Quote of the Day: The knives are being swung at the back of our soldiers comes from the hand of Franklin Foer. -Bob Owens at Yglesias’s pad As Tim noted via AOL IM, “an instant classic.” Personally, I am just relieved we can stop nancying about and really get into the good old stab-in-the-back phase …
The Next Phase
Was that an anti-climax I just had? After months of furious dispatches from the Bat Cave, the Confederate Yankee now informs us that Beauchamp does not matter (and gets in a few more insults, to boot): Scott Beauchamp doesn’t matter. He’s a twice-AWOL serial liar with a pending mental health evaluation who can’t write believable …
ATTENTION WINGNUTS: NARRATIVE IN DANGER
DTG28102007: 1459ZULU, STOP THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE ACTION ALERT TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE 101st CHAIRBORNE, STOP OUR NARRATIVE IS UNDER ASSAULT AGAIN, STOP RAISE HYSTERIA LEVELS TO DEFCON ELEVENTY-THREE AND SET PHASERS ON SMEAR, STOP YOUR TARGET- OBSIDIAN WINGS, STOP: I stayed away from the entire Beauchamp affair. I was aware of it, and …
Michael Yon Calls Off The Dogs
Yesterday, in a column on Beauchamp, Michael Yon wrote of the fanatic truth detectors chasing after Beauchamp: In any case, he was up in that tree, surrounded by hounds who’d done this plenty of times, yet always found this part exciting. The hunters would have written the last sentence if the choice was up to …
The Nut Of It
Ezra: This is the politics of hate. Screaming, sobbing, inchoate, hate. It would never, not in a million years, occur to me to drive to the home of a Republican small business owner to see if he “really” needed that tax cut. It would never, not in a million years, occur to me to call …
Taxing the War
Appears to be the newest new thing the Democrats will try and fail (someone, probably Joe Lieberman, will call them troop haters and they will fold): Three senior House Democrats are proposing a new tax to pay for the Iraq war, as well as vowing to oppose any funding bill for Iraq that does not …
They Got Nothing
If you want to understand what an absolute position of weakness the Republican minority is working from (which makes the suckitude of the Democrats even more inexplicable), check out today’s antics from the Grand Old Party: House Republican leaders introduced a resolution Monday condemning a full-page newspaper ad from MoveOn.org that criticizes the character of …