aing on the as the bush administration s ideological enforcer. most mornings during the first term, he would join the staff meeting in the white house counsel s office and take potshots at anyone he regarded as insufficiently committed to the president s agenda. it was very surprising if anyone took a position more conservative than david. and this was a very conservative office, recalls one former colleague. he was the hardest of the hard-core. it turns out this hardest of the hard-core right wingers just landed a cushy new job at jim demint s heritage foundation. it s what new york times columnist paul krug man calls wingnut welfare, getting a better-paying job in the private sector after you screwed up in the public sector. addington will head the conservative think tank s legal department. here is the real kicker. addington, the guy who wrote the book on pushing the limits of executive power will be the heritage foundation s top watchdog on government
the washington post described addington as the bush administration s ideological enforcer. most mornings during the first term, he would join the staff meeting in the white house counsel s office and take potshots at anyone he regarded as insufficiently committed to the president s agenda. it was very surprising if anyone took a position more conservative than david. and this was a very conservative office, recalls one former colleague. he was the hardest of the hard-core. it turns out this hardest of the hard-core right wingers just landed a cushy new job at jim demint s heritage foundation. it s what new york times columnist paul krugman calls wingnut welfare, getting a better-paying job in the private sector after you screwed up in the public sector. addington will head the conservative think tank s legal department. here is the real kicker. addington, the guy who wrote the book on pushing the limits of executive power will be the heritage foundation s top
defense system, aimed at one rocket this morning. as benjamin netanyahu warns his country is ready to expand with thousands of troops gathering near the israel-gaza border awaiting a possible ground invasion. leland vitter is live with much more. reporter: this is very much a country on the brink of war, about 5 to 600 yards from my shoulder is the gaza border and we ve seen tanks and army person nell carriers maneuvering and the palestinians are taking potshots around this position trying to see if they can t hit a israeli tank platoon. it s been a bloody day through the air war with rockets flying over our heads and the israelis coming in for air strikes on gaza. at least a dozen people killed inside the gaza strip. many of those civilians, including two kids and a dozen
jon: democrats in congress taking potshots at republican vice-presidential nominee paul ryan. the senate majority leader getting in a dig talking about judicial nominations jabbing congressman ryan a mistake recalling marathon time from more than 20 years ago. senator toomey the week we went out gave a speech the reason we don t have two republican judges in pennsylvania because i m holding them up. i m holding them up. i mean you talk about jiggling your marathon time, that is right up there with that. jon: susan ferechio congressional correspondent at the washington examiner . just doesn t seem like relationships between the two parties on capitol hill are getting any better, susan. this time of year you can expect that. we re getting ready to leave for another, month or so to campaign for the november elections. so both sides it is all about partisanship.
but evidence is very powerful and very dangerous. that is why we have rules here. in many cases, this evidence comes in any completely interesting manner to render a verdict rated three dangerous as testimony against drew peterson. arthel: if it is dangerous, how does the defense poke a hole in that testimony? well, they didn t do it yesterday from the reports that i saw. as a matter of fact, it seemed to fail completely, other than taking a couple of potshots at the reverend, because of his ties and his concern that stacy peterson was a married woman and she didn t want to be seen as doing anything wrong. other than that, this is damaging testimony. probably preventing the defense from getting a directed verdict. i think they were hoping because there was no physical evidence, they had a chance to get a direct verdict. this is damaging testimony. arthel: no head, donald. i would agree with chip. the cross-examination of this