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We don't endorse or dis-endorse candidates of either party here at The Big Con. We do, however, humbly admit ourselves to be partisans of the United States Constitution. Being as Mr. Perlstein, the blog's proprietor, is a member of a minority religious group—he is of the Jewish persuasion—we have always especially appreciated the third clause of that document's Article VI:

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

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Another 0-for-3 day for the Watchdog. more »

Apologies for a belated Weekend Watchdog post, as I'm back from a vacation and long flight delay. But as usual, on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air America Radio's "Seder on Sundays" program, where I'll offer the Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up.

For Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (ABC's This Week) and Sen. John McCain, R-AZ (Fox News Sunday): Time Magazine reported this week from Pakistan:

...as [Musharraf's] regime cracked down on lawyers, journalists and human-rights activists, it agreed to a cease-fire with a powerful militant leader who had taken 213 soldiers hostage in the lawless northwestern region. The irony was not lost on Asma Jahangir, Pakistan's best-known human-rights activist, who wrote in an e-mail from house arrest, "Those [Musharraf] has arrested are progressive, secular-minded people, while the terrorists are offered negotiations and cease-fires."

Yet, Condi Rice and President Bush have continued to describe Musharraf with kind words and have refused to take any substantive action in response to his dictatorial crackdown. And McCain has not criticized the White House for continuing to provide aid to Musharraf.

You claim your foreign policy is to defeat terrorism by promoting democracy. Isn't this further evidence that your actual foreign policy does neither? more »

The Speaker of the House was weighed in on—and against—initiating precedings against impeaching Republican officials, any of them. A roundtable of progressive senators including Vermont's Bernie Sanders advanced similar arguments at the Take Back America conference in June.

I'm leaning toward an Impeach Gonzales strategy myself.

Feeling strongly that patriots have to draw a line against the eternal return of Republican lawlessness, but granting the point that impeaching even Cheney may be politically counterproductive, this seems the perfect solution: politically attainable, and yet absolutely TERRIFYING to the bosses of the Republican Party, who know that without Omerta Abu G with his finger in all the dikes, it's impossible to hide all their lawlessness.

So that's my thought. Discuss.