Announces the appointment of the new Ambassador to Iraq, Teddy Ruxpin. AFP/File/Tim Sloan Continue reading President George W. Bush…

Your remedy toDan Bartlett. First up, Joe Sestak’s campaign ad form August. Next we have The Daily Show, also from August. Continue reading Stay the Course Videos

ViaEschaton: Hillary Clinton’s Republican challenger is getting personal and it’s not pretty: He says the senator used to be ugly – and speculates she got “millions of dollars” in plastic surgery. “You ever see a picture of her back then? Whew,” said John Spencer of Clinton’s younger days. “I don’t know why Bill married her,” he said of the Clintons, who celebrated their 31st anniversary this month. Is it just me or does John Spencer’s wife Kathy… Bear a striking resemblance to Susan Oliver’s portrayal of Vina in theStar Trek pilot “The Cage”? Hey, he brought it up. Continue reading Glass Houses

Laurarats out the Chimp. “Well I say exactly what the President says, that we need to stay the course.” Laura Bush September 18, 2006 Continue reading Leaving Him With Barney

AP Photo/Joe Ranze Tonight isdebate night in Florida. Monday night in Fort Lauderdale is the first and only televised debate in Florida’s U.S. Senate race. <p. The latest poll figures and fundraising totals give the decided edge to incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. Thus, challenger Republican U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris may be swinging for the fences to make up the gap. Viewers, too, can try to get in on the action. The organizers are accepting nominations for questions for the debate. You can submit yours for consideration atwww.beforeyouvote.org. But the real fun startsafter the debate. The Florida Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual … Continue reading Your Monday Morning Republican Juggernaut Update

Too late forMichigan, I’m afraid. Ford Motor Co. said Monday its loss widened to $5.8 billion in the third quarter, weighed down by the costs of its massive restructuring plan aimed at reshaping the company and cutting expenses so it can compete better against lower-cost rivals from overseas. Continue reading Bush to Focus on the Economy

No truth-telling allowed. The State Department official in charge of public diplomacy for the Middle East apologized Sunday for telling the Arabic language Al-Jazeera television station that the U.S. had displayed “arrogance and stupidity” in Iraq. [snip] “Upon reading the transcript of my appearance on Al-Jazeera, I realized that I seriously misspoke by using the phrase ‘there has been arrogance and stupidity’ by the U.S. in Iraq,” [Alberto] Fernandez said in the statement. “This represents neither my views nor those of the State Department. I apologize.” Continue reading Department of That Didn’t Take Very Long

Something jumped out at me in thisEric Boehlert piece via the crack den: Janice Crouse, senior fellow with the conservative Concerned Women for America, announced last month that O’Donnell “ought to be fired summarily for making” controversial comments about Christian fundamentalists. And Bill Gray, of the World Christian Ministries, writing online for The Conservative Voice, demanded that O’Donnell be silenced by the network: “I want no more of Rosie O’Donnell. I have sent this message to the president of ABC. … Let’s let him know that this time ABC has definitely crossed the unforgivable line — and ONLY an ABC … Continue reading ABC & Conservative Wrath

Only two weeks to go, roll up your sleaves andTake back the Capitol! Continue reading Take Back The Capitol

Yankee go home. Majorities of Iraqi youth in Arab regions of the country believe security would improve and violence decrease if the U.S.-led forces left immediately, according to a State Department poll that provides a window into the grim warnings provided to policymakers. The survey — unclassified, but marked “For Official U.S. Government Use Only” — also finds that Iraqi leaders may face particular difficulty recruiting young Sunni Arabs to join the stumbling security forces. Strong majorities of 15- to 29-year-olds in two Arab Sunni areas — Mosul and Tikrit-Baquba — would oppose joining the Iraqi army or police. [snip] … Continue reading Occupation Is Like So Uncool

Shut up, please thanks bye now. No love, Me Look, I’ve got nothing against Obama really. He seems like a perfectly nice guy, if a little prone to hectoring and condescension, but there’s absolutely nothing about his projected presidential run that suggests he’d be anything more than yet another Not Bill Clinton, another guy who thinks the reason Clinton won was because he gave pretty speeches, another guy who thinks the most pressing issue of our day is “the tone in Washington” and that people without jobs really give a flying fuck how a bunch of guys in Washington talk … Continue reading Dear Senator Obama

Today’s the final day of our fundraising drive. Thank you to everyone who’sdonated this week. You’ve helped out with our hosting costs, and made sure Scout can get down to New Orleans again, and given us a bit of a safety net if our hardware goes kablooie. That’s incredible, and it means so much to me and to all of us that you value what we do here. I’ve tried to make sure everyone who donated through Paypal got a note acknowledging their contribution, but if I missed you, please know your support is greatly appreciated, as are those of … Continue reading The House You Built

Time for a peak into the married life of thecongresswoman from Longboat Key. They met on a blind date at Sarasota’s historic opera house on Pineapple Street, opening night 1996. The unexpected romance between Katherine Harris and Anders Ebbeson began while they were watching Verdi’s La Forza del Destino. [snip] Mutual friends had fixed them up, though at the time they seemed an unlikely match, with vastly different interests and vastly different styles. Harris, then a state legislator, had an oversized personality and a mountain of ambitions. Ebbeson, a Swedish entrepreneur a dozen years her senior, was calm and dignified, … Continue reading Your Friday Morning Republican Juggernaut Update

“Brrraaap! It wasn’t me, it was the pumpkin.” REUTERS/Jason Reed Continue reading Oh Crap

Russia has her ownAsshole in Chief.

President Vladimir V. Putin has a penchant for making pithy, acerbic, sometimes coarse comments. On Wednesday, a microphone inadvertently left on during a brief appearance with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel captured his views on the sex scandal involving Israel’s president.

According to journalists and officials in the room and published accounts by Agence France-Presse late Wednesday and Kommersant and The Jerusalem Post on Thursday, Mr. Putin was heard saying, “Say hello to your president,” to Mr. Olmert, referring to President Moshe Katsav, who could face criminal charges that he raped and assaulted two former employees. Mr. Putin added, “He really surprised us.”

The microphone was quickly turned off as reporters were ushered from the room, but the news organizations reported that Mr. Putin went on.

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Donate to First Draft … Or the ferret gets it. (“It” being a piece of a banana chip, but give anyway. End of the week means end of the drive. It’s almost your last chance to get Stripe on your good side!) A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging: Threat Edition

Last time I checked Republikkkan Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was a full32 points ahead of Democratic opponent Barbara Ann Radnofsky and even farther ahead of her Libertarian opponent, Scott Lanier Jamison. Still, she felt the need to say it waswrong to invade Iraq during last night’s Texas senatorial debate. “If I knew then what I had known now on the weapons of mass destruction, which was a key reason I voted the way I did, I would not have voted to go into Iraq then,” Hutchison said. Continue reading Full Retreat On Iraq

Sweet Jesus gay: President Bush finds the world around him increasingly “unacceptable.” In speeches, statements and news conferences this year, the president has repeatedly declared a range of problems “unacceptable,” including rising health costs, immigrants who live outside the law, North Korea’s claimed nuclear test, genocide in Sudan and Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Look, I knew when Jeffrey Sebelia won Project Runway last night that the world was off its pole and the entire humanthing was fucked up, where an asshole who makes ugly dresses gets $100,000 to make more ugly dresses, but even I had no idea it was this … Continue reading Unacceptable