The objective of OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT is to recruit College Republicans and Young Republicans to serve as infantry. They demanded this war and now viciously support it. It’s only right that they also experience it. So far, it isn’t going too well. Recently, as reported here, Operation Yellow Elephant tried to get a recruitment ad into the program of the … Read More
What The Durbin Kerfuffle Reveals About The Right Wing
Yglesius said it for me: A little while ago Dick Durbin noted on the Senate floor that torturing prisoners was the sort of thing Nazis or Communists would do, and that the United States, trying to be one of the world’s good guys, should hold itself to a higher standard of conduct. The right-wing noise machine, deploying some now familiar … Read More
Unintentionally Ironic Funny Quote of the Day
Rice, in Egypt, said that the U.S. is no longer willing to tolerate repressive regimes to bolster regional stability. She flew next to Saudi Arabia. — from today’s WSJ, as reported here.
Egregious Is As Egregious Does
"I thought Durbin was totally out of line. I watched some of his comments on the floor of the United States Senate. For him to make those comparisons was one of the more egregious things I’d ever heard uttered on the floor of the United States Senate." — Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview with radio host Steve Gill. … Read More
AssHat Gets Stymied – Declares Victory
John, from Powerline, takes a stand: I called Senator Dick Durbin’s office this morning at (202) 224-2152 and, after being on hold for a while, laid out the reasons why I think Durbin should resign from the Senate. “Hi. This is John Hindrocket from Powerline, the Blog of the Century. You may remember me as the guy who calls Jimmy … Read More
Floodgate Still Open
A key Foreign Office diplomat responsible for liaising with UN inspectors says today that claims the government made about Iraq’s weapons programme were “totally implausible”. He tells the Guardian: “I’d read the intelligence on WMD for four and a half years, and there’s no way that it could sustain the case that the government was presenting. All of my colleagues … Read More
White House and White Outs
Think Progress has a nice link-o-riffic list of the many many instances in which the Bush White House has altered or buried expert analysis when the facts didn’t jibe with the adminsitration’s policies. The full text is below. Read it, and ask yourself, are we to believe the fixing of facts around policy didn’t happen with respect to Iraq? Cattle … Read More
LGF’s Premature Ejaculation
The Little Green Footballs post: Is British reporter Michael Smith, who broke the Downing Street memo story (after re-typing and destroying the originals), the same Michael Smith who was hired by Mary Mapes as a CBS assistant producer in the Rathergate scandal? You can almost hear the ohpleaseGodletitbetrueohohohohpleasebetrue-ohpleaseimgonnacumiswearimgonnacumohpleaseletitbetrue breathlessness behind their words. Sadly, the answer is no. Not surprising speculation … Read More
More On Cheney’s Lies
As everyone knows, Cheney recently said in CNN that the insurgency was in its “last throes”. Here’s what General William Webster, the U.S. commander for Baghdad, said the other day: "Certainly saying anything about ‘breaking the back’ or ‘about to reach the end of the line’ or those kinds of things do not apply to the insurgency at this point." … Read More
What Hagel Said
"Things aren’t getting better, they’re getting worse.” “The White House is completely disconnected from reality” “It’s like they’re just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we’re losing in Iraq” “More and more of my colleagues up here are concerned" – Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.
The US Wanted Democracy In Iraq? Um . . . Not So Much
One of the Downing Street Memos, informally called the Options Paper (PDF format) is interesting in that it discusses two apparently equally acceptable post-Iraq outcomes: The US administration has lost faith in containment and is now considering regime change. The end states could either be a Sunni strongman or a representative government. The paper goes on to list the plusses … Read More
Please. Let’s Beat Up Michael Schiavo Some MORE!
Typical republican trick. Look like a fool for your actions so shift the focus onto something else. Like many on the right, Jeb Bush has much egg on his face about the whole Schiavo matter. She was in a persistent vegetative state, she was blind, and had half a brain. Despite what the right-to-useless-lifers stated, Terri Schiavo was never going … Read More
The Shittiest Job On The Planet
No doubt, it belongs to White House Press Secretary Scotty McClellan. The poor guy has to get up in front of the press corp and explain (or explain away) the unexplainable deceptions of the Bush Administration. It can’t be easy. From E&P, here’s an awkward exchange between Scotty and reporter Terry Moran. Moran is referring to Cheney’s recent comment on … Read More
Media Bias
A pregnant mother in California goes missing in 2002, and foul play is suspected. Months later, her body turns up in a San Francisco harbor. Laci Peterson? Wrong. Her name is Evelyn Hernandez. A young attractive woman from the South goes missing. Natalee Holloway? Nope. Her name is Tamika Huston. Never heard of Evelyn Hernandez and Tamika Huston? Of course … Read More
More Krazy Kristian Kookdom
From the Jackson Hole Star Tribune, via Lizard Queen, we learn of a reprehensible protest. A Kansas preacher and gay rights foe whose congregation is protesting military funerals around the country said he’s coming to Idaho on today to picket the memorial for an Idaho National Guard soldier killed in Iraq. The soldier was 19 year old Carrie French (pictured … Read More