Much remains unclear, but I spoke with Graham’s chief spokesman, Kevin Bishop, and here’s what I got for you so far: Primarily, the system Graham is designing is set up for handling the Obama administration’s so-called “Fifth Category” of detainees that a Justice Department task force recommended against charging and releasing. “What do you do [...]

I have to highlight this Washington Independent post, because it provides the legislative language favored by the people Lindsey Graham is telling the White House he can bring along in a detentions deal: An individual, including a citizen of the United States, determined to be an unprivileged enemy belligerent under section 3(c)(2) in a manner [...]

So here’s where Lindsey Graham shows Rahm Emanuel that he represents some value-added on detainee issues to the Obama administration. John McCain and Joe Lieberman introduced a bill today — the Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act of 2010 — that authorizes indefinite detention without charge for terrorism detainees. (Or, as McCain put it, [...]

You Never Forget Your First Debate, but in case you do forget it, or like, never watched it in the first place, here are the undebatably top 10 best moments from Friday Night’s debate. 1) Host Jim Lehrer tries to provoke a presidential man love/hate catfight: "talk to each other about it. We’ve got five [...]

From Paul Begala’s new book Third Term:

Planned Parenthood produces an awesome ad:

Meghan McCain thinks dead Soldiers’ families don’t know about war

Forget about the “Drill here, drill now!” jingle. “Drill Baby Drill” is the new and improved Freudian phallic call to action.

Republicans never cared much for the rules.