Beware the Tancredo/McCain political juggernaut!

• Just in case you wanted to know, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has his own blog now. There are three entries up thus far: two about how we need to adapt our thinking to a post-9/11 world (this is now 2007, mind you) and one outlining the comment policy.
• McCain wants to defend America and the values enshrined in our Constitution by having all the members of MoveOn.org deported. Suspected political calculus: sensing his own imminent political demise, McCain is jumping on the bandwagon of one of the GOP's fastest rising stars, someone he hopes will pick him for the VP spot next summer: Tom Tancredo.
  
• Alan Keyes is running for President. Somebody cue up the laugh track.
• An interesting point: cloture rules have turned filibusters into the norm and thus raised the bar for bill passage from 50 to 60 votes in the Senate. I'm not really excited about this development.
• Obama and Dodd are now on the bandwagon: no funding for the war in Iraq without a timeline for withdrawal.
• Mukasey for Attorney General: If Chuck Schumer is offering an endorsement (however cautious), the nomination proceedings should only get easier.
• Alan Greenspan once said something to the effect of, "if you understand what I'm talking about, I'm not doing my job right." Everything he said seemed to lead to dramatic shifts in the market, so he stopped speaking in language people could really get their heads around. Thankfully, his job is no longer keeping the market stable and successful, but just to do his own thing now. And since he can now speak freely and clearly, he's getting a lot of press for telling everyone that George W. Bush is a dumbass.
• Dick Cheney treats everything he does like it's incriminating, so he doesn't write any memos. If you see him wearing latex gloves, don't be surprised.
• George W. Bush wants your children to die of preventable diseases:
  

  Senate and House negotiators said Sunday that they had agreed on a framework for a compromise bill that would provide health insurance to four million uninsured children while relaxing some of the limits on eligibility imposed by the Bush administration.

  The compromise, which resembles a bill passed by the Senate with bipartisan support, sets the stage for a battle with President Bush, who has denounced similar legislation as a step “down the path to government-run health care for every American.” -- NYT