Politics of the Office

The Power Line blog has been doing yeoman work in covering the close race between Franken and Sen. Coleman in Minnesota.

In one particular article they wrote, What's Happening In Minnesota? part 7, they quote an article from the Minneapolis Star Tribune:

The referee in Minnesota's hotly contested Senate race must act in a nonpartisan fashion, yet Ritchie came to office through a nationwide partisan strategy. He was elected in 2006 as part of a national campaign to ensure that Democrats could wield influence in precisely the sort of hair's breadth race we now have here.

Call me an idealist, but when you start trying to control the referee in the match so you get the close call there is just something wrong about that. Of course nobody would dare ever ask the question: "How would you prefer your election officials to act? Do you want them to act as a neutral judge? Or perhaps you want them to be the tie breaker?"

Criminalization of Politics

Our government will not long last if one administration's policy becomes material for the next's prosecutors. It will lead to tyranny for politics will become an issue of self-preservation. I can not emphasize what a poison this would be for our system of government.

That said I was browsing the RedState blog and saw this link.

Where to begin....

The author of this article is Charlie Savage, author of Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy. Evidently he studied as a journalist and a lawyer which is probably why this article has a very legalistic tone to it. His objective is to lay out for the reader, presumably hostile to President Bush, the terrain would be if they attempted a legal assault against him after he leaves office. I, for one, have no doubt of the influence that the New York Times has on the political class of the left and this is a clear suggestion by the writer and sanctioned by the editors. That this would even be brought up is troubling because it shows that they have no vision beyond their immediate political advantage.

Mistress of Disaster

I was reading somebody's site the other day (quick google search, it was Hot Air) and saw a link to a New York Times article profiling who might be the Attorney General in the Obama administration.

This of course reminded me of another blog post I read sometime back here.

Yes, truly the "Mistress of Disaster"

Update: I was looking at the NYT article and it now had this: "but associates now say she is not interested in being considered for the job."

Quick Post

After following the election non-stop for awhile I took a little break from the news. I've also not had a lot of time, stuff keeps interfering every time I want to put up a post.

Anyway, a couple things on my radar:

Terrorism financing tracking and interdiction seems to be collapsing:
Belmont Club
Counterterrorism Blog

Russia is already starting to pressure the Obama administration:
Belmont Club