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5. Why Holder Is Still There
by Jennifer Rubin
Barack Obama -- after days of awful media coverage, even from his MSM cheerleaders, and an all-out assault from the McCain camp -- threw James Johnson under the campaign bus (the pavement now decorated with Tony Rezko, and entire congregation of Trinity United Church). Johnson’s sweetheart loan deal with arch-villain Countrywide Financial Corp. was too much, even for the liberal media to endure and so the ultimate Mr. Fixer got tossed from the vice presidential search committee. But despite the mini-feeding frenzy somehow Eric Holder survived. For the time being.
4. Races of the Week
by John Gizzi Florida’s 22nd District: West vs. Klein There are two reasons Republicans and conservatives in general throughout Florida’s 22nd District are passionate about defeating one-term Democratic Rep. Ron Klein. The first is that, but for freakish circumstances in 2006, Clay Shaw would have clung onto the seat he had held since 1980 and gone on to be ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. But in the worst Republican election year since Watergate in 1974 and when scandal-plagued Rep. Mark Foley (R.-Fla.) was from the neighboring district, Shaw felt the voter fury against all Republicans and lost to Klein by 8,000 votes out of more than 200,000 cast.
3. Dems Running on Empty
Sen. James Inhofe
What a difference three years makes: In 2005, I led the charge against a massive global warming cap-and-trade bill. It was a lonely battle with few GOP members willing to join me on the Senate floor to publicly oppose it. Fast forward to June 2008: Not only was I joined by dozens of GOP Senators, but nearly 30% of the Democratic Senators rebelled against their leadership and opposed the Boxer Climate Tax Bill. In the end, Senator Boxer only had at most 35 Democratic Senators willing to vote for final passage on the largest tax bill in U.S. history. The Boxer Climate Tax Bill was so thoroughly disowned by Democratic Leadership that proponents of climate taxes will now be forced to start from scratch next year. (Continued Below) 
2. The Media, Ahab Levin and Moby Bush: Part 2
by Jed Babbin It's rare that Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mi) suffers from a political tin ear. A week after the Supreme Court's poorly-reasoned and outrageous decision granting the Constitutional right of habeas corpus to terrorists at the Guantanamo Bay naval base, Levin today will chair a hearing supposedly investigating the "origins of aggressive interrogation techniques." It's just another voyage for Captain Ahab Levin in his endless quest to harpoon Moby Bush on the Iraq war. The last time we reported on this, Levin's idea for a media show trial to label Bush administration lawyers as torturer-mongers was just in the planning stages. Today -- possibly aided and abetted by certain news organizations that Levin's staff is apparently spoon-feeding -- Levin will hold his first hearing.
1. Gitmo Inmates' Constitutional 'Rights'
by Charles D. Stimson In a sweeping decision that will have myriad consequences -- foreseen and unforeseen --the Supreme Court found that the right of habeas corpus under the U.S. Constitution applies to terrorist detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a controversial 5-4 decision written by Justice Kennedy that is already being reported as a major loss for the Administration’s detainee policy, the Supreme Court ruled that the petitioners detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus; that the Detainee Treatment Act’s (DTA) procedures for reviewing their statuses was not an adequate and effective substitute for the habeas writ; and that section 7 of the Military Commissions Act (MCA) is an unconstitutional suspension of the writ. In other words, the Constitution applies to unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo, and the one-time Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT’s) didn’t cut it.
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