When CNN’s Wolf Blitzer pointed out to Dick Cheney that military commanders in Iraq do not characterize the insurgency as being in its “last throes” (see my post here), Cheney backpeddled and pulled out his Webster’s: No, I would disagree. If you look at what the dictionary says about throes, it can still be a, you know, a violent period, … Read More
More Responses To Rove
Along with my earlier post from 9/11 families, here are some more of my faves: "Well, I think a lot more needs to be said about Karl Rove’s motives, because they’re not the people’s motives, and if the President really believed his own words of unity, then he should fire Karl Rove. If the President of the United States knows … Read More
“Last Throes” Revisited
"Be assured: Baghdad is safe, protected.” “We are in control, they are not in control of anything, they don’t even control themselves!” “They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.” “They are achieving nothing; they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing." Quotes from Dick Cheney? Nope, but I can understand why you might think … Read More
Supreme Court Watch
Monday is going to be fun. The Supreme Court is expected to hand down the final decisions of the term—one of them dealing with the Ten Commandments—and then, it is widely thought, Chief Justice Rehnquist (who is ailing) will announce his resignation from the bench. And then we’re in for months of wrangling about the replacement nominee. Conventional wisdom is … Read More
Invocation of the 9/11 Dead – The Families React To Rove
As families whose relatives were victims of the 9/11 terror attacks, we believe it is an outrage that any Democrat, any Republican, any conservative, or any liberal stakes a “high ground” position based upon the September 11th death and destruction. Doing so assumes that all those who died and their loved ones would agree. In truth, some would and some … Read More
Responses to Rove, the Douchebag
Speaking in a Manhattan ballroom just a few miles north of ground zero, Karl Rove said on Wednesday night that the Democratic party did not understand the consequences of the Sept. 11 attacks. “Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers,” Rove said. “Conservatives saw the savagery … Read More
Callous Invocation Of The Dead
Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who really should do more to stay out of the spotlight (he’s under investigation for lots of stuff), is channeling the 9/11 victims. The subject was the passage by the House of a flag-burning amendment to the Constitution, and he said: "Ask the men and women who stood on top of the (World) Trade Center,” said … Read More
Lying Liars (Drudge/Klein Version)
This is a picture of Bill Clinton kissing an unidentified woman. It appears on Drudge’s site exactly as I show it below. Drudge’s text is about the new Hillary Clinton book and carries the headline “BOOK CLAIM: HILLARY HUMILIATED AS BILL HAS NEW AFFAIRS”, and it seems that this photo appears in the piece-of-shit book as well. The photo is … Read More
Republicans Hate Republicans
It looks like the enemy is engaged in infighting amongst themselves, which means that we are winning. Conservative columnist Neil Boortz writes: There are a lot of listeners out there who really need to make some attempt at growing up. Well, maybe not a lot of listeners .. but quite a few. Yesterday I spent some time on the air … Read More
Tomlinson – Partisan Liar
From the New York Times: Sixteen Democratic senators called on President Bush to remove Kenneth Y. Tomlinson as head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because of their concerns that he is injecting partisan politics into public radio and television. Some will no doubt say that Tomlinson is trying to REMOVE partisan politics from public radio and television, because PBS … Read More
Intolerance – The Reality Show
Here’s the premise for ABC’s new reality series, “Welcome To The Neighborhood”: Three well-to-do white Christians families get new neighbors. The neighbor-families include an African-American family, a Caucasian family, a Korean family, a Latino family, a gay family, plus one family in which husband and wife are heavily tattooed, and another in which mom and dad are devoted to the … Read More
What TBogg Says
His language may be strong, and his analysis somewhat oversimplistic, but if you can see past it, I think he’s drawn a pretty good bead on the right wingers. Reflecting on Durbin’s non-apology for pointing out torture, TBogg writes: Every time the chickenhawks endorse torture they make it more dangerous for American service people. Do they care? Not really. They … Read More
What Time Is It?
Bush is plummeting in the polls, republicans and public support are turning against Bush on social security, the War in Iraq, and John Bolton, and everybody’s talking about the hyped-up and “fixed” pre-war intelligence. You know what that means, right? Yup, it’s time for Bush to energize his base by going after the gays. Nothing like playing upon middle America’s … Read More
At Long Last, I Introduce . . .
. . . the religious left. The success of the Religious Right in appropriating the language of Christianity has led many people to become generally wary of religion in the public sphere and of Christianity in particular. The Religious Right has used the language of Christianity to promote an extreme and divisive political agenda that has helped polarize our nation. … Read More
Rush on Durbin
Now actually being compelled to confront what Durbin actually said on the Senate floor, the wingnuts are starting the meme that the FBI memo that Durbin read from . . . is . . . wait for it . . . fabricated. That’s right. Durbin simply made it up, according to the desparate wingers. From the June 17 broadcast of … Read More