A little Saturday movie blogging.

I can’t wait to see this one.

I posted a lengthy profile about Robert Gates recently, but this one is much more relevant to the position he’s vying for.
From CQ.com:
…he’s long been a major player in Republican national security circles, first as a Russian specialist on President Gerald Ford’s White House National Security Council in 1974, then eventually at the CIA, [...]

TPM Muckraker reminds us that the Dems have had plenty of problems of their own.
Take John Murtha for example…
Likely to chair the Defense Appropriations subcommittee. Murtha’s been tagged as a shameless earmarker, spending tens of millions on projects nobody wants to benefit his friends and his district. He’s already been caught on tape by the [...]

Which will win, the tiger or the meat?
You know what to do…

The first case against Donald comes from Germany. Will there be more to follow?
Time has the exclusive…
New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany’s top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military [...]

Republicans are asking defeated Maryland senatorial candidate Michael Steele to replace outgoing RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman.
He’d be a good choice: a popular, smart moderate from a blue state who, by virtue of his skin color, would lend built-in credibility to Republican efforts to continue Mehlman’s strategy of reaching out to blacks. And it would give [...]

It depends who you ask.
Some disgruntled Democrats want to replace him with Harold Ford, arguing that Dean did poorly at fundraising, and that his “50 state” strategy cost them several additional seats.
Elsewhere, though, he’s being hailed as a genius. Not only did the Democrats not need his help to win, but his efforts to build [...]

There is an old saw that Democrats and the mainstream media hold on to: that is, that the GOP has expelled its moderates and will never, ever change. Some believe that moderates should just become Democrats.
In reality, while it is very, very true that the GOP’s moderates are fewer in number than they were [...]

Who is working on figuring out who all of the Independent, Moderate, and Centrists voters are…?

The blogosphere has never existed in a time of divided government. In this on-line world’s short history, the Republicans have always controlled Congress and the Presidency. Now things will be different. And how will the blogosphere react?
I’m sure partisanship will be just as strident as ever, but some attitudes will naturally change. Let’s start on [...]

Just read it already!
(h /t: Sully)

So the recent scoop is that the newly ousted Senator from Rhode Island is gonna put a D behind his name. And I’ll predict right now that one of the most liberal Republicans in the Senate WILL turn into a Dem…but he shouldn’t. He should join a new party: the true conservative party.
Confused? Don’t be. [...]

There’s a lot of talk about whether Joe Lieberman or Bernie Sanders will switch from independent to one of the other parties. Sanders could turn Democrat; Lieberman could go either way, though he has repeatedly said he’ll caucus with the Democrats.
But what about moderate Republicans? They were massacred on election night because of their association [...]

Did you watch the president’s first press conference, the one that began, “Why all the glum faces?”
Humility becomes him, doesn’t it? He sounded like a different person — far more real. The cockiness is gone, along with that contradictory little undertone of appeal — I don’t know quite how to describe it. [...]

He says the Dems’ win is good for the nation.
Well, how about that…
“I think it is good that there are new ideas and new blood because Washington was stuck. They could not move forward, not much was accomplished; I think it was terrible,” he told reporters on a trip to Mexico. [...]
Schwarzenegger said fellow Republicans [...]

I’ve come up with a couple of out-there ideas — one on the minimum wage, the other on campaign contributions. I don’t pretend they’re realistic; mostly, they’re thought exercises. But I can’t really tell.
I’d appreciate people’s thoughts, but I find I’m actually too embarassed to post them here. So they’re up over at Midtopia.
Be gentle….

With George Allen and Conrad Burns conceding defeat, the Democrats now control both houses of Congress.
The repercussions of their victory are still being felt. Besides Donald Rumsfeld resigning, Ken Mehlman is quitting as head of the Republican National Committee and it looks like John Bolton will fail to get confirmed as UN Ambassador.
Taking the Senate [...]

A few weeks ago, I called for Lou Dobbs to think about running for President. Now, while that may be completely unrealistic, Slate writer Jacob Weisberg decided to write an article about the election and he’s calling the new class of Dems who made it in “Lou Dobbs Democrats.”
…in places where Democrats made their most-impressive [...]

When NewsMax is reporting that John Bolton is dead in the water, you know it’s pretty much a done deal.
Key ‘graph:
There had been indications that Bolton might win Senate confirmation after the election when several key votes might be open to favoring Bolton. But the GOP’s apparent loss of the Senate has doomed that hope.
The [...]

A few things to remember….
In 1992, Bill Clinton was elected President ending 12 years of Republican domination of the White House. Once in office, President Clinton ran to the left. The result was the 1994 election which ushered the GOP in control of the Congress for the first time in nearly 50 years.
In [...]