Quick political hits

There's been some very quotable political writing lately. I'll get it out of the way in one post.

• My Wheel of Fortune was rudely interrupted yesterday by an ad for Amway. Yes, that's right, Michigan's favorite pyramid scheme multi-level marketing opportunity. As this news story notes,

  ...It is the first time in 20 years the company, founded as Amway Corp., has run any U.S. television commercials...

  ..."If anyone believes Amway isn't doing this to try to help Dick DeVos in his run for governor, I've got some soap I want to sell to them," said Chris DeWitt, spokesman for Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm...

  Oh, snap!

  UPDATE: And now they're interrupting my House! Fuckers!

• This is perhaps some of the dumbest writing I've ever seen on the Corner, and that's saying a lot:

  President Bush's speech today will be very important. The administration has done a bad job of explaining why Iraq is vital to success in the overall war against jihadists. But, as Dan Henninger argued in the WSJ last week, the London planes plot is a new opportunity to remind the country that (a) our enemies still desperately want to kill us, and (b) al Qaeda, which was in cahoots with Saddam long before the U.S. invasion, regards Iraq as a crucial battle. That's what the war in Iraq is about...

  Um, have you been listening to Bush's speeches in the past four years? I think he's hit those points a couple of times before.

• No More Mister Nice Blog on the big picture:

  ...This is a remarkable accomplishment by the Bush administration: It's been able to repeal a herotofore inviolate law of law of journalism. "If it bleeds, it leads" -- that's not true anymore. In Iraq (and certainly in Afghanistan), if it bleeds, it doesn't lead. It's consigned to a quick sentence in a broadcast news summary or the inner pages of the morning paper. Hundreds of deaths and injuries a week are a footnote. Empty bombast gets the banner headlines.

  Now the law is: If it orates from a balcony, it leads...