Below The Beltway

No official announcement yet, but it certainly looks like former General Wesley Clark is seriously considering running for the 2008 Democratic nomination:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Wesley Clark said Tuesday he wants to avoid waiting too late to make a decision on whether to run for president _ a mistake he made in his failed 2004 [...]

As if the unending number of unsold homes in my neighborhood, and Northern Virginia in general didn’t confirm it, data released today shows that housing prices are still falling:
Home prices continued to slide in October as the supply of unsold homes grew. The new statistics are the latest to suggest that the once-booming housing market [...]

Republican Senator and probably 2008 Presidential Candidate Chuck Hagel has written a column saying it’s time for the United States to find a way out of Iraq:
There will be no victory or defeat for the United States in Iraq. These terms do not reflect the reality of what is going to happen there. The future [...]

Former Attorney General Janet Reno has openly criticized the Bush Administration’s policy of treating captured terrorists as “enemy combatants”:
Former attorney general Janet Reno has taken the unusual step of openly criticizing the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism strategy — joining seven other former Justice Department officials in warning that the indefinite detention of U.S. terrorism suspects could [...]

Stephan Littau has a post up marking the second anniversary of the founding of Fearless Philosophy For Free Minds.
Congratulations Stephen !

The dead may vote in Chicago, but in some parts of the country they run for office, and win.
It happened in North Carolina:
MONROE, N.C. (AP) — A candidate for a county board who appeared in newspaper ads the weekend before the election sailed to victory with 12,000 votes - despite being dead for a [...]

So, its over. Election Day has come and gone and the carnage is clear. The GOP lost, there’s no other way to put it and any pundit who tells you otherwise is drinking the Kool-Aid straight from the White House fridge.
I’ll have some further thoughts about why the GOP lost later today, as well as [...]

It happens almost every Presidential election cycle. One party, either the Republicans or the Democrats, puts forward a primary plan that challenges New Hampshire’s role as the host of the nation’s first primary. In the end, the plan usually gets shelved, but that doesn’t stop someone from trying again in four years. This time, it’s [...]

While Connecticut Democrats may have gone off the deep end, you can’t say the same thing about voters in the Atlanta area, because Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was defeated yesterday in a runoff primary:
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — Rep. Cynthia McKinney is controversial and outspoken, independent and unrepentant, all of which have endeared her to a [...]

It was a busy birthday weekend, but I’m still around. A little tired perhaps, but still around.
More details on the weekend, and at least a partial resumption of regular blogging, later.