Mother Of All Guest Blogger Lineups:
Steve Clemons over at The Washinton Note has pulled in some great talent to pinch hit while he's on vacation.  The Budowsky bit below was a first taste; some others include:

• Gary Hart: "In a government envisioned by James Madison, the Congress, a branch of government equal to the executive, would be asking questions about our strategy of stealth. But this Congress is Madison's worst nightmare--quiescent, passive, emasculated, rubber stamp, and totally abandoning its Constitutional duty of oversight of the executive. The current Congress resembles most the Duma in the Soviet era."
• Mohammad Mohamedou: "... the abysmal failure of the 'adventure in Iraq'... has set back the United States' standing in the Arab and Muslim world by decades ... we tend to miss the larger historical picture; namely a steady pattern over four years of systematic and systemic human rights violations, extrajudicial killings, secret prisons, ghost detainees, and globalized and privatized torture practice, all of which orchestrated around an originally-conceived design of cultural and religious humiliation ... Osama Ben Laden and ... Abu Musab al Zarqawi ... are well on their way to winning Iraq including the "hearts and minds" of the humiliated ones..."
• On deck: Nir Rosen, Arianna Huffington, Joe Trippi, Clyde Prestowitz, 007, and many more.  Keep your eyes on these guys.