Boy, I bet Alberto Gonzales is pretty thrilled that the MSM has shifted some of their focus to Karl Rove's role in the attorney affair. I doubt the administration is quite as happy about it, though. In light of the emails that emerged connecting Rove to the U.S. attorney firings, the White House is having to backpedal real hard from their earlier attempts to pin the blame on Harriet Miers.

It was only a matter of time before Congressional Democrats were able to nail something to Rove, and it looks like the US attorney scandal is where everything it going to start. An administration is spoiled by a lack of oversight when it operates for so long within unified government, and the skill with which the Bush administration is handling its political problems since Democrats took over Congress could only be called negligible in polite circles. They don't call it "death by a thousand cuts" for nothing, and the inability of the White House to control the slow, steady leak of emails can only indicate that their problems are only going to get worse.

This week I spoke with Howard Watt, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of North Texas.

John Cornyn voted against a bill that protects you, and me, and all of our friends and family yesterday when he voted against a bill which implements many of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. For all their bluster and bloviating, Senate Republicans have selective memories when it comes to terrorism and the need to secure our country against foreign aggression, and I'm not sure how any legislator could answer for making votes like this.