I probably ought not to have watched it right before I went to sleep, right? Because all my dreams were of bare walls and light.

More under the cut. And inthis thread.

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This Eschaton post lead me to wonder what the Kissinger-hating Christopher Hitchens thinks ofBush and Cheney regularly seeking Kissinger’s advice on the War in Iraq. Continue reading Head Explosion

After famously claiming that“if you’re not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin” Katherine Harris tries to patch up her relations withJewish Floridians. In secret, of course. WEST PALM BEACH — Religion and politics intersected again Wednesday for Senate candidate Katherine Harris. At a meeting with the West Palm Beach Jewish Community Relations Council, a group that represents one of Florida’s largest Jewish communities, Harris tried to ease concerns over her recent comments — including a statement that “if you’re not electing Christians” then “in essence you are going to legislate sin.” The meeting was closed … Continue reading Your Thursday Morning Republican Juggernaut Update

The bloggers who use Blogger seem to be resurfacing now, and one of the best –Glenn Greenwald – schools us ontreason. Continue reading Return of the Blogger Bloggers

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you thePresident of the United States of America. This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th. Continue reading Your President Speaks! Bonus Edition!!

The race for the only Democratic Senate seat that’s at risk this year is still basically a dead heat, butBob Menendez is surging. The new Quinnipiac University poll shows [Sen. Robert] Menendez favored by 49 percent of likely voters, compared to 45 percent of those polled favoring [Tom Kean Jr.]. Six percent were undecided. In the last Quinnipiac poll, released Sept. 20, Kean was favored by 48 percent of likely voters with Menendez at 45 percent. Both polls have a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points, meaning the difference between the candidates is not clear-cut. Also, … Continue reading Menendez!

Just cruising around the internets in my blue BMW convertible this morning, and I can’t seem to get any of my favorite blogger-based blogs to load. Sucks, does it. Continue reading Is Blogger Buggered?

It’s getting better. A little better, All the time (Can’t get no worse). More than 2,660 Iraqi civilians were killed in Baghdad in September, according to new Health Ministry figures _ 400 more than the month before despite an intensified U.S.-Iraqi sweep aimed at reining in violence. [snip] So far, October has brought no relief. A U.S. soldier died Wednesday from a roadside bomb while patrolling in Baghdad. That brought to 40 [now42] the number of Americans killed across Iraq the past 11 days _ a pace not seen since the U.S. attack on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah in … Continue reading Have To Admit

Oh, well, we don’t need theBrits anyway. The detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay is unacceptable and counterproductive, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Thursday, underlining an increasingly critical British line on the U.S.-run prison from America’s closest ally. Beckett, releasing Britain’s annual report on human rights around the world, said that detention without trial of hundreds of suspects was “unacceptable in terms of human rights” and “ineffective in terms of counterterrorism.” Continue reading No Allies Left

Betcha he doen’s want to talk about thetrade deficit. America’s trade deficit hit an all-time high as record imports of oil swamped a solid gain in U.S. exports. The politically sensitive deficit with China set a record, a point that Democrats are sure to use in attacking President Bush’s trade policies in the closing weeks of the battle for Congress. The deficit rose to $69.9 billion in August, up 2.7 percent from July’s $68 billion deficit, which had also been a record. The sharp deterioration in the deficit in recent months has occurred because soaring global oil prices have pushed … Continue reading Chimpy Thinks The Economy Is A Great Issue for the GOP

Four legs writes to Poppy Bush: Not content to unleash him on the oil industry, you got your friends and patrons to launch him on an unsuspecting American public. The result? Thousands of American soldiers are dead, not to mention the thousands dead on 9/11 because your twit of a kid was too incompetent to listen to the warnings the intelligence community was screaming at him. Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead because your kid wanted to one-up you. And now the entire world is living under the threat of nuclear oblivion. And this time, crazy people have … Continue reading Plush Life 1, Bush Family 0

The Republikkkan National Committee sent thewrong email to reporter Russell Berman. In a breach of privacy, the Republican National Committee erroneously e-mailed a list that contained the names, races, and Social Security numbers of dozens of top Republican donors — and that identified two of the contributors as Muslim — to this reporter. In the course of preparing for a Washington fund-raiser on Friday headlined by President Bush, an RNC staffer, Dee Dee Lancaster, intended to e-mail a security list of confirmed guests to other event planners and the Secret Service. But Ms. Lancaster mistyped one of the addresses, and … Continue reading Ooops!

Torture and the cowardice it covers: If we had irrefutable evidence against people plotting terrorism in and against the United States, we would not need to hide that evidence from those defendants. If we had reliable intelligence about who was and was not acting against the national interest, we would be able to tell those detained the reason for their detention. If we had the manpower and technological capabilities to investigate every alleged crime for which someone is detained, there would be no reason to hold them; if we could determine cause, we could charge them under a system that … Continue reading New Column

The two men most responsible for holding the House for the GOP areeffectively out of action. In the past week alone, Republicans have canceled nearly a dozen campaign events with [Denny The Meatpuppet] Hastert and [Tom Child Shield] Reynolds. Rep. Don Sherwood (Pa.) — who is one of the GOP’s most endangered incumbents after revelations that his former mistress had sued him in Maryland, alleging assault — told both men not to come to his district, forgoing crucial campaign dollars to minimize additional negative news coverage. In addition, at least seven House GOP candidates have donated to charity nearly $20,000 … Continue reading Folified

From today’spresser. Progress in Iraq Earlier this week, Deputy President Tariq al-Hashimi lost his brother, Major General Hashimi, when gunmen dressed in police uniforms broke into his house and shot him in the head. You’re Not JimmyJeff, You’re Mark Terry. I mean — you’re not Terry. You’re Steve. Regarding Focus on the Family There are extreme elements that use religion to achieve objectives. Sounds Like He Appreciates Jimmy Beam More Than Jimmy Baker And I appreciate Jimmy Baker willingness to — he and Lee Hamilton are putting this — have got a group they put together that I think was … Continue reading Your President Speaks!

God Bless America The man who stepped down recently as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ordered his staff to help with his nephew’s high school homework, wasting the agency’s time and resources and violating ethics rules, a Justice Department inquiry concluded Wednesday. The nephew’s project — a documentary about the ATF that took 10 months to complete — was one of a half-dozen examples of lapses in judgment Carl J. Truscott committed before he resigned in August, according to the report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine. Continue reading The Adults Are In Charge

I know Unka Karl thinks he’s dominating the newscycle, but Chimpy’s pressers get worse with every iteration. They simply remind what a dishonest, incompetent ass the president is. REUTERS/Larry Downing Continue reading Another Awful Presser

Did CSPAN tapethis? A former House page said he witnessed inappropriate contact between former Republican Congressman Mark Foley and another page in the back of the House floor in early 2001. The page, Richard Nguyen, a first-year student at the University’s Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, said he saw Foley pat a male page’s behind. UPDATE: ViaJosh Micah, Holy Dorm Visits Batman! A staff supervisor at the dorm for congressional pages intervened when former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) tried to pay the teens a nighttime visit in the summer of 2000, ABC News has learned. The pages were having … Continue reading Holy Butt-Pat Batman!

Buh-Bye Katherine. With less than four weeks to Election Day, U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris trails U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson by 28 percentage points in her bid to unseat the first-term Democrat, a new poll shows. Nelson was favored by 61 percent compared to 33 percent who preferred Harris, with 6 percent undecided. The results were gathered in a random telephone sampling of 783 likely voters, which was carried out Oct. 3-8 by Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. In a larger sampling of 968 registered voters, Nelson was favored by 56 percent to Harris’s 31 percent with 11 percent undecided. [snip] “In … Continue reading Your Wednesday Morning Republican Juggernaut Update

Mucho talk about Holden Korea intoday’s gaggle.

Apparently the party responsible for North Korea’s development of numerous nuclear weapons during Chimpy’s term in office is…North Korea!

Q Tony, in 2003, the President said very clearly that we will not tolerate North Korea with nuclear weapons.

MR. SNOW: Right.

Q And here we are in 2006 operating on the assumption, as the government is, that, in fact, they tested a nuclear devise. So what went wrong?

MR. SNOW: I’m not sure anything went wrong. The failed diplomacy is on the part of the North Koreans because what they have done so far is turn down a series of diplomatic initiatives that would have given them everything they have said they wanted, which was the ability to have adequate power for their country, to have economic growth, to have diplomatic ties with other countries, and to have security guarantees. All of that was included in the September 19th agreement of last year. And yet they’ve walked away from all of it. So if there’s a failure in diplomacy, it’s on their part.

Obsession continues…

Continue reading “Today on Holden’s Obsession with the Gaggle”

Aw. Sothis is why John Laesch hasn’t responded to my online marriage proposals: If this week is any indication, Laesch will certainly find plenty more opportunities to bring Hastert’s record to light. He’s appeared on CNN, NBC, Fox News, Univision, National Public Radio, and most recently, Chris Matthews’ Hardball. He’s convinced he can win; his campaign’s most recent internal poll, taken before Foleygate, put support for Hastert at 55 percent. And at any rate, running has already been worth it—in May he got engaged to his campaign manager, a former ex-girlfriend and former Republican who he’d encountered on the campaign … Continue reading Adorable Democrat Story

Unka Karl thought the War on Terra would be the Republikkkan’s trump card in this year’s mid-term elections, as it has been in the past.Rasmussen proves him wrong. In the lowest display of confidence in the United States’ position in the war on terror since Rasmussen Reports began polling on the subject two years ago, just 31% of American adults say the U.S. and its allies are winning the War on Terror. That’s a 10-point drop since our last poll taken in the days immediately following the fifth anniversary of 9/11. For the first time since polling began, a plurality … Continue reading Burn the Trump Card

How do you say…shrill? A judge who usually constrains his opinions to the technicalities of bankruptcy law broke from habit last week and denounced U.S. policy on the detention of “enemy combatants” as “the tactics of the old Soviet Union.” In an e-mail message to National Public Radio that was read aloud on NPR’s “Morning Edition” program Friday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Leif Clark attacked the views of a former Bush administration official who had framed the White House policy on the detention of suspected terrorists. The official, John Yoo, argued that such prisoners are ineligible for the protections of the … Continue reading Shorter Judge Clark: Fuck Yoo

Or perhaps just President Doody. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Continue reading President Howdy Doody

Wow, US munitions are going off like fireworks at an ammo dump in Southern Baghdad, making for quite a visual image on theSituation Room as I type. Military sources are keeping mum on the cause of the fire that set them off, which of course only generates speculation about sabotage. Reminding voters of three years of hellish waste in Iraq is sure to boost the Republikkkans. Continue reading This Can Only Help The Republikkkans