The "failure is not an option" quote applies not to KSM, but to the trial of the Bush administration, the real defendant here.

Lon is absolutely right. Sarah Palin is not serious. After all, she didn't even know that there are 57 states in the United States. What were Republicans thinking?

One wonders if Ms. Quinn's ability to read the souls of people like Sarah Palin is a divine gift or, like her career at the Washington Post, a consequence of her marriage to Ben Bradley.

Mrs. Palin's qualifications for high office or significant influence in American politics will be determined by the public in due course. In the meantime, the rest of us should simply rejoice to be living in these times when our President is able, simply through the power of his rhetoric, to cause the sea levels to decrease and temperatures to drop worldwide. Truly, these are wondrous times.

This isn't a trial for KSM at all, the Bush administration is the only defendant Mr. holder and president obama care about. They will very cheerfully subordinate all other considerations to presecuting that case.

When Sen. Robert (the Grand Kleagle) Byrd (motto: "Welcome to West Byrdginia, Y'all") is against a bill, you know it absolutely has to be lousy. They can't even bribe him to support it.
'Nuff said.

I'm uncommitted to Sarah Palin, but every time I hear another media attack on her, I'm reminded of the days prior to 1976 when "Everyone knew" that Ronald Reagan was a right wing kook, an "amiable dunce" and dangerous for this country.
I'm waiting and watching.

Very true. Unfortunately, there are no politicians who support smaller government. They only disagree about who should be in charge of the ever larger government.

I'm curious as to how many of these new cars are going to be repo'ed in the next 12 - 18 months. Doubtless, we'll never hear about that.

A poll by Daily Kos -- there's an unbiased source for you. Okay, I live in Colorado and don't pretend to know how southerners think (assuming they all think the same way)and I have never believed the rumors about Obama's birth (including the one he likes to spread that it was in a a stable in Bethlehem and that his mother was a virgin). Maybe everyone south of the Mason-Dixon line (which, by the way Kathleen, includes everything inside the beltway) is a toothless, sweaty, tobacco-chewing redneck birther, but I doubt it and an anecdote from 1966 is hardly relevant. Hell, Peter Fonda hadn't even been shot of his Easy Rider motorcycle back then. And just what the hell does Sarah Palin have to do with any of this? She hasn't been...