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Ha ha!

It's been great fun to watch Clarke bat every attack against him away with ease and grace.

But if Clarke is Galactus, what does that make Bushco? Ego the Living Planet? The Inbetweener? Cuz they sure as hell ain't Reed Richards.

Perhaps Streaky, the Super Cat.

Streaky the Super Cat was competent and effective.

Bushco is not Streaky the Super Cat.

Go Clarke! Go Clarke! Yeeeahh!

Am I just whacked, thinking as I do this is a BIG deal? I mean, the guy just came out and said, "Yeah! Let's check ALL my words, folks!"

Yet it's not only not being carried in the SCLM, it's like nowhere in blogsville, man.

Well, Jesse, at least you've got it going somewhere. Congratulations on good newshound instincts.

i had a feeling that might be his response.

Oops.

So NOW what are the wingers supposed to do??? It's all a bad, bad dream. Click your heals three times...

er, "heels".

Shows the difference between someone who understands the concept of warplanning and preparing for contingencies versus a bunch of folks who just send in the stormtroopers and hope for the best.

Clarke is a pro at this stuff and these guys are rank amateurs.

I can't believe Frist, or the people who tell him what to do, would make the "declassify the testimony" gambit without having some kind of contingency plan that covered Clarke's calling the bluff. That is a monumentally stupid, because it piles on the lies and it's just another thing to get busted for. The only thing I can think of, other than positing the blind spot, is that the contingency plan is to bank on the testimony *not* being declassified and the story just going away.

Clarke's response is simply the response of someone who knows what they are talking about and knows what they said. Clarke is someone who has a sense of history, and is not afraid of it.

"Giant Fucking Armageddon Beam"

i like.

Yow! Clarke breaks serve!

Just keep it up Clarke! Seriously, I don't know what to think of the substance of his charges. For the pre-9/11 stuff they're obvious and corroborated elsewhere. As for post-9/11, reasonable people disagree over whether Iraq was a wise or unwise move in the WOT - but if you think it was unwise then it logically follows that Bush's overall WOT approach dating from about spring 2002 (though, as Clarke and O'Neill point out, much earlier) was deeply harmful.

But watching the man in action, swatting down his accusers is just great political theater. I can't remember the last time a guy like Clarke came along who so disturbed the beehive but was able to zing each bee with such ease. Amazing.

Clarke's a cool customer -- he knows what's coming. I think he's played every strategy and tactic in his head like a three-board chess match. And the Bush people brought their queens out way too early. The exposure now is theirs, not his.

...but half the country only listens to AM talk radio and cable news, and will hear nothing but fiction: Variations on "Clarke made contradictory statements under oath" repeated ad infinitum by administration members and their hired guns. It will require no proof. Subject to no argument. Eventually a mention of Clarke will be shorthand for an unfounded personal attack on the Executive Branch.

Fuck the media. No facts, just manufactured information.

The Ultimate Nullifier! In the hands of a human!?!?

...if Clarke is Galactus, what does that make Bushco? Ego the Living Planet? The Inbetweener?

Howzabout the White Feather from the Inferior Five:

(The White Feather) was a photographer. His father was the famous hero, The Bowman who ran about in Lincoln green doing the Robin Hood bit. William King was a superb archer when he was by himself. Around other people he was such a coward that his hands shook and his shots went wild.

Game. Set. Match.

To Richard Clarke.

Netherson, I pride myself on being pessimistic, but this is different.

Actually, scratch that "Game, Set, Match." Match point comes when they declassify the testimony. All of it.

I love the sound of Republicans imploding in the morning sun.

It's the music of VICTORY!

The important thing to the republicans was for Frist to smear Clarke in congress. There might also be an attempt to selectively declassify bits that make him sound bad. This also helps them nullify the "you don't care about classification unless it covers the admin's ass" argument. Which is why calling for full declassification right now is a really good idea.

Should Condi testify under oath? Take the poll.

actually, it looks like this is being carried on the news today by the major outlets.

and remember, more people listen to morning edition than rush limbaugh.

Only the Miracle Machine given to the Legion of Super Heroes can save the Republicans now!

Remember The Watcher, the big guy with the baby face wearing an outfit that could be mistaken for a diaper and a baby blanket. Well, in our parallel universe, that guy is Bush, and it is a diaper.