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Wednesday, 2005 November 2 - 2:18 am
Roundup of the usual suspects.

It's too early to tell what might happen with Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. A few Democratic senators already seem to be gearing up for a fight, raising the possibility of a filibuster to prevent his confirmation... while the Republican leadership in the Senate is trotting out "the nuclear option" as a counterstrike weapon again. Except, in classic Orwellian double-speak, they're now calling it "the Constitutional option". GAG. I think we might even see some partisan acrimony in the moderate "Gang of 14", the bipartisan group of senators who averted this showdown earlier. Like I said, this could get ugly.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid sent the Senate into a rare closed-door session on Tuesday. This was to protest the slowness of the investigation into the buildup to the Iraq war, by a Senate committee. Republicans derided this measure as a publicity stunt to keep Scooter Libby in the headlines. True, perhaps, but it worked, didn't it?

The outcome of the session was that a task force was appointed to report on the committee's progress. Just to be clear: the Senate essentially created a committee to investigate a committee that was investigating the Iraq war. Ah, bureaucracy. My question is, what happens if this new committee fails to do its job? I think we're gonna need some more committees.

And speaking of the Iraq war, two terrorism experts have concluded that the U.S. is losing the war on terror, and that the invasion of Iraq has actually made things worse, not better. America's image among Muslims is at a dangerously low point, and Iraq is now a new breeding ground for terrorist activity.

I hope that by now, this is not a surprise to anyone. Or as we would say in junior high school: NO DUH.
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