memeorandum: Re: Paging Andy McCarthy (Andy McCarthy/The Corner)

3:20 PM ET, June 17, 2008

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McCain Camp Pounces on Obama Comments From ABC News Interview — The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tonight pounced on comments Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., made in an interview today with ABC News. — This was the exchange in question. — TAPPER: Speaking of the Supreme Court …

Discussion: National Review, Confederate Yankee, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Commentary, Marc Ambinder, Althouse, American Street, The Washington Independent, Hot Air, Political Machine, Liberal Values, The Sundries Shack, Sister Toldjah, Israel Matzav, Riehl World View and JustOneMinute

George F. Will / Washington Post:

Contempt Of Courts — The day after the Supreme Court ruled that detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo are entitled to seek habeas corpus hearings, John McCain called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.” Well. — Does it rank with Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) …

Discussion: DownWithTyranny!, The Corner, Power Line, Los Angeles Times, Below The Beltway, The Seminal, War in Context, PoliBlog (TM), The Opinionator and Cato-at-liberty

The Hill:

McCain camp: ‘Naïve’ Obama has ‘Sept. 10 mindset’ — The campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday accused Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) of being “naïve” and “representing the perfect manifestation of a Sept. 10 mindset” in his approach …

Discussion: Wonk Room, The Swamp, Gateway Pundit and Connecting.the.Dots

John Yoo / Wall Street Journal:

The Supreme Court Goes to War — Last week's Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush has been painted as a stinging rebuke of the administration's antiterrorism policies. From the celebrations on most U.S. editorial pages, one might think that the court had stopped a dictator from trampling civil liberties.

Discussion: Newshoggers.com, New York Times, Think Progress, The Progress Report, Althouse, FP Passport, Right Wing News, michellemalkin.com, Comments from Left Field, BeldarBlog, Macsmind, Sadly, No! and RADAMISTO

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

John Yoo's ongoing falsehoods in service of limitless government power — (updated below) — One of the most reliable methods for knowing that a position is unsustainable is that its advocates must employ outright falsehoods in order to support it. In a Wall St. Journal Op-Ed today …

Discussion: Happy Furry Puppy Story …, Blue Girl, Red State, PoliBlog (TM) and American Street

Joby Warrick / Washington Post:

Report Questions Pentagon Accounts — Officials Looked Into Interrogation Methods Early On — A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay …

Discussion: The New Republic, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Balkinization, Washington Monthly, BuzzFlash.org, Salon, Swampland and Prairie Weather

Andy McCarthy / The Corner: Re: Paging Andy McCarthy

Emptywheel:
Senate Armed Services Torture Hearing

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Rasmussen Reports:

67% Support Offshore Drilling, 64% Expect it Will Lower Prices — Most voters favor the resumption of offshore drilling in the United States and expect it to lower prices at the pump, even as John McCain has announced his support for states that want to explore for oil and gas off their coasts.

Discussion: Weekly Standard Blog, Houston Chronicle, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, The Next Right, Wake up America, TownHall Blog, Commentary, The Sundries Shack, Washington Post and Naked Politics

Rasmussen Reports:
60% Believe Supreme Court Justices Have Their Own Political Agendas

Discussion: Donklephant and Clayton Cramer's BLOG

John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:

Pin at the GOP state convention in Texas: “If Obama is President... will we still call it the White House?” — Expect the Republican party to do absolutely nothing about the racists in its own midst. The national Republican party in Washington has contacts all the time with its state parties.

Discussion: Marc Ambinder, Salon, Think Progress, Donklephant, Open Left and Scholars and Rogues

Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:

If You Lose the White House Do the Rest of Us Have to Allow you to Stay in our Country? — Who says Republicans don't have class? From the Dallas Morning News blog's report on the Texas GOP state convention... If you're interested in their items, their website is here.

New York Times:

Where They Mostly Agree — Abortion and judges — Both men oppose use of federal money for abortions, including aid to groups that help women obtain them. Both support the ban on Partial-Birth Abortion Act of 2003 and parental notification for minors. Mr. McCain says Roe v. Wade …

Discussion: TalkLeft, TPM Election Central and Buck Naked Politics

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Put Your Right Wing In, Take Your Left Wing Out

Discussion: The American Conservative, Think Progress, The Carpetbagger Report, MSNBC and NewsBusters.org

Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
How Close McCain Is to Bush Depends on the Issue

Discussion: Wonk Room, Washington Post, The Swamp, The Huffington Post, Swampland, Media Blog, Gristmill, Electoral-vote.com, ImmigrationProf Blog and Big Brass Blog

Michelle Malkin:

Haditha Watch: Charges dismissed against Lt. Col. Chessani — Fight the smears. Call John “Cold-blooded” Murtha for comment: 202-225-2065. — Note: As of 1:40pm Eastern, you will not find the Haditha story on the front page of the NYTimes website. — Told you to watch out for this yesterday.

Discussion: Hot Air, Wake up America, Macsmind, Gateway Pundit, Democracy Project and JammieWearingFool

Chelsea J. Carter / Associated Press:
Military judge dismisses charges in Haditha case

Discussion: BLACKFIVE and Democracy Project

Jeffrey Klein / The Huffington Post:

McCain's Secret, Questionable Record — “At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined the prospect of his first admiral's star …

Discussion: JammieWearingFool, PoliGazette, Hoffmania!, The RBC, Democracy Project and Digg

Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:

FIRST THOUGHTS: GORE-ACLE FINALLY SPEAKS — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro — *** The Gore-acle finally speaketh: For months, the question wasn't if Al Gore was going to endorse Obama, but when. And would he do it at a time that was pivotal in the primary?

Discussion: marbury, AMERICAblog News and 2008Central.net

Tony Horwitz / New York Times:

Leader of the Pack — AS the Democratic primaries revealed, Barack Obama is having a hard time winning the support of blue-collar voters. — So here's a piece of strategic advice for the candidate: Lose the Nicorette. Light up instead. — Consider these statistics, culled from studies of smoking patterns.

Discussion: The Democratic Daily, Democracy in America and Real Clear Politics

Michael Goldfarb / John McCain Report blog:

Barack Obama, Esquire: The 9/10 Candidate — In an interview with ABC's Jake Tapper yesterday, Barack Obama offered a glimpse into how he views the threat posed by radical Islamic extremism: … It's hardly surprising that a lawyer would think that the war on terror would be fought …