A distressing note…

…from Kevin at Lean Left, who reports that Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan's vigil in Crawford will result in arrest on Thursday, apparently in hope of shielding the eyes of Condi and a variety of fat cats who will soon be assembling from the face of the war's human cost at home.

It's hard for me to believe that Karl's been knocked so far off his stride that he's going to allow the public arrest of the grieving mother of an Iraq War fatality. But there it is. As Kevin notes, in their ham-handed response to Cindy Sheehan's appeal...

The Bushies have allowed one women to derail the press coverage of Bush’s vacation and put the focus squarely on the quagmire in Iraq.

Which is a perfectly fine place for the focus to be...