Got a Saturday off. Imagine that.
Meanwhile, I’ve been playing around over at Project Playlist, which is a maddening place - sometimes the tracks work, sometimes they don’t, so you’re on your own here. One of these days they’ll make a better Internets. And a happy weekend to ya’ll.

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Columnist over at MSN Money predicting that oil may fall - as much as 10 percent! - between now and the fall, but there are “some nasty shocks on the supply side just waiting in the wings,” such as this:
The bad news on the supply side is likely to reach a peak in November when […]

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Peggy Noonan, whom I seem to agree with more and more these days, weighs in on the McClellan business in a piece titled - as Bigby asked in a previous thread -  “But is it true?”:

The left, while embracing the book’s central assertions, will paint him as a weasel who belatedly ‘fessed up. They’re big on […]

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McClellan goes on Olbermann last night to talk about his book and says something destined to outrage the 28 pecenters, but which makes perfect, unfortunate sense for everyone else:
I think that you would need to take [the administration’s] comments [on Iran] very seriously and be skeptical.

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Regarding this nugget from Joe H., Pat Buchanan has been a very vocal critic of the Bush administration for some time. Few years back he wrote “Where The Right Went Wrong,” which I read on vacation in ‘06; the critiques of how the administration approached the war in Iraq might have been made on Daily […]

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This one’s been floating around for a few days in the wake of the McClellan business. I’ll leave it for you to decide whom it sounds like…
In order to make groupthink testable, Irving Janis devised eight symptoms that are indicative of groupthink (1977).
1. Illusions of invulnerability creating excessive optimism and encouraging risk taking.
2. Rationalising warnings […]

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There’s a pretty interesting video making the rounds this week in which Bill O’Reilly has a guest on who opposes gay marriage, and O’Reilly asks him - well, why do you oppose gay marriage - and the guy simply can’t come up with anything coherent. And O’Relly sort of gets on the guy’s case. Which, […]

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Atrios talking here about urban development, but could be talking too about development in places like Lancaster County:
People see a big project coming and they worry about disruption to their neighborhood and an increase in traffic/decrease in local available parking. But worrying too much about minimizing disruption leads to people wanting to simply shrink a […]

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Honor, duty. But how about, as John Lennon said, Gimme some truth:
Some former White House spokesmen think Bush’s one-time press secretary, Scott McClellan, should have stepped down if he really believed, as he says in his new book, that Bush “signed off on a strategy for selling the war that was less than candid and […]

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And so I had this idea that the kids, being baseball players and all, would like to do a night at the Barnstormers - onto the field with the players for the national anthem, the “Field of Dreams” thing.
Little did I know.
Amidst schedule changes and personnel changes and last-second phone calls and the absolute ton […]

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I like to see this as a sign of changing times. A very, very good sign.

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Unless you’re a winger.
Mike Turk served as the eCampaign director for President Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign. As such, his tenure corresponded with that of McClellan’s. No longer connected to the administration, Turk is now one of the few (if any) voices with connections to that crowd who are saying, quiet simply, that the book “What […]

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Iran has always been in “secret talks” with Eastasia… er, al Qaeda.
Watch for the “proof,” the causus belli to justify the attack we plan to make no matter what, in the coming months.

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Or why the fading of the “mirage economy” means all of us are going to be a little poorer, or a lot:
What I’ve described is a double whammy for American households: the slower growth that comes with downsizing a number of key industries that expanded as a result of the credit bubble, along with rising […]

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Sadly! No sums up the right’s reaction to the McClellan memoirs:

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So if Rupert Murdoch is this enthused about Barack Obama, how long ’til Sean Hannity learns to love?:
Tonight at the “All Things Digital” conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal. Rupert Murdoch — Chairman of News Corp, new WSJ owner, and longtime torchbearer for conservative politics — said this about Barack Obama: “He is a rock […]

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About right:
The fact is: the worst elements of American conservatism took hold under Bush and the better angels surrendered. You can find in the Reagan era two strands. The first is smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation, strong, pragmatic defense, judicial restraint, individual freedom, personal responsibility. The second is executive over-reach, fiscal irresponsibility, impulsive interventionism, […]

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Right.
“The president was very clear about the reasons for going to war,” she told reporters at a news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in Stockholm where she is attending an international conference on Iraq.
Chief among those reasons was the belief, shared widely before the war, that Saddam Hussein had or was developing weapons […]

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In which Michelle Malkin jumps the shark via powerboat. But wins a glorious victory for… something.

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Hilarious. Firedoglake runs down the reaction to “Scott the Snitch” in right blogistan, and it’s everything you’d expect:
1) He’s just trying to sell books!

Scott McClellan learns that the way to get good press as a Republican is to write a book burning a Republican president.

2) He’s a liar!

There’s always a demand for a professional liar.

3) […]

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