Author: NYBri

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It’s alive!  It’s alive!!!

After months of anticipation (yeah, I know most of you didn’t know about it, but anticipation on our side!) the new liberal community, PoliticalCortex.com, is officially launched.

In the great traditions of Daily Kos, Unbossed, Booman Tribune, Street Prophets, My Left Wing, and others, PoliticalCortex.com seeks to strengthen the liberal presence in the blogosphere.

Like the aforementioned sites, PoliticalCortex.com is a Scoop site, where you can post diaries, recommend stories, comment, and spread some mojo love.

[From the diaries by susanhu.]

I went into this afternoon’s press conference wanting blood. I, like many here, was like a shark, circling in the shallow water, waiting for my feeder, Fitz, to toss some red (read Republican) meat my way. But I came out of the conference with something unexpected.

I was going to blog about it, but then I read a comment by wg on k/o: politics + culture.

He said it better than I ever could:

BUT, I think I may be experiencing, Linus-like, the deeper meaning of Fitzmas. Watching and listening to Fitz, I rediscovered something I haven’t felt in a long, long time: a kind of simple, optimistic pride in the potential and promise of America. I know that sounds fatuous, but it felt like, after crawling through the desert, I was finally rewarded with a tall, clear glass of ice-cold life-sustaining water. I took such profound and unexpected pleasure in the trust I felt in this guy. And I even found a perverse satisfaction in the way he frustrated my shallow partisan craving for a brutal rhetorical smackdown. When was the last time you had the experience of seeing somebody on tv, in a political context, that you didn’t feel compelled to view through an angry ideological prism? It was such a relief to not be an analyzing and enraged critic, or even a chortling schadenfreudian. I just had a very simple, almost childlike, faith in this guy. He’ll follow the evidence where it leads and no further, but he’s not afraid of anybody, especially these smug thugs. He seemed like a walking, human rebuke to the insane political atmosphere of the last decade. I know this all sounds ridiculous and naive, but perhaps that only suggests how deeply I was craving, without even really being aware of it, somebody to believe in again. I believe in fairness, and justice, and equality, and civility. And I saw that today in Patrick Fitzgerald. And maybe that, Charlie Brown, is the true meaning of Fitzmas.

The Huffington Post says:

The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are working on stories that point to Vice President Dick Cheney as the target of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation into the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s name.

My, my, my, my…..

Crossposted on my humble blog, NYBri

It’s much fun to watch Delay, INC. try to squirm out of his indictment mess. Guilt or innocence is irrelevant in this case, as it will be in the Plame/CIA case. The indictment is everything, which is why Delay is fighting so hard to get his thrown out.

To discover the reason one only has to look at what the alternatives are AI (After Indictment). As far as I can see, there are two options and both seem to lead down the same rocky road.

Let’s look at the Plame case AI options.