The tiresome whiners at Judicial Watch receive breathless coverage in the right wing blogosphere for their Hillary Clinton papers pursuit. But facts occasionally shed light on just how strained their effort is.
The National Archives is asking a judge to make Judicial Watch wait it’s turn. Freedom of Information Act requests to the Presidential Libraries are handled as they come in, first come first served. The Watchers are considerably back in the pack, and they are pigs.
Archives sneers:
“At an estimated three million pages, the size and scope of Judicial Watch’s present FOIA request makes it the largest FOIA request that the Clinton presidential library has received to date…Further, the request is greater than any FOIA request ever received to date at any of the presidential record act libraries.“
Stupid Things 
After another orgy of Republican candidate debate Reaganophilia, Paul Slansky is back once more with a loving look back at Ronald Reagan’s troubled relationship with fact.
The orgy itself came to new lows.
Shamelessness crossbred with cluelessness to produce such gems as John McCain‘s “It would be good to have Nancy Reagan back in the leadership role of the ‘Just Say No’ program”
And the Nanc herself threatened, “He’s back.”
Murky Record 
She was billed as a singer during the Truman Administration, but the late Margaret Truman achieved greater fame for cashing in with an interminable stream of Murder At The [insert known DC landmark here] novels carrying her name.
Perhaps the definitive excavation of the Margaret Truman books and who may have actually written them appeared in The Weekly Standard. Jon L. Breen toured the murky world of celebrity ghost written novels, with a hard stare at the Truman industry.
Breen fingers Donald Bain, whose works under his own name have a respectable following. Perhaps now we’ll learn the facts. Or maybe not. The long dead Eliot Roosevelt continues to pump out the paper.
And when imagination completely failed: 
Before It’s Too Late 
Just when we are shedding the Bushes and cracks appear in the His ‘n Her Presidencies juggernaut, a new dynastic threat looms.
It may take swallowing a second generation of Romney, but it’s a price worth paying to strangle this political career in it’s cradle.
When the New York Times asked Nixon’s Grandson about his future, Christopher Nixon Cox brings the coy:
“When asked if he would ever consider running for public office, Mr. Cox sidestepped a bit. “For me, the key is to serve my country and my community in whatever way I can,†he said. “It can’t be about ego. It has to be about using my talents to serve the country in the best way I can. Right now, that means working for John McCain.â€
You have been warned.
Negative Barometer 
Just in time for yet another gathering at the Reagan Library, the Los Angeles Times reports that incessant Reagan name checks have a negative correlation with Republican primary success. At least for Rudy Giuliani.
