Po' Boy for Rich Boys

Ann Telnaes does it again. Check out the latest cartoon on her site.

More Bush cronyism. His nominee for Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA has no actual health and safety experience. Why should this appointment be different from any other? The nominee, Edwin Foulke, is an attorney from a union busting lawfirm (Jackson-Lewis), a local Republican Party chairman and an officer in the Republican National Lawyer’s Association. Confined Space has the scoop.

I'm inclined to believe John Edwards really hid his light under a bushel during the campaign. Remember how Bush was all about an "ownership society"? Edwards says what we need is a working society.

Arianna Huffington believes that never-confirmed UN Ambassador John Bolton played a key role in Plamegate. "According to two sources, Bolton's former chief of staff, Fred Fleitz, was at least one of the sources of the classified information about Valerie Plame that flowed through the Bush administration and eventually made its way into Bob Novak's now infamous column."

Who is Fred Fleitz?

Bill in Portland Maine waxes rhapsodic at Daily Kos over George Clooney's new movie, Good Night, and Good Luck .

A boring correction: In last night's post, I identified Jon Tester as Max Baucus' opponent. Tester is challenging Republican Conrad Burns. Doesn't matter, really, because both Baucus and Burns need to go.