Republican legislator Scott Boggio booked for a DUI, with an alcohol blood-level content of 0.14, nearly twice the legal limit. He was out joy-riding with fellow GOP legislator, and Yellowstone County DUI task force member, Elsie Arntzen.
Shane sees a lesson about this year’s House Republicans in the DUI affair; Ed Kemmick thinks legislators should honor their positions and act responsibly. (Matt’s take. Pogie’s take.)
The GOP says they may “skip” the Health and Human Services budget. Um…is that another way of saying there will be no H&HS budget? No, that means House Republicans are begging Senate Democrats to “plug” the H&HS budget into another spending bill, and send it back to the House. Personally I think the Senate should “plug” the entire text of HB 2 into one of the GOP’s bills and send it back.
Matt sums up TPM readers’ findings in DoJ documents concerning Bill Mercer.
Tester and Baucus call on Mercer to choose a job, either as the state’s attorney, or as the number three man at the DoJ. The first rumblings…
Tester works to ensure fair freight shipping rates for Montana farmers.
The Politico names Tester the “workhorse” of the freshmen Democrats.
Shane comments on Dennis Rehberg’s vote against properly equipping troops deploying to Iraq.
Al Gore to climate-change-doubter, Joe Barton (R-TX): “”The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says, ‘You have to intervene here,’ you don’t say, ‘Well, I read a science fiction novel that says this isn’t important.’”
Apparently denying climate change is the official position of the Republican Party.
Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) dismisses the suffering of Iraqi vets at Walter Reed.
Pinochet-hunter and Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon is coming after the Bush administration war makers.
Thomas Friedman: give it just one more Friedman unit!
Prosecutor purge: An 18-day gap in DoJ documents found to exist, correspondence likely to include conversations with the Bush administration. (Anybody else remembering a similar gap?)
House Democrats bring it to Bush, plan to issue subpoenas to Karl Rove and Harriet Miers. Excellent news.
Bob Barr: “The Department of Justice is being used as a political football by the administration.”
And here’s Steve Benen’s daily links to the latest on the prosecutor purge.
Why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s confessions prove torture is ineffectual.
The US is building permanent bases in Iraq…
John Bolton appears on The Daily Show. You’ve got to give Bolton some credit for going on the show…
And Jon Stewart on McCain’s “Curved Talk” Weiner Mobile.
Corporate mind control at work: McDonald’s wants dictionaries to remove “mcjob” from the popular lexicon.
Radar’s ten horniest Presidents…
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