Also talks about Norquist, Donna Brazile, and lots more.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-bardach/ken-mehlman-the-presiden_b_14123.htmlThese days, the drill is to hammer out the message that 1) snooping on Americans without a warrant is a crucial weapon in the "war on terror," 2) Congress and Bill Clinton also thought Saddam was bad news, and 3) Victory in Iraq is close at hand. "Not only was it our idea, it was Bill Clinton's idea," Mehlman tells me, pausing to smooth his red paisley tie before resuming his political mantra. "Regime change was a policy of this country since 1998. Bill Clinton came to the American people and said, 'He will get these weapons and if we don't stop him now, we are going to have a huge problem in this country.'" Then Mehlman, who stays as fit and trim as his boss, goes for the rabbit punch, deftly blaming the Clinton administration for the World Trade Center attacks. "They didn't act on it. And after 9/11 we learned that not acting on these threats, is a failed strategy."
But wait a minute - Saddam, it turned out, didn't have a nuclear bomb, and didn't attack New York, and Bill Clinton didn't order the invasion of Iraq... did he?
No matter. There are no objectionable facts, troubling data, or pesky documents that Mehlman isn't ready to swat down with instant lightning salvos. His dexterity with factoids, and his ability to jiu-jitsu them into a nimble counterattack are part of the reason Mehlman won the top slot last January to run the GOP. Not that he ever had much competition after running the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004, in which Mehlman commanded a volunteer army in precinct-by-precinct, hand-to-hand combat to get out just enough of the vote, notably in Ohio.
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