The Roundup

At the risk of introducing noise into Archie's Internet Test, here is the Roundup for today:

The estimable Mark Steyn's regular Saturday contribution is up. Read and enjoy as Mr. Steyn slices and dices the President's unrealistic realism.

Jennifer Rubin gives us Sen. Joe Lieberman as the indispensable Senator. Her case is air-tight, and brooks no argument from this corner.

Charles Krauthammer weighs in on the Administration's claim of executive privilege in refusing to allow the White House Social Secretary, Desiree Rogers, to testify to Congress regarding the recent gate-crashing of the Obami's Thanksgiving Party. The Doctor states:

What is comical about this is it’s being invoked for a social secretary in a circumstance where, in the original Supreme Court rulings, it was intended for high officials with important state secrets. What was the state secret here — the nature of the flower arrangements at the head table?

Of course, as everyone knows, the "state secret" is that Desiree Rogers was promoting the primary agenda of this Administration, which is to maximize White House prestige in service of political back-scratching (hint, hint: follow the money). Someone might want to check on the Lincoln Bedroom; it looks like Hotel White House might be open for business again soon.

Matthew Vadum raises alarm bells with his report on the formation and agenda of the George Soros backed Secretary of State Project. This is actually old news. In the wake of Al Gore's loss of the 2000 Florida Presidential recount, the Left convinced itself that Republican Secretaries of State were rigging elections nationwide. Not to be outdone, numerous Lefty PAC's and coalitions began in the early 2000's to focus on seizing control for themselves of State election machinery. Their most notable success was the 2006 election of Mark Ritchie as Secretary of State in Minnesota, who enabled Al Franken to win a very questionable (to put it mildly) recount in the 2008 Senatorial contest. Old news or not, that the Left is redoubling its efforts to elect Secretaries of State ought to be seriously troubling to anyone who cares about free and fair elections in this country. Read Matthew Vadum.

(G. Whitman contributed to this blog. Chas. Ransom, the other old guy, was taking a nap and did not contribute).