Can I Get Some Real News Analysis?
Hopefully it isn't anthrax. If it is, I wonder if it will spur some news agency besides Salon to do a story about the fact that the only politicians getting anthrax are prominent democrats.

On another note, Joe Conason links to a story that should have been below the fold today, or at least abutting the internal pages describing Cheney's speech about Iraq. Envoy-extraordinaire Anthony Zinni thinks invading Iraq is a bad idea. Why haven't the democrats seized the political opportunity to stand with the military and dispute the need to invade a country? They couldn't still be spooked by Dukakis, could they? Given that both houses are up for grabs and the administration is desperately trying to keep Iraq on the front page, why not take the story away from them? Can a Washington correspondent please address this?


- posted by levinson @ 8/27/2002 01:36:00 PM