogger who hates Jerry Weller says “The Rumor” about him isn’t true. Seeing as Weller is a GOP incumbent, that must just mean he’s done something much, much worse. [The Capitol Fax Blog]

It’s been a slow news week, so this morning I was all, like, OMG, do I really have to read the entire new Charles Krauthammer column in the Washington Post to eke out an item? Happily, no! All you have to do is get one line in to discover that in Krauthammerland there were no significant wars for, like, most of the 20th century:

1861. 1941. 2001. Our big wars — and the war on terrorism ranks with the big ones — have a way of starting in the first year of a decade. Supreme Courts, which historically have been loath to intervene against presidential war powers in the midst of conflict, have tended to give the president until mid-decade to do what he wishes to the Constitution in order to win the war.

Interesting opener, isn’t it? What about that war that had Loretta Swit and Alan Alda in it? I seem to remember that one got totally good ratings. And there was a later one, too, I’m pretty sure, and it had awesome guest stars like Tom Cruise and Christopher Walken and Martin Sheen. No? Pffft, Charles Krauthammer doesn’t want to hear about your girly wars. MORE »

• Files show Roberts tried to “shield” President Reagan and his administration from legal troubles, “political blunders and public relations missteps.” In 1985, Roberts advised on AIDS: “I do not think we should have the president taking a position on a disputed scientific issue of this sort.” [NYT, LAT]
• Roberts disapproved expansion of women’s rights by the Reagan administration and questioned legal challenges to the “purported gender gap.” [WP, LAT]
• Shaffer says claims about Able Danger are from two associates, not his own memory. [WP]
• “The Democrats aren’t scoring points in terms of landing any significant punches on Bush or in terms of saying anything meaningful to the American people,” says Zogby. [WT]
• Sheehan leaves Crawford to visit her hospitalized mother; expects to return to ranch soon. [NYT]
• Roberts supported national identification cards in 1983; argued cards would “not suddenly mean constitutional protections would evaporate.” [WSJ, USAT]

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