I have not seen much Democrat rebuttal to the pervasive and ridiculous Republican talking point about Kerry using scare tactics to win this election.  This is truly the pot calling the kettle black.  Bush spoke about mushroom clouds, yellow cake, and biological agents released in major US cities in order to gain support for the invasion of Iraq. None of which was true.  He continually claims that a failure to make his tax cuts permanent will lead to recession.  And as TPM points out, Cheney has been saying that a vote for Kerry will get us attacked again. Will anyone be surprised when the terror alert level gets raised in the next few days?  I wish someone more eloquent and persuasive than me would take up this issue.  It's absurd.  

Tim Russert hosted a debate on Sunday's MTP with Jim DeMint and Inez Tenenbaum for the open Senate seat in South Carolina.  In case anyone missed it, DeMint made himself look like a real jerk.  Russert reduced him to babbling cliches and refusing to answer direct questions.  Tenenbaum has gained real momentum in this SC race and this poor performance on national TV by DeMint should help her gain even more ground.  Here are a few of DeMints problems on MTP.

Judith Miller deserves to go to jail.  The Op-Ed in today’s NYTimes is a weak attempt to protect one of their own.  They put forth the argument that the purpose of the press is to expose corruption in government and yet they ignore the fact that Miller is protecting government criminals, not exposing them.  I don’t pretend to be a scholar of the First Amendment but it seems obvious that she can’t claim to be protecting a source when she didn’t write an article on the subject.  Whoever revealed the name to that slimeball Novak put in danger the good and dedicated men and women who protect our country.  It is a treasonous act that is a crime against every American.  Therefore her situation is that of any citizen who has knowledge of a crime, journalist or dockworker.  She’s putting up a fight because she wants to be considered a confidant of the Washington bureaucracy, and that’s fine.  But she cannot forget that a crime has been committed by one of these bureaucrats.  I wonder if she would cling so tightly to her journalistic excuses if the criminal were a serial rapist or that sniper.  By protecting this individual, Miller is complicit in that crime, just as anyone who knowingly hides a murderer running from the law.  And she deserves to go to jail for it.