It's been a while since I did an "Instapundit" style set of punch-posts, but the US news and blogs today are full of the upcoming Supreme Court battles and you know what? I find I don't much care. The partisan squabbles over the issue, from the White House on down, just disgust me. So that's all I am saying on the subject unless the subject itself rather than the associated partisan bitchery becomes newsworthy.
Here's some other stuff that shouldn't be missed during the media hype.
In a BBC program, America's former ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth admitted that Bush administration described the Darfur atrocities as genocide in order to please the Christian right ahead of the American presidential elections.
Jacques Chirac, the French President, and Gerhard Schröder, the German Chancellor, have joined forces to press Tony Blair to isolate the Americans over climate change at next week's G8 summit.
The French and Germans would prefer a 7-1 split over the final communiqué on the issue, which is being negotiated this weekend by officials in London, rather than bow to pressure by the US for it to be watered down.
120,000 people have linked arms around Edinburgh city centre in a show of solidarity with the world's poorest people ahead of the G8 Summit. Oh, to have been there. Looks like even the weather was kind!
Want to be a US Ambassador? German news reports that all you have to do is give enough cash to the Bush campaign coffers. The Republican Party's biggest donors have been rewarded with posts in sun-drenched island nations like Mauritius and the Bahamas, or in prestigious European capitals. Bush's first 35 political appointees to the diplomatic corps gave an average of $141,110 to him and other Republican campaigns and committees during 1999-2000
Included in that count, the new Ambassador in Berlin. No wonder US foreign policy is a poor-taste joke in other countries - few if any of these people have diplomatic experience at all.
MSNBC's senior political analyst, Lawrence O'Donnell, has gone on public record alleging that none other than Karl Rove was the "most insidious of traitors" who was source for the Valerie Plame leak. Comments from Left Field reminds us of Bush Snr's words:
"We need more human intelligence. That means we need more protection for the methods we use to gather intelligence and more protection for our sources, particularly our human sources, people that are risking their lives for their country. Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors."
Bush wants Americans to support the troops yet in Congress, 210 out of 214 "no" votes for an extra $53 million to aid veterans were from Republicans. Can you see the disconnect there? OpTruth has the list of the offending political hacks who say one thing and do another. The Senate, kudos to them, passed the full amount unanimously. Now they have to negotiate with Congress to agree a figure, delaying the money, because of these mealy-mouthed idiots.
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