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Right on cue, Trent Lott slips in the shiv.

Events are cascading into a perfect storm for the embattled president. When [Update: yes, if. They could really be that incompetent] Dems take the House/Senate and start delivering the cascading waves of subpoena-backed investigation they may face surprisingly little resistance from the once and future Minority Leader.

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  1. 1.

    Steve

    I’m confused. Lott says he was briefed on the program, that it’s legitimate and legal, and that it uses modern technological tools to defeat terrorists. In what sense do you see this as undermining the administration?

  2. 2.

    Davebo

    Steve,

    He’s the first politician I’ve seen so far to confirm that the program exists.

  3. 3.

    Tim F.

    He is confirming the details as reported, which is helpful for people arguing for investigations. You could argue that Lott’s support of the program negates the downside of confirming its details to the press but I doubt it. As always I could be wrong, but I don’t think that a high-profile confirmation helps the White House here.

  4. 4.

    Mike in SLO

    Cafferty was right on today: “A secret government agency has told our Justice Department that it’s not allowed to investigate it. And the Justice Department just says ok and drops the whole thing.”

    Heaven help us all.

  6. 6.

    Perry Como

    Can baby eating be far behind?

    btw, I’d like to thank everyone that voted for Republicans in 2004. Heckuva job guys.

  8. 8.

    Otto Man

    I just saw Pat Roberts on CNN, and he assured Lou Dobbs that the program is only being used against terrorists. Tens of millions of terrorists.

    If that guy carried any more water for the administration, he’d have to wear a Culligan uniform.

  9. 9.

    demimondian

    When is that going to happen?

    [speaking of the Dems retaking the Congress.]

    Don’t worry about it — the President will decide that voters means “voters for Republicans”, and the problem will go away. After all, 9/11 changed everything.

  10. 10.

    Pooh

    He is confirming the details as reported, which is helpful for people arguing for investigations.

    Yeah – it’s a neat little dagger in the back. “What, I was supposed to just deny, deny, deny? Sorry, I’m no longer on Karl’s fax list, so I missed that memo.”

    HehIndeedReadtheWholeThing.

  12. 12.

    Andrew

    I just saw Pat Roberts on CNN, and he assured Lou Dobbs that the program is only being used against terrorists. Tens of millions of terrorists.

    We’re at war, Osama lover.

  13. 13.

    Pooh

    just saw Pat Roberts on CNN, and he assured Lou Dobbs that the program is only being used against terrorists. Tens of millions of Democrats.

    Fixed.

  14. 14.

    Jesse

    Mental Note: Don’t fuck with Trent Lott. He’ll eventually get his revenge, even if it’s through a thousand tiny cuts.

  15. 15.

    Brian

    Events are cascading into a perfect storm

    Tim, can I have some of whatever you’re smokin’?

  16. 16.

    John S.

    Tim, can I have some of whatever you’re smokin’?

    You’ve already smoked it, Brian.

    That and huffed an entire warehose full of Krylon. It’s the only explanation for you other than being a spoof.

  17. 17.

    KC

    Tim,

    I hope you’re right, but I’ve got four words for yuh: par for the course. I expect this to be forgotten in a few weeks after the media starts spinning itself into knots about whether the program is illegal, legal, or just a fun little thing to do. Unless Dems stand up united and demand some real answers, we’ll be watching reruns of Lieberman Love Boat all over again.

  18. 18.

    Steve

    I don’t think legal or illegal matters much. Either people will be fine with the government having all their phone records or they won’t. If they aren’t – and if I know Americans, they aren’t – they’ll want it to stop, legal or not.

    I suppose Bush might be able to make the case that we need to keep tabs on these tens of millions of people to fight the war on terrah, but the thing is, Bush isn’t very good at making cases.

    The current version of the GOP is going to lose the libertarian vote for decades hence.

  19. 19.

    JoeTx

    Speaking of a disk served cold. Anybody given any thought to who might have leaked all this information THIS week? Could it possibly be the outgoing CIA chief who was forced to resign LAST week?

    This very well could have been Porters parting FU to Bush and Negroponti!

  21. 21.

    Sherard

    Bring it you morons. There’s nothing that will do more to ensure the Republicans win BIG in 2008 than investigations and the inevitable descent into lunatic impeachment hearings.

    You guys just keep on thinking that’s a winning strategy. I can’t wait to be pointing and laughing at your stupidity.

  23. 23.

    ppGaz

    Well, I just heard that my phone provider gave up no information to the feds.

    Which means my calls to Ali Baba and the Thirty-Eight Thieves are unmonitored.

    Oh, two of the thieves paired up in a gay Civil Union and left the group.

    Luckily, the president is on top of that situation

    “America is a free society, which limits the role of government in the lives of our citizens. This commitment of freedom, however, does not require the redefinition of one of our most basic social institutions. Our government should respect every person”

    See, if you shove a sharp stick in someone’s eye, the trick is to tell them that “Sharp sticks should not be shoved in someone’s eye” while you are doing it.

  24. 24.

    ppGaz

    Bring it you morons.

    Yet another spoof blows his cover.

    What do you figure ….half, or more, of the posts here now are from spoofs?

    I’d say half on any given day, maybe two thirds at times.

  25. 25.

    Perry Como

    The current version of the GOP is going to lose the libertarian vote for decades hence.

    But the libertarian luminary Instafuckwit said we already knew about the program. The BDS engorged, looney liberal Chicago Tribune editorial page thinks something smells.

    I wonder how the NRA types feel about the government having all of their phone records?

  26. 26.

    Perry Como

    Who pissed in Sherard’s corn flakes this morning? Oh right. Sherard must have just figured that the whole line about small government was a lie. Next comes acceptance…

  27. 27.

    ppGaz

    Perry Como, the spoof, lambastes Sherard, the spoof.

    You are now caught in a Moebius Strip of Blogodelphian Spoofapaloozish Kakistakity.

  28. 28.

    Steve

    Bring it you morons. There’s nothing that will do more to ensure the Republicans win BIG in 2008 than investigations and the inevitable descent into lunatic impeachment hearings.

    Hilarious. Just hilarious. Here’s a friendly tip, Sherard: When the Republicans say “it will be good for us if we get investigated!” it’s not because it actually will be good for them, it’s because THEY DON’T WANT TO BE INVESTIGATED.

    The fact that you believe the Republicans are actually out there giving honest advice to the Democrats about how to win elections just blows my mind.

  29. 29.

    KC

    It’s just so funny to me that the party that has always screamed about small government is so ass backwards now. I mean, can anyone here imagine what would have happened if the NSA program was conducted by Bill Clinton? Or, better yet, Al Gore? Either one would be hanging from a tree, swinging back and forth on a political rope by now.

  30. 30.

    VidaLoca

    In search of a little comic relief I took a spin over to Scrutator. They never disappoint:

    While the noble men and women of Red State defend integrity and faith in America, the unscrulous hacks at Daily Kos continue to reap a page-view profit from fear-mongering.

    At Red State, concern for the nation and its morale is first and foremost:

    The demoralization of this country is palpable. It is palpable in the steady, sullen abandonment of the President by his once-loyal base. It is palpable in the indescribable weariness with which we seem to attend to the big questions of our day. It is palpable in the great yawning rifts that divide us, in the bitterness they engender.
    How could we not be demoralized? Half the institutions in which we place our trust have been blackened by scandal, discredit, perfidy. Often the discredit, upon examination, is worse than it appears at first. A good example is the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a once proud and revered institution exposed by September 11 as a bureaucracy par excellence, where initiative is stifled, intuition muted, enterprise thwarted. Looking into the matter further, however, reveals that bureaucracy is not the worst of the problems; penetration and emasculation by the enemy is. In Paul Sperry’s book we learn of celebratory 9/11 “parties” at an FBI Arabic translation center. We learn of the Washington language squad being referred to caustically as “the mole house.” We learn of a level of official subjection to “religion of peace” dogma that verily defies belief.

    At Daily Kos, the fear of the U.S. government and of all things American is palpable:

    When you’re on the phone today, calling your family, calling clients from work, did you know the government is paying attention?

    These alarmists with their pretensions to membership in an exclusive “reality-based community” have no idea how much time, effort, and elbow grease goes into keeping America American. If the price of your freedom is that the government can now keep tips on the actions of AQ Islamofascists prior to their identification and formal monitoring, I think your security has been purchased very cheaply indeed. And I urge each of you to do your own part to keep America safe. Purchase a firearm, and become well-versed in its care and usage; you never know when criminals or terrorists will come calling. Attend the local church of your choice: love of God and love of country go hand-in-hand, and what God has united no man can break asunder. Pay your taxes, and vote for the Party of Freedom: the GOP. This is the road to victory in WWIII. Kos promises you a flittering phantom of freedom, but the reality of his vision is a shackled path of long darkness under Osama and the Taliban as they foist burqas on the women and convert your children to Islam at Kalashnikov-point.

    The choice of paths is clear, America. You’ve chosen wisely in the past; please choose wisely again this November, and ensure that the party of freedom maintains its control of the highest offices in the land.

    They’re not ready to get with the denial-anger-acceptance thing yet.

  31. 31.

    tBone

    Who pissed in Sherard’s corn flakes this morning? Oh right. Sherard must have just figured that the whole line about small government was a lie. Next comes acceptance…

    No, Sherard will never get anywhere near Stage 5. He’s riding his own Mobius Strip of RC-RI (Recursive Cranial-Rectal Inversion), and will never escape from his own ass.

  32. 32.

    tBone

    In search of a little comic relief I took a spin over to Scrutator. They never disappoint:

    That’s the finest piece of sustained spoofing I’ve ever seen. One for the record books.

    Whoever created Scrutator and its denizens is one hell of a talented writer – he/she really nails that pretentious, faux-intellectual tone that seeps off the pages of some of the creepier wingnut blogs.

  33. 33.

    ppGaz

    Whoever created Scrutator and its denizens is one hell of a talented writer

    In other words, it was you?

    Any time I see that kind of fawning, I figure a guy is pimping his own stuff.

    Well, the material you do here is better than Scrutator. Trust me.

  34. 34.

    tBone

    Any time I see that kind of fawning, I figure a guy is pimping his own stuff.

    Well, the material you do here is better than Scrutator. Trust me.

    Trust me, I’d love to be able to take credit for the brilliant Leo/GOP characters; they’re in a league of their own.

    I did spoof over there for a brief period but I couldn’t keep it up – I felt too guilty winding up all of the lefties when there were very few (possibly no) genuine wingnuts there to make the game worthwhile.

  35. 35.

    PeterJ

    From The Wall Street Journal:

    President Bush’s job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an “excellent or pretty good” job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in January.

    If you’re a customer of AT&T, Verizon or BellSouth, then you probably should be really careful when answering a poll about the president.

  36. 36.

    Perry Como

    In other news, the small government Republicans want to raise the debt ceiling *again*. They just raised it a few months back. Now they want to raise it to ten trillion.

    That’s:

    $10,000,000,000,000

    Can I get a round of applause for the don’t tax and spend “conservatives”? The next sound you hear will be a crash of the US economy.

  37. 37.

    JoeTx

    Perry Como Says:

    In other news, the small government Republicans want to raise the debt ceiling again. They just raised it a few months back. Now they want to raise it to ten trillion.

    That’s:

    $10,000,000,000,000

    Can I get a round of applause for the don’t tax and spend “conservatives”? The next sound you hear will be a crash of the US economy.

    But you forget 9/11 changed everything!

    Man do I long for the days of making fun of Al Gore’s “lockbox”, anybody remember that? Back in the days of budget surplus’s and worrying about what to do with the EXTRA cash!

  39. 39.

    Santa Claus

    I did spoof over there for a brief period but I couldn’t keep it up – I felt too guilty winding up all of the lefties when there were very few (possibly no) genuine wingnuts there to make the game worthwhile.

    You have to spoof them over there so you don’t have to spoof them over here. This isn’t a game, kiddo, this is the motherfuckin’ GWOT. And, in case you haven’t heard the news, GWOT=WWIII. That’s some serious shit, don’t ya know. You don’t fuck around with the President while he’s fighting a World War.

    Ho ho ho, bitches. Never forget Poland, or Santa Claus will come kill you. I have diplomatic immunity- Bush said so, in a classified document. Oh, shit, I just leaked it. Time to get whacked, I guess.

    Pretty sure the elves can keep Christmas churning along while I’m pushing up daisies in the Canuckian tundra,

    Santa Claus

  40. 40.

    Santa Claus

    Bush at 29% approval.

    I guess 71% support Saddama bin Laden, then.

    America’s getting a shitload of coal this Christmas, I can tell you fuckers that much.

  42. 42.

    Santa Claus

    I appreciate that, Ancient. You’re a good kid. Just keep your nose clean, and don’t ever badmouth the Queen of England, and I’ll see that you get something nice every 12/25.

  43. 43.

    The Easter Bunny

    Santa, you tubby-ass bitch – it’s springtime. MY time of year, mofo. Stay up at the North Pole, stuff your fat fucking face with candy, and drink a tall glass of shut the fuck up unless you want me and my Peeps to open a whole new front in the War on Christmas.

    Peeps, bitches!

  44. 44.

    DougJ

    It looks like Sherard is indeed a spoof.

    Do you think those whackjobs over at Captain Ed’s are spoofs? RonC could be our RonB?

  45. 45.

    Ancient Purple

    Can’t you mythic holiday icons just get along????

    Join me in celebrating….

    29%! 29%! 29%!

    /pops champagne cork
    /get Santa and Bunny tipsy

  47. 47.

    The Easter Bunny

    /pops champagne cork
    /get Santa and Bunny tipsy

    Alcohol is the last thing that fat bastard needs. Look at his nose – you think it’s red because of the cold? Think again.

    Give him a drink and one thing will lead to another, he’ll end up singing goddamn Christmas carols, pissing all over your bathroom floor, and making a clumsy pass at you. Doesn’t matter what sex or species you are either, trust me. A few beers and that lardass is hornier than Bill O’Reilly in a falafel factory.

  48. 48.

    Santa Claus

    Santa, you tubby-ass bitch – it’s springtime. MY time of year, mofo. Stay up at the North Pole, stuff your fat fucking face with candy, and drink a tall glass of shut the fuck up unless you want me and my Peeps to open a whole new front in the War on Christmas.

    Hey, fuck you, wolf-food! I’ll smear shampoo into your eyes and turn you over to Johnson & Johnson if you EVER fuck with me again! Do you know who you’re talking to? I’m Santa-Fucking-Claus, motherfucker! I was coaling people when you were still suckling at your mamma’s teats in the warren. Hell, I was giving toys to Byzantine toddlers back when you were just some mumbo-jumbo mishmash the Celts invented to justify mass orgies! Nobody fucks with Santa, except Mrs. Claus. And maybe Angelina Jolie, but that’s between me, her, and Jesus. Keep your paws off my shit, you egg-laying freak!

    Peeps, bitches!

    Ho ho ho, bitch!

  49. 49.

    Santa Claus

    Alcohol is the last thing that fat bastard needs. Look at his nose – you think it’s red because of the cold? Think again.

    Do I like booze? Damn straight. I live at the North Pole, dickweed, and the only woman within 800 miles is at least as old and fat and ugly as I am. Meanwhile, the Canucks and the moonbats are trying to wage a perpetual War on Christmas against me. You trying to tell me YOU wouldn’t drink, under the circumstances?

    At least I don’t shit in the field, furball. What’s in those chocolate eggs you lay, anyway?

    Give him a drink and one thing will lead to another, he’ll end up singing goddamn Christmas carols, pissing all over your bathroom floor, and making a clumsy pass at you. Doesn’t matter what sex or species you are either, trust me. A few beers and that lardass is hornier than Bill O’Reilly in a falafel factory.

    Well, you’ve got me there, moonbat. But nobody’s perfect. At least my grandma didn’t copulate with a chicken. Unlike SOME holiday mascots I could name.

    Next, you’ll be telling me it was a GOOD thing the British Empire was dismantled. You kook. Back when Queen Victoria ran the world, you can bet your fluffy ass TWOC wouldn’t be around. No secularist bullshit back then, bubba!

  53. 53.

    Nikki

    I live at the North Pole, dickweed, and the only woman within 800 miles is at least as old and fat and ugly as I am.

    Did we really have to go there, Santa?

  55. 55.

    Slide.

    I had recently predicted here that Bush’s approval would be in the 20’s by Memorial Day. Alas, his incompetence, dishonesty, and dismal failures have already gotten him into Nixonian territory few would have thought even possible just a short few months ago. The

    Worst President in History

    continues to amaze and dazzle us all.

  56. 56.

    Brian

    Santa,

    All is well. Don’t sweat the furball. I just tied him by his ears to the backyard tree and beat him like a pinata. Alas, there’s no jelly beans inside easter bunnies. What does come out is not edible and has the distinct stench of raw moonbat.

    Speaking of moonbats, chekitowt. Now, why the hell would Americans want to elect members of a party that resembles the 1950s GOP? Have I not been asking this for weeks, without an answer.

    And yesterday I wrote that Bush’s numbers were down for reasons other than the NSA bullshit. Turns out I was fucking right AGAIN. The numbers would surely be higher if the media were telling the story honestly.

    Santa, get the F-18s. Let’s do some partyin’. I got some Puerto Rican girls who are just dyin’ to meetcha.

  57. 57.

    The Easter Bunny

    Hey, fuck you, wolf-food! I’ll smear shampoo into your eyes and turn you over to Johnson & Johnson if you EVER fuck with me again!

    It’s on, bitch. It is ON. I know where your mobile toy labs are, and you can kiss ’em goodbye. You think your precious little elves can stop me? My boys are equipped with specially-modified potato cannon technology, and an endless supply of hard-boiled eggs. You do the math. We’re gonna be shearing little pointy-eared heads off left and right. Blood on the snow, mofo! I figure we can have TWOC wrapped up by July.

    And you know what else? The parents of America will thank me. You think they like some fat boozehound in a red suit sneaking into their house in the middle of the night? Try that at the Cheney’s house, bitch – you’ll get your fat ass, neck, and torso filled with buckshot.

    Nobody fucks with Santa, except Mrs. Claus.

    Just keep telling yourself that, tubby. Maybe it never occurred to you that I have a lot of free time around Christmas. Maybe it never occurred to you that Mrs. Claus gets lonely when you’re working long hours “building toys” (i.e., getting shitfaced and doing God knows what with your little elf “helpers” and the reindeer). I’m just sayin’.

  58. 58.

    The Easter Bunny

    Santa,

    All is well. Don’t sweat the furball. I just tied him by his ears to the backyard tree and beat him like a pinata. Alas, there’s no jelly beans inside easter bunnies. What does come out is not edible and has the distinct stench of raw moonbat.

    Listen, Bri-Bri, you don’t want to get in between me and Santa. I’m not like these pussy-ass moonbats around here – I’ve got chunks of wingnuts like you in my droppings. Unless you’re looking for a brutal thumping, I’d eat a Peep and shut the fuck up.

  59. 59.

    RonB

    RonC could be our RonB?

    Negative, Doug. Ive often flirted with the idea of spoofing…I mean, it wasnt that long ago that I was the target of the spoofiness, so Id certainly do a good job at it…

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