I'm watching Monday's Brit Hume program. It's more impressive when Mort Kondracke goes postal on Howard Dean. Fred Barnes is reliably right wing. Mara Liasson is reliably the voice of NPR. Kondracke is the swing vote, and he hammered Dean's remark about America not being any safer because of Saddam's capture like a bongo. Of course, I was already primed after listening to Hugh Hewitt's show on Monday and today.

James Pinkerton has an analysis on TCS, which doesn't really say much other than that Dean's lock on the nomination may be weakening because of his recent blurts, but the real interest in is the Feedback page accompanying the article where some Dean supporters embarrass themselves. It's like a visit to the Bizarro World John Birch Society website. Keep it up, guys.

Also, I'm still puzzled by the failure of anybody to tie Jim Baker's mission to the announcement that none of the Axis of Weasels will be allowed to bid on rebuilding Iraq. I mean, if they insist on getting paid for building Saddam's terror state in the first place, why should they get to collect a second time?