Interlude

In yesterday's Wall Street Journal Richard Posner makes the case for the creation of an American domestic intelligence agency along the lines of Britain's MI5.

Sounds like a good idea to me. In theory, at least. Only problem is you'd have to prevail upon the CIA Praetorian Guard to relinquish that bailiwick, which they in turn confuse with "opposition research."

On the other hand, unless you expressly barred current CIA personnel from migrating over to Langley's domestic counterpart, you'd just end up with two rogue fifth-spook-columns instead of one.

Maybe Mr. Posner needs to think this idea through a little bit more.

But can you imagine the reaction to President Bush proposing such a thing? That'd be more fun than listening to a man with a hairlip asking for Worchester sauce (h/t Larry the Cable Guy).

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Ted Kennedy's personal jet was hit by lightning recently while en route from a speech in North Adams, Massachusetts to his palatial estate in Cape Cahhhhd. Could that bolt have been the one intended for Dr. Demented?

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Isn't "Seven Democrat Reps. Arrested" an immensely satisfying headline, even if it was outside the Sudanese embassy for protesting the Darfur genocide?

Guess we know where our troops are going after Hillary - or Bush - cuts & runs from Iraq. The difference will be that that really WILL be a quagmire.

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Supreme Chancellor McCain is certainly doing his best Palpatine these days. Even Jedi masters like Jerry Falwell are falling for it.

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Kweisi Mfume is giving the Democrat Party an ultimatum: back his Maryland senate candidacy to succeed the retiring Paul Sarbanes instead of Congressman Ben Cardin's as proof that the party doesn't take its black constituency for granted, or else:

Maryland U.S. Senate candidate Kweisi Mfume said yesterday that Democrats risk losing the senatorial election because "old-line party bosses" are undermining his campaign and alienating black voters.

Mr. Mfume also would not say whether he would endorse Representative Benjamin L. Cardin, the front-runner for the Democratic Senate nomination, if he should lose to the lawmaker in the September primary. "I can say that there will be people who will feel disaffected [if I am not the nominee]," Mr. Mfume told editors and reporters at the Washington Times. ...

Calling Mr. Steele a "friend," Mr. Mfume said he shares similar goals and ideas with the Republican official as well as Mr. Cardin.

"I agree with both of them, maybe equally but on different things," said Mr. Mfume, a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus and former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

I'll let the double-take whiplash subside...okay, ready? Kweise Mfume, former head of the NAACP, left-wing extremist "black leader" extraordinaire, has told a well-known conservative publication that GOP nominee and reigning Lieutenant-Governor Michael Steele is a friend with whom he agrees on a great many things, and that he will take the black vote with him - and therefore right on over to L-G Steele - if the "old line party bosses" continue to screw him.

Welcome to the reality people like me have been conveying to African-Americans for years, Mr. Mfume. Glad to have you aboard. And since Steele would whip your ass, and you'll sabotage Cardin, get ready to congratulate The Man of Steele six months from now.

Unless the President proves to be Kryptonite to him as well.