Not much news about Congressman Walz today; the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer did feature this exchange between the host and Mark Shields on March 23:
JIM LEHRER: Is the Senate -- now, the Senate is going to take this thing up, Mark.
MARK SHIELDS: OK.
JIM LEHRER: And if -- the Senate doesn't even have -- as I understand it, their resolution isn't even as binding as the House, right? In other words, isn't there...
MARK SHIELDS: No, that's right. They have a goal.
JIM LEHRER: They have a goal, not a binding date, and all that sort of stuff.
MARK SHIELDS: Rather than a timetable.
JIM LEHRER: So, where -- what does all this mean?
MARK SHIELDS: Well, what it means, Jim, is, for example, every freshman in the House of Representatives, Democrat, voted for it, OK? That's significant. That -- the election...
JIM LEHRER: Voted for the -- today's...
MARK SHIELDS: That's right.
JIM LEHRER: Yes. OK.
MARK SHIELDS: The election last week -- the election last November...
JIM LEHRER: Had consequences.
MARK SHIELDS: ... had consequences.
JIM LEHRER: All right.
MARK SHIELDS: There are five freshman who really played a prominent role in this, all of whom were military veterans, including Patrick Murphy, who was with the 82nd Airborne in Iraq. I mean, these were all -- Joe Sestak, a three-star admiral, freshman Democrat.
I mean all of them stood up. The highest ranked -- Tim Walz, the highest ranking enlisted man in the Congress ever, I mean a command sergeant major, I mean, they all stood up and made the case that, from the units with whom they have served, their colleagues, that they were doing the right thing.
New Ulm Journal editorial: Gonzales should resign
The Journal's editorial board looks at the United States attorney firings and concludes:
The whole affair has been handled stupidly. Gonzales should admit he has handled it badly, and resign.
Can we clone him? Walz, I mean. Maybe run his clone as a primary challenger for Collin Peterson.
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | March 27, 2007 at 06:04 PM