Oh, now this should be fun. Chimpy will be making a fundraising swing through Florida today and his handlers have reversed course and decided not tostiff-arm Katherine Harris. President Bush will sweep through Orlando today in the powerful role of fundraiser-in-chief for Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist and the state GOP, kick-starting the party on its drive to raise a record $30 million for the November election. [snip] Crist said he is not looking to take the money and duck out of camera range when standing by the president. “I’m not concerned about being linked with him at all,” Crist … Continue reading Your Thursday Morning Republican Juggernaut Update

Gee, if Hitler was giving a speech before the League of Nations don’t you thinkFranklin Roosevelt would listen to it? Q Did the President watch President Ahmadinejad’s speech last night? MR. SNOW: No. [snip] Q Does the White House or the President have any reaction to the assertions that Ahmadinejad made regarding the U.S. having too much power in the U.N.? MR. SNOW: No. Speaking of FDR, I guess those first 100 days are what they are cracked up to be. Q Are the reports true today that the White House has lost confidence in Mr. Maliki? MR. SNOW: No, … Continue reading Today on Holden’s Obsession with the Gaggle

I like this topic. When I was single, it was always if he was an asshole to the waitress (or waiter). People are always saying if you want to see how a man really is look at how he treats his mother. Bullshit. Every man I know, even the dicks, is nice to his mom. It’s how he treats someone who he could perceive as inferior to him; does he take advantage of her reliance on him for tips and show off like a big man, being abusive because he thinks she can’t fight back? I grew up spending a … Continue reading Dating Dealbreakers

A little better all the time. Violence killed nearly 6,600 Iraqi civilians during July and August, while more than 8,000 were wounded, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq. More than 20,600 Iraqi civilians have died in attacks so far this year, according to UNAMI. [snip] Most of the killings detailed in the report released Wednesday happened in Baghdad. —– Continue reading Man I Was Mean, But I’m Changing My Scene

Scroll down to the very last item intoday’s Froomkin. Just do it. Continue reading It’s No Wonder That Karl Rove Is Such A Pathetic Human Being

Latest column, riffing on an Insight piece Holden brought to our attention recently: A useful exercise: if the idea that the Bush administration is considering withdrawing troops, but only after the U.S. midterm elections, doesn’t give you pause to consider whether such a move might have political considerations behind it, substitute “Clinton” for “Bush” in that sentence and try reading it again. You can hear the howls of outrage from the editorial patriot guard now, can’t you? Politicizing warfare. Putting his electoral fortunes and those of his party above the interests of national security. Undermining our brave men and women … Continue reading What Would The Clenis Do?

TheRed Cross intends to visit the 14 detainees recently trasferred from the CIA’s gulags to Guantanamo Bay. Although the Red Cross typically does not release information gleaned from these meetings, nor do they publicize their criticisms of prsions around the world, the organization will facilitate communication between the detainees and their families. That’s how we will learn just how badly they have been tortured over the past several years. The Red Cross expects to meet for the first time 14 high-level terrorism suspects who were recently transferred from CIA secret prisons to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at a visit to the … Continue reading We’ll Know Soon Enough

Congratulations Katherine Harris! You madeThe List! Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released its second annual report on the most corrupt members of Congress entitled Beyond DeLay: The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and five to watch). This encyclopedic report on corruption in the 109th Congress documents the egregious, unethical and possibly illegal activities of the most tainted members of Congress. CREW has compiled the members’ transgressions and analyzed them in light of federal laws and congressional rules. CREW’s Most Corrupt Members of Congress: Members of the Senate: Conrad Burns (R-MT) Bill Frist (R-TN) Rick Santorum … Continue reading Your Wednesday Morning Republican Juggernaut Update

I’ve beenbeating the war crimesdrum lately because it is obvious to me that George Bush has violated theWar Crimes Act of 1996. Last night George Washington Consitutional Law ProfessorJonathan Turley was on Keith Olbermann’sCountdown on MSNBC where they discussed the subject. I added the emphasis. OLBERMANN: Last Friday here, you were telling us thatsome of the detainees from the secret CIA cells, when moved to Guantanamo, might have the opportunity in the immediate future to talk to the Red Cross about their own interrogations. Is there anything more on the possibility that, that, that‘s going to happen and thatwhich might … Continue reading War Crimes, Bitches!

Musharef (who, btw, is meeting with the Chimp today) may go along withshit like this but I doubt that the overwhelming majority of Pakistanis will for long. Six US helicopters ‘intruded’ into North Waziristan Agency, ‘violating’ Pakistan’s air space, Dawn newspaper reported quoting officials and local residents. This is the first such report since the Pakistan government signed an agreement with the tribal chiefs of Waziristan two weeks ago to stop all military operation in the area, indicating increased pace of action by the US military. In a report from Miramshah, the region’s principal city, the newspaper quoted eyewitnesses that … Continue reading Testing Pakistani Patience

Chimpy seems to be running out of patience waiting for Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki toproduce a few miracles. [D]iplomats who deal with the Bush administration on Iraq issues, and recently departed officials who stay in contact with their colleagues in the government, say the president’s top advisers have a far more pessimistic view. “The thing you hear the most is that [Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki] never makes any decisions,” said a former senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss internal deliberations. “And that drives Bush crazy. He doesn’t take well … Continue reading Frustrated Little Boy

I don’t understand why Chimpy is wasting everyone’s time at the UN. If his speech yesterday was desinged for public consumption then few saw it, there was nothing new in it, and his usual, plodding, semi-literate delivery would not excite anyone with half a brain and a pulse over 20 beats per minute. If his speech was aimed at the people of the Middle East it was yet anothermiserable failure. Arab commentators have dismissed US President George W. Bush’s appeal for democracy directly to the people of the region as a patronising and doomed effort to give a new face … Continue reading Not Fooling Anyone

Link, should you choose to venture there: [Before the speech begins] …I’m going to listen to Rush for a bit..be better than this nonsense. Amazing the growth of this President. Sober, serious, wise. This is a heartfelt speech. Bush is sticking it to the leaders of the Muslim world! I hope a cd comes out after his final term that gives his best speeches – I’m sure this one will be among them! Poland’s speech will be great, as well. They are wonderful allies to us. Godspeed to this president; we’ll never have another like him. Oh, Freepers. May you … Continue reading Freepers on the UN Address

So, what does the president who has invaded two Muslim countries and prolonged/intensified aninvasion of a third Middle Eastern countrysay at the UN today? Today, I’d like to speak directly to the people across the broader Middle East: My country desires peace. Continue reading Ugh

DAMN these midday speeches. Don’t these people know tequila shooters at this hour are bad for your health?

Tena’s in bold. I’m in a brown sweater and jeans, in case you were wondering.

The general assembly president is warning people not to engage in vigorous congratulations after speeches. I don’t think we’ll have to worry much about that here.

I wonder about the security – he’s so famously chickenshit.

Polite applause as Bush takes the podium.

He’s looking all statesman-y, today, but he’s slurring a bit.

He’s got a full-on smirk today. Bringing the Sept. 11. “Enemies of humanity?” Wow, irony may not be dead but hyperbole just keeled over. “It is clear that the world is engaged in a great ideological struggle.” He’s got such a polar mind. There are terrorists in the world, and then there are moderate people. That’s it.

Campaign of murder? That’s you, W, that’s you motherfucker.

Seriously. “This peaceful world can be ours if we seek it and if we work together.” Work together? Does he listen to himself? Human rights? I mean … I don’t even know what to do with this. There’s stony silence. “A bright future starting to take root in the Middle East.” Is that what the kids are calling murder and violence these days?

Universal Declaration of Human Rights – that should burn your goddamn tongue to say, W.

5 years ago Iraq’s seat was occupied by a dictator who killed his citizens, invaded his neighbors … Now it’s occupied by us, and we kill its citizens and invade its neighbors. America! Fuck yeah!

Moderation – again. Is this a Repug campaign speech? He’s doing that Moderation Dance again.

Democracy in Iraq- yeah, they are democratically torturing everyone.

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It’s like aperfect storm of hatred and ignorance. A Maine couple accused of tying up their 19-year-old daughter, throwing her in their car and driving her out of state to get an abortion were upset because the baby’s father is black, a Maine sheriff said Tuesday. Continue reading As Heads Explode Throughout Wingnuttia

Even sad-eyed clowns think she’s nuts. AP Photo/Chris O’Meara Continue reading Your Tuesday Afternoon Republican Juggernaut Update

My, everything must be going really poorly for a girl to bedumped by Ken Mehlman, right? When Charlie Crist won Florida’s gubernatorial primary, the Republican National Committee dashed off a note of congratulations and posted it on the party Web site. “Charlie Crist,” wrote Chairman Ken Mehlman, “has the character and credentials to successfully lead Florida as Governor.” Mehlman did the same for 10 other GOP congressional and gubernatorial candidates. But U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, once a rising Republican star, got nothing. In fact, her victory in the Senate primary wasn’t mentioned by the RNC or the National Republican Senatorial … Continue reading Your Monday Morning Republican Juggernaut Update

I don’t know if it is conscience that drives a man like Colin Powell or a desire to rehabilitate himself with an eye on a future presidential campaing, but either way he issticking to his guns on the immorality of Chimpy’s torture fetish. Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell said yesterday that he decided to publicly oppose the Bush administration’s proposed rules for the treatment of terrorism suspects in part because the plan would add to growing doubts about whether the United States adheres to its own moral code. “If you just look at how we are perceived in … Continue reading Powell Explains Himself — A Bit

I remember last time Chimpy was at the UN he had to ask Condi for permission to take a wee. Continue reading Memories, Like The Corners of My Stall…

Rasmussen has a new Lamont-Lieberman poll out. Lieberman 45% (-1) Lamont 43% (+2) Margin of Error: +/- 4.5% Note that a MOE of +/-4.5% is relatively large, back in the day when I did customer satisfaction surveys for the State of Texas we were required to achieve an MOE of +/-3%. This is one of the reasons many of us are skeptical of Rasmussen’s polling. That said, let’s see who the poll says is supporting these two men. “Most GOP voters, 62%, prefer Lieberman, who also attracts 27% of Democrats. Lamont attracts support from 69% of Democrats.” Continue reading Lamont And Lieberman A Dead Heat