Entries for March 2007

First, Elizabeth Edwards announces that her breast cancer has returned and spread to her bones. Next, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow announces that his colon cancer has returned and spread to his liver. Yet, instead of treating this grim news as a death sentence, each patient has responded with a fight and a clear sense of direction: They're going to go on with their lives, and they're not just going to wait around for the cancer to win.

If the Justice Department–and its leader–are to be held accountable, it should be for one thing: incompetence. The bungling of a simple proposition–U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president–could not get much worse. U.S. attorneys can be fired at any time, and while the start of the second term may be a strange time (it's more likely to be done when a president takes office in the first place), it's not totally out of the question.

Judging from the CBS/New York Times poll released yesterday, Republican primary voters are having a real identity crisis. They've got about eight candidates running–and still counting–and yet 57 percent wish there were more choices. They're worried that the party has drifted away from the principles of Ronald Reagan. The only issue that unites Republicans, in fact, is the enemy: the Clintons.

It took four years to investigate and then 10 days for jurors to finally decide the fate of former Cheney Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby. And when they did, they delivered a verdict that shook the White House–leading right to the vice president's office.