Friday Morning State of Play

Biggest story of the day:  the White House has instructed the Justice Department to find another venue for the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial.  Seems New York Mayor Bloomberg, who initially supported the idiotic decision to try KSM in lower Manhattan, has figured out how many NY small businesses would be killed by two years of ultra-high security and the media frenzy it would produce.  Gee, what a freaking brain surgeon this guy is.

My prediction:  KSM will never stand trial in a U.S. civilian court.  Gitmo will never be closed.  The congress will stop both from taking place.

Megan McCain says Sarah Palin could win the presidency in 2012. She's not crazy.  I'll be writing more on this subject over the weekend.

George Will tells you why Sam Alito was right and the President was wrong about the Court's decision to allow limited corporate contributions to issue-related political advertising.  I know it's shocking this President could be wrong, of course...



In a related story, Senate Democrats, desperate to deflect public attention from their own abject failure to govern, have decided to try vilifying Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts for a few days.  These clowns are like a bunch of Italian chefs at this point, tossing spaghetti up against the wall just to see if it will stick.  It won't.

On the subject of the Breck Girl, Jeanne Francios Kerry, the haughty, French-looking Democrat presidential nominee of 2004 (who, by the way, served in Vietnam), says the John Edwards we see today is not the man he knew way back then.  Uh-huh.  Yeah.  Ok.  Sure.  Whatever you say, Jeanne.