Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Let’s finish the job.

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

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

As long as McCarthy is Speaker, the House will never be in order.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Their freedom requires your slavery.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

This blog will pay for itself.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

White supremacy is terrorism.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

After roe, women are no longer free.

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Poor Underfunded Democrats

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Those poor underfunded Democrats, now that they have led the charge in protecting incumbents and silencing critics with CFR, are now leading the charge in soliciting international funds to further their cause.

Frustrated with the lack of domestic support, left-leaning website MoveOn.org has apparently been reaching beyond American borders to generate cash revenue over the internet!

The provocative international fundraising strategy threatens to embroil the presidential candidacies of General Wesley Clark and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean.

Both men are named on international fundraising websites suggesting donations to MoveOn.org.

Meanwhile, MoveOn.org, which has been running ads critical of the Bush Administration, has named an “International Campaigns Director,” the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

It is not clear how much money has been raised — to date– from foreign sources, but political websites from London to Portugal to Montreal are directing their citizens to stop the American president George Bush by donating to MoveOn.org!

Wesley Clark’s official campaign website has been offering a link to “Canada For Clark”, which in turn advises Canadians: “Non-Americans can’t by law, give money to any particular candidate’s campaign. But we can support pro-democracy, progressive American organizations like MoveOn.org, which do their best to spread the ugly truth about Bush and publicize the Democratic message. Click here to donate to MoveOn.org.”

The top traffic referrer to CanadaForClark.com is Clark’s Official Campaign Website.

Cute. I guess with Clinton out of office, the Chinese money dried up. At any rate, it appears the Swedes are a non-player at this time.

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We Got the Bastard

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“We got him:”

American military officials confirmed today that Saddam Hussein had been captured alive in Tikrit on Saturday night.

They confirmed that it was him based on DNA evidence.

In Baghdad, huge crowds celebrated in the streets with gunfire.

The most emotional aspect was watching the Middle Eastern reporters reaction during the announcement. The other members of the press started taking pictures of them.

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L. Paul Bremer III, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, was greeted by cheers today upon announcing the capture of Saddam Hussein.

The Washington Post has more:

The capture of Hussein has been a high priority for U.S. forces since last spring’s invasion, but the former Iraqi leader had proven elusive despite a $25 million reward that the Bush administration offered for information that led to him.

U.S. authorities had received numerous tips about possible hiding places for Hussein and suspect they were close to nabbing him on a few occasions. Hussein’s two sons, Uday and Qusay, were found in July in a house in Tikrit and died in a firefight with U.S. troops.

From his hideouts, Hussein continued to taunt U.S. authorities, issuing periodic audio tapes urging resistance to the American-led occupation. To spearhead the search for him, the Pentagon established a group of Special Operations forces known as Task Force 121. In recent months, U.S. forces have focused on hunting down mid-level former Iraqi officers and mid-ranking onetime Baath Party operatives in hopes they could provide intelligence that might lead to Hussein.

That would be the same Task Force 121 that Seymour Hersh had written this alarmist piece about in the New Yorker. Hersh’s next book should be “How to be Wrong About Everything All the Time.”

How are Democrats going to spin this as an administration failure? My guess is the “But where is Osama catcalls will begin.”

*** Update ***

Atrios’s only remark is to title a link to the story as ‘Something Right.’ The first comment underneath that post is: “Now if only someone would come and capture our ‘leader.'”

I am not exagerating when I say the members of the Atrios ‘moderate’ left have lost their collective minds.

*** Update #2 ***

The Command Post is on the Saddam Capture like ugly on an ape.

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Enemy of the (Democratic) State

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Also via Oliver (who is posting like a man possessed), we see this:

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader said Thursday he is leaning toward another independent run for the presidency and will make his decision public in January.

“We’re testing the waters,” Nader said in an interview with CNN. “It’s a high probability but that is yet to be determined.”

Nader has formed an exploratory committee for a 2004 run and said he would gauge his support through the success of fund-raising efforts and the number of volunteers who come forward.

If you thought the Democrats hated Bush and Reagan, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

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Alan Greenspan, Unsung Hero?

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So says Samuelson:

It may ultimately be said of Alan Greenspan that he enjoyed his finest hour when the public admired him least. Let’s recall that only a few months ago the shaky economic outlook inspired fears of deflation — a general decline in prices caused by too much supply (of unemployed workers, unused fiber-optics and lots more) chasing too little demand. Now the U.S. economy is leading a global recovery. Greenspan and the Federal Reserve deserve much — if not all — of the credit for this turnaround…

What Greenspan & Co. may have done is to avoid a third big blunder. So much was beginning to go wrong with the economy at the end of 2000 — and the rest of the world was so dependent on the U.S. economy — that a timid reaction from the Fed might have been fatal. It might have further weakened both spending and spirits. But the Fed responded forcefully. It cut interest rates 11 times in 2001 and once again in 2002 and 2003. The Fed funds rate (on overnight loans between banks) went from 6.5 percent in late 2000 to its present 1 percent, the lowest since 1958.

None of this was preordained. The European Central Bank was more cautious. It cut rates much less and more slowly than the Fed. Greenspan & Co. seemed to be operating mostly by a seat-of-the-pants judgment that: (a) inflation wasn’t a present danger and (b) repairing the damage from the bubble economy required a long period of easy credit. Whatever the rationale, the Fed’s low short-term interest rates influenced the decline of rates on mortgages and bonds, which in turn rescued the economy.

Talk amongst yourselves.

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Time to Update the Talking Points

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According to Steve Verdon, Democrats better update their talking points. The next time they bring up the Bush economy (which soon will be called the Bush boom), Steve Verdon suggests mentioning the Clinton recession.

Also, there is this news:

Revising its year-end economic forecast sharply upward, The Conference Board today projected that real GDP growth will hit 5.7% next year, making 2004 the best year economically in the last 20 years.
The forecast, by Conference Board Chief Economist Gail Fosler, expects worker productivity, which set a 20-year record in the third quarter, to rise at a healthy 3.6% next year. That would follow a gain of 4.3% this year.

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