Daily Glean: Bush's vision thing

• A snippet of Seymour Hersh's we're-gonna-nuke-Iran story in the New Yorker: 'The House member said that no one in the meetings “is really objecting” to the talk of war. “The people they’re briefing are the same ones who led the charge on Iraq. At most, questions are raised: How are you going to hit all the sites at once? How are you going to get deep enough?” (Iran is building facilities underground.) “There’s no pressure from Congress” not to take military action, the House member added. “The only political pressure is from the guys who want to do it.” Speaking of President Bush, the House member said, “The most worrisome thing is that this guy has a messianic vision.”'
  • Does not, administration says. AP/CBS
• Marching Monday? AP
• The Review-Journal parts with a buck or two and buys a poll. Governor's race results are not wildly different from the Hart numbers of the other day -- except the R-J's pollster has Jim Gibson trailing Jim Gibbons by 14, whereas he was locked in a dead-heat in the Hart poll. Oh, and Dina Titus is "polarizing." That must have been what led the R-J to run candidate-provided studio photos of boy candidates wearing smiles, and a file photo of Titus with her eyes closed. LVRJ
• Same pollster gives Ensign 60, Carter 27, which is a ridiculously high number for Ensign. "There's just no compelling reason why you'd want to vote against" Ensign, says GOP apparatchik Sig Rogich, echoing a position long-held, sadly and shamefully, by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid. Absolutely. Apart from blind support for every conceivable brand of Bush administration folly, complete and total fealty to putting corporate interests ahead of public interests, and a preoccupation with playing sports instead of playing senator, why on earth would anybody vote against Ensign? LVRJ
• Same pollster, in Sunday's paper, found Nevadans split on immigration reform. "Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beers, who is scheduled to speak Tuesday at a meeting for Secured Borders USA, an organization that promotes stricter immigration laws, said he wasn't surprised that nearly half of the Hispanic poll respondents thought illegal immigrants have a negative effect on life in Nevada." Yes, but is he surprised that his gubernatorial campaign polls in the teens?
  • Breakdowns by region and additional info on the polls at the R-J's poll page, fyi.
• Another fine story on higher education from the Sun's Christina Littlefield examines the conundrum of UNLV's quest for research cred. Money shot: "The desire to be both student-focused and conduct top-flight research without additional funding from the state has put stress on the university's ability to do either well."
• Today's happy news: Looks like Berlusconi's going down. Financial Times via MSNBC

Comments

[Beastie]

I don't know which poll to believe, there have been three polls in a month and a half, and none of them are similar at all.