Andrew Sullivan via Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/Next week, I'm informed via troubled White House sources, will see the full unveiling of Karl Rove's fall election strategy. He's intending to line up 9/11 families to accuse McCain, Warner and Graham of delaying justice for the perpetrators of that atrocity, because they want to uphold the ancient judicial traditions of the U.S. military and abide by the Constitution. He will use the families as an argument for legalizing torture, setting up kangaroo courts for military prisoners, and giving war crime impunity for his own aides and cronies. This is his "Hail Mary" move for November; it's brutally exploitative of 9/11; it's pure partisanship; and it's designed to enable an untrammeled executive. Decent Republicans, Independents and Democrats must do all they can to expose and resist this latest descent into political thuggery. If you need proof that this administration's first priority is not a humane and effective counter-terror strategy, but a brutal, exploitative path to retaining power at any price, you just got it.
Hmmm. Well, I'm sure McCain has forgiven and forgotten South Carolina, 2000. I mean, why hold a grudge just because Bush is deperate?
The Republican party, divided and weak, has a problem. They have no plan for Iraq and need to invent ways to change the topic. And if John McCain, Graham, Warner and the constitutionalists, or Chris Shays and the northeast moderates, think Bush is going to painlessly help them by changing the subject, they might want to rethink their strategy. Bush seems poised to declare war on his own party; that'll make the fourth war (along with Iraq, Afghanistan and the WoTTM) he could lose. He didn't have a record of failure like that even in Texas bidness.