All our best to Senator Kennedy and his family. : (

After eight years of obstructionism, repukes wonder what went wrong

And, of course, blame the Democrats. A tearful John "Boner" Boehner (R-Ectum) cries:

"Washington is broken. You need look no further than $4 per gallon for gas to see how political gamesmanship in Washington is impacting your life. Two years ago, congressional Democrats promised “change” but what we’ve seen instead is business-as-usual..."

Ah, the party that was going to bring back accountability to Washington. Meanwhile, a CNN talking head ponders:

"It's hard to imagine now, but in 1999 gasoline sold for 90 cents a gallon. How'd we get from there to $4 a gallon?"

Hmmmmm... let's see... what could have happened in the meantime....

Here's a fucked fact: the gpukes have taken to "reminiscing fondly" about the good ol' days when they were led by a totally corrupt scumbag:

"Tom DeLay had a lot of problems, but he got the job done. Boehner needs a little more DeLay in him,” a rethuglican source told Politico.

Good Christ.

Blessed Are The Warmongers......

...for they shall bite my skinny pale ass.
The Immaculate Deception: Jesus was an elitist:

Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said Saturday that the party's presumed presidential nominee has a lot in common with Jesus Christ.
"John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross," Everhart said as she began the second day of the state GOP convention. "He never denounced God, either."

Jebus also had 9 houses, 2 trollops, and his own artificial lake to gather loaves and fishes. And he called Mary Magdeline a cunt.
The Rupture is upon us.
Shoot me.
See also: Ten Other Ways John McCain Is Like Jesus (Christ, That Is) from the Rude One

Monday in the park with Joe

... lapping at my thighs...

This article was posted right next to one on the rather unfortunately named "purity balls" on Yahoo this morning, and all I could think of was "yeah, they've got to be pretty damn clean right about now..."

Angry psycho Senile McBush takes insufferable vichycrat campaigning --

Presumptive GOP nominee John McCain hit Chicago on Monday for high dollar fund-raising, and with him was long-time Bush rumpswab, now McSame backer and fronter Joe "Zell" Lieberman, his personal bearings-checker and lucky Jew.

"Vile and shameless"

Bill Gallagher: Bush's Knesset remarks were an appalling display of hypocrisy and ignorance, arrogance and nincompoopery, bellicosity and asshattery.

[The grandson of Nazi symp]'s deceit has no limits. His attack on Sen. Barack Obama, suggesting the Democratic presidential candidate wants to "appease" terrorists, reaches a new low, and we should brace for more as the Busheviks desperately and ruthlessly try to cling to the White House.

Never before in our history has a president used an appearance before a foreign legislature to so brazenly attack a political opponent at home.

Bush wallowed in the most putrid muck ever, coating himself with everlasting stench and forever staining the Republican Party. His soul is as hollow as his imagination. He has no dignity. He has no conscience.

Read the whole thing. It's beautiful.

Losing credibility as a journalist

Glenn Greenwald on the latest embarrassment by Kristol the Klown (see here):

'In the short time since he was named an Op-Ed columnist at the New York Times,' Bill "Always Wrong" Kristol 'has written a series of sloppy, error-plagued and incomparably hackish columns. [E]ven his former comrades in war cheerleading, The New Republic, said on Friday that Kristol's columns are "[b]landly written, intellectually lazy, and -- worst of all -- hopelessly predictable," and asked: "does Bill Kristol have to be this bad at it?"'

Bill Kristol: the next Boob Novak! LOLZ.

State GOP chair: Saint McSame 'kind of like Jesus'

My head hurts...

Georgia Republican Party chairwoman and alleged substance abuser Sue Everhart said Saturday that the angry, wife-dumping adulterer has a lot in common with Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ...

"John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross," Everhart said as she began rolling another doob. "He never denounced God, either. Whoa -- check out my hand..."

Everhart was praising McCain for never admitting he denounced the United States* while he was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

"I'm not trying to compare John McCain to Jesus Christ, I'm looking at the pain that was there," she said, shooting up.

Honestly, this is just so completely off the wall I can't think of anything to say. Except I want some of what you're taking.

*Though he did make propaganda videos for the enemy while he was a prisoner of war. Why does he hate America?

Bwaaahahahaha!

GOP turns to despised, doddering old RINO to reinvent party.

Bwahahahahahahahaaa!!eleventy!11!! From the Politico:

"In a delicious piece of irony, many dispirited Republicans, devastated by Tuesday's special election loss in Mississippi, now believe their savior to be John McCain - a not-so-constant conservative many of them also have long intensely disliked."

“The change you deserve!”

Hahahahahahahahaaa!!!11111!!1!!!

Siegelman: Justice scandal dwarfs Watergate, Rove's ass, ego

Political prisoner Don Siegelman has "a fierce determination to not only clear his name but to do his part to expose a scandal in the US Department of Justice that he says is bigger than Watergate," says porcine handmaiden of Satan Karl Rove "doesn't want to run the risk of lying under oath and being prosecuted for perjury."

"I think this will make Watergate look like child's play when it is fully investigated... It's about restoring justice and protecting our democracy and, because this case shows the lengths to which those who are obsessed with power will go in order to gain power or retain power, it has attracted the attention of the national press.

"It's much bigger than me because it's not just my case. This was not an isolated incident. This was a pernicious, political plan that was set in motion by Karl Rove to further his espoused dream of establishing a permanent Republican majority in this country, and what he left out was by any means necessary.

"It is clear to me — and I think to those who have been investigating, and that's why they're so hot about this case — it is clear that Karl Rove abused his power and misused the Department of Justice as a political tool to win elections, and that is something that would happen in Bush's Amerikkka a police state."

Appeasementgate

John at AmericaBlog asks... "Israel is negotiating with Hamas. When will McCain and Bush denounce them?"

Participants at a recent inner cabinet meeting were listening to details of the Egyptian mediation initiative between Israel and Hamas on a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip recently, when a senior minister reportedly reminded those present that Israel does not negotiate, directly or indirectly, with Hamas. Shin Bet security service head Yuval Diskin interrupted, saying there was no other way to describe the talks.

Geraldine Ferraro, petulant party-pooper

"Weh."

Definititudes

AmericaBlog's word of the day: elitist.

Makin' remarkable progress!

Remember how the glorious surge was only supposed to last a F.U. ... or two...? Well, guess what?

[As fighting continues, t]he Pentagon plans to send 39,000 soldiers to Iraq to replace troops scheduled to leave the war zone and to hold the total U.S. force level steady over the next year.

Or 100, if McSame has anything to say about it.

Kristol the Klown continues craptacular losing streak

Bill "Always Wrong" Kristol on Senator Obama losing by 41% in West Virginia:

"I can't find a single recent instance of a candidate who ultimately became his party's nominee losing a primary by this kind of margin..."

Well, except for maybe this one, you fucking idiot --

Utah GOP primary: Romney 90%, McCain 5%.

Gawd. Fucked fact: he's actually getting paid for this shit.

Rapist-freeing squirrel-eater wants to be McCain's VP

"That Romney fellow was a bit of a douche."

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, the pseudo-folksy, Jebus-'n'-taxes-loving pro-dog-torturing candidate who lied about having a degree in theology said Sunday he wanted to run as John McCain's vice president.

"There's no one I would rather be on a ticket with than John McCain," said Huckabee. "The other candidates are, like, Democrats."

Bush wraps up Save-Muh-Legacy trip with a thud, analysts say

A Godwinned, nasty, shameful thud.

[Bubbles McChimp] wrapped up his five-day Mideast tour Sunday with little visible progress on either of the main issues he highlighted: rising oil prices and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Instead, Bush was subjected to a wave of criticism as he delivered a lecture to the Arab world on the benefits of democracy, as newspapers slammed the American president in stinging front-page editorials.

And, still stuck on Planet Stupid, LameDuck McLiar was still insisting that chipmunks would cannonball out of his ass.... uhhhh, peace in the Middle East was possible by the end of the year but that it required "tough sacrifices."

It's possible I'll strike gold while weeding in the back yard, but I'm not counting on it.

McClatchy: big GOP losses in Congress likely even if McBush wins

Americans increasingly hate America, experts say.

Whoever wins the presidency this November, it's all but a slam dunk they'll be working with a Democratic Congress. And it probably will be a stronger Democratic majority with more votes than it has today.

Even normally optimistic Republicans conceded last week that the landscape is stacked against them they have stacked the landscape against themselves after losing their third special House of Representatives election in a row, all in what had been safe Republican districts.

"A large segment of the Islamocommiedefeatohomofascistic America-hating public doesn't have confidence in the Republican Party," said rethug Rep. Tom Cale. "I really can't imagine why."

Fifth McCain adviser quits over foreign lobbying, domestic sheep-fucking

Heh... I keep reading that as "Filthy McCain adviser."

A top adviser and national finance co-chairman for Saint McSame's presidential campaign has quit because he wasn't as virtuous and pure as his boss, the gentle and saintly Saint Psycho the Hypocrite.

Tom Loeffler resigned yesterday because of his lobbying ties, a campaign lobbyist said. He is the fifth person to sever ties with the campaign amid a growing concern over whether lobbyists have too great an influence over the aged and senile rebooblican nominee. Last week, campaign manager Rick Davis issued a new policy that requires all campaign personnel to either resign or sever ties with lobbying firms or outside political groups.

Meanwhile, smug, twatfaced reptile Charlie Black still has a job. From MoveOn.org:

John McCain's chief adviser—Charlie Black—is a lobbyist who worked for some of the world's worst dictators.

Charlie Black's deal-making goes far beyond the usual corporate lobbying we've come to expect. His lobbying firm worked for evil men—mass murderers, terrorists, and tyrants. This is a moral issue.

The firm run by Charlie Black made millions helping burnish the image of people like:

Ferdinand Marcos, who executed thousands of his own citizens in the Philippines,

Zaire's Mobutu, who publicly hanged his opponents and looted his country's vast mineral wealth, and

Rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, a mass murderer, who covered Angola with landmines.

"Change you deserve"?

Incontinent douchebag: "GOP is drinking its bath water"

They bathe?

Boob Novak doesn't have any credibility as a journalist, but I love seeing his name since it always conjures up this mental image of him frantically straining to relieve himself on a filthy toilet shaped like a swan.

"Today's Republican Party -- divided, drifting, demoralized -- is epitomized by the farm bill.

"At the moment Congress passed the farm bill, Republican were terrified by the previous day's defeat in the Mississippi 1st Congressional District, the third straight supposedly safe Republican seat lost in special elections. Fearing a November tsunami for the Democrats, incumbent Republicans talked about following their new standard-bearer, John McCain, against pork. But that's not the way they voted last week."

"Now where's the nurse with my jockstrap... lawnchairs! Pinochle!"

Moron-America update

Some drooling obsessive at RimJob's stayed up all night with a microscope and Quantum Mechanics for Dummies to try to prove that there were "only" 43,000 people at the huge Obama rally in Portland this weekend, rather than the 75,000 - 80,000 reported by "the Media."

So many jerkwads, so little time

EarlG at DU's Top 10 Conservative Idiots was in a quandary this week:

"The past seven days produced such an abundance of conservative idiocy that I simply couldn't boil it all down to ten..."

Man, no kidding! This is my favorite:

The GOP primary race for retiring Rep. Darlene Hooley's (D-OR) seat took an interesting turn early this week when it was revealed one of the two self-proclaimed "Pro-Life" candidates [rebooblican Mike Erickson] paid for a girlfriend's abortion.

Every time I read this I crack up. But then there's this jaw-dropper:

And let's end with Fox and Friends' Brian Kilmeade, who, when referring excitedly to a monkey he adopted from the London Zoo last week, said, "I'm responsible. It's almost like... almost like what Madonna did with that Malawi child."

Holy crap, dude.

The kittehs love their cat tree...

Appeasementgate: Ghost of Prescott Bush

Mediabloodhound

One day after President Bush likened presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama to those who appeased Adolph Hitler, the ghost of the president's grandfather, Prescott Bush - in an SS uniform, muttering German and gesticulating angrily - has been hovering high above the White House since dawn.
Around noon, the National Guard attempted to shoot down Prescott's ghost or at least disperse him to a less visible area. But the bullets merely sailed through his shadowy form, only seeming to further inflame his rhetoric. A passing German tourist quoted him as saying, "Our failure to please the fuhrer has led directly to this point in history, where a schwartze might be president, homosexuals can marry in California, and bagels are more commonplace than fucking Wonder Bread!"
...................................................
Following yesterday's heated Hardball confrontation between host Chris Matthews and right-wing radio personality Kevin James, James returned to discuss Prescott's ghost with Matthews.
"You see, Chris, like I said yesterday, Obama is an appeaser," began James. "Fine. Whatever," replied Matthews. "Just tell me whose ghost is floating above the White House right now."
"Look, Chris, an appeaser appeases those who make use of appeasement, which leaves us vulnerable to another 9/11-style attack." Matthews repeated, "I've asked you a simple question. Who is hovering sixty feet above our White House, sir?"
"But that's not the point, Chris. Appeasement--" "Listen, you mutant, just answer the question. You don't know. Do you? Do you?" "Of course I do, Chris. It's the, the...ghost of appeasement's past or something."
"Wow. Wow. You really just lucked into that, didn't you? Just stepped right in it."
"If luck means appeasement, then yes."
"You're an idiot. Thanks for coming on."
"Thank you, Chris."

From Lesser Wingnuttia

Reich-Wing knobgobbler Jonah Goldberg opines:

(he) “really can’t think of any mainstream political figure more inappropriate for [the Attorney General] job than [John] Edwards.”

Ground Control to Commander Clueless: Ever heard of Abu Gonzales? Put down the cheetos and step away from the intratubes. Over and out.

Negotiating isn't appeasement, jerkoff

An LA Times op-ed blasts Dimbulb McDumbass and his fellow conservatards --

"Bush, McCain and other conservatives are on the wrong side of history"

[I]f there is anything that has been discredited by history, it is the argument that every enemy is Hitler, that negotiations constitute appeasement, and that talking will automatically lead to a slaughter of Holocaust-like proportions. It is an argument that conservatives made throughout the Cold War, and, if the charge seemed overblown at the time, it seems positively ludicrous with the clarity of hindsight. [snip]

Containment, negotiation, nuclear stability -- each of these things helped protect the United States and end the Cold War. And yet, at the time, conservatives thought each was synonymous with appeasement.

The Bush administration has been little different, refusing for years to talk to North Korea or Iran about their nuclear programs because it wanted to defeat evil, not talk to it. The result was that Pyongyang tested a nuclear weapon and Iran's uranium program continued unfettered.

Given conservatism's historical record, Obama's inclination to negotiate seems only sensible. When will conservatives learn that it is 2008, not 1938?

Bush's appeasement malarkey

A Boston Globe editorial lambastes the aWol DisasterMonkey --

Perhaps Bush forgot that his ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, has been holding talks about Iraq with an Iranian counterpart. If so, there were Knesset members who could have reminded him. Israelis are intensely aware of the strategic gifts that Bush bestowed on Iran by toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime and empowering Iran’s Shi’ite proteges in Iraq. Indeed, few have done more to enable Iran than George W. Bush.

It also seems to have slipped the younger Bush’s mind that his own policy for keeping nuclear weapons out of Iran’s grasp is to encourage diplomacy along with mild United Nations sanctions.

The diplomatic discussions have been conducted between Iran and key European allies, Britain, France, and Germany — with the explicit approval of Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Bush’s secretary of defense, Robert Gates, also favors talking to Iran.

Maybe the worst thing about Bush’s Knesset attack on Obama is that it shows how oblivious Bush still is to his own failings. His unilateral military ventures, his disdain for international treaties and organizations, his refusal to negotiate with Iran when the regime in Tehran was eager to cut a deal with the United States — these mistakes produced the disasters that Obama or another successor will have to overcome.

Insufferable quisling's asskissing knows no bounds

Shameless vichycrat Joe "Zell" Lieberman defends McBush's bigoted endorser Rev. Hagee. What... a... shocker.

Senile Husband of Overmade Up Trollop: For Appeasement Before he Was Against It

Appeasementgate
Senator McSame Then

Given his own position on Hamas, McCain is the last politician who should be attacking Obama. Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News’s “World News Tonight” program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange:
I asked: “Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?”
McCain answered: “They’re the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it’s a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that.”

And pandering presidential cadidate McBush now:

Asked if Obama was an appeaser, McCain said Obama must explain why he wants to talk with leaders like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and added that Obama's position was a serious error. "It shows naivete and inexperience and lack of judgment to say that he wants to sit down across the table from an individual who leads a country that says Israel is a stinking corpse, that is dedicated to the extinction of the state of Israel. My question is, what does he want to talk about?"

Saint Reagan talked with Gorbachev and negotiated with the Iranians in the arms for hostages deal.
Was Reagan an appeaser too?
And what does the "liberal media" think about that?
Doh! I forgot, 9-11 changed EVERYTHING!

Texas Republicans wary of taco-eating SurrenderMonkey

Preznit PlayDoh's attempt to win $560 million in aid this year to assist Mexico's anti-narcotics efforts has run into a rebellion from some Texas Republicans worried about corruption, inefficiency and now defections among misadministration offi... what? Oh.

Tweety actually does the right thing, castigates knuckledragging moron

Chris Matthews, of all people, slams conservatard Kevin James after the irredeemingly stupid douchenozzle, smugly and lazily reading from the new RNC talking points, tries to call Obama “Neville Chamberlain” without even knowing wtf he's talking about. Or expecting the Tweetster to come after him like a rabid chipmunk and call him on it. Rough transcript from C&L:

Chris: I want to do a little history check on you—what did Neville Chamberlain do wrong in 1939? What did he do wrong?

Kevin: It all goes back to appeasement. It’s the key term.

Chris: No, what did he do, tell me what he did?

Kevin: It’s the key term.

Chris: You have to answer this question. What did he do?

Kevin: It’s the same thing, it puts it all…

Chris: Well tell me what he did?

Kevin: It’s appeasement.

Chris: What did Chamberlain do wrong...

Kevin: His actions, his actions enabled, energized, legitimized...

Chris: What did Chamberlain do?

Kevin: It’s the exact same thing.

Chris: No stop, Kevin. I’m not going to continue with this interview unless you answer what that thing is. What did Chamberlain do in ‘39, tell me? ‘38?

Kevin: Chris, it’s the exact same thing alright?

Chris: What did he do? {Yelling} What did he do?!

Kevin: ‘38, ‘39 ... Chris, what year do you want?

Chris: What did he do? I want you to answer, what did Chamberlain do?

Kevin: He’s talking, he’s talking about appeasement.

Chris: What did Chamberlain do, just tell me what he did, Kevin? What did Chamberlain do that you didn’t like?

Kevin: What, what Chamberlain did? {confused} What, what, the President was talking about, you just said the President was talking about Barack. Look…

Chris: You’re making a reference to the days before our involvement in WWII. When the war in Europe began. I want you to tell me as an expert, what did Chamberlain do wrong.

Kevin: You’re not going to box me in here, Chris. President Bush was making that. I’m glad, I’m glad...

Chris: You don’t know, do you? You don’t know what Neville Chamberlain did.

Kevin: Yeah, he was an appeaser, Chris….

Chris: You are BS’ing me. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

Wow. More like this please.

McCain helped himself in Arizona land deal with developer: report

Glorious man of the people makes out like a bandit --

Straight-talking Saint John McCain secured millions in federal funds for a land acquisition program that provided a windfall for an Arizona developer whose executives were major campaign donors.

But at least he wears a flag lapel pin, Clem! Nyuck!

Hypocrisy on Hamas

McCain was for talking with terrists before he was against it. AmericaBlog reminds us that McHypocrite was all for appeasing talking to Hamas only two years ago. McCain:

"They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it's a new reality in the Middle East."

And it was caught on camera -- Of course, a new chapter was quickly written in the gpuke talking points. I just watched Mitt Romney on CNN tell Wolf Blitzer that when McCain said "deal with" Hamas, he obviously meant "with the business end of a nu our Armed Forces." What a putz.

John also reminds us of a pledge McFraud made a few weeks ago "NOT to defend Israel from an Irani nuclear attack once America becomes energy independent."

" You'd think Jewish Americans, hell, all Americans, would find that campaign pledge a wee bit interesting."

Indeed.

Bullshit is as Bullshit Does

From CNN:

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joe Biden, D-Delaware, called President Bush’s comments accusing Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats of wanting to appease terrorists "bullshit” and said if the president disagrees so strongly with the idea of talking to Iran then he needs to fire his secretaries of State and Defense, both of whom Biden said have pushed to sit down with the Iranians. [...]
“He’s the guy who’s weakened us. He’s the guy that’s increased the number of terrorists in the world. His policies have produced this vulnerability the United States has. His intelligence community pointed that out not me. The NIE has pointed that out and what are you talking about, is he going to fire Condi Rice? Condi Rice has talked about the need to sit down. So his first two appeasers are Rice and Gates. I hope he comes home and does something.”

Talking with a grin while wiping off his man chowder drenched chin, Joe Lieberman predicatably disagreed by stating "mmmrrrlllppphhh" and added:

President Bush got it exactly right today when he warned about the threat of Iran and its terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. And don't call me a dirty cocksucker because the President's tiny cock is always clean.

If Joe Lieberman picked his nose for more than five minutes his head would cave in. There has never been a time, nor will a time ever come, that George W Bush will get anything “exactly right.” Get a clue, asswipe......what bullshit.

Il DuceBag in hot water after godwinning Dems in Israel

Sen. Joe Biden on Bush's speech:

"This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement.

“He’s the guy who’s weakened us. He’s the guy that’s increased the number of terrorists in the world. His policies have produced this vulnerability the United States has. His intelligence community pointed that out, not me. The NIE has pointed that out and what are you talking about, is he going to fire Condi Rice? Condi Rice has talked about the need to sit down. So his first two appeasers are Rice and Gates. I hope he comes home and does something.”

Philadelphia Daily News: The Dictator-tot "committed political treason today."

"And you, Mr. Bush, are the leader of us all. To use a diplomatic setting on foreign soil to score a cheap political point at home is way beneath your office, way beneath your country, and way beneath the people you serve. You have been handed an office once uplifted to great heights by fellow countrymen from Washington to Lincoln to Roosevelt to Eisenhower, and have plunged it so deeply into the Karl-Rove-and-Rush-Limbaugh-fueled world of political destruction and survival of all costs that have lost all perspective — and all sense of decency. To travel to Israel and to associate a sitting American senator and your possible successor in the Oval Office with those who at one time gave comfort to an enemy of the United States is, in and of itself, an act of political treason...

"I believe this treacherous statement by a U.S. president in Israel is a signal to the Democrats in the House in Washington, that it's time to play its Constitutional role in ending this trauma, before even greater acts against the interest of America are wrongly committed in our name."

Nancy Pelosi: Bush comments 'beneath the dignity of the office'

"“I think what the President did in that regard was beneath the dignity of the office of the president and unworthy of our representation at that observance in Israel. And I would hope that any serious person would disassociate himself from the President’s remarks who aspires to leadership in our country.”

Hillary: Where's my damn nutcracker...

"Offensive and outrageous, especially in light of his failures in foreign policy."

John Kerry:

"First, it's absolutely shameless that an American President would use a speech in front of a foreign government to launch such a petty political attack. President Bush has abused the dignity of the office in ways that make especially ironic his long ago pledge to "restore dignity and integrity to the Oval office."

"Perhaps worse -- he's not even right on the facts, and he knows it."

Brent Budowsky: That little asswipe demeans the Presidency:

"It is astounding and possibly unprecedented for an American president to make partisan cheap-shot attacks on a domestic opponent while in a foreign land. Only George Bush is so unwise, so partisan, and so low-road to do what Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Bush 41 and Bill Clinton have never done...

"George Bush is not only the man historians will probably call the worst president in history, he is already the worst former president in history, leaving a legacy of catastrophes, crises, failures and trillion-dollar disasters for his successor."

Dem congressman Rahm Emanuel:

"The tradition has always been that when a U.S. President is overseas, partisan politics stops at the water's edge. President Bush has now taken that principle and turned it on its head: for this White House, partisan politics now begins at the water's edge, no matter the seriousness and gravity of the occasion. Does the president have no shame?"

AmericaBlog: How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power:

"Nazi, appease thyself. George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany...

Via teh intarwebs: David Shuster, on today's Morning Joe, twice referred to Bush's remarks as "grotesque."

Crooks 'n' Liars has the video of Jon Stewart going off on the miserable little twirp.

Oh Plzplzplzplzplz....

News that warms the cockles of my heart and the heart of my.....anyway

Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers tell two other people: "We're closing in on Rove. Someone's got to kick his ass."
Asked a few minutes later for a more official explanation, Conyers told us that Rove has a week to appear before his committee. If he doesn't, said Conyers, "We'll do what any self-respecting committee would do. We'd hold him in contempt. Either that or go and have him arrested."

Don't hold your breath. But oh, wouldn't it be a moment of sweet, messy, orgasmic ecstasy. Oops.....

Friday Funnies-Video Edition

Teh funny shit.....
Bill O'Reilly Flips Out — DANCE REMIX

Our Dumb America

A Fort Worth man trying to scratch an itch on his back used a revolver and accidentally shot himself.

Phenomenal progr...

In yet another defining moment in our successful endeavor, children are now becoming murderous insurgents.

A youthful suicide bomber (12) killed at least 23 people Wednesday in an attack against relatives of Col. Faisal Ismail al-Zobaie, a U.S.-backed police chief.

Heckuva job, assclowns!

Kicking ass! The National Fishwrap's cover-troop, the 'we're winning' soldier Army Staff Sgt. Ronald Blystone, has been killed in Baghdad.

Run away!

Rats, ships, sinking...