Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Giving up is unforgivable.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Not all heroes wear capes.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Petty moves from a petty man.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

The revolution will be supervised.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

In my day, never was longer.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

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More Biased Statistics

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These statisticians just will not give up. Again, they continue to assault our brilliant leader, using the tools of their trade to manipulate public opinion:

More than three months into a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive designed to curtail sectarian violence in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, Health Ministry statistics show that such killings are rising again.

From the beginning of May until Tuesday, 321 unidentified corpses, many dumped and showing signs of torture and execution, have been found across the Iraqi capital, according to morgue data provided by a Health Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. The data showed that the same number of bodies were found in all of January, the month before the launch of the Baghdad security plan.

Everyone knows that statistics have a left-wing bias. Plus- who can trust something called a Health Ministry? That sounds communist, and there probably aren’t any Liberty university grads running the hiring. At any rate, here they are using their bias to make sure we lose the war, thus ensuring that Barbara and Jenna Bush will have to wear burkha’s after Osama invades the United States.

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The Boxer

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On the occasion of this brilliant strategic move, I think I will dedicate the following Shakespeare passage to Harry Reid and friends.

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O Lymoges! O Austria! thou dost shame
That bloody spoil: thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
Thou little valiant, great in villany!
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Thou Fortune’s champion that dost never fight
But when her humorous ladyship is by
To teach thee safety! thou art perjured too,
And soothest up greatness. What a fool art thou,
A ramping fool, to brag and stamp and swear
Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave,
Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side,
Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend
Upon thy stars, thy fortune and thy strength,
And dost thou now fall over to my fores?
Thou wear a lion’s hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf’s-skin on those recreant limbs.

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Keeping up pressure on Iraq serves the American people and it serves America’s best interests. Every pullout vote is agony for Republicans who know full well that standing behind the war will kill them in ’08. Snuffing the supplemental outright polls better and would make the Democrats look like they possess some fraction of a ballsack. Instead, by forfeiting decisionmaking power to the GOP our savant leaders prolong the pointless war and let the GOP own the pullout when Mitch McConnell generously decides that we should leave.

Republicans gleefully strung the noose and hung it on their own neck when they thought that their glorious war would cement GOP majorities forever. This idea that they get to decide when to leave dangles a golden opportunity for redemption that not a single one of them except Chuck Hagel (maybe) remotely deserves. I hope like heck that we have a viable alternative when the next leadership election comes around.

***Update***

Chris Bowers at MyDD supported the half-measures pullout bill because he believed that half was better than zero, apparently underestimating Dems’ ability to lose their spine in the clutch. Read Big Tent Democrat’s take on that debate, and a post on the compromise bill by Bowers’s blogmate Matt Stoller.

Also, I think that Reid’s defenders give Democratic leaders too much credit for good sense and strategy. Are those calf-skin shoes, Harry?

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Shocker – Political Chicanery In The Bush Admin

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Before getting too excited about the Special Counsel report alleging that Lurita Doan violated the Hatch act when she brought party politics into the General Services Administration, remember the crying Indian in that old Simpsons episode (season 9, Trash of the Titans). If that one cheetos wrapper gets the OSC worked up then maybe we should warn him before he turns around.

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Yeah, the pop culture reference was pretty arcane. This post was written for readers who know about that bonus track at the end of Nirvana’s first album Nevermind (yeh, call me a cultural illiterate). Which is to say people within about five years of my own age.

***Update***

The Washington Post found another cheetos wrapper to make OSC cry. This time it involves shenaigans at the Navy to sidestep rules intended to ensure competitive bidding for major contracts.

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Paging the Apologistas

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This will come as no great shock to most of you, but all the Republican hacks who spent a few months claiming the Gonzalez affair was a “made-up” scandal were, yet again, wrong:

As for her own role in Justice Department hirings and firings, she said, “I do acknowledge that I may have gone too far in asking political questions of applicants for career positions, and I may have taken inappropriate political considerations into account on some occasions, and I regret those mistakes.”

When the hearing got under way, there were suggestions that Ms. Goodling, who is 33, may have acted illegally, rather than just improperly. In any event, the grant of immunity under which she testified protected her from self-incrimination, so long as she told the truth, which she swore to do.

How many of them do you think will acknowledge this error?

BTW- Does anyone have a transcript of the testimony?

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How Bad Are Things In Iraq?

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Bad enough that we are back to Osama:

President Bush, stressing that Americans face an ongoing threat from terrorists, shared intelligence on Wednesday asserting that Osama bin Laden was working in 2005 to set up a unit inside Iraq to hit U.S. targets.

Much of the information Bush cited in a commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy described terrorism plots already revealed, but he fleshed out details and highlighted U.S. successes in foiling planned attacks.

Bush said that intelligence showed that in January 2005, bin Laden tasked Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, his senior operative in Iraq, to set up the cell to use Iraq as a staging ground for attacks in the United States. Al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq in June 2006 by a U.S. airstrike.

This information expanded on a classified bulletin the Homeland Security Department issued in March 2005. The bulletin, which warned that bin Laden had enlisted al-Zarqawi to plan potential strikes in the United States, was described at the time as credible but not specific. It did not prompt the administration to raise its national terror alert level.

OSAMA! BOO!

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Your Wednesday Moments of Zen

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First, the Warcrack dances:

Second, one of the things I realy, really like about the internet is how certain things can go “cyber” and become cultural (subcultural, actually- most people on the street would look at you funny if you said you had been Rickrolled) phenomenons. The newest one is the Rickroll, which is popular on forums that dorks like me frequent. People will allegedly post a link to an authoritative video source, users will click on the link, and what they will find is the following:

The intertrons is a funny, funny thing.

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