memeorandum: THE DEMOCRATS' DILEMMA — Investors Business Daily … (Hindrocket/Power Line)

11:30 PM ET, February 18, 2007

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Hindrocket / Power Line:

THE DEMOCRATS' DILEMMA — Investors Business Daily has a hard-hitting editorial denouncing the Congressional Democrats and their "slow bleed" strategy. It begins: … And that's not the hard-hitting part! More important, IBD has a poll that highlights the danger the Democrats face:

Discussion: PrairiePundit

Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:

Why the Iraq war is turning into America's defeat — The week's news from Iraq: According to the state television network, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was wounded in a clash with security forces just north of Baghdad. A senior deputy was killed.

Discussion: The Anonymous Liberal, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Wake up America, Wizbang, Blue Crab Boulevard and PrairiePundit

IAN / Hot Air:

Video: Hume smacks down Murtha; doesn't know "what the heck is going on in the world" — Brit Hume smacked down John Murtha on this morning's edition of Fox News Sunday. The Fox News host started his sizzling with "it's time a few things be said about him." Indeed.

Discussion: Dr. Sanity, Blue Crab Boulevard, Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels and The Political Pit Bull

Investor's Business Daily:
Unparalleled Perfidy — War On Terror: The party of John …

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard, Lawyers, Guns and Money, The American Street, Gateway Pundit, Booman Tribune, Wake up America, Macsmind, The Impolitic, Dean's World and The Bullwinkle Blog

Think Progress:
Hume: Murtha Is Senile, Doesn't Have 'The Foggiest Awareness …

Discussion: News Hounds and Crooks and Liars

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters: Do Americans Want To Cut And Run?

Michelle Malkin:
"I genuinely believe the United States Army is a force of good in this world"

Discussion: INDCJournal

SusanUnPC / NO QUARTER:

Brent Budowsky: Dear Editor, Washington Post — From Brent Budowsky — Mr. Kaiser, I am forwarding below the note I wrote to Messrs. Graham and Hiatt about Outlook's Victoria Toensing piece today. — With all due respect, I have long admired your work, but that piece today …

Discussion: TPMCafe blogs

Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
Washington Post Enables Toensing's Delusions

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, The Sideshow, Liberal Values, Washington Post, Power Line and PrairiePundit

Pachacutec / Firedoglake:
Barbara Comstock Named Washington Post Editor?

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Rashofitz - Where We Are In The Scooter Libby Trial

Discussion: Macsmind

farsnews.com:

Terrorists Use US-Gifted Arsenals — TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Following a Saturday report about the use of US manufactured weapons in the recent terrorist operations in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, a security official provided FNA with a photograph of the said weaponry.

Discussion: Flopping Aces

Little Green Footballs:

Iranian Fauxtography Bust — LGF readers tipped me off to a blatant Photoshop fraud at Iran's Fars News Agency, in an article claiming to have discovered US weapons in Iran: Terrorists Use US-Gifted Arsenals. (Beware. The Fars News site resizes your browser window without asking, and may attempt other more sneaky things.)

Discussion: NewsHog, A Blog For All, Riehl World View, Hot Air, PrairiePundit and TigerHawk

New York Times:

Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power — Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border …

Discussion: AMERICAblog and A Blog For All

Washington Post:

The Hotel Aftermath — Inside Mologne House, the Survivors of War Wrestle With Military Bureaucracy and Personal Demons — The guests of Mologne House have been blown up, shot, crushed and shaken, and now their convalescence takes place among the chandeliers and wingback chairs …

Discussion: Liberty Street and William K. Wolfrum

John / AMERICAblog:

It's time to fire Major General George W. Weightman, now — fark it! Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman is the guy in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the army facility where our wounded troops are being treated like scum. Weightman admits that he knew of the mistreatment of our war veterans …

Discussion: MyDD, My Left Wing, Taylor Marsh, Debsweb, The Democratic Daily, Pottersville, DownWithTyranny!, Off the Kuff, Wake up America, Burnt Orange Report, The Huffington Post and The Impolitic

Mahmoud Habboush / NY Daily News:

Killer's daughter admits it was political — GAZA CITY - Ali Abu Kamal's relatives say they are tired of lying about why the Palestinian opened fire on the observation deck of Empire State Building, killing a tourist and injuring six other people before committing suicide.

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Michelle Malkin, A Blog For All and Jihad Watch

Faiz / Think Progress:

True 'Fair And Balanced' Coverage: Wallace Calls Out Feith For Lying On Fox News — Last week on Fox News Sunday, former Rumsfeld aide Douglas Feith told Chris Wallace, "Nobody in my office ever said there was an operational relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It's just not correct.

Discussion: TigerHawk and Eschaton

John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Chris Wallace shoots down Feith's claims

Discussion: driftglass and The Impolitic

Tom Bevan / TIME: Real Clear Politics:

Sullivan's Rewrite — Andrew Sullivan has been slinging the word "Christianist" about with sanctimonious ease for some time now. He never misses a chance to point out a news story and filter it through the "Christianist" lens. He's written a book on the subject.

Discussion: Hot Air, Liberal Values and The RBC

CBS News:
Poll: Giuliani Leads McCain For GOP Nod

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, PrairiePundit, New York Times, The Moderate Voice and race42008.com

Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:

A Man of Mystery — Richard Hohlt is the heavy hitter you've never heard of. — Robert Novak, as usual, had a scoop to unload—only this time, it was from the witness stand. Testifying last week in the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) …

Discussion: The Washington Note

Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
What Did Rove Know And When Did He Know It?

Discussion: TalkLeft

Martin Peretz / Opinion Journal:

House Call — Political expediency and the nonbinding resolution. — Our political imagination of evil is impoverished, and nowhere is it more impoverished than in Iraq. Even today, when the blood of innocents flows so richly and regularly, we do not seem to grasp its origins, or its power.

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Decision '08

Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:

Irreconcilable positions: support troops, oppose war — WHAT DOES IT mean to support the troops but oppose the cause they fight for? — No loyal Colts fan rooted for Indianapolis to lose the Super Bowl. No investor buys 100 shares of Google in the hope that Google's stock will tank.

Discussion: The Mahablog and PrairiePundit