Arianna Huffington argues that the wiretapping issue is a winning one for the Democrats.  However, she thinks they must really hammer the Republicans for it to work:

Illegal warrantless wiretapping -- and the administration's unrelenting mendacity about it -- is not only wrong on principle but a perfect wedge issue for Democrats, a chance to split off conservatives and independents disgusted with the White House's contemptuous disregard for the rule of law and for the truth. But only if Democrats correctly frame the issue. 

Huffington gives the Democrats credit for having a strong tone with Gonzales but says they "have an ignominious recent history of coming out of the gate hard, then quickly sounding retreat as soon as the White House cries 'soft on defense!'"

In a post at Ankle Biting Pundits, bulldogpundit agrees with Huffington about the Democrats' tough language at yesterday's hearings.  But he compares Democrats to Anthony Michael Hall's character ('Brian Johnson') in the The Breakfast Club:

Like poor Brian the Democrats keep trying to convince us that they too are tough on national security, but as soon as you start pressing them on the details you find out that they're all talk, and as we later find out with Brian - no action. 

In the ongoing cartoon controversy, apparently Iran's Hamshahri newspaper will now hold a competition for the best cartoons about the Holocaust.  While the Plank's Jason Zengerle explains that the contest's "whole premise is flawed," Jack Kelly writes a column about the war behind the cartoon war.

And separately, E.J. Dionne has a column out today that relives the Bush 41 tax increases and links them to the tax cuts of Bush 43.  Wondering whether Dionne suffered "from a strange attack of amnesia," Ed Morissey calls him out for omitting some important points.

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