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Per Brian Beutler, the Democrats are passing around the Hill the chart below, which demonstrates how the Republican desire to delay the Sotomayor confirmation compares to SCOTUS confirmations of years past:

Torture doesn’t work. Actual intelligence professionals-not armchair generals, or folks who think 24 is based on a true story-know this, and have been saying so for years. And last Sunday we learned that despite their protests to the contrary, the Bush administration knew this, too.

I’m not brimming with hope that those associated with the Bush administration (and its related atrocities) will have to pay the piper. But attempts are being made and that’s certainly better than nothing. 
John Conyers, the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has delivered a subpoena to Karl Rove. Rove is expected to appear in [...]

The other day in the Washington Post, Dan Froomkin provided us all with a one-stop catalog of, um, catalogs of the failures of the Bush presidency, page after page of quotes from politicos and pundits near and far, the vast majority incredulous about just what has been going on for the last eight years. For [...]

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is bragging about a phone call he made to George W. Bush that made the U.S. abstain from voting for a U.N. resolution to stop the Gaza fighting. Israel didn’t think the plan provided for their security. Condoleezza Rice had helped craft the proposal and appealed to other countries to [...]

Paul Krugman reported having a spot of trouble the other day:
Unusually, I’m having a vocabulary problem. There has to be some word for the kind of person who considers his mild discomfort the equivalent of torture, crippling injury, or death for other people. But I can’t think of it.
What brings this to mind is this [...]

Okay, day after Christmas, back at it. Paul Krugman graced us with this in yesterday’s New York Times:
…President-elect Barack Obama, riding a wave of revulsion over what conservatism has wrought, has said that he wants to “make government cool again.”
Before Mr. Obama can make government cool, however, he has to make it good.
True enough, as [...]

This oughta blow your mind:
And while he will miss many things about Washington, he won’t miss “the petty name-calling,” Mr. Bush said.
“I came with the idea of changing the tone in Washington, and frankly didn’t do a very good job of it,” he said.
I…just…wow. Wow. This is understatement on a scale so epic it’s impossible [...]

From The Editors, the best explanation of Bush’s shoe-dodging I’ve yet seen:
Judged as a display of alertness and ninja prowess, the President’s dodge is, indeed, impressive.  But George W. Bush has spent most of his life fucking things up horribly, and then escaping any consequences for his incompetence and indifference.  This is who he is. [...]

From the “not really news to those who’ve been paying attention” files comes this little ditty from UPI:
 
An investigation of the U.S. Interior Department found serious flaws related to 15 decisions on policies for species at risk of becoming extinct, said the report delivered to Congress by Inspector General Earl E. Devaney.
One of those decisions [...]