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Monday 29 October

you just gotta love these guys... (10:06) - I know the current administration likes Muslims about as much as they like the Eebil Coloreds, but c'mon, guys: The UK's first Muslim Minister has chalked up his second detention at the hands of the US Department of Homeland Security... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 25 October

these people are the true heros... (10:10) - Not just Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, but anyone who is willing to take a job at CIA and live their lives by their rules, all to defend this country. Rebecca Trasiter's review of Plame's book in Salon today is... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 15 October

The Gestapo... (16:07) - I now officially declare a moratorium on Godwin's Law with respect to the Bush Administration, thanks to this tidbit from Frank Rich of the NYT today: By any legal standards except those rubber-stamped by Alberto Gonzales, we are practicing torture,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 14 September

My Letter to Mary Landrieu (10:48) - Dear Senator Landrieu: I'm a bit disappointed that we have not heard any comment from you on Rep. Boehner's very insulting remarks to our troops. Given that so many Louisianians have given life and limb in Iraq, and given the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 11 September

Anthrax... (10:01) - (the virus, not the blonde pundit) While pointing out CNN's stupiditiy in saying that there have been no terorist attacks in the US since 9-11, Atrios reminds the Atlanta Idiots of the anthrax-related deaths. But then he makes this comment:... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 6 September

Last Night's Republican Debate... (08:51) - "Even a Republican audience in New Hampshire is divided on Iraq." on NPR's Morning Edition today, Fox's Mara Liasson made this comment while reporting on the Fox News-sponsored Republican debate last night. You should hear the applause for the only... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
of Bathrooms and Diapers... (08:23) - I'm amazed at the extent that the Blogosphere thinks the status of some of the more perverted members of the US Senate has to do with morality. It's about simple addition: If Larry Craig resigns, Idaho's governor appoints a Repug.... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Thursday 19 July

Letter to Senator Reid (19:55) - Senator Harry Read (D-NV) Senate Majority Leader Dear Senator Reid: I'm writing to encourage you to take a pass on opening an investigation into whether Vitty-cent violated the Senate Rules of Conduct by paying women to stick Lil Vitty in... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 17 July

This made me spit my coffee... (11:00) - The UNO College Republicans are calling for Vitty-cent to quit. Here's the title of their press release: David Vitter: A Stain on the Republican Party Of course, they're college wingnuts, so they're clueless. They want Blanco to appoint a Republican... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 10 July

Oh, arousal, thy name is Schadenfreude! (08:32) - That Vitter is a pervert has been common knowledge since his abortive campaign for governor in the 1990s. It's good to see him finally admit it: WASHINGTON _ Sen. David Vitter, R-La., apologized Monday night for "a very serious sin... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 9 July

government shutdowns... (09:05) - Ed Rendell (D) is shutting down the PA state gubmint for a day, to illustrate how far apart his office and the Republicans in the state legislature are on the state's budget. One must be careful when exercising this sort... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 29 June

My reply to a Landrieu fundraiser e-mail received today. (09:23) - Don't you think that asking for money for Sen. Landrieu in the same week as all these 5-4 SCOTUS decisions impacting progressive causes is a bit inappropriate? After all, it's the Libermann-Landrieu wing of the Democratic Caucus in the Senate... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 28 June

Dr. Black is 100% spot-on here (16:21) - There is no way the Big Dog's image and/or presence can hurt any of the Dem candidates, unless they run away from him. Only to the Drudge-addled brains of our elite press corps would this question even occur. It is,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 27 June

Two death penalty cases... (18:11) - Oklahoma sinks to a new low today, executing a terminally ill man. The federal death penalty came under scrutiny on Capitol Hill, as a former US Attorney testified about Abu Gonzalez' insistence on putting people to death, no matter how... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
I <3 Elizabeth Edwards some more! (15:48) - Crooks and Liars has the video of EE calling into yesterday's "Hardball" show, challenging AnnThrax. It was a thing of beauty, listen to it. There's a gal in pink standing behind AnnThrax whose nipples are getting hard as EE asks... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 26 June

The BushCo culture of lies... (12:21) - OK, it's one thing for military or quasi-military contractors to do anything from stretch the truth to outright lie about performance metrics related to their projects. Usually you don't see agency heads lying for them, though. But then again, this... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 25 June

you just gotta admire Edwards' ballsy approach to this campaign (18:02) - It's triangulation in reverse. While Clinton and Obama go after each other, and while the punditocracy keep pushing those two closer so they fight, Edwards is making a lot of smart moves. The most recent move was made by his... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
no Bong Hits for Jesus... (13:22) - SCOTUS came down 5-4 for censorship today in the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case. the background: During the 2002 Winter Olympics, the torch run passed through Juneau, Alaska. A student, Joseph Frederick, held up a sign that got on teevee,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 23 June

In case anyone's forgotten... (12:25) - The day before landfall, out in San Diego: The infamous speech a week later: Since he did such a "heckuvajob," it begs the question: and his usual response is:... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 20 June

I never think of sex when I'm eating onion rings... (10:27) - ...that's because good onion rings are better than sex. I guess Altmouse has only eaten Burger King onion rings during her pitiful stint on this planet this time around, else she wouldn't try to stretch a onion ring comment by... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 19 June

Sir Salman Rushdie (21:53) - So, HM the Queen has knighted author Salman Rushdie, and predictably, some in the Islamic world are going bananas: Iran's foreign ministry summoned the UK ambassador in Tehran and said the knighthood was a "provocative act". Pakistan voiced similar protests,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 18 June

Some debate locations are truly too relevant: (12:42) - There's a push to have New Orleans host one of the presidential campaign debates next year. Mitch is right that bringing the candidates to New Orleans makes sense: Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu said the committee tries to locate debates... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 17 June

Fundigelicals' concerns with the Mittster... (22:33) - Radical Cleric Dobson has already come out against Giuliani, and the rank-and-file fundigelicals have their concerns about Romney: ROCK HILL, S.C. — Here's the problem with electing a Mormon president, as Jason Thurman sees it: "I don't believe he would... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 14 June

Eloquent (13:56) - What Blumenthal said: No president has had a more disastrous European trip since President Reagan placed a wreath on the graves of SS soldiers in the Bitburg cemetery. Yet Reagan's mistake was unintentional and symbolic, a temporary and superficial setback,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 10 June

I agree totally with Signorile here... (08:09) - This is no time to play nice. Keep kicking these people while they're down. Hit them hard and in the balls at every opportunity. Holsinger's backers also have brought forth a lesbian who says Holsinger's a good guy even though... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 7 June

Quote of the Day (17:08) - --A neoconservative is a Bush administration official who has mugged reality and claims he's the victim. Neoconservatism has now been reduced to a clemency plea. Sidney Blumenthal, commenting on a possible pardon for Scooter Libby in Salon.com today. Blumenthal does... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 5 June

If Conyers is truly pissed off... (18:17) - ...and it sounds like he is here...will he advocate that the CBC withdraw its sponsorship of a Democratic Presidential Debate on Faux? Yesterday, Fox News Channel broke the story of Rep. William Jefferson’s indictment with video of Judiciary Committee Chairman... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Thoughts on Scooter... (18:06) - Jane Hamsher has a good summary of Libby's 30-month sentence at Firedoglake: It was rendered just a little bit easier today when Reggie Walton recognized what Scooter Libby and his cronies did not Scooter is not a great man, he's... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 31 May

New Hampshire joins the ranks of eebil (20:09) - Allowing the Godless Homos to join in civil unions! What will we tell the children! CONCORD, N.H. - Gay couples in New Hampshire can start applying for many of the rights and responsibilities of marriage as early as January under... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 16 May

even Garrison Keilor is getting shrill... (07:37) - In a Salon piece about Imus, the master of Lake Woebegon is almost as shrill as Krugman: When you think of how Mr. Eyebrows had to sit in sackcloth and ashes and apologize, all for an outburst you can hear... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 15 May

karma... (14:16) - ...it would be sweet irony if Falwell came back as a lesbian... Anyway, I hope I'm closer to accurate about how the afterlife work than his beliefs, for his soul's sake.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 14 May

Dear National Public Radio (14:19) - Don't y'all get just a little embarassed when one of your reporters goes on Fox Noise Channel and simply makes shit up? Ignoring polling, Liasson claimed on Fox News Sunday that all Republicans beat Clinton On the May 13 edition... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 16 April

Yet another study debunks absitnence education (11:25) - No surprises here, of course: Teenagers will not refrain from having sex, even if you spend a billion dollars trying to persuade them to keep their trousers zipped and chastity belts locked. This is the conclusion from a six year... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 22 March

Before-and-After: Louisiana Politics in the wake of the storm - Part 2 (07:51) - In Part 1 of this diary, we looked at the state in terms of four regions: North, Central, Southwest, and Southeast. That leaves Metro New Orleans for today. Metro New Orleans consists of three sections. There's the original "tri-parish" area,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 21 March

Before-and-After: Louisiana Politics in the wake of the storm (11:13) - Yesterday's announcement that Governor Kathleen Blanco has announced she won't seek a second term, everyone is re-analyzing and re-handicapping the race for La-Gov. The conventional wisdom is that the big winner today is former US Senator John Breaux, and the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 19 March

C. Ray and the Katrina Diaspora (10:00) - C. Ray's on the right track with his remarks to the National Newspaper Publishers Association, but he misses the bigger picture when he focuses on race. It's more than just a black white thang. Nagin said: "Ladies and gentlemen, what... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 6 February

HPV will be another GOP implosion... (09:54) - Ya know, Texas Governor Rick Perry isn't all that a nice guy. He's quite the asshole, actually. So, when I read that Perry issued an executive order to require that pre-teen girls in TX get vaccinated against HPV, I was... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 11 January

What is it good for? (14:12) - Alterman writes: A metaphor: Bush is like a man who is dealt two kings in blackjack (after 9-11) when the dealer is showing a nine, doubles down instead of playing his winner hand, gets two twos, and continues to double... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 27 December

Gerald R. Ford, RIP (09:50) - Funny as Chevy Chase was, Ford wasn't really the klutz he was made out to be. Still, he deserved being the target of SNL's sketches, mainly because it was a way to marginalize the man who pardoned Nixon. He was... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 14 December

Fighting Opus Dei (15:47) - From a dairy on dKos: Help Stand Up to Opus Dei Hotlist by Frank Cocozzelli [Subscribe] Thu Dec 14, 2006 at 12:31:51 PM PST Many of you know my writings on the Catholic Right. Well, my friend Dianne DiNicola asked... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Dollar Bill: A Local's Perspective (12:47) - The hand-wringing over the return of William Jefferson to the 110th Congress still continues, and I've found that all too many people analyzing this situation are basically clueless to the local dynamics that allowed Jefferson to keep his seat. It... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 13 December

Rude sums it up (15:26) - With respect to Bill Jefferson's reelection: And that post-Katrina, in New Orleans, who the fuck cares what the federal government says is good and bad, right and wrong? ,,, And since only 16% of eligible voters bothered to cast ballots,... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Wednesday 6 December

Gates... (12:23) - as in Robert, not Bill the Gates. It's a sad situation when we're willing to accept an evil man because, even though he is evil, he is not a madman. Rummy is a madman. Cheney's office is an insane asylum.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 28 November

Democratic "Southern Strategy" (15:59) - I pretty much ignored Thomas Schaller's article, "Do Democrats need the South" when it came out on Salon two weeks ago, for the same reasons I've ignored his book, "Whistling Past Dixie." The premise behind both is bullshit. Schaller used... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 26 November

Thanks, Karl... (18:13) - The politicization of terror has blown up in Karl Rove's face. While my evidence that frequent fliers are fed up with BushCo is anecdotal, the notion that prohibiting shampoo and body lotion in carry-on luggage helps the cause seems to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Pelosi - doing the right thing on the HPSCI (17:46) - The two ranking Dems on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence are Jane Harman of CA and Alcee Hastings of FL. Many of Pelosi's colleagues have serious issues with giving the gavel for that committee to Harman. They believe... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 13 November

confused priorities? (15:13) - via TalkLeft comes a reference to an article by Paul Craig Roberts that is typical of Republi-Tarian thinking. For example: The Bush regime was able to evade these restraints, because Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and because Republicans wielded... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 8 November

This is why Camille Paglia pisses me off (14:54) - Writing about Speaker Pelosi in Salon, La Paglia says: Though I've sometimes despaired at her girly, wide-eyed Marlo Thomas mannerisms, Pelosi has proved her toughness by her staying power and her deftness in outmaneuvering her rivals. Why does Paglia find... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Credit Where Credit is Due (12:12) - Atrios said: Credit Where Credit is Due Caught a chunk of Little Ricky's concession speech. I was expecting a full meltdown, complete with "Iranians are going to put nuclear weapons in your toilet" kind of stuff. But he was very... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Emmanuel is right... (12:08) - Christy at Firedoglake has it wrong when she gets upset at Rahm Emmanuel: Let me get this straight, we have just taken back the House and, looking more likely as of this morning, the Senate, and Rahm's first priority is... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Closer to Home... (07:14) - Jindal wins big, with 88% of the vote. Jefferson in a runoff with Carter in LA-02, and Charlie Melancon returns to represent LA-03. No surprises all around. It's good to see Jindal win so big, since he was going to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Yesterday was just a beginning... (06:48) - It's easy to get excited about what happened last night. Taking back the House is significant, but it's not going to stop anything that the disrespectful piece of crap who lives in the White House will do. Republicans will be... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
quote of the evening... (06:34) - From TBogg: everyone knew that Santorum was going down like Ted Haggard at a rave. And I'm OK with piling on Mr. Man-on-Dog. He deserves it, the facist piece of crap. He's going to go on to a lucrative K... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 7 November

GO VOTE! (10:17) - see subject. I'd love to see Karen Carter beat Dollar Bill, but unfortunately, my vote is against Jindal, so I'm not much help.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 31 October

Mr. Truman and Mr. Banning (23:28) - I'm in Kansas City for a couple of days for work. I took an early flight, so I arrived here around 12:30pm. With all afternoon to myself, I decided to drive to Independence, MO, and visit the Harry S. Truman... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 26 October

What Amanda Says... (08:46) - Amanda at Pandagon sums up'>sums up the reaction to Michael J. Fox's support for Claire McCaskill's Senate campaign in Missouri: What makes them mad is that you’re making a good argument they can’t trump with noise and bullshit and lies.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 9 October

heh... (12:17) - Maf54 (8:08:31 PM): Get a ruler and measure it for me via Salon's War Room... Bush lies about everything... :-)... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Southeast LA Congressional Roundup (10:48) - LA-02 When discussing the CongressCritters from this region, we always begin with LA-02, the seat of the late T. Hale Boggs, then held by his widow (and now former Ambassador to the Vatican under Clinton) Lindy Boggs. The current occupant... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 7 October

something the "purity trolls" don't get (13:30) - but DemFromCT on DailyKos does: And as for dumping the GOP over Foley-Hastert-Reynolds rather than Iraq, well, if you can't get Capone for murder and racketeering, get him for tax evasion. Either way, he winds up behind bars. This is... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 6 October

Shorter David Broder... (19:53) - did I mention that the Democratic Party has BLACK candidates running for office? If the Dems take over, it's going to be hard to put them BLACK people in their place...... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 4 October

Food for Thought... (21:48) - From Rude: Democrats keep acting as if they are dealing with honorable men and women across the aisle in Congress. Instead, they need to behave as if all that exists over there is a hellscape of pedophiles and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 3 October

Invading Iran with The Bomb (14:17) - In light of the current GOP implosion ongoing in the House of Representatives, it's important to look a few moves ahead on the chessboard. While I'm all for keeping the pressure on every blessed Republican CongressCritter to denounce not only... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
NORML (10:55) - NORML has a new movement for the fall election season: Project VoteSmart... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 2 October

"The Unending Torture of Omar Khadr" (16:09) - Crooks and Liars is right, Rolling Stone is out on the front edge of political writing. This article just made me resolve to subscribe to RS. No need for excerpts or comments to set this one up. Just go read... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
ABC News... (12:01) - it's interesting that ABC News is so far out in front on the Foley scandal. OK, I know sex sells, and the "common man" loves to see the mighty fall. Still, for all the trouble that Disney/ABC went through to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 1 October

Don Riegle kicks ass! (09:40) - Former Senator Don Riegle (D-MI) just spanked some female "Republican Strategist" on Faux News. His tactic? Give her NO time to get in the last word. The bubble-headed bleach-blonde on FNC was trying to shift back to the republican, but... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 29 September

Schadenfreude: Weekend Edition... (16:59) - Actually, this is more than just schadenfreude: Congressman Mark Foley, Republican from Florida, resigned today just hours after ABC news questioned him about a series of sexually explicit instant messages involving current and former underage male Congressional pages. Foley used... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 28 September

Feingold's remarks on torture today (15:06) - As the upper house of the Republican Parliament moves to bless the desire of the disrespectful piece of shit who lives in the White House to become the "Torture President," Russ Feingold actually finds himself in agreement with the Crisco... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 26 September

"nigger" (22:37) - When Mr. Allen of Virginia denied ever using the word "nigger" the other day, all I could think of was how much bullshit that is. He's from the south, after all. That started me down memory lane.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
GOP Concern Trolls... (09:34) - ...are becoming more and more prevalent. Via Crooks and Liars comes this item from Raw Story: Liberal bloggers in New Hampshire busted an aide to Rep. Charles Bass (R-N.H.) who was posing as a liberal blogger on such blogs as... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 24 September

this is why he gets the honorific (22:04) - Via Crooks and Liars, the disrespectful piece of shit that lives in the white house thinks BLITZER: Let’s move on and talk a little bit about Iraq. Because this is a huge, huge issue, as you know, for the American... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 21 September

Clinton on Clinton (12:42) - discussing his speech at Coretta Scott King's funeral, and how he "upstaged" Hillary: "I read about that, and I said, 'Hillary, if we both spoke at the Wellesley reunion, you'd probably get a better reception.' I said, 'You can't pay... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 20 September

Cornyn (12:39) - that Cornyn consorts with racists is no overwhelming shock. For openers, he's Republican, then parlay that with the fact he's from Texas. But when you start consorting with virulent racists, it's a bit much: On Tuesday, September 18, inside the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 19 September

yet another reason why we need congressional oversight... (14:23) - In a Salon article about Rove, Walter Shapiro makes an interesting point: "Hubris" also draws an important distinction between Libby's indictment by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald for perjury and Rove's clean-slate escape, despite a faulty memory and five trips before... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
the civil war comment IS meaningless... (06:58) - When it comes to Saxby Chambliss' latest remarks about the Civil War, Pam doesn't get it, and that's interesting since she's a Southerner. Guys talk about military history. English guys talk about the English Civil War and the Napoleonic wars.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 17 September

sheer profundity... (13:36) - Broder's pretty pathetic, but to still be stroking the Clenistm in the face of over 2600 Americans dead because of a President's lie is incredulous. They Write Letters Ruthalice Anderson writes to Romenesko: Reading David Broder's answers to online questions... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 11 September

flag desecration... (21:48) - back during the Clinton years, we had a movement down here in Louisiana where a couple of state legislators sponsored a bill that would de-criminalize beating the crap out of flag desecrators, since doing anything to the flag itself was... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
out of the mouths of Marines... (09:29) - ...well, this guy's report is classified and he doesn't appear to have leaked it, so hopefully his career isn't fucked: 'Pessimistic' report on Iraq leaves little hope in Anbar WASHINGTON - The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in... | 2 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
believe the children... (08:37) - ...because they don't lie like attack-poodle reporters: Schoolchildren Spent 9/11 With the President SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Tyler Radkey and other second-graders at Emma E. Booker Elementary School didn't know what to think when an aide leaned in and whispered... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 3 September

GOP numbers decline... (16:41) - but wait, we're always told that Dems are out of touch with Main Street, USA: Number of Republicans declines to 32-month low The number of Americans calling themselves Republican has fallen to its lowest level in more than two-and-a-half years.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 31 August

"Scotland's Vietnam" (17:26) - On Tuesday, NPR's "All Things Considered" did a piece on a play from Scotland called "The Black Watch." The title refers to a very old regiment of the British Army, and the plot centers around soldiers of the Black Watch.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
More Like This (14:38) - Referring to a comment Paul Begala made on CNN yesterday, Atrios said: We've finally started to see more Democrats internalize the idea that these people are stupid, and ugly, and nobody likes them. They should be treated with the derision... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
what a choice! (14:24) - Hmmm...Hannity dead, Pelosi speaker...as much as I'd like to see Hannity laid out and being mourned, Pelosi as speaker will hopefully save a lot more lives. Hannity: "[M]aking sure Nancy Pelosi doesn't become the [House] speaker" is "worth ... dying... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
What John Says... (13:10) - Now that 29-Aug has come and gone, the focus of the media shifts to 11-Sep. Unlike us laid-back Yats and such, Noo Yawkers tend to be a bit more open about their feelings. Well, that's not totally fair to New... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
lies and the lying liars... (09:14) - Somtimes Colorado really scares me: Congressman Bob Beauprez was denounced by state legislators today for comments he made in a recent radio interview about black pregnancies and abortion. "In some of our ethnic communities, we're seeing very, very high percentages... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 25 August

the terrorists have won... (15:32) - ...simple as that. The latest installment of "Ask the Pilot" on Salon.com (day pass required, but worth it) details a number of incidents that have cost airlines hundreds of thousands of dollars since Lieberman lost to Lamont in CT the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 24 August

OK, this article worries me... (13:32) - Actions have consequences. That's why computer types implement change control and do planning. Obviously those notions are foreign ones at TSA: Checked luggage strains security In an interview with USA TODAY, Transportation Security Administration head Kip Hawley said there has... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 8 August

my latest letter to the NPR ombudsman (11:21) - To: NPR Ombudsman Re: Juan Williams' latest comments on FNC I'm writing to direct your attention to remarks made by your "senior correspondent" Juan Williams in his role as pundit on Fox News Channel. On the 5-August edition of the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
villifying your opponents... (10:42) - In an interview with NPR, Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker says: It serves nothing at all to villify someone because of their political party. Would that Republicans felt the same way. While I don't feel it necessary for Mayor Booker... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 5 August

Bumper Sticker (16:09) - Seen on/sold by AmericaBlog:... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 27 July

OK, now this was funny... (14:52) - Laura Bush's Tips To Beat The Heat... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Sure as hell beats conscription... (14:32) - OK, so what if the USMC are on MySpace: Military mess How sorry and desperate is this?” Marines trolling for recruits on MySpace. The Marine Corps MySpace profile is reaching out to its target audience with streaming video of recruits... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 24 July

so, does this apply to catlick families, too? (18:25) - I'll have to ask my friend Jerry if he wants to volunteer one of his nine kids as a suicide bomber. He'll still have the other eight, after all: Dietl on Muslim "fanatics" fighting a "God war": "When you have... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
karma bites another one... (08:01) - 2004's Katherine Harris is biting the dust: The votes don't add up Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, accused of suppressing votes during the 2004 election, faces daunting polls of his own in his race for governor. By Walter Shapiro... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 22 July

this is so wrong on so many levels... (18:16) - When I saw this posted by The General, at first I thought it was something he cooked up on his own. Or maybe got from Rude. Then I clicked through and saw that it was really a site. Oh my.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
what digby says... (17:12) - This is a long rant, which includes a youtube clip of the Dixie Chicks on Letterman (worth the clicky if you haven't seen this) singing "Not Ready To Make Nice," along with the song's lyrics. Digby's thoughts on the song... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Wolcott on Limbaugh (12:08) - yeah, I know that posting about the Vulgar Pigboy these days is like shooting fish in a barrel, but James Wolcott has such a great way with words. Here he's commenting on Rush's recent on-air shout-outs to Debbie Schlussel and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
he really does choose people in his own image... (11:45) - Is Margaret Spellings really this dumb, or just lazy? You're Doing a Heckuva Job, Maggie Showing up this past Tuesday to pitch a $100 million school voucher program to Congress that would allow students in underachieving public schools to transfer... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 21 July

Blackwell is really a piece of work... (18:58) - this is so wrong on so many levels: Ken Blackwell's minority outreach Another post in the "Ken Blackwell is a vile individual" series: How about this flyer, which went out residents in Cleveland's East Side suburbs (which has a high... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
"Criminals" on the House Floor... (00:01) - Crooks and Liars recounts an interesting exchange in a debate over pension plan reform. George Miller (D-CA) has the floor: George Miller (D-CA): It’s a devastating picture when you meet your constituents who have lost their retirement, who have lost... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 18 July

First time for everything (09:21) - Karen Hughes wanted her legacy to be the queen mum who whispered behind the throne to the boy king his instructions. History will more likely write her up as merely a pathological liar. First time for everything In an interview... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 17 July

i think he's drinking again... (23:58) - I agree with Avarosis, this is just weird: Bush gives female German Chancellor uninvited neck massage at summit by John in DC - 7/18/2006 12:06:00 AM At first I thought this was just weird. Then I looked at the photos... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
AnnThrax backlash (22:55) - couldn't happen to a nicer crackwhore... On the July 14 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann reported that right-wing pundit "Ann Coulter has been knocked off the pages of one of the heartland's better newspapers because of complaints by... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 14 July

Interesting British perspective... (06:59) - "The Register" is a site that deals primarily with IT and computer stuff; it's interesting to see a British take on the wiretap scandal: Secret court secretly reviewing secret wiretaps White House gets custom legislation By Thomas C Greene in... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
From the they-eat-their-own department... (06:49) - It's always good to see Republicans eat their own, since we Democrats do it to ourselves all too often: Abramoff isn't running for anything; he's working with federal investigators while waiting for his prison term to begin. But Reed's opponent... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 13 July

powerful image... (22:14) - KnowWar.com that's what 2500+ dead Americans looks like.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
wow (17:31) - Valerie Plame Wilson, Ambassador Joseph Wilson and Their Counsel to Hold News Conference Announcing Lawsuit against I. Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby, Vice-President Cheney and Karl Rove oh, the discovery for this ought to be incredible... via atrios UPDATE: TPM Muckracker has... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
The true cost of the war (13:40) - John Murtha's office has released some interesting stats on the cost of the war: (Washington D.C.)- We are spending $8 billion a month in Iraq. That equates to $2 billion a week, or $267 million a day, or $11 million... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Why Democrats are different: Voter Rights (12:11) - georgia10 at dailykos reports this morning that the wingnuts in Georgia have been stopped in an attempt to suppress minority voting by requiring voters to show government-issued ID at the polls. The issue of voting rights illustrates a huge difference... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 12 July

NARAL and Planned Parenthood endorse Lieberman... (18:23) - OK, I'm at a loss for understanding why Planned Parenthood and NARAL would endorse Lieberman over Lamont. Lieberman, along with RI's Chaffee and ME's Collins and Snowe all claim to be "pro-choice," but their actions are tacitly anti-abortion. When Alito... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Why Coulter's Gender Matters... (14:58) - OK, I caught a bit of flack for poking fun at Ann Coulter's Adam's Apple, and was asked why whether or not she's transgendered matters. I was looking up info on Congressman Rahm Emanuel, and came across this reference to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Minimum Wage Redux... (10:00) - Several interesting pieces in the last couple of days on the minimum wage issue. NPR's Morning Edition did a spot today. From the intro webpage: Morning Edition, July 12, 2006 Republicans have used hot-button social issues like gay marriage... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 11 July

never thought I'd see the day... (17:04) - ...when I'd applaud Adam Carolla for something more serious than "Girls on Trampolines:" ADAM CAROLLA: Ann Coulter, who was suppose to be on the show about an hour and a half ago, is now on the phone, as well. Ann?... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
NeoConservatism is a Failure, but it's not Dead (07:05) - AJ from AmericaBlog argues that Neoconservatism is Dead, but I disagree. Oh, sure, AJ's got it right that the neocons are a failure: These problems did not occur in a vacuum: The Iraq war is the centerpiece of the neoconservative... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 10 July

"Russia" and "Nuclear" in the same sentence always makes me nervous... (17:15) - There are truly times when the Democrats can simply be "Not Bush" and it's a winner. Foreign Policy is one of those: US 'to make Russia nuclear offer' The US is expected to make significant concessions to Russia over the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
GA-8: Jim Marshall (09:46) - Interesting piece on Morning Edition today on this district. NPR's lede for the story is that the Georgia 8th has become more Republican than Democrat of late, and can Marshall survive in that climate? Marshall's frustration with the leadership of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Jesus Lawyers (08:23) - Interesting profile of the wingnut Alliance Defense Fund in WaPo: Considering itself the antithesis of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Scottsdale-based organization has used money and moxie to become the leading player in a movement to tug the nation... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 7 July

Pierce on Lieberman (11:39) - f'sure: If he's in trouble, which he is right now, he's beset on all sides by ingrates and mountebanks. It must be difficult to remain biblical if you cast yourself as Job AND Jehovah. Lieberman is a consummate wanker. Given... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Molly Ivins on Immigration (06:43) - and I'm glad she keeps an eye on Karl Rove. She's obviously got a stronger stomach than I do for the gig. House Republicans think they can scare bubba into believing that Wetbacks are going to take over his world,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 5 July

i like this reference... (17:06) - DownWithTyranny refers to the Dukestir as a "Republicrook." I like that one...... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
three more years... (14:11) - Atrios earlier today: When it comes to Iraq there are basically two options for Democrats. They can either engage in rhetoric which, no matter what its intent, maintains the status quo. Or, they can engage in rhetoric which works to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Joe-mentum... (08:06) - I don't know if this is the "real" A. Whitney Brown, but it's funny: Lieberman To Keep Senate Seat Even If He Loses General Election Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, who refused to give up his Senate seat while also running... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 4 July

a cool 4th of July Tradition... (08:52) - is NPR's annual reading of the Declaration of Independence by their reporters. The background music is "On The Threshhold of Liberty" by Mark Isham. It's always a compelling piece. I like how they continue to include the late Red Barber... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
the war on peanut butter... (08:03) - via Avarosis comes this interesting commentary from John Young of the Waco Tribune yesterday: WACO, Texas — Two significant and long-awaited statements came the other day about birth control. One was three years in the making. The other took a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Britons have no respect for us... (07:37) - Another example of the "political capital" that Dear Leader has spent: Britons tire of cruel, vulgar US: poll LONDON (AFP) - People in Britain view the United States as a vulgar, crime-ridden society obsessed with money and led by an... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 3 July

there is no debate (07:07) - Amanda at Pandagon has a good response to Ana Marie Cox's trashing of Katha Pollitt's new novel, Virginity or Death, in the NYT. You see, W*nkette is trying to become a "real" mediocre journalist rather than just a mediocre blogger,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 30 June

let's do nuclear testing in Delaware... (16:03) - ...since there's no intelligent life there, anyway: Jewish family flees Delaware school district's aggressive Christianity A large Delaware school district promoted Christianity so aggressively that a Jewish family felt it necessary to move to Wilmington, two hours away, because they... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 23 June

interesting story on "Morning Edition" this morning... (11:01) - ...it's an interview with Evangelical author Randall Balmer, who is promoting his new book, Thy Kingdom Come: An Evangelical's Lament. Evangelical: Religious Right Has Distorted the Faith President Bush and the Republican Party find strong support among evangelical voters. But... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
b-but...b-but...there's no difference between the parties! (10:45) - From Morning Edition this morning: Supreme Court Sides with Worker in Retaliation Suit The Supreme Court rules that a company must pay damages to a female employee it punished after she filed a discrimination complaint. The original ruling upheld by... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Ralph Reed and the duping of the Christian Right (09:50) - Via Avarosis, I read this gem from the NYT: A bipartisan Senate report released on Thursday documented more than $5.3 million in payments to Ralph Reed, the former director of the Christian Coalition and a leading Republican Party strategist, from... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Prof. Cole spanks Ricky (07:54) - and it's well-deserved. There are a lot of adjectives one can use to describe Santorum (and his name is even a sexual term these days), but I don't think I would have included "stupid" as one of them, until now.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Daily Show: Player Haters (07:44) - this is the clip from Wednesday night's TDS of the segment on a House of Representatives hearing on video games. I'm sure there have been equally stupid hearings in the interim, but the last time I remember one this funny... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 22 June

a better FMA... (18:01) - From The Stranger via Avarosis: Amendment: Congress shall recognize no votes or opinions about the sanctity and preservation of marriage from its members who have been divorced and/or remarried while their first spouses are still alive. (To say nothing of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Letter to the "Dean" (17:09) - Mr. Broder: I take great exception to your characterization of Ms. Donna Brazile in your column of 22-June. As I'm sure you're well aware, Ms. Brazile is a 30-year veteran of presidential campaigns, most notably serving as one of the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Ohio Voting Petition (10:52) - Got this email from PFAW this morning, please consider signing their petition: So far, over 13,000 people have signed our petition against Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwells new regulations that severely restrict voter registration. Were looking to get at... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
What Democrats Stand For: Require Fiscal Responsibility (10:44) - One of the best ways to be fiscally responsible is to minimize deficit spending. Leaving the merits of spending trillions of dollars on war in Iraq aside, when you're running up deficits that your grand- and great-grandchildren will be paying,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 21 June

but...but...but...they're all the same! (14:21) - Of course they are. Democrats would most certainly do everything in their power to make sure the Eebil Coloreds don't vote: House Delays Renewal of Voting Rights Act WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republican leaders on Wednesday postponed a vote on... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Minimum Wage Redux... (14:13) - Would this have happened in a Democratic-controlled Senate? There's no difference between the parties, after all... Senate rejects bid to raise minimum wage WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled Senate refused Wednesday to raise the minimum wage, rejecting an election-year proposal from... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
What Democrats Stand For: Increasing the Minimum Wage (07:25) - In their platform for the 2006 elections, "A New Direction for America," Congressional Democrats stand for raising the minimum wage. The current minimum wage has not been adjusted since 1997. There is overwhelming support among voters for increasing the minimum... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 20 June

Should Scooter get a pardon? (10:32) - Joe DiGenova is out and about, floating the trial balloon for pardoning Scooter Libby. Salon makes the point that it's all in the timing: But wouldn't Bush just wait to pardon Libby on his way out of the White House... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
When does "fighting back" become "slander?" (10:13) - One of the things that most Democratic candidates can count on is that they're going to become subjected to attacks, both personal and on their positions. National campaigns have gotten increasingly ugly since the 1980s. The 1988 presidential election was... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 19 June

The New Direction (17:28) - Leader Pelosi's office has released the Democratic Party's plan, "A New Direction for America" (link is to a PDF copy of the plan). Here are some of the high points of the plan, and some Republican positions by contrast: DemocratsRepublicans... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
here's the elevator speech (12:00) - in business networking, one of the basic strategies is for a businessperson to develop an "elevator speech," that is, a 30-60 second answer to the question, "what do you do for a living?" It's called an "elevator" speech because when... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Two reasons to cheer for Italy this week... (10:59) - The first is that, if Italia beat the Czechs and USA beat Ghana in WC2006, USA will advance to the second round. The second is that the Italians are demanding some accountability from the disrespectful piece of shit that lives... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 18 June

Dems on Iraq, Step One: Counter the "cut and run" argument. (18:35) - And John Murtha is off to a good start on this, with his response to documented draft-dodger Karl Rove: MURTHA: He’s in New Hampshire. He’s making a political speech. He’s sitting in his air-conditioned office on his big, fat backside,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Associating them with Bush DOES work. (17:51) - Allen in VA is a good example, as cited today by DailyKos. Referring to an article in MyrtleBeachOnline.com, Markos quotes Larry Sabato, a PoliSci prof at UVA: "He has never changed and Virginia has. Virginia has moderated. Allen has boxed... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
for those looking for a philosophy... (17:32) - here's one that's a winner: Clintonism: As a political formula, its record is just as impressive. Not only was Bill Clinton the first Democratic president in 60 years to be reelected, but consider this: In the three elections before 1992,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 17 June

Is it stupidity or arrogance? (17:45) - Wonkette's still on the story of a values-conservative lobbyist (whose clients have included the Family Research Council) who allegedly solicited two young ladies in DC for a threesome. What you gotta love about this guy is that he used his... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
What Tristero says... (11:31) - eyes on the prize, folks: Issue #1 is Bush. Issue #2 is everything else. Until Bush no longer has a Republican majority in the House and the Senate to rubber stamp nearly everything he wants, your opinions and ideas mean... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 12 May

There's something to be said for McPaper... (10:37) - People have slammed USA Today for twenty years now, but Salon.com points out this morning that somethings the lowest common denominator is the best option. Salon's War Room listed the paper's Q&A on the NSA wiretapping: Q: Does the NSA's... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Saturday 18 March

Interesting change in tone... (08:04) - I'm catching up on yesterday afternoon's "All Things Considered" on NPR this morning. The second story of the show is a conversation with Bobo Brooks and E. J. Dionne. Brooks is regularly a serious Bush apologist, but today's tone was... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 7 March

It's all about controlling the fringe... (13:29) - Yeah, this is one of my mantras, but it's true. In 1992, we saw Pat "Culture War" Buchanan go bananas when he addressed the GOP at their convention on Planet Hooston. We saw then-DNC Chairman Ron Brown have a press... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 16 February

Well, we knew this already... (10:59) - Wolcott's figured out that Douglas Brinkley is pretty much just an asshole: But it still pissed me off, his eagerness to play the spin game before we actually know what transpired. As one of the most powerful eyewitnesses to the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 31 January

Bombing for Choice (14:07) - Interesting concept, Google-bombing the terms Roe v. Wade and abortion so that they present objective information.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 20 January

Rally tomorrow... (23:02) - CITIZENS URGED TO TAKE MESSAGE DIRECTLY TO CORPS OF ENGINEERS ON SATURDAY, JAN. 21 A rally will be held on Saturday, Jan. 21, at 11 a.m. at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Building on Leake Avenue (River Road) in... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
Turning the Lights on in Lakeview (10:22) - A lot of Lakeview folks are upset that, five months after the storm, they're still having trouble getting power to their streets. The problem, of course, is very simple: Entergy doesn't want to spend the money to fix their neighborhoods.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 17 January

This is why I don't watch CNN anymore... (12:09) - ever. CNN reportedly hires radio host Glenn Beck On Hurricane Katrina survivors who remained in New Orleans: "And that's all we're hearing about, are the people in New Orleans. Those are the only ones that we're seeing on television are... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 10 January

Wankery, spying, and eavesdropping... (11:38) - While I have no qualms with Yglesias slapping Marshall Whtiman around for wankery on the subject of electronic intelligence gathering, it's important that we don't overreach when smacking wingnuts. Yglesias writes: One should also note that, despite our allegedly "hobbled"... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 3 January

Abramoff and Louisiana (14:44) - I don't think Louisiana CongressCritters will be indicted once Jack Abramoff starts singing, but they're still going to have credibility issues. Vitter in particular has direct ties to Abramoff, so the more Critters that get indicted, the more Vitter is... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 22 December

The Senate does the right thing... (10:02) - Despite that jackass Vitter's lamentations and blatant whoring, the Senate did right by both the Gulf Coast and Alaska by dropping the ANWR drilling amendments from the hurricane relief package. The Senate unanimously approved $29 billion in relief funds. Vitter... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Shorter David Vitter (07:46) - I'll even exploit New Orleans in my efforts to whore for Bush.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 19 December

Pelosi and Wiretaps (10:01) - Her response is weak. It's time to start using the "I" word.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 18 December

TBogg's got it right... (07:44) - "A Prince" "A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People."Meet the new boss:•He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 11 December

Bush sends dead Marines home as cargo (08:12) - Another gem from Main & Central. You Republicans have no shame: Family Upset Over Marine's Body Arriving As Freight SAN DIEGO -- There's controversy over how the military is transporting the bodies of service members killed overseas, 10News reported. A... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
It's starting to sink in... (07:52) - ...in other parts of the country that we are entirely unprepared for any sort of disaster, natural, terrorist, or whatever. Via Main and Central comes this gem: Critical Shortages Plague Local National Guard (New York- WABC, December 8, 2005) -... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 8 December

Miami Airport Incident... (11:28) - Springer was carrying on this morning about this, and just about everyone has blogged it. TalkLeft's take is typical, just a report, then let the comments run wild. I dunno, to me, it sounded like suicide-by-cop, rather than something more... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Pan-Islamic Empire and the PNAC crowd... (11:22) - Atrios, citing WaPo's Cohen this morning, talks about the fear that Muslims will form a new Evil Empire: When I lived in London I rented a room from a guy who had been in the RAF for a long time... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 7 December

Abandoned by the Wingnuts... (15:18) - Sometimes when I'm researching New Orleans history via Google, I end up with some interesting hits. One today was from the Council of Concerned Citizens, a Mississippi-based hate group. Occasionally, I'll go wade into the sewer that the Little Green... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
DeLay going to trial... (09:23) - While part of me is glad that the Bugman will have to stand trial in Texas on money laundering charges, it would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the judge threw out all the charges. DeLay's... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 6 December

Landrieu, shrill? (10:13) - Harry Shearer is right: Saturday, the LAT did a long piece about the diminishing chances for a comprehensive Louisiana recovery program in Congress, premised parrtly on Sen. Mary Landrieu's alleged "shrillness" (would a male senator be described that way?) and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Katrina wasn't about Blanco vs. Rove (09:49) - As much as WaPo wants to make this into a political struggle, the real story is the failure of Homeland security. It's not about politics: White House senior adviser Karl Rove wanted it conveyed that he understood that Blanco was... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 5 December

Cunningham Gay? Even in Vietnam? (16:01) - Whoa. Pam posted this at Pandagon: Surf over to the Washington Blade for Executive Editor Chris Crain's editorial on the "outing" of gay hypocrites on the Hill. The piece starts out with confirmation that Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (he... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 4 December

Save Dick Cheney! (14:58) - All candidates for President, Republican and Democrat alike, should pledge not to turn Cheney over to any international courts or tribunals, even though he may be guilty of war crimes: Asked whether the vice-president was guilty of a war crime,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
This is why I call him... (09:34) - The disrespectful piece of shit that lives in the white house. From Think Progress via Prof. Cole: Bush Knew 10 Marines Had Died Prior To Rose Garden Remarks, Didn’t Mention It If this piece of shit's handlers had any sense,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 3 December

Like this jackass doesn't have anything better to do... (18:46) - Via americablog and Atrios comes this gem from Joe Barton, one of the biggest jackasses in Congress. Congress calls hearing on Bowl Championship HOUSTON (AP) -- Calling the Bowl Championship Series "deeply flawed," the chairman of a congressional committee has called... | 0 Comments

Thursday 1 December

Merging the Levee Boards - Part 2 (10:22) - In spite of all the evidence pointing the finger at the US Army Corps of Engineers as the culprit in the flooding of metro New Orleans during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Da Paper still comes swinging against the various independent... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 30 November

When Push Comes To Shove... (19:45) - ...the big corporations will cave in. Of course, Blanco would never issue any sort of order similar to Blagojevich's in IL. It's interesting that the article says that the store(s) involved here are in the "St. Louis area," but on... | 1 Comments
McCain the battered wife. (19:18) - I'll never understand John McCain. BushCo have been beating this man like a dog since the 2000 campaign season, and everytime he comes back with "thank you sir, may I have another?!" They attacked him, calling him a "Manchurian Candidate." ... | 0 Comments
Newsmax... (18:19) - I'm usually careful about quoting Rude here because he's so NSFW. Still, it's worth repeating: Newsmax Says Torture Worked On John McCain, So He Should Shut Up About Its Effectiveness:No, really. The editorial is titled "John McCain: Torture Worked on... | 0 Comments
Frankly, I don't think she's got the guts to follow-through on this... (16:44) - Mary Landrieu ain't Harry Reid. She barely got re-elected in a wishy-washy campaign, and has voted with the majority to the point where a lot of progressives in Louisiana don't see a lot of difference between her and a Republican.... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 29 November

IVF Backlash/Pushback - Will this break the GOP (15:22) - Today, Wired's Brian Alexander begins a 3-part series on the upcoming backlash against In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF). IVF has long been a weak link in the pro-life chain. It's easy to decry the pagan libruls who kill babies in abortion mills, but... | 0 Comments
Not a bad idea... (11:17) - Given the extent to which "Duke" used to wear his status as a Vietnam vet on his sleeve during the Clinton years, it would be more than a bit ironic to see him handed over to the Navy: Court Martial... | 0 Comments

Monday 28 November

Immigration (20:08) - Digby has a good post from yesterday on this subject, outlining the positions and pitfalls of both parties much better than the Time article he cites. One of his comments caught my eye. Batshit Buchanan (oops, I meant Pat. That... | 0 Comments

Sunday 27 November

Domestic Spying and Nazis... (07:45) - Was reading a post from Democratic Veteran on domestic spying and he reminded me of this little gem: "Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it... | 0 Comments

Saturday 19 November

Conason on Woodward (12:15) - Joe makes the case for never buying another book by Woodward: Sadly, Woodward not only served as a silent accomplice of the Bush White House in its attack on Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, but went much further by... | 0 Comments
Woodward (07:18) - Count me in the group that used to really admire Bob Woodward. Then he became a partisan hack. Or, maybe he always a Republican operative once he saw that he'd never duplicate the career-boost of Watergate. In either case, Will... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 15 November

"this is no excuse..." (10:56) - The Editors at The Poor Man Institute had some comments about Lindsey Graham, who looks like we should start calling him Sen. Nancy Boy (R-SC). But it wasn't their thoughts on this former impeachment manager and overall piece of crap... | 0 Comments

Monday 14 November

i feel like i've been teleported back to the Clinton years... (17:54) - One thing for military men, their scorn for those who did not serve is non-partisan: A vet speaks to the Chimp And no, Mr. President, it's not the toy-soldier, "bring-it-on" thrill that your protected, sheltered experience would lead you to... | 0 Comments
This is usually indicative of a trend... (17:24) - When one station drops a show, others often follow: Denver station drops O'Reilly Well, it's because of low ratings. But regardless, still a reason to gloat: KHOW chooses new talk-show program Conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck takes to the air... | 0 Comments
Wolcott has it right... (16:03) - Jim Wolcott was on "Morning Sedition" this morning. In response to a caller's frustration with a lack of leadership/initiative from Congressional Democrats, Wolcott didn't think it was all that big a deal. He's right, of course. The Republicans are doing... | 0 Comments
Yes, it's really that bad... (08:46) - The partisan hack in me wants to see the Bush Administration scooping up dog crap out of the sand traps on military golf courses near their minimum-security prison facilities. But they've lied so much that we'd spend years on investigations,... | 0 Comments

Friday 11 November

More on Jill Manning... (15:01) - In my previous post about the sexual obsessions of Sam Brownback, I mentioned that a woman named Jill Manning testified about masturbation. Just for grins, I googled Ms. Manning, only to learn that she's not on the BYU faculty, she's... | 0 Comments
War. ANWR. Treason. Hurricanes. (14:47) - Just some of the things that the US Senate should be tackling. What does Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) hold hearings on? Masturbation: She [BYU Sociologist Jill Manning] went on to explain that the experience of masturbation activates about 14 neurotransmitters and... | 0 Comments

Thursday 10 November

The rats always jump ship first... (10:58) - The closer we get to election time, the stronger the survival instincts are in CongressCritters. Like most critters, they'll do what needs to be done to survive, including chewing off a leg when caught in a trap: US House suspends... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 9 November

How to fix the airlines... (21:29) - Replace all female flight attendants with good lookin' strippers. What the hell? The attendants have gotten old and haggard looking. They don't even serve food anymore, so what's the loss? The strippers would double, triple, perhaps quadruple the alcohol consumption... | 0 Comments
Who said Liberals can't win? (09:00) - Democrat Corzine Manages Jump from Senator to Governor OK, admittedly, we're talking about Noo Joisey here, not Texas, where they don't want the Godless Homos to marry. Still, Corzine was anti-tax-cut, anti-Iraq, and has been very vocal in challenging the... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 8 November

Make Roberts truly investigate! (09:40) - Via Digby comes this very informative article by Laura Rozen on Sen. Pat Roberts (Liar-KS), who chairs the Intelligence Committee. The article lays out Roberts' plan to do absolutely nothing to get to the truth of Iraq war intelligence. Rozen... | 0 Comments

Monday 7 November

Thought for the day... (11:23) - swiped from someone on LJ...... | 0 Comments

Sunday 6 November

Outsourcing the Presidency (01:39) - Seen on the LiveJournal community anti_bush. No attribution available. Hilarious: Outsourcing the Presidency Congress today announced that the office of President of the United States of America will be outsourced to India as of November 12th, 2005. The move is... | 0 Comments

Monday 31 October

Samuel Alito (10:34) - Aside from the obvious issue of Roe v. Wade, this bullet point from ThinkProgress.org struck a chord: ALITO WOULD STRIKE DOWN THE FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT: The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) “guarantees most workers up to... | 2 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 28 October

Fitzgerald is far from finished... (15:30) - It's clear that Libby most likely never thought this would get this far, or that the White House would insulate/protect him. Fitzgerald is running a textbook federal investigation. Ol' Scooter is looking at close to ten years imprisonment based on... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
so wrong, but so funny... (11:26) - The Onion has launched a new website, www.weeklyradioaddress.com, that is a parody of the President's weekly radio address. The announcement of the new site on the main Onion site included a graphic of the presidential seal. The White House went... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 22 October

jeez, now Target is starting this crap? (21:13) - from www.saveroe.com: Target Pharmacist Refuses to Fill Emergency Contraception Prescription -- Fight Back Wed, 10/19/2005 - 3:21pm Submitted by Christy In the States | Pharmacist Refusal | Missouri A 26-year-old Missouri woman was refused EC when she handed her prescription... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Schumer vs. Dole, Q3 edition (20:27) - From Kos, this is encouraging. Unlike 04, quality Dem candidates are stepping forward, and the money is coming in to support them: Schumer vs. Dole, Q3 edition We already know that Schumer and the DSCC is kicking Liddy Dole's ass... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Bitch-Slapping Judy... (18:39) - and what better bitch to do it than MoDo? I don't pay for NYT's "select" service, because I refuse to support Tierney and BoBo, but I'm with Gilliard, this column is amazing. Steve breaks it down: Ok, after calling her... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Will the Grinch Steal Fitzmas? (08:46) - Billmon points back to John Dean, who is no fan of the current administration, but also believes that it's premature to celebrate mass indictments in the Plame case: Will the Grinch Steal Fitzmas? John Dean -- who knows something about... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
National Review: Withdraw Miers or damage the movement (08:34) - Truly the ultimate insult: National Review: Withdraw Miers or damage the movement The editors deliver the ultimate insult: When it comes to Supreme Court nominees, Bill Clinton did it better... "But now we have a Republican president and a Republican... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 20 October

yet another reason to dump the GOP... (17:53) - I wonder how those Lakeview Republicans will respond to this sort of thing? (from the Yahoo FEMA article): Meanwhile, at a separate hearing, lawmakers considering Louisiana's request for $32 billion for Gulf Coast rebuilding were told that Mississippi would need... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
More White House Criminal Behavior... (17:49) - Via Salon's War Room blog... FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings Federal Emergency Management Agency officials did not respond to repeated warnings about deteriorating conditions in New Orleans and the dire need for help as Hurricane Katrina struck, the first... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 17 October

I shouldn't read Treason-gate porn... (11:11) - ...because it gets me too aroused: Cheney May Be Entangled in CIA Leak Investigation, People Say Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- A special counsel is focusing on whether Vice President Dick Cheney played a role in leaking a covert CIA agent's... | 3 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
"My notes show..." (11:04) - Arianna's analysis of the NYT articles, from Miller and about her, is spot-on. This caught my eye: Her account of her meetings with Libby shows how off-target her journalistic radar was. Is it because of how off-target her loyalties were?... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 25 August

Thought for the evening... (16:23) - image courtesy of www.bushflash.com... | 0 Comments
Lie on TV, Apologize on the Web (09:05) - Robertson apologizes for assassination remark Responding to a growing chorus of denunciation, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized Wednesday for suggesting on his television show that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez should be assassinated. "Is it right to call for an assassination?"... | 0 Comments
new google bomb... (08:44) - Vacation President post it in your blog to increase the size of the bomb...... | 0 Comments
NSA New Orleans to remain open (08:38) - ALGIERS NAVY BASE WILL REMAIN OPEN Louisiana's offer to build a "federal city" on the Naval Support Activity's Algiers campus at no cost to the Pentagon won approval Wednesday, keeping the base open to house the Marine Corps Reserve headquarters... | 0 Comments
Bush and Osama bin Robertson (08:05) - Air America Radio's news segment just now made a point on the silence of the disrespectful piece of shit that lives in the White House with respect to Radical Cleric Pat Robertson's advocacy of killing Venezeulan President Chavez. AAR thinks... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 24 August

Muslim Analogies (21:19) - I got an e-mail today from Democracy for America, which is the continuation of Dean's campaign netroots group. It was entitled "Robertson issues a Fatwah," referring to Radical Cleric Pat Robertson's suggestoin that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez be aassassinated. I've... | 0 Comments

Monday 22 August

Why does the Justice Department need "sting" operations now? (11:48) - Congressman Bill Jefferson suspects that he's the victim of a "sting" operation a la ABSCAM: But the attorney for U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, said he thinks federal investigators once again have set a trap for a sitting member... | 3 Comments
Iraqi Women (10:38) - Atrios and Wolcott both are wringing their hands about this statement by Reul Marc Gerecht, a former CIA analyst: In 1900, women did not have the right to vote. If Iraqis could develop a democracy that resembled America in the 1900s,... | 0 Comments

Thursday 18 August

Aw, fuck it, let's just break shit... (22:22) - Rude never fails to make me laugh and think at the same time: Hating Cindy: It is the way of the bully, you know... It's not to excuse Northern (Operation Truth has already done the takedown) or stupid ass neighbor... | 4 Comments
Helping the Republicans Implode (Part 2) (14:12) - It's clear that the continuing debate on quality-of-life/right-to-die issues is going to go badly for Republican politicians. What is unclear is whether Democrats can capitalize on the coming Republican implosion and turn it into gains in Congress next year. The... | 1 Comments
it would be funny... (11:37) - ...if it wasn't so sad. Why does Texas hate our veterans? Marine doesn't qualify for in-state tuition Former Marine Carl Basham remembers his two tours in Iraq like yesterday. "Three mortars every single night that were landing within a couple... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 17 August

But will it translate into buyers' remorse in the mid-terms? (15:38) - Yeah, I can't say I'm disappointed that even in the Fundigelical Republic of Colorado, and in Wingnuttia-by-the-sea (Florida), the disrespectful piece of shit gets no respect, but I don't see anyone moving to capitalize on this yet. Second thoughts Here's... | 0 Comments
Radical Cleric Pat Robertson slams gays...again... (15:23) - In itself, "hurricane" Pat slamming gays really isn't news: Robertson: Gays and lesbians are "self-absorbed narcissists" responsible for no-fault divorce and abortion Pat Robertson, 700 Club host and founder of the Christian Coalition of America, called gays and lesbians "self-absorbed... | 0 Comments

Monday 15 August

$2.429 per gallon (08:34) - That's the price of gas at the Shell Station at Edenborn and W. Esplanade in Metairie this morning. When the disrespectful piece of shit who lives in the White House ran for office, Louisianians were told that it would be... | 1 Comments

Sunday 14 August

Privacy Stupidity Comes to Small-Town America (18:40) - While not directly related to the Patriot Act, this sort of thing will become more and more frequent if it's not slapped down hard now: Suit claims N.Y. town used false subpoenas to I.D. e-mail critics ALBANY, N.Y. — A... | 0 Comments

Saturday 13 August

More of that deep committment conservatives have to the Iraqi Occupation (11:43) - Put up or shut up, these people need to be regularly challenged. These are things of which we will not speak... These are things of which we will not speak... Oh dear. This whole Cindy Sheehan hubbub has certainly been... | 2 Comments
Bush Vacation Deathcount is now 47 (11:32) - I've has bosses before where we wanted them to go on vacation, because things ran smoother with them as far away from the office as possible. Unfortunately for the US Army, their troubles go on even when the disrespectful piece... | 0 Comments
Bill Jefferson: Feds looking for a Nigerian Connection? (10:17) - curiouser and curiouser: Probe seems to target Africa dealings The federal investigation that led to raids last week on the homes and offices of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of New Orleans seems to have focused on possible African business dealings,... | 0 Comments

Friday 12 August

Cindy Sheehan and why she's struck a nerve... (18:44) - Cindy Sheehan has really struck a nerve that has resonated across this country. Her detractors say it's just a stunt, wanting the disrespectful piece of shit that lives in the White House to explain why her son died. Thing is,... | 1 Comments
Calling their bluff... (10:25) - Today is Jay Marvin's last day covering for Springer on AAR, and one of the callers earlier made a very interesting point about "gay marriage" and "gay rights." The fundigelicals constantly rage and rave and froth at the mouth about... | 0 Comments

Thursday 11 August

What Gary Says... (21:48) - Gary Hart A Voice Crying in the Wilderness If democracy only works when there is open discussion of opposing ideas and policies, and if the opposition party, in this case the Democrats, has hand-cuffed, blind-folded, gagged, and hog-tied itself to... | 1 Comments
too funny... (21:32) - This guy was on "The Daily Show" last year, and they made him look like an idiot: Counter Clinton Library group folds LITTLE ROCK - A group that had hoped to build two museums to rebut the displays at the... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 10 August

Radical Cleric Dobson teaches gaydar for parents (09:33) - Via Sadly No!, here's some words of wisdom from extremist cleric James Dobson: Is My Child Becoming Homosexual? Evidences of gender confusion or doubt in boys ages 5 to 11 may include: 1. A strong feeling that they are “different”... | 5 Comments

Tuesday 9 August

Drip...drip...drip... (23:42) - Atrios and the DCCC make a big deal about a Federal investigation into Republican corruption in Illinois, specifically the dealings of the RNC's treasurer and his relationship to the Carlyle group, but both miss a more significant point in another... | 0 Comments
Man-on-Dog follows Church Doctrine (17:39) - Fertility procedures are big-bucks for the physicians and clinics that do them. The majority of the AMA votes Republican, so it's interesting to see that Man-on-Dog is actually adhering to the position of the Catholic Church on IVF: Santorum is... | 0 Comments

Monday 8 August

Minutemen rally in SoCal (14:16) - I have no patience for Nazis at all, and wouldn't usually write about a skinhead gathering, but this particular protest in Los Angeles is significant for several reasons. For openers, there's these two flags: Don't let the Confederate apologists tell... | 2 Comments

Thursday 4 August

Best. Daily Show. Ever. (23:07) - Between Novakula, the plane crash in Toronto, Stephen Colbert and the Dukes of Hazard bit, and Miles O'Brien...what a show. Quote of the week -- Stewart, to Miles O'Brien: "You're way too white to say 'schmutzy'" and you gotta love... | 0 Comments
At first I thought this was a joke... (18:09) - but it appears to be a real comic book. This is a big graphic, so I'll leave it to you to click through to the site, but here's the plot summary: It is 2021, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of... | 0 Comments
Radical Cleric Dobson thinks Frist is a Nazi (14:27) - ...the hits just keep on coming: Dobson likened embryonic stem cell research to Nazi experiments On the August 3 broadcast of the Focus on the Family radio show -- devoted to a discussion of stem cell research -- James C.... | 0 Comments
Nauseating... (14:02) - ...particularly when it comes from someone who hid behind a cyst on his fat ass to avoid military service: Limbaugh on Hackett: "a liberal Democrat" who served in Iraq "to pad the resumé" On his August 2 show, Limbaugh asked,... | 0 Comments
Book-Burning Wackos (09:56) - and I thought Michigan was one of the more "normal" states..props to the Live Journal Community dark_christian, for the find. I admire these people, they monitor the Kooky Kristian Krazies so we don't have to. Christians Unite to Burn Harry... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 3 August

this is abso-friggin-lootly depressing (10:07) - via Kos, George Will on ABC This Week: "I've used my vacation to refill my reservoirs of pessimism. To illustrate which I would like to show a graphic. This is from a RAND study if the Iraqi insurgency published 13... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 26 July

Would that more Democrats would talk this way (14:21) - Paul Hackett is running in a special election for Congress in the OH 2nd District. His opponent is former Republican state rep Jean Schmidt. Schmidt's ad campaign says voters in the OH 2nd should "stand by the President." Hackett's response,... | 2 Comments

Monday 25 July

Now here's an interesting idea... (15:21) - Bill Would Impose Tax On Internet Porn The money raised would be used for law enforcement and for protecting children from "adult" sites. WASHINGTON (AP)--A Democratic lawmaker is planning to propose a new 25 percent federal tax on Internet pornography... | 0 Comments
Go, Mary! (14:14) - Senators Call for Congressional Plame Investigation Press release out today....26 Senators have written a letter to the House Speaker and Majority Leader of Congress calling for a Congressional investigation into the outing of Valerie Plame. Here's part: The United States... | 0 Comments
Empowering Hatred (12:45) - I feel the need to expound a bit on my thoughts on associating Republicans with the executions of two teenage gay boys in Iran. I stand by the original implication. I'll go one better on that and state it outright:... | 5 Comments

Saturday 23 July

And these were licensed facilities... (11:29) - Bobo's World FL edition: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The state suspended the licenses of two church-affiliated day care centers where children allegedly were sexually molested, forced to eat worms and pick each other's noses during employee-led games of "Truth or Dare."The... | 0 Comments

Monday 18 July

Somebody tell me again why Colorado is a nice place to live? (17:43) - In Tom Clancy's novel Sum of All Fears, Denver, CO, is the target of a terrorist nuclear attack. Just make sure this wingnut is home when it happens, guys. Congressman suggests way to retaliate for nuclear terror Spokesman: Tancredo was... | 0 Comments
Of course this doesn't really matter to Conservatives (15:51) - They want their SCOTUS nomination, and they really don't care if Bush is a lying, dishonest hypocrite if he gives them someone on Mullah Dobson's approved list. Bush Now and Then Bush Now: If someone committed a crime, they will... | 0 Comments
Michael Barone lies to TownHall readers... (15:16) - ...not that TownHall readers care much, since it's what they want to hear in the first place. To: Michael Barone, US News and World Report. Subj: Your Column From your column: The Democrats who were so outraged by Plame's outing... | 0 Comments
Quote of the Day (11:27) - Ed Kilgore: With precious few exceptions, this administration has been characterized by a recklessness and irresponsibility that could barely have been matched if the country had been turned over to actual adolescents. The Irresponsibility Era [via TPMCafe - The Coffee... | 0 Comments
Quote of the Day (11:27) - Ed Kilgore: With precious few exceptions, this administration has been characterized by a recklessness and irresponsibility that could barely have been matched if the country had been turned over to actual adolescents. The Irresponsibility Era [via TPMCafe - The Coffee... | 0 Comments

Saturday 16 July

Prosecutorial tools (15:16) - WaPo reports that Judith Miller may be facing criminal contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the Valerie Plame leak. Criminal contempt differs from civil contempt in that the defendant can be actually charged... | 0 Comments

Friday 15 July

I doubt these people are Democrats (22:32) - I had lunch the other day with a friend of mine. He's worked a lot in his career with ex-Navy types, and he said, "I promise you, your son will be a Republican by the time he's finished two or... | 4 Comments
Isikoff, Compton, and the politics of oral sex (part 2) (14:36) - Now for Ann Compton. The long-time ABC corresondent Ann Compton, on NPR's "Morning Edition" earlier today, said that what Clinton did was worse than Rove: Renee Montagne: Do any of these grillings that you’ve covered over three decades in the... | 1 Comments
Isikoff, Compton, and the politics of oral sex (part 1) (14:01) - I want to talk about Isikoff's remarks last night and Anne Compton's this morning. Most in the blogosphere are lumping these two issues together, because both reporters leave the viewers and listeners with the impression that oral sex is more... | 0 Comments
Everyone Around Karl Should Be Afraid (11:57) - Billmon has some info about special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and his style. He thinks Rove should be afraid: Man Versus Machine This is from my friend's memory, but given that he's got 20+ years in the business, and I've known... | 0 Comments

Thursday 14 July

Conservatives can't get their stories straight (16:34) - But it's just so hard to defend a traitor, just ask Dick Armey: Appearing on Fox this morning, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey said the following in regards to his assessment of the growing leak scandal: Weve got Karl... | 0 Comments
Rove the spy? (15:50) - when I first read this at Billmon, my thought was it's almost Rove slash-fic. The notion that Rove could end up doing hard time for espionage pretty far out there. But when you look at the details, Kleiman may be... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 13 July

The main reason Turd Blossom is a traitor (10:11) - From TPMCafe: The lies by people like Victoria Toensing, Representative Peter King, and P. J. O'Rourke insist that Valerie was nothing, just a desk jockey. Yet, until Robert Novak betrayed her she was still undercover and the company that was... | 0 Comments
Santorum is committing political suicide... (09:54) - Rather than simply letting the issue drop and fade away, Man-on-Dog defends his remarks about Boston: Santorum resolute on Boston rebuke Insists liberalism set stage for abuse By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff July 13, 2005 WASHINGTON -- Senator Rick Santorum... | 0 Comments
It'shard to believe this idiot is a Catholic (09:45) - via CapitolBuzz is this story from the Boston Globe about Man-on-Dog Santorum (R-Neverland). The last thing the Catholic Church need is to have its dirty laundry with respect to the pedophilia scandals aired over and over again, but Herr Santorum... | 2 Comments
patterns of attack and deceit (08:52) - Digby is all over the Rove/Plame connection. His blog is a must-read for the duration of the scandal, if you want to keep up. This entry caught my eye: Still Covering For Dick Right. Rove was "protecting" Cooper from making... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 12 July

"pull an Archibald Cox" (23:10) - This whole Karl Rove thing has had me wondering where the sucker punch is. Rove is a rope-a-dope expert, in true Ali style. He leads his opponents down a path then sucker punches them from a different direction. In 2000,... | 2 Comments
Just because you're paranoid... (06:57) - ...doesn't mean they're not out to get you. We've seen it before. Dems think they've got the high ground, only to have our legs cut out from underneath us. Now is not the time for the frog-march happy dance. That... | 0 Comments

Monday 11 July

The Throes of Civil War (08:50) - The neo-Cons are doing such a great job, aren't they? Allawi: this is the start of civil war IRAQ’S former interim prime minister Iyad Allawi has warned that his country is facing civil war and has predicted dire consequences for... | 1 Comments

Saturday 9 July

Duke Cunningham (R-CA) and his legal troubles... (10:30) - I'll be the firs to admit that I'm enjoying the schadenfreude associated with Duke's troubles with the law. When I was a kid and a teen, I used to like to build plastic models. I still do, in fact. I... | 2 Comments
Reactions to London... (09:38) - After I verified that friends were OK, I started thinking about the various aspects of the attack. According to an NPR timeline, this is the eighth attack attributed to AQ since 9/11/01. None of these attacks are of the huge... | 2 Comments

Friday 8 July

Brit Hume = Sick Bastard (19:52) - Another FNC idiot who needs to spend a day with victims of the bombing... Hume's "first thought" on hearing of London attacks: It's "time to buy" futures During Fox News' coverage of the July 7 London bombings, Washington managing editor... | 0 Comments
Tell it to the families, asshole (14:24) - Fox News' Brian Kilmeade: London terror attack near G8 summit "works to ... Western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together" The following exchange between Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and Fox News business contributor and substitute... | 0 Comments
The judges are convinced... (14:03) - ...that Fitzgerald has something and someone should go to jail. But who? Huff Po's O'Donnell: The One Very Good Reason Rove Might Be Indicted... Judge Tatel's opinion has eight blank pages in the middle of it where he discusses the... | 0 Comments
A very interesting angle on Miller from Josh Marshall (14:00) - An aggressive prosecutor makes all the difference in the world. Josh doesn't want to think that putting Judith Miller in jail is a personal thing with Fitzgerald. I doubt it's the only reason she's cooling her heels today, but I'd... | 0 Comments

Thursday 7 July

Ouch! (16:09) - In a related development, Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, described Judith Miller, who has been ushered into incarceration over her refusal to testify in the Valerie Plame leak investigation, as "an honorable journalist." Tell it to... | 1 Comments
Judith Miller in custody... (16:06) - She's still refusing to give up her source. Interesting that Matt Cooper will give up all his information now. He now says his source has released him. Which begs the question, if the source released Cooper, why did they not... | 0 Comments
New York needs Operation Yellow Elephant! (10:02) - Can any one in NY help out? Someone needs to convince the governor's son that it's about more than the $150K the US Navy has given him to pay for his education--it's about patriotism and loving your country! FORTUNATE... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 5 July

Making the balloon payment... (11:27) - When I read this description of Bush's first appointment to the SCOTUS, I thought, Kilgore's hit it on the head: This appointment represents the giant balloon payment at the end of the mortgage the GOP signed with the Cultural Right... | 0 Comments
A profound post by TBogg (11:04) - Fight of the Chickenhawk A coward dies a thousand... Fight of the Chickenhawk A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one. Nathan is spending this week at Mandalay Bay Holly Charette is spending the week, and forever after,... | 0 Comments
A profound post by TBogg (11:04) - Fight of the Chickenhawk A coward dies a thousand... Fight of the Chickenhawk A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one. Nathan is spending this week at Mandalay Bay Holly Charette is spending the week, and forever after,... | 0 Comments

Monday 4 July

Operation Yellow Elephant (08:11) - via the General: EDIT: details on OYE here and commentary here.... | 0 Comments
status of the Army and the draft... (07:34) - via Yglesias, an excellent article by Fred Kaplan, writing in Slate.com. This is an excellent description of the breakdown and status of the US Army as it is currently deployed. (The background article at Globalsecurity.org is even better, if you... | 0 Comments

Saturday 2 July

wow, this is deep... (15:12) - Ever since I read last night that Lawrence O'Donnell came out and mentioned he-who-must-not-be-named (Rove) on Mc-laugh-in, my heart sank. I figured that if they're naming Rove, we're going to get rolled again. But this post from Digby now has... | 0 Comments
this is NOT good (11:39) - If the government