Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The willow is too close to the house.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Biden: Oh no. We’ve upset Big Pharma again.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

People are complicated. Love is not.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Not all heroes wear capes.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

This really is a full service blog.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

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Republican Bile

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Way to help ‘change the tone:’

Just a few blocks from the future site of Bill Clinton $160 million presidential library, a couple of Clinton haters hope to open a museum devoted to mocking his presidency.

“As long as he’s talking, we’ll have to be here trying to keep him somewhat honest and stop him from rewriting history,” says John LeBoutillier, a former Republican congressman from New York who rode Ronald Reagan (news – web sites)’s coattails to victory in 1980.

LeBoutillier and his partner, Houston businessman Richard Erickson, plan to call it the Counter-Clinton Library. They say the museum here and one planned for Washington will look at such topics as Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, the last-minute pardons, even damaged White House furniture.

“We already hear he’s going to bring a bunch of egghead economists to his library to say how great the economy was when he was president,” LeBoutillier says. “And we’ll find our own who can say it had nothing to do with him.”

This is an embarassment. What a bunch of jerks.

(via Wunderkinder)

*** Update ***

Apparently, this is old news.

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Deep Thoughts

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The death of Hussein’s sons could be good or bad:

The killing of Saddam Hussein’s two eldest sons in a battle with American soldiers in northern Iraq could be an important victory in a campaign to control, and even end, the guerrilla-style insurgency that has almost daily killed or wounded coalition troops, administration and military officials said here.

The assault that killed Qusay and Uday Hussein could set off an immediate wave of retribution attacks, officials said, but the deaths should also embolden more Iraqis to come forward with crucial information to energize the military’s anti-guerrilla operations.

Thanks. Some Iraqi’s are less ambivalent:

Baghdad’s curfew was broken by the crackle of gunfire as word spread last night that Saddam’s hated sons had been killed.

“It’s a celebration, people have heard about what happened,” a US military spokesman said.

On the streets, many Iraqis were prepared to speak out for the first time about Uday and Qusay. But while some celebrated their deaths, others wished they had been captured alive. Alaa Hamed, regularly beaten with clubs while he worked as a producer for Uday’s television station, said: “I don’t want him dead. I want to torture him first.”

Shopkeeper Abu Muhammed said: “This is very good news. Uday, Qusay, and Saddam are the ones who ruined this country.”

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California Recall

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I am against the recall of Gray Davis in California- I think there should be criminal behavior before an elected official should be kicked out of office. Please spare me the will of the people crap- sometimes those governing have to make tough decisions, and I want them relatively free to do so without feeling the immediate emotions of the population. Regardless of my opinions, it is clear the NY Times is against the recall. Otherwise, why else would they be doing Gray Davis’s hatchet work:

Backer of California Recall Feels Heat Directed at Him By CHARLIE LeDUFF

Darrell Issa, the millionaire congressman who is bankrolling the effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis, is facing nagging questions about two arrests for car theft in his youth.

This is front page news from the paper of record? A smear campaign launched by Davis and his lawyers? C’mon.

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Democrat Tolerance

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Seventeen pro-life Democrats write Terry McAuliffe a letter asking him to put a link up on the DNC website to the ‘Democrats for Life of America” website. Currently, the DNC has 261 links on their website. McAuliffe’s response:

.McAuliffe wrote to one of the 17, Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Mississippi, on June 24, stating, “I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is to reverse the current platform and/or to enact legislation that contradicts that platform.”

Here is the official Democrat platform:

“We also recognize that members of our party have deeply held and sometimes differing views on issues of personal conscience like abortion and capital punishment. We view this diversity as a source of strength, not a sign of weakness, and we welcome into our ranks all Americans who may hold differing positions on these and other issues. Recognizing that tolerance is a virtue, we are committed to resolving our differences in a spirit of civility, hope and mutual respect.”

As Mark Shields noted, “Baloney, B.S. and worse.”

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Holy Jesus

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I wonder what peole will say about this:

President Bush’s erroneous reference to an Iraqi-Africa uranium link was understandable, former President Clinton said Tuesday, in part because Saddam Hussein’s regime had not accounted for some weapons by the time Clinton ended his term in 2001.

Clinton’s comments reinforce one of the pillars of Bush’s defense of the war in Iraq — that his Democratic predecessor was never satisfied that Saddam had rid himself of weapons of mass destruction.

“When I left office, there was a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for,” Clinton said during a televised interview.

Clinton said he never found out whether a U.S.-British bombing campaign he ordered in 1998 ended Saddam’s capability of producing chemical and biological weapons. “We might have gotten it all, we might have gotten half of it, we might have gotten none of it,” he said.

In his State of the Union (search) speech in February justifying the planned war in Iraq, Bush referred to British intelligence reports that Saddam had tried to purchase uranium for nuclear weapons production. His administration says it now believes those reports were based in part on forged documents.

Clinton confined his remarks to biological and chemical weapons, and did not say whether he would consider credible any report that Saddam had wanted to build a nuclear weapons program.

Nonetheless, he suggested that Bush’s mistake was par for the course — and that it was time to move on now that Bush had acknowledged the error.

“You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president,” he said. “I mean, you can’t make as many calls as you have to without messing up once in a while. The thing we ought to be focused on is what is the right thing to do now.”

Clinton said ending tensions in Iraq should be the priority now — another echo of the current White House’s talking points. “We should be pulling for America on this. We should be pulling for the people of Iraq.”

Speechless.

(Via Hanks)

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Excellent News

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Common sense in the House:

The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to roll back a key provision, which allows the government to conduct secret “sneak and peek” searches of private property, of a sweeping anti-terrorism law passed soon after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The House voted 309-118 to attach the provision to a $37.9 billion bill funding the departments of Commerce, State and Justice. It would be the first change in the controversial USA Patriot Act since the law was enacted in October, 2001.

The move would block the Justice Department from using any funds to take advantage of the section of the act that allows it to secretly search the homes of suspects and only inform them later that a warrant had been issued to do so.

Sanity prevails.

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Havens of Fluorescent Idiocy

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Charles Rangel has now officially lost his mind:

The U.S. acted illegally when its soldiers attacked and killed Uday and Qusay Hussein, a leading Democratic congressman complained on Tuesday, before mocking the military maneuver that succeeded in eliminating the brutal duo.

“We have a law on the books that the United States should not be assassinating anybody,” Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY, told Fox News Channel’s “Hannity & Colmes.”

My head hurts. Two Words: Democrat Meltdown.

(via Not Quite Tea and Crumpets)

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