Guh!

"You know, I just recently came off a trip to the Far East. By the way, representing the United States of America around the world is one of the great experiences of the presidency. And it struck me that I was in a region of the world where there -- where wars had started."

- Preznit Stupid, November 28, 2005.

:: shudder :: Criminey...

Defender of Christmas Bill O'Reilly sells 'holiday ornaments' at the Fox News Store

"Put your holiday tree in "The No Spin Zone" with this silver glass "O'Reilly Factor" ornament. Metal cap and hoop for hanging. Made in the USA."

*****

Catapulting the propaganda

As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the US military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the US mission in Iraq. The articles, written by US military "information operations" troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor.

"The propagandists shoving their lies down the public's throat!"

Damn Bush and Cheney and the rest of the neocons! Oh, wait - it's just Bill O'Reilly, busy putting together his enemies list.


Didn't he say he'd stop supporting the Bush misadministration if no WMDs were found?
*****

IRS to focus on Focus on the Family
The Baby Jeebus loves watching Spongebob cartoons.

Heh - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether Focus on the Family or its crackpot founder James Dobson violated IRS rules by campaigning for repukes, and whether their tax-exempt status should be revoked.

The emperor's new restricted airspace
It's good to be the king. Attytood reports:

His top aide's been indicted, his nominal "boss" is barely speaking to him, and a former high-ranking government official just suggested he might be "a nefarious bastard." But Dick Cheney is still an important guy -- so important that airplanes cannot fly near his new future residence-in-exile....EVEN WHEN HE'S NOT THERE!

Airspace restrictions are an inconvenience for private pilots. If they stray into restricted space, they could have their pilot's license taken away, be escorted away by fighter jets or, in a worst-case scenario, be shot down.

What a #ucking ego. This is the busy, crowded airspace of Maryland we're talking about here, 30 miles from DC. But hey, at least he's not tying things up for a haircut!

Boy king in a bubble
Manly, straight-shootin' war preznint too chickenshit to face the "Merican people.

Almost everyone he appears before is either on the federal payroll or a Republican donor.

What does it say about the president of the United States that he won't go anywhere near ordinary citizens any more? And that he'll only speak to captive audiences?

And why are taxpayers funding presidential events to which the public is never welcome?

- the Froomster.

Stayin' the course
...of our noble cause, you troop-hatin' cuttin' an' runnin' terrist-lovers!

"Brace yourself for a mind-bog of sheer cynicism. The discombobulation begins Wednesday, when President Bush is expected to proclaim, in a major speech at the US Naval Academy, that the Iraqi security forces -- which only a few months ago were said to have just one battalion capable of fighting on its own -- have suddenly made uncanny progress in combat readiness. Expect soon after (if not during the speech itself) the thing that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have, just this month, denounced as near-treason -- a timetable for withdrawal of American troops."

- Fred Kaplan , in Slate.


"I think you misunderestimate their chances!"
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Makin' progress
WTF? Did Bunnypants say "sodomists," or "Saddamists"??

Strategery: resolvitude.

Yeah, we're trainin' death squads Iraqi forces... makin' progress... Listen, the Iraqis wanna defend themselves. They wanna be capable of fightin' off an enemy. Like us. An' our job is to make sure they are capable. It's 'mportant. So even if they're now operatin' as militias, targetin' Sunnis - even carryin' out executions on behalf of their Shiite bosses and raisin' the possibility of all-out civil war, at least they'll be trainin.' So we're gonna stay th' course 'til they jus' kill each other all off...

Fun fact: "Human rights abuses in Iraq are now as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein and are even in danger of eclipsing his record."

Daschle: yeah, I was a pussy
WH: Yore either with us or against us, you terrist-loving commies!

Dems: :: quiver :: Don't hurt us!

Shameful. Just... shameful.

WaComPo reporters embarassed by Woodward
Disgraced former journalist's legacy

DAVID BRODER: Consternation, to be honest with you. I think none of us can really understand Bob's silence for two years about his own role in the case. He's explained it by saying he did not want to become involved and did not want to face a subpoena, but he left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it. Those are hard things to reconcile.

TIM RUSSERT: Gene Robinson?

MR. ROBINSON: I agree with David. The guy's a bunghole.

Values
Politicizing criminals

100 people show up at rally for corrupt scumbag Tom DeLay.

"Gub! Dah duh duh! Blub!" explained one supporter.

Next: how to make Bill O'Reilly's Holiday Falafel Surprise
Heh - looks like Fox News didn't get the latest rethug talking points.

Democracy's on th' march
Remember that memo which documented Bush's plan to bomb al-Jazeera? Well, there are actually two of them.

Downing Street had a hissy fit, and the White House, according to Maguire, "went berserk", leading to threats of the Official Secrets Act against anybody who was even considering publishing the document.

Cheney called on being a total dick
The VP and others in the misadministration deliberately ignored evidence of bad intelligence and looked only at what supported their case for war.

Dick Cheney must have sincerely believed that Iraq could be a spawning ground for new terror assaults, because "otherwise I have to declare him a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard," says former Secretary of State Powell aide Lawrence Wilkerson.

Oh, and he's also a war criminal, the Duh! Institute reports.

The sheep are revolting!
Well, you're no bag of roses either, say sheep.

Spirits sag at White House. Bunnypants alternately oblivious and furious.


Not even nanotechnology can make a violin small enough to express my sadness.
*****

More from the morals 'n' values party
Another day, another Republican pleading guilty...

Bringing integrity ba Rethug Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax charges, admitting taking $2.4 million in bribes in a case that grew from an investigation into the sale of his home to a wide-ranging conspiracy involving payments in cash, vacations and antiques.

Fitzmas karolling
Raise your hand if you've been cleared in the Valerie Plame scandal. Not so fast, Karl...

A second Time magazine reporter has agreed to cooperate in the CIA leak case and will testify about her discussions with Karl Rove's attorney, a sign that prosecutors are still exploring charges against the spongy, possibly treasonous White House aide.

White House lays foundation for cutting and running
With poll numbers in the crapper, the White House is now taking credit for terrist enabler and troop hater Joe Biden's Iraq withdrawal plan. "It's remarkably similar to our own!"
squeals WH spokestool Scott McClellan.

Dishonest and reprehensible
"One epithet away from a defibrillator."

The more the president and vice president tell us that their mistakes were merely innocent byproducts of the same bad intelligence seen by everyone else in the world, the more we learn that this was not so...

Neither man engaged the national debate ignited by John Murtha about how our troops might be best redeployed in a recalibrated battle against Islamic radicalism. Neither offered a plan for "victory." Instead, both impugned their critics' patriotism and retreated into the past to defend the origins of the war.

- a must-read by Frank Rich.

Court cornholer biographer's legacy
"I think the work speaks for itself."
And it's saying "I'm a greased-up kneepadded shill for the misadministration!"

Under Boob Woodward's unusual relationship with the WaComPo, he stays on the payroll while mainly writing books from his Georgetown home, with the paper carrying excerpts -- and providing a publicity boost -- upon publication. This has sparked some resentment among the staff.

And also among the public:

When [the ComPo's executive enabler] Downie hosted an online chat with readers recently, the questioners' tone was strikingly hostile.

"Do you think Woodward was covering up for the vice president?" one reader asked. "I used to regard Mr. Woodward as a hero," said another. "Mr. Woodward appeared to be more interested in protecting his book than reporting the news," said a third. "Bob Woodward blew it when he blew Bush," a fourth should have remarked.

Wakey-wakey. Blah.

Help!
Does anyone remember who recorded "Sleigh Ride," the non-instrumental with the whip noises?

And what's on your Christmas CD?

"There. I have done my patriotic duty. Because nothing says, "Hi! I'm a rich, overindulgent, 'mericun" like eating 10 tons of food and collapsing onto the couch into a snoring ball of fat. Thanksgiving rawks!" - Solonor.



Abramoff probe broader than thought
Honor an' integritude

Republican pet lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dealings with corrupt scumbags Tom DeLay and Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio are coming under increasing scrutiny.

The Justice Department's probe of Abramoff is broader than previously thought, examining his dealings with four lawmakers, former and current congressional aides and two former Bush administration officials, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Another incoming meme!!
Top 10 movies I hate
....or that I was majorly disappoined in. As seen at Eschaton.

Master and Commander - did I miss the last reel?
The Aviator - he was no C. Montgomery Burns.
Sideways - thanks, I WILL have that drink.
Shark Tale - eat me.
Mystic River - jebus...
Catch Me if You Can - run away!!
Pretty Woman - please kill me. Julia Roberts makes me want to puke.
Home Alone - they woulda gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for that damn kid!
Saving Private Ryan - ugghh. I don't mind gore, but - ugghh.

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's officially Winter in Freedonia. All the leaves have blown off the trees, and we got our first snow last night. Unfortunately, it didn't snow enough to give me a good excuse for not going out today. Bah.

Oh, and eat it, turkeys!

Good riddance, douchebag!
The NY ComPost is reporting that incontinent traitor Bob Novak won't be coming back to CNN.

Pic by jimmyhaha.

The case for war
Dishonest and reprehensible: key WH intelligence briefing kept from Congress

Where are the Dems this morning? Are they all on vacation already?

{Cheney} shamelessly repeated the absurd notion that a bum-rushed Congress, most of which does not have high security clearance, was privy to the same intelligence as he and his war-salesmen allies. In fact, not only was Cheney and his staff poring over the classified testimonials of an array of known liars, forgers, drunks, opportunists and desperate exiles we now know supplied White House speechwriters with their best lines, he also had access to the intelligence community's combined disclaimers, rebuttals and outright denunciations of these sources and their conveniently tawdry tales.

Irresponsible…

Ten days after the September 11 attacks, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the US intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda.

Saddam viewed Al Qaeda as well as other theocratic radical Islamist organizations as a potential threat to his secular regime. At one point, analysts believed, Saddam considered infiltrating the ranks of Al Qaeda with Iraqi nationals or even Iraqi intelligence operatives to learn more about its inner workings, according to records and sources.

The highly classified CIA assessment was distributed to President Bush, Vice President Cheney, the national security adviser and deputy national security adviser, the secretaries and undersecretaries of State and Defense, and various other senior Bush administration policy makers. {… snip …}

Indeed, the existence of the September 21 PDB was not disclosed to the Intelligence Committee until the summer of 2004, according to congressional sources. Both Republicans and Democrats requested then that it be turned over. The administration has refused to provide it, even on a classified basis, and won't say anything more about it other than to acknowledge that it exists. - read the rest here.

Integrity.

WH adds CNN to list
Good gravy... Bush wanted to bomb Al-Jazeera for being "anti-American," but Tony Blair talked him out of it. Democracy's on the march!

Liberal media puts satanic curse on vice president!
Is drudge a #ucking idiot or what?

"At 11:04:45 AM Monday CNN was airing Dick Cheney's speech live from the American Enterprise Institute in Washington -- when a large black 'X' repeatedly flashed over the vice president's face! The 'X' over Cheney's face appeared each time less than a second, creating an odd subliminal effect."

Jeebus, you stupid hack, they were having problems with their video or whatever all day. You should've seen what they did to John Murtha around 5:15. He looked like he was transporting through a funhouse mirror.


drudge gets another non-story ready for the freetards.
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Cutting and running
Iraqi leaders hate our troops, embolden terrists

Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni leaders call for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops, tell Dick to go Cheney himself.


"Ack! Zzzzzzzt!" :: splat ::
******

If wishes were horses…*
Yeah, and I want to win a brazillian dollars and retire to the South Pacific.


*You'd be crushed like a grape, asshat.
*****

Threat of federal charges against corrupt scumbag grows
Good: Yesterday, Michael Scanlon, a former aide to unethical sleazeball Tom DeLay and a partner of rethug pet lobbyist/travel agent Jack Abramoff, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and agreed to co-operate with investigators - 'opening up the likelihood of federal charges against members of Congress.'

Even better: the case against Scanlon is being led by the Department of Justice - which 'represents a serious threat to several lawmakers' and makes it damn hard for DeLay or other republicans to scream "political witchhunt."

Stenographer 'journalism'
Woodward picks the biggest softball tosser on TV to issue his bland denials and non-apologies.
- BuzzFlash.

Bob 'please don't subpoena me! I'm a pussy!' Woodward "admitted that, in essence, he helped to protect an administration."

Appearing on Larry King last night, the WaComPo's Bob "kneel" Woodward took time out from obstructing justice to 'vigorously defend' his conduct in the CIA leak case, while revealing that he still saw "no evidence so far" that there was a "vast conspiracy" to out Valerie Plame.

The former investigative reporter said he would “love to announce” the name of his source, but reminded Larry that he had kept his word to Deep Throat: “It means I can go around and rest on my 33-year-old laurels and be a complete and utterly useless dick for the rest of my life!"

Bush pardons turkey. Libby says he's ready to move on with his life, spend more time with his family.


Incurious George
Boy King barrels thru Asia in bubble

As he barnstormed through Japan, South Korea and China, with a final stop in Mongolia still to come, Bush visited no museums, tried no restaurants, bought no souvenirs and made no effort to meet ordinary local people....

A number of the most senior White House officials on the trip, perhaps seeking the comforts of their Texas homes, chose to skip the kimchi in South Korea to go to dinner at Outback Steakhouse -- twice.

Yeah, it's always cute to make a joke about kimchi. Idiot. Good Lord - skipping the fishheads is one thing, but passing up stuff like Mongolian beef, sushi, birdsnest soup… to go to Outback?? Jeebus.


"Duh!"
*****

Incoming meme!!
Rats. Tild tagged me to list five songs that I'm enjoying right now, but I haven't listened to anything for so long I wouldn't know where to start. The only things that play in my head these days are earworms, so I'm going with those. But first, here are the rules:

List five songs that you currently love. It doesn't matter what genre they are, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the songs in your blog. Then tag five other friends to see what they're listening to. Comment a bit on WHY the piece is on the list; otherwise, the list has no context - it just exists in a vacuum.

1. "Eli's Coming" by 3 Dog Night (I think). I started singing this to myself yesterday when the Giants game came on (Eli Manning? Their quarterback?), and that song ended up being the soundtrack to an end-of-the-world dream I had last night that starred Hugh Laurie and, unfortunately, Bill O'Reilly. I've already said too much.

1.5. Was anyone else singing "Jeremiah was a Trotter…" during that game?

2. "In the Merry Old Land of Oz" or whatever it's called, from The Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland. The Oz songs figure prominently in my working-day mental soundtrack, the other popular one being

3. "If I Only Had a Brain," which is permanently dedicated to my idiot boss.

4. The theme from "Star Wars." I finally got around to watching Darth Vader Gets Laid this weekend. Actually, the original movie (Episode IV) helped me find religion again, and I have since been studying to become a Jedi, though my midichlorians seem to be pretty #ucking retarded, so it may take a while.

5. "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," sung by Jack Jones or Perry Como or whoever. It's so damn cheerful, and it takes me back to when we were little kids, ice-skating on the lake at night with the snow falling… good times. Does lake ice freeze anymore?

Alternate lyrics: 'it's the most wonderful time - to drink beer!'

Avedon Carol, Ginger, Stranger, James, and Scott 'n' Ellen, you're next!

Bringing integrity back to Washington
Because there's no such thing as looking too reprehensible!

VP Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney is scheduled to appear at a Dec. 5 Houston fundraiser for corrupt scumbag Tom DeLay.


"I said I wanted those kittens well done!"
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Bush officially off the wagon
"There must be a brazillian Mongoloids here!"

Bunnypants drinks fermented mare's milk, compares Mongolia to Texas.

Must... resist... urge... to post... 'village idiot' jokes...

Demonstrators protest Bush visit to Asia. Pic via DU.

WaPo watchdog: former star reporter committed journalistic 'sin'
Woodward "failed his readers," and "abetted the Bush [mis]administration's program of lies and character assassination."

The Washington Post's editorial watchdog slammed formerly respected reporter Bob Woodward for keeping his involvement in the CIA leak case from the newspaper, public.

"Readers in droves wrote that they were angry and disappointed. That disappointment was rife in the Post's newsroom, too," the newspaper's ombudsman, Deborah Howell wrote, saying the Post's credibility had taken "a hit" thanks to the actions of the outed WH stenographer.

Many readers said Woodward should be fired or disciplined, Howell said. But Executive Bush Buttkisser Editor Len Downie, one of the most incredibly stupid brown-nosing fucktards in the business, called those suggestions "ridiculous."

Woodward was not the usual Post staffer. Even though his official title is assistant managing editor, he has no management duties.

"He comes and goes as he pleases, mostly writing his best-selling books on what happens behind the doors of power, and he reports only to that fuckhole Downie," she said. "He is allowed to keep juicy stories to himself until his latest book is unveiled on the front page of the Post. La la la. Fucking tool."

She suggested that an editor should be assigned to Woodward and "know what he's working on and whom he's talking to."

"He has to operate under the rules that govern the rest of the staff -- even if he's rich and famous," she wrote. "God, I hate that effing blowhole."

Leader of the Free Worl Goober reveals exit strategy.

Bush escape plan thwarted by locked door
Manly, straight-shootin' war preznit bravely ran away away…

Irked by a reporter who told him he seemed to be "off his game," President Petulance sought to make a hasty exit from a news conference but was thwarted by locked doors.

The reporter he called on critiqued Bush's performance earlier in the day when he stood next to Hu in the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square to deliver a statement.

"Respectfully, sir, in your statement this morning with President Hu, you seemed a little off your game, you seemed to hurry through your statement. There was a lack of enthusiasm. Was something bothering you?" he asked.

"Hu? Have you ever heard of jet lag?" Bush responded. "Well, good. That answers your question. Phththththth! Neener!"

When the reporter asked for "a very quick follow-up," Bush cut him off by thanking the press corps and telling the reporter "No you may not," as he strode toward a set of double doors leading out of the room.

The only problem was that they were locked.

Crooks and Liars has the video. It's hysterical.


- via KillerTomato and Sapas999.

Playing politics
While the rethugs are planning their "embarrass Rep. Murtha and the Dems" resolution in the House, forcing a vote on whether we should immediately withdraw our troops from Iraq, the Army is recalling 18,000 body armor vests.


House speaker Hastert.
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Why did Bob Woodward betray America?
Former journalist's legacy forever tarnished, much like the silver vase one of the cats peed all over…

WH shill finally gets his. There is some justice in the world.

"It just looks really bad. It looks like what people have been saying about Bob Woodward for the past five years, that he's become a stenographer for the Bush White House." - Eric Boehlert,
Rolling Stone contributing editor.

"What sort of journalist, even one writing a book—Woodward is always working on a book—withholds blockbuster information about a major investigation, prosecution, and First Amendment battle from his editors until the 11th hour, as Woodward did? According to the Post story, he only told them last month. What sort of journalist doesn't use the information he's had since mid-June 2003 to break bigger news about the subject? Was he worried about the legal exposure his bosses might suffer? Or was he holding on to it—and his access to top officials in an unfolding story—for his book?" - Jack Shafer, in Slate

"Woodward's admission raised questions about whether the veteran journalist is too cozy with his sources, and whether his special arrangement with the Post benefits him and his sources more than it does readers and ultimately the public." - Peter Johnson and Mark Memmott in USA Toady.

For Bob.
*****

"The president is mad at everybody" - CNN's WH correspondent John King.

Damage control

So what is Cheney's response to his critics? He's going to "throw their own words back at them."

That's the strategy in its entirety.

He is not, by contrast, offering to clear up, say, any one of his 51 misleading statements compiled by House Democrats on the Government Reform Committee.

- the Froommeister.


"Grrr... argghh....zzzzzzt..."
********

Fitzgerald to call second grand jury
Not so fast, rethugs!

"The investigation is continuing." - Patrick Fitzgerald.
"Lotta brush here in Mongolia!" - Preznit F*ckface.

Special prosecutor Fitzgerald said Friday that the ongoing CIA leak investigation will involve proceedings before a new grand jury, a possible sign he could seek new charges in the case.

The case for war, II
Let's take another look at just who is rewriting history -

In this segment, Wolf Blitzer gets a history lesson from Senator John Kerry:

BLITZER: Let's get to what the president said last Friday, and he quoted specifically something you said on the eve of the war. He said "many of these critics supported my opponent during the last election, who explained his position to support the resolution in the Congress this way: 'When I vote to give the president of the United States the authority to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein, it is because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a threat, and a grave threat, to our security.'"

You firmly believed that, going into the war; that's why you voted for that resolution.

KERRY: Providing he had those weapons, and providing -- which the president didn't quote, as he distorted again to America our position and the truth -- providing that he did the other things, which are: a follow-through on the inspections; not go unilaterally; build a legitimate coalition; plan carefully and go as a last resort. All of which the president said he would do; none of which he did do.

The record is now clear. So I said in that very same speech, which the president did not quote, that if you proceeded too rapidly, if you didn't do the things I just described, you could make a volatile region more dangerous, you could attract more terrorists and you would make America less secure, not more.

The president needs to stop being selective, and he needs to start to level with the American people. That speech on Friday, on Veterans Day -- a sacred day for veterans, which was a political attack day for the president -- was not an honest speech.

- Lots more here.

Disgraced former journalist in the doghouse

Washington Post ombudsperson Deborah Howell has received hundreds of calls and e-mails from readers since [Wednesday's] revelations about Bob Woodward's involvement in the Valerie Plame case, and none of them are positive.

"I am getting a lot of reaction and, from readers, it is all bad," Howell told E&P, referring to the fallout from Woodward's disclosure. "We are being barraged with calls. They think it was wrong for him not to tell his editors and wrong for the Post not to tell readers."

" Some people are angry about it, but Bob has his defenders," Howell said. "But everyone wishes he had told the paper earlier about this -- his involvement."

"I am out in the newsroom talking to people and everyone is concerned who I have talked to," Howell added. "Everybody is talking about it. They should be concerned, they should be talking, this is a newspaper."

The case for war
Just who are those irresponsible folks who're rewriting history?

GEORGE W. BUSH, lying SOS: Leaders in my administration and members of the United States Congress from both political parties looked at the same intelligence on Iraq, and reached the same conclusion. Saddam Hussein was a threat.

CNN's national security correspondent David ENSOR: In a general sense, that is true. US intelligence believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and said so in a National Intelligence Estimate Congress had access to before the war.

But it is not accurate to say Congress and the administration looked at all the same intelligence. The White House had access to far more than lawmakers did. Presidential daily briefs on intelligence are never given to Congress.

Some intelligence available to the White House but not to Congress gave reason to doubt some of the president's blunt pre-war assertions, for example that Iraq had helped al Qaeda on weapons.

BUSH: We have learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb making, in poisons and deadly gasses.

ENSOR: The president said that in October 2002. Yet eight months earlier, the Defense Intelligence Agency questioned the reliability of the captured al Qaeda operative who was the source of that assertion, in a document delivered to the White House. It was recently declassified at the insistence of Democratic Senator Carl Levin.

Speaking of Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi, the DIA said, quote: "It is more likely this individual is intentionally misleading the debriefers."

Pentagon spokesman called the release of the DIA document, quote, "irresponsible" and "out of context."

The next major argument from the White House, independent reviews have already determined that the administration did not misrepresent the intelligence before the war.

STEPHEN HADLEY, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR: They were looked at by the Silberman-Robb Commission, they were looked at by the Senate Intelligence community -- Committee. Both of them concluded that there was no manipulation of intelligence.

ENSOR: But in fact, no commission or committee has yet spoken on whether the White House misrepresented pre-war intelligence. The Senate Intelligence Committee, under pressure from Democrats, is working on it. The orders to the Silberman Commission from the White House specifically left it out.

LAURENCE SILBERMAN, FORMER CHAIRMAN, IRAQ WMD COMMISSION: Our executive order did not direct us to deal with the use of intelligence by policy makers, and all of us were agreed that that was not part of our inquiry.

"It’s easy to attack, Mr. President. The hard part is leading"
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid blasts the sleaze campaign of lying draft dodgers Smirky and Snarl.

From 11/16:

Tonight the Vice President has come out of his bunker and is speaking at a gathering of Washington DC insiders, which is closed to the press.

Unfortunately, he brought his bunker mentality with him. He is repeating the same tired attacks we’ve heard from administration officials over the last two weeks.

In the last 24 hours, 10 of our brave soldiers have been killed in far off Iraq. On such a night, you would think Cheney would give a speech that honors the fallen and those still fighting by laying out a strategy for success.

Instead we have the Vice President of the United States playing politics like he’s in the middle of a presidential campaign.

And from 11/17:

Last night - on the heels of two very bloody days in Iraq where 11 Americans were killed – the President and Vice President shamelessly decided to play politics.

It was another political ploy from an Administration that is growing more desperate and disconnected. The American people and our brave soldiers deserve better.

Instead of giving our troops a plan for success or answering the serious questions of the American people, they’ve decided to start up the Rove/Cheney attack machine. We’re at war. We need a Commander in Chief, not a Campaigner in Chief. We need leadership from the White House, not more white-washing of the very serious issues confronting us in Iraq.

The deceiving, dividing and distorting must end. Of course, this is the same move we’ve seen from Karl Rove and Dick Cheney time and again over the last five years. Whenever their poll numbers sink, they go on the attack.

This time stakes are too high to let them get away with it.

You go, dude!

Wolf, you ignorant slut…
Boy, what a night last night. Hero/patriot John Murtha was all over the news. Here he is bitchslapping the hapless Wolf Blitzer, who started quoting repuke talking points and almost got his ass handed back to him:

BLITZER: All right. Let me read you to what the Republican Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, said in reacting to your statement today: "This is a policy of surrendering to terrorists. It is one of retreat and defeat and sends the wrong message to our troops who are bravely fighting in Iraq to keep Americans..."

MURTHA: Wolf, how many times have you heard that? Wolf, come on, give me a break.

BLITZER, squealing like a piglet: I'm telling you what the speaker is saying it.

MURTHA: So the speaker's saying that. So what does that mean? Has the speaker been there? Has the speaker served in the military? Give me a break on this thing. These young people… you go to the hospitals. You've been out to the hospitals, you know how they're torn up.

BLITZER: What about the argument that some have made like Senator Biden that if you leave too quickly, Iraq will become, in his words, a haven for terror, sort of the way Afghanistan was under the Taliban.

MURTHA: There was no terror there before we went in, Wolf. There was no terror there, right?

BLITZER: There's plenty of terror there, now.

MURTHA: Well, duh, fuckwit. That's my fucking point.

Dick sicced on critics, gets ass kicked
'Far from bolstering his president, Mr Cheney’s assault appeared to have merely encouraged growing criticism of his uncompromising style.'

John Kerry said that it was “hard to name a government official with less credibilty on Iraq” than Mr ["Last throes" "I had other priorities"] Cheney.

"That is exactly the kind of disgraceful fear tactic, scare tactic, exploitation that this administration has continually delved into in pursuit of this war. They did it all through the election last year where they tried to scare America and did, in many cases. And they're still doing it.

And I'm not going to listen to this vice president tell me that when they send troops without armor, when they send troops in inadequate numbers, when they send troops without the support structure they need, when they make the misjudgment that those troops are going to be welcomed as liberators with flowers strewn at their feet, when they make the misjudgment not even to secure ammo dumps, the ammo which is now being used against our troops… when they turn around and say to us, who all the time were saying don't do those things, that we're somehow putting the troops in jeopardy, I'm going to stand up and fight," Kerry told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

But the criticism came not just from Democrats.

Chuck Hagel, a senior senator and Vietnam veteran, betrayed growing Republican unease by declaring: “The Bush Administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and should not be demonised for disagreeing with them.

“Suggesting that to challenge or criticise policy is undermining our troops is not democracy, nor what this country has stood for over 200 years.”

Even the mild-mannered Paul Begala was moved to go for Dick's cholesterol-laden jugular:

BEGALA, on CNN: But they don't need to do this politics of personal destruction, these personal attacks. I think they're incredibly desperate. Look at the optics of this. I don't know if they can put this back up, here. But can we take a look at Dick Cheney, just as someone -- I don't, of course, support him or like him.

But if I did, I would tell him don't go out there, you know, this fat, corpulent guy in a tuxedo standing up there talking about our soliders and then attacking Democrats. It is the worst image for the Republicans that they can imagine. I have no idea why they want Dick Cheney, of all people, to talk about what is dishonest and reprehensible.

Wolf BLITZER: He's the vice president.

BEGALA: But he's also dishonest and reprehensible. He's the most disliked … in America. He's got a favorable rating of 19 percent. We hate Dick Cheney. As a Democrat, I want Dick Cheney on TV in his fat tuxedo every day. It's the worst optic imaginable. Contrast that with Jack Murtha who's tough as a bar of iron.

Poor Wolfie had a tough time last night -


"I'm coming to eat your puppy, Begala."
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Smackdown!
Rep. John Murtha, D-HugeOnes, and a former Marine intelligence officer in Vietnam, angrily shot back at Cheney: "I like guys who've never been there that criticize us who've been there. I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done."

Damn! A toast, sir!

Gah!
LOL

Q: What's the difference between Bob Woodward and Monica Lewinsky?
A: Woodward actually swallowed a load from the President.

- via The Sideshow.

Another new low
Mandate: a new poll has Awol Lyington's approval rating at 34%, Snarly McCrashcart at 30.

Hypocrisy on the march
"Even a suggestion that Harriet Miers [Scalito] doesn't deserve an up-or-down vote is outrageous." - Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Insane.


Here's your up vote. Bitch.
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Stains
Like the pus in Limbaugh's underpants, the plot thickens: Raw Story is reporting that the 3rd official was White House Iraq Group (WHIG) member and National inSecurity Adviser Stephen Hadley.

What kind of national security adviser goes around leaking a CIA agent's name, for petessake???

Blowjob!
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Criminal conspiracy at the WH
Well, don't count on former journalist and current Bush Court Stenographer Bob Woodward or the WaComPo to let us know. They have lost all credibility.

In the same article that tries to defend both Fibby and Woodward, the WhoreComPo also tries to exonerate slimy headcheese Karl Rove:

Rove's defense team also believes he could benefit tangentially from the Woodward disclosure because it shows other officials were discussing Plame in casual ways and that others have foggy recollections of the period as well, according to a Republican close to Rove.

AmericaBlog replies -

Yeah, right. So now we have a third senior administration official telling very important reporters about Valerie Plame being a CIA agent, all within the same time period in 2003, and we're to believe that this somehow implies they're all innocent? Uh, what this suggests to anyone with half a brain, legal or otherwise, is that now there's increasing evidence of a criminal conspiracy. Three senior White House officials leaking the same classified information at the same time ONLY to reporters working for the major media. Yeah, that's evidence of it all just being one big coincidence.

Attytood on the journalistic embarrassment that is Boob:

For more than two years -- as the episode became one of the two biggest White House scandals since Watergate -- Woodward kept that key fact and related conversations quiet -- not just from prosecutors but from his boss and colleagues at the Post, even as he made frequent pundit appearances on cable TV, poo-poohing the whole matter.

A reporter would have worked the story, somehow. But the stenographer kept his mouth shut, changing the subject when he had to.

Indeed. That useless bastard Boob just wrote his own journalistic obituary.


What I really need is a pic of Bob naked, wearing a tiara, lying in bed with Duhbleduh.
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"[I]n accusing Iraq war critics of 'rewriting history,' Bush, Cheney and other senior administration officials are tinkering with the truth themselves." - the Mercury News.

"You #ucked up! You trusted us!" - the WH.

"A cornered rat is one of the most dangerous things in nature." - the Discovery Channel.



Irresponsible comments
Dick 'I never met John Edwards...' Cheney, who's already racked up over 50 lies about Iraq, is now attacking Dems for calling him on his lies.

Cheney said Wednesday that the accusation the misadministration lied us into war is "one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city."

Huh.

Presidential counselor Dan Bartlett bared his weaselly yellow incisors and continued: "There's a bright line there that the Democrats have crossed. They have no facts on their side."


Oh really?

Remember this? How about this one? Or this? Besides the infamous Winnebagos of Mass Destruction, and the Iraqi insurgency in its "last throes," this is my favorite - Cheney denying linking 9/11 terrorist Mohammad Atta to the Iraqis, when he most certainly did:

June 17, 2004, Cheney with CNBC's Gloria Borger:

Borger: 'Well, let's go to Mohammed Atta for a minute, because you mentioned him as well. You have said in the past that it was, quote, 'pretty well confirmed.' '

Cheney: 'No, I never said that.'

Borger: 'Okay.'

Cheney: 'Never said that.'

Borger: 'I think that is . . . '

Cheney: 'Absolutely not.

That's funny - Dec. 9, 2001, Chicanery to NBC's Tim Russert:

Cheney: 'Well, what we now have that's developed since you and I last talked, Tim, of course, was that report that -- it's been pretty well confirmed that he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack...'

Busted, you fuckwit. Now go cheney yourself.

God, what a dork
If that's all you're worried about, pal, you're more #ucked up than I thought.

I wonder if the religious-rightoids are going to go apeshit (heh) because their great leader kneeled before Buddha...


"Your socks are fine. Your soul, however..."
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Oh, good
SCOTUS nominee Scalito downplays rabid anti-abortion memo because he was only lying to get an important political job.

W says FU to NYC
Money pledged to Ground Zero workers yanked by the Bush White House.

The misadminitration has decided to take back $125 million in Sept. 11th aid from New York, which had fought to keep the money to treat sick and injured ground zero workers, lawmakers said Tuesday.


The whole world can hear you being a dick, #uckface.
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So that's why they weren't under oath
Oil execs met with Cheney's energy task force, the Duh! Institute reports

A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.

The document shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corp., Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil Co. and BP America met in the White House complex with the Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy, parts of which became law.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-Gonads) said he will ask the Justice Department today to investigate. Since the executives were not under oath when they testified they can't be charged with perjury, but they can be 'fined or imprisoned for up to five years for making "any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or representation" to Congress.' Mwaaa!


Oil execs, seen here making stuff up before Congress.
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Cold falafels and cold, cold wimmen
Bill O'Reilly has an enemies list.

Exec's political bias cited in PBS probe
Republican effort to turn PBS into Fox News judged illegal

Former CPB chairman Kenny-boy Tomlinson found to have violated ethics by using "political tests" as a major criteria in hiring a former chairwoman of the Republican party to be Corporation for Public Broadcasting president.

Missing from the report is email traffic between Tomlinson and "close friend" Karl Rove, provided to Inspector General Kenneth Konz by investigators at the State Department. This evidence, which reveals the White House's hand in manipulations of public broadcasting programming, is still under lock and key at the heavily partisan CPB.

Freud would have a field day
Georgie has four mommies.

Is Bush having a breakdown? All signs point to yes.

After the National Inquirer and the Globe (don't laugh -- they are gospel in the Red States) reported that Bush was drinking again, the magazine of the Washington Times (run by the right wing and Bushevik Rev. Moon) reports that Bush has adopted a bunker mentality. He won't talk to his father. In fact, he will only talk to four women who dote over him, including his mother. - email from BuzzFlash.

Sounds like my 3-year-old nephew.

OK, we've got his wife-mommy Pickles, his work-wife-mommy Condi, his nanny-mommy Karen Hughes, and his real mommy. Not his vice president. None of his advisers. And not his brain, Karl Rove. Hmmmm. Sounds like somebody has issues.

Integrity
Is WH apologist Woodward falling on his tiny little sword for the Bush misadministration? Is there another Deep Throat? Did somebody stay up too late watching Millennium DVDs?

Washington Post ass. managing editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior misadministration official told him about Valerie Plame and her position at the CIA nearly a month before her identity was disclosed. Patrick Fitzgerald interviewed Woodward after the official alerted the him to it on Nov. 3 -- one week after Fibby McLibby was indicted in the investigation. Right around the time Karl Rove was being re-interviewed.

What does this mean? #uck if I know. But it sounds like a cover-up - which is ironic, what with Woodward's involvement. It would mean the unnamed official ('don't look at Karl!' says spokesman) was the first to discuss Plame with a reporter, not Libby. My head hurts.

Republican senator to Bush: 'why do you hate America?'
Hagel accuses the misadministration of "dividing the country."

Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Testes) strongly criticized yesterday the White House's new line of attack against critics of its Iraq policy, saying that "the Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and should not be demonized for disagreeing with them."

Sending mixed signals to the troops, enemy
Irresponsible anti-American troop-hating terrist-lovers... oh, wait...

"Republicans are walking away from the president."

Whoa. Just... whoa
Bush lied about everything, says scathing NY Times editorial.

Yesterday in Alaska, Mr. Bush trotted out the same tedious deflection on Iraq that he usually attempts when his back is against the wall: he claims that questioning his actions three years ago is a betrayal of the troops in battle today.

It all amounts to one energetic effort at avoidance. But like the WMD reports that started the whole thing, the only problem is that none of it has been true.

- Wow. Read it all, here. It's a thing of beauty.

Liberating the Iraqis
Guess which evil dictator gassed the Iraqi people?

Flesh-melting phosphorus used in Falluja. By the US. "Hey - it's not illegal," says WH.


"We don't torture!"
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Vile, pustulent asshat #ucks the troops
Aren't they in enough despair?

Screw body armor! Every $49.95 'donated' to Rush Limbaugh's "Adopt a Soldier" program will go towards giving some lucky man or woman in uniform a subscription to his hateful radio broadcast and - wait for it - every big, colorful issue of The Limbaugh Letter!

Why does Rush Limbaugh hate Ameri the troops?

19 senators feel it unnecessary for the White House to give regular updates on the progress in Iraq
"Whatever!" Senators say.

The Senate measure passes, requires a White House report every three months outlining the current military situation, the status of Iraqi troop training and status of efforts to forge a compromise among Iraq's rival political factions.

Bush tries to blame war critics for administration's failings
- actual title of article.

In what may be one of the signs of the Apocalypse, it actually appeared on the Bush Propaganda Channel's website.

When a president of the United States makes truly outrageous statements, he deserves to be called on them. That’s exactly what happened last Friday when President Bush spoke on Veterans Day...

Dayum!


The lying goober.
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Bush rarely speaks to father, ‘family is split’

Preznit Petulance feels betrayed by several of his most senior aides and advisors and has severely restricted access to the Oval Office, drudge reports.

The president’s reclusiveness has become so extreme that Mr. Bush has also reduced contact with his father, administration sources said on the condition of anonymity.

“The atmosphere in the Oval Office has become unbearable,” a source said. “Even the family is split.”

Sources close to the White House say that Mr. Bush has become isolated and feels betrayed by key officials in the wake of plunging domestic support, the continued insurgency in Iraq and the CIA-leak investigation that has resulted in the indictment and resignation of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff.

The sources also say that Mr. Bush has stopped talking with his father, except on family occasions.

The sources say the Boy King maintains daily contact with only four people, all of which are {allegedly} women: first lady Pickles Stepford, his harpy mother Barb, Condoleezza Rice, and head nanny Karen Hughes. He also consults daily with Jim Beam, Johnny Walker, and Jack Daniels.


The Dictator-tot.
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Karen Hughes' mission 'rude, insensitive and tactless'
Former transvestite pro-wrestler and Bunnypants' 'queen of the spin cycle' is not winning many hearts and minds in the Muslim world.

The recent mission of the US Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes to the Middle East was an insult to Muslims and shows the bankruptcy of America's view of itself.

[H]ow rude and absurd it is to interfere in a country’s internal affairs with that kind of insensitivity and lack of diplomatic tact, while on an official visit. Personally speaking, this is just another in a series of blunders, just another sign of arrogance by an American Administration. - Moutasem Al Brezat, the Jordan Star.

His poll numbers in the crapper, Bush escalates bitter Iraq war debate
Preznit Accountabilitude rewrites history to turn tables on anti-war critics, cover his pimply white ass

Why does Flightsuitboy hate America?

Bush went on the attack after Democrats accused the president of manipulating and withholding pre-war intelligence and misleading Americans about the rationale for war.

Which rationale would that be again? I forget.

"They spoke the truth then and they're speaking politics now," Bush charged.

Speaking politics. That's funny. Back then, you had to "watch what you say," and anyone who disagreed with the WH was instantly labelled an anti-American traitor who was soft on terra and who wanted us to be blown to kingdom come.

"Some Democrats who voted to authorize the use of force are now rewriting the past," Bush said. "They're playing politics with this issue and they are sending mixed signals to our troops and the enemy. That is irresponsible."

Irresponsible, Mr SmokingMushroomCloud? Oh please.

Ooooohhh! The 'enemy' is getting mixed signals! Shit. I bet you anything the 'enemy' couldn't care less. They don't seen very confused to me. And the troops aren't stupid. They're probably going that AWOL fucker lied and we're getting killed out here, goddammit.

Mized signals fun fact: the reboobs, including Senator/douchebag Bill Frist, are considering troop withdrawal from Iraq.

On Capitol Hill, top Democrats stood their ground in claiming Bush misled Congress and the country. "The war in Iraq was and remains one of the great acts of misleading and deception in American history," John Kerry told a news conference in between naps.

While the media focuses on our manly straight-shootin' president and most Dems are still curled up in the fetal position, Rep. Henry Waxman has posted a collection of '237 specific misleading statements' made by Bush misadministration officials about the threat posed by Iraq.

American Progress and David Corn post how the AWOL liar is rewriting history.

And ThinkProgress reminds us that the world did not see the Iraqi threat as Bush did.

Even the CIA didn't.


Who's rewriting history?
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Smirking liar's ratings, trustworthiness hit new lows in poll
What do Bush's poll numbers and Sean Hannity's underpants have in common?
They're both around their owner's ankles.
/I'm not sure what that means either.

Bush's job-approval rating sank to a record 37%, down from a previous low of 39% a month ago. The poll finds growing criticism of the president, unease about the nation's direction and opposition to the war in Iraq.

Less than one in 10 adults say they would prefer a republican congressional candidate who agrees with Bush, according to a USA Toady/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday. Even among Republicans, seven of 10 are most likely to back a candidate who has had at least some disagreements with [Spendy McTaxpants].

This month, Bush has garnered all-time approval lows in surveys by seven different polling firms and media outlets.


The Crybaby-in-Chief.
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Smoking mushroom cloud
"... doubts and qualifications were not communicated to the public."

So... who's lying about lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq again?

Formerly respected senator: it's wrong to attack the retarded liar
Sen. and Bush towelboy John McCain said Sunday that those who say Preznit Stupie McAwol lied about weapons of mass destruction are themselves liars.

"I think it's a very legitimate aspect of American life to criticize and to disagree and to debate. But I want to say I think it's a lie to say that the president lied to the American people," McCain told CBS's Face the Nation, from his damp, supine position on the presidential pucker.

Detachable penis
Because we all need more dick.

Partisan politics
Yes, we're looking at you, Ken Mehlman.


Kenny-boy swallows for the good of the 'character-and-integrity' party.
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"Oh, sure the Democratic senators and representatives, along with the secretary of state, all had access to the same intelligence - it just happened to be missing a few pieces, that's all. Nothing important. Just the bits that proved the whole thing was bullshit."

Answers, not speeches. Asshole.
'Clearly [Preznit CharacterCounts] wants to change the tide of public opinion that is swiftly moving against him.'

Most politicians realized Election Day was Tuesday. President Bush is operating on a different calendar. He chose to deliver a campaign speech on Veterans Day. With his poll numbers at record lows and a senior White House aide forced to resign after being indicted, the president is trying to deflect criticism of the war from the West Wing. He won't succeed.

Image by Monk.
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Republican loser blames Bush for drubbing
Party riding the coattails of popular war president.

"[Strong] public disapproval of [Smirky McDumbass] made a republican victory a very difficult task."

Failed NJ rebooblican Doug Forrester: 'I would've won if it hadn't been for that stupid president.'


" :::::::: "
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Please welcome...
Raw Story, Princess Sparkle Pony, Colbert Nation, and welcome back the Rittenhouse Review!

Liberal media
Bad: The Los Angeles Times has fired columnist Robert Scheer.
Worse: they've hired doughy pantload Jonah Goldberg.



Follow-up: via The Sideshow, the Huffington Post will be carrying Mr Scheer's column, starting Wednesday!

Fox Nooze gasbag and falafel-abuser enabling the terrists
Via skippy: in light of his recent comments on how al-Qaeda should blow up San Francisco, let's google bomb Bill O'Reilly as a terrorist sympathizer.

Pweznit Poopypants pissed off
Incontinent traitor Bob Novak reports that our great war president had temper tantrums all throughout the inter-American summit in Argentina last week, but the "crowning indignity" for the petulant Boy King was that he had to stay up past his bedtime for the state dinner on Friday.

God. Spoiled pompous little fuck. He also skipped a meeting with summit leaders the next morning because - get this - he felt like it would be working overtime, since he had to stay up late for the dinner. He then "stuck to his schedule" and left the trade talks early to go home. No wonder everybody hates us.


Idiot.
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"He has a lot to answer for"
Heroine/patriot Helen Thomas bitchslaps the crappola out of the WH spokes-tool:

Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan says he can be trusted. But I don't think he should take a poll in the White House press room on that claim. He might lose.

McClellan has lived up to his self-described role as an "advocate" for President Bush.

It's only recently that he admits to wearing another hat -- one that is obligatory, as he put it -- that requires him "to make sure the American people are getting an accurate account of what is going on here in Washington." That will be the day.

Heh!

Karl Rove's in jeopardy, II
Unless Scooter gets his pardon from Chimpy McFuckwit.

Dave at Seeing the Forest reports:

Patrick Fitzgerald delayed a decision on whether to seek criminal charges against Karl Rove in large part because he wants to determine whether Scooter Libby can provide information on Rove's role in the CIA leak case, according to attorneys involved in the investigation.

Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald hopes the threat of years in prison will convince Libby to tell the truth. But this can't work if Libby has been promised - or just expects - a pardon. There is no other reason Libby would remain silent at this point. Everyone involved understands this.

Well, #uck...

Oh really?
After using Veterans' Day for partisan political purposes, Bush added insult to injury by lying during his putrid photo-op.

Administration had access to intel that wasn’t shared with Congress.

Bush and his aides had access to much more voluminous intelligence information than did lawmakers, who were dependent on the administration to provide the material. And the commissions cited by officials, though concluding that the administration did not pressure intelligence analysts to change their conclusions, were not authorized to determine whether the administration exaggerated or distorted those conclusions.

Cute story
Best toy ever finally added to Toy Hall of Fame.

Forget the fancy toy: The box it comes in can be much more fun. Spaceship, castle, haven to daydream in, the cardboard box was enshrined Friday in the National Toy Hall of Fame along with Jack-in-the-Box and Candy Land.

I still collect boxes. Unfortunately, I can't fit into many any more.

Earworm
Karl's still in jeopardy, baby - ooooooohh ooh ooh ooohhh...

Bush 'forcefully attacks' Iraq war critics
President CharacterCounts uses Veterans' Day ceremony to slam opponents.

"Troop-hatin' Democrats are enablin' the terrists!" Preznit aWol declared in a photo-op today. "They're rewritin' history! They saw the same intelligence we faked that WE did! Terra, 9/11, democracy!"

WWJD? II
I'm pretty sure he'd damn Bill O'Reilly to eternal ass-raping in Hell.

WWJD?
I'd like to think he'd have a Brachiosaurus kick Pat Robertson in his hypocritical, intolerant, hateful ass shrivelled, wormy 'nads.

Speaking of hypocrisy...
Rick Santorum, crusader against excessive medical lawsuits, explains why his wife sued a chiropractor for $500,000 and took home $350,000.

I DO have integritness, dammit!! I DO!
His image tarnished, and his reputation as an honorable, virtuous integritude-type guy in tatters, Bush seeks to restore credibility. By attacking the Democrats. Because like they're in power an' everything is their fault.


Accountabilitude.
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Hey, wait - it's snowing! Cool!

Speaking of cool...
Whoa... what is that clogging up the damn toilet? Oh, it's our 9/11-war-preznit's poll numbers again!

Poll: most Americans say Bush not honest
Preznit Partypants' job approval rating remains at an all-time low in the latest AP-Ipsos poll.

"People are just fed up."

Bush, who promised in the 2000 campaign to uphold "honor and integrity" in the White House, is now seen as a stubborn, lying, unethical fuckwit by close to 60 percent of the American people. The remaining 40% believe Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.*

Even the latest Fox News poll finds Squinty McStupidson's approval rating at a record low for the second time in as many months. Yes, that's Fox News.

36 percent of Americans approve and 53 percent disapprove of the job Bush is doing as president.

In addition, Bush's approval rating is down by double digits among other demographic groups. Since the beginning of his second term, his approval is down 26 percentage points among independents, 16 points among women, 15 points among whites and 11 points among men.

*from SNL

Let's play hardball

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Michael, just to think outside the box, would we be better off with Saddam Hussein still running tyrannically that country of Iraq, right next door to Jordan? Would Jordan be more secure in that environment?

MICHAEL SCHEUER, FORMER COVERT CIA OFFICER: No doubt about it, sir.

TWEETY: No doubt?

SCHEUER: There‘d be many fewer dead Americans, and we would have many more resources available to annihilate al Qaeda, which is what we have to do. Without a doubt, in the war against al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein was one of our best allies.

- thanks to The Mahablog.

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Bush, who appeared almost playful, fastened the medal around Muhammad Ali's neck and whispered something in the heavyweight champion's ear. Then, as if to say "bring it on," the president put up his dukes in a mock challenge. Ali, 63, who has Parkinson's disease and moves slowly, looked the president in the eye -- and, finger to head, did the "crazy" twirl for a couple of seconds.

The room of about 200, including Cabinet secretaries, tittered with laughter. Ali, who was then escorted back to his chair, made the twirl again while sitting down. And the president looked visibly taken aback, laughing nervously.

- seen at Eschaton.

Culture of life
The moral superiority of the GOP:

Honor and integrity
Chalabi meets with Secretary of State Rice, who refuses to let any pictures be taken to document the fact that the misadminsistration is still sucking up to this scumbag.

Oh great
MIT analysis of tin-foil hats concludes they amplify, rather than deaden, mind control signals.

Honor and integrity
Bringing accountability back to Washington, Senate Republicans refuse to swear in oil executives testifying at the hearings to discuss the industry leaders' obscene record profits, the Duh! Institute reports. Kos has more.

Look, shiny...

What's brown, stinky, and leaves a bloody red trail?
Bush's numbers in the latest NBC/WSJ poll.

Our great leader's approval rating now stands, if you can call it that, at a new all-time low of 38 percent, a one-point drop since October. And it just goes downhill from there: approval for his handling of the economy is at 34 percent, foreign policy at 35 percent, terrorism - his signature issue - at 39 percent, and Iraq at 32 percent. All are new lows for Smarty McGeniusson, boy preznit.


The Bush Legacy. Unless we get blown up first.
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Why do the rethugs hate America?
What's the latest GOP strategy? Hoping for another terrorist attack.

Jebus Christ... Has anyone else seen this??

A confidential memo circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests that a new attack by terrorists on US soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and "restore his image as a leader of the American people."

The closely-guarded memo lays out a list of scenarios to bring the Republican party back from the political brink, including a devastating attack by terrorists that could “validate” the President’s war on terror and allow Bush to “unite the country” in a “time of national shock and sorrow.”

- from CHB.

"Republicans in Congress envision their own doom. The antidote to avoid that fate is to keep as far away from President Bush as possible." - cranky, incontinent traitor Bob Novak.



Bush 'sank' GOP in Virginia
"We know that George Bush is just killing us," said rethug David B. Albo. "His popularity just brought the ticket down. There's no other way to explain it." You mean besides the fact that you guys are just morally bankrupt fuckwits.

Well, duh

After President Bush's disastrous visit to Latin America, it's unnerving to realize that his presidency still has more than three years to run. An administration with no agenda and no competence would be hard enough to live with on the domestic front. But the rest of the world simply can't afford an American government this bad for that long.

- from a NY Times editorial.

#ucking Times. Is this supposed to make up for Judith Iscariot Miller, and the rest of your clueless Bushwhoring? Fuck you.

What referendum on George Bush??
AmericaBlog: 'FOX News: Because you can't handle the truth.'

Heh - unbelievable. Last night I was surfing channels for election coverage, and when the Virginia results came in, Fox broke from insHannity and Corpse in order to cover the Aruba boycott.

Accountabilitude
Prosecutors argued in court Tuesday that they should be allowed to speak with Rush Limbaugh's doctors as part of the investigation into whether the pustulant gasbag illegally bought drugs. Lots and lots of sweet, sweet drugs.

Integritude
Honorary Swift Boat General Paul Vallely - who claims Joe Wilson outed his own wife to him in the green room at Fox News - was never actually in the green room with Wilson.

Criminal probe launched into which republican who leaked details of secret prisons to the media
Apparently, the fact the CIA has secret prisons is not as important as finding out who talked to the Post.

'The furore has put the Bush misadministration on the defensive. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday sidestepped questions on whether the US was running secret jails in foreign countries.'

White House to 'hit back' at Democrats
... because everything is their fault!

With all other problems facing the nation solved, top White House officials say they're developing an aggressive, Swift Boat "campaign-style" strategy to counter Democratic allegations that the misadministration twisted intelligence to make its case for war. Good criminey...

Survival of the fittest
Ha ha ha - "intelligent design" assclowns evolve into Homo Unemployedius.

All eight members up for re-election to the Dover, Pennsylvania school board that had forced the teaching of intelligent design in biology class were swept out of office yesterday.

The election results were a repudiation of the first school district in the nation to order the introduction of intelligent design in a science class curriculum.

Idiots make the Flying Spaghetti Monster sad.
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Schwarzenegger's entire agenda is termina rejected by California voters

The election is a victory for Democrats and union workers from nurses to firefighters who worked to quash what they said was a Republican power grab.

"It's pretty clear this is a referendum on him,'' said Fernando Losada, a union representative with the California Nurses Association.

"He has totally activated our base in a way that we've had a very difficult time activating,'' said Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, a Democrat from Los Angeles.

"Texas bans gay marriage. Still OK to marry cousins"
- headline at Fark.


Dems win big in NJ, Virginia, California, PA...
BuzzFlash: Bunnypants "suffers a trifecta of defeat"!

The outcome in conservative, Republican-leaning Virginia was a particularly bad blow for Bush, who stopped there on election eve for a get-out-the-vote rally with Kilgore. Bush's mounting political problems and Kilgore's poor showing could make Republicans hesitant to call on him for help next year.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, 'voters took a stand Tuesday against military recruitment on public school campuses, voted to keep firehouses open and approved the nation's toughest ban on handguns.'

Religious-right troglodytes were stomped into the slime of their own crapulence as Maine voted to keep gay rights laws on the books.

Dems had a 'banner night' in Long Island, where they took control of formerly Republican territory (and, ummm, reboobs? Mike Bloomberg is actually a Democrat.).

In St Paul, Dems overwhelmingly showed Bush-loving Dem mayor Randy Kelly the door:

No sitting St. Paul mayor had lost a campaign since 1972. Kelly had a personal election streak that spanned nearly as long, covering his quarter-century in the Legislature and single term as mayor.

"It may sound silly, but Kelly was for Bush and I'm not," said retiree Audrey Guith after casting her vote for [fellow Democrat and former Council member Chris] Coleman.

Heh.

Restoring accountability and integrity to the WH...
Time to schedule more of those ethics classes!

Just saw this on CNN, and now AmericaBlog has it up - the new "leak" probe is exploding in the GOP's face: Trent Lott says it was likely GOP Senators or Dick Cheney who leaked the prison camps story to the media.

Mwwwwahahahahaha! Those darn rethugs! They're so strong on national security!

“Can you give me a straight answer for once?”
WH spokes-tool Scott McClellan engages in mutual torture with the press corps. A segment:

Q Is this all we should expect from the President, the ethics refresher courses, the extent of his reaction to the indictment?

McCLELLAN: Well, as you're aware, if you're asking a question about an ongoing investigation, we're not going to have further say at this point while it continues. It is a very serious matter, and we are going to continue to cooperate. That's what the President directed us to do and that's what we are doing.

Q Jebus, Scott, why are you such a #ucking tool? I asked you a different question. Is this the full extent of what the President deems necessary, "in light of circumstances?"

McCLELLAN: The President is always free to take the action that he feels is appropriate.

Q Does the President think that Karl Rove lived up to the highest ethical standards -

McCLELLAN: Again, that's a question relating to an ongoing investigation…

Q Do you think that while Karl Rove is under investigation that he should retain his security clearance?

McCLELLAN: I'm just not going to talk about an ongoing investigation. You're asking that question in the light of an ongoing investigation; it's something that continues at this point.

Q One last one on this. It just -- it strikes me as odd that, given the fact that Karl Rove has not been charged with any crime, he's merely under investigation, so far as we know, that the President's language about him and his confidence in him has been so distant, that he simply refuses to comment on his standing within the White House because of a pending matter.

McCLELLAN: No, I don't agree with that. I mean, Karl Rove is continuing to perform his duties as Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor. We appreciate all that he's doing.

Q So the President stands by Rove a hundred percent?

McCLELLAN: Well, I've made it clear to you that everybody who works here at the White House has the confidence of the President.

Q That's not exactly a direct answer, though.

McCLELLAN: Well, you're asking a question relating to an ongoing investigation and...

Q Does he stand by Karl Rove a hundred percent?

McCLELLAN: - the investigation relating to him is something that is ongoing, and the President has addressed that.

Q -- forward-leaning as that, to say the President stands behind Karl Rove a hundred percent?

McCLELLAN: I just made the President's views known.

And then it got worse…

Q -- the Vice President wants torture? Which --

McCLELLAN: Wrong. That is absolutely false.

Q Well, then tell us --

McCLELLAN: The President has made it very clear that we do not torture.

Q What is the Vice President doing?

McCLELLAN: I just told you.

Q You have not. I'm not trying to be --

McCLELLAN: I'm not going to let you -- you are mischaracterizing what this is about.

Q Scott, no, we want to know --

McCLELLAN: It's clearly in the statement of administration policy. April, look, you can keep showboating for the cameras, but we've made clear what our views are.

Q Thank you -- I showboat well, thank you --

McCLELLAN: Well, you are. Let's be honest about it.

Q I'm being honest. I want an honest answer from you.

McCLELLAN: … fuck…

Crooks and Liars has the video.

Sorry!!
I feel terrible. What a cluster#uck: usually when I go to Florida I can count on a) the roommates being around to keep an eye on things, and b) using the bf's parents' computer. This time, my house was going to be empty, so I didn't want to mention I wasn't going to be here, and the POS computer I was counting on using when I got there had given up the ghost. And though there may be internet cafes all over the place in TV commercials, I didn't see one. Gah. Maybe I should ask for a laptop for Christmas!

Again, I'm sorry, and thank you to everyone who wrote in!!

Paranoid White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000 'political enemies'
'Disturbing tales of invasion of privacy and abuse of government power'

Why does the misadministration hate America?

Spurred by paranoia and aided by the Patriot Act, the [Freedom an' Democracy] Administration has compiled dossiers on more than 10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and uses those files to wage war on those who disagree with its policies.

The “enemies list” [created by Karl Rove back when Bunnypants was governor of Texas] can be accessed by senior administration officials in an instant for use in campaigns to discredit those who speak out against administration policies or acts of the President.

Those on the list include former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, former covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, filmmaker Michael Moore, Senators like California’s Barbara Boxer, liberal writer Joe Conason and left-wing bloggers like Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (the Daily Kos). Those who have seen the list say it is far more extensive than Richard Nixon’s famous “enemies list."

- from CHB.

Rethugs announce probe into national security leak
No, not that one.

House Speaker Denny 'yes, Mr DeLay' Hastert and Senate Majority Leader/insider-trader/douchebag Bill Frist have announced an investigation into who spilled the beans regarding the misadministration's secret international torture camps, even though there are no such thing, and we don't torture people anyway, even if there were.

Look, squirrels!

Prosecutor in leak case keeps focus on Rove
Fitzgerald nears decision on whether or not to indict puffy, gerbil-abusing traitor Karl Rove on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is now trying to piece together evidence as to whether [pasty, grotesque slimeball] Rove obstructed the investigation into Plame’s outing, a felony, during the first interview he had with the FBI, as well as allegedly lying to the federal agents, attorneys said.

Fitzgerald is also investigating whether Rove withheld another important element from investigators during that very first interview on Oct. 8, 2003, and from the grand jury during the three times he testified: that he'd had a conversation with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper about Plame just three months earlier.

- from Raw Story, who's been pretty much right on the money so far.

Jebus wept
This would be hysterical if it wasn't so #ucking stupid: Tom DeLay's lawyers are arguing for a change of venue, saying the corrupt scumbag can't get a fair trial in the county that he redistricted to kingdom come.

Republican ethics course question
Q: If a Republican official is caught red-handed taking money from a corrupt lobbyist and then doing the lobbyist's bidding, is it evidence of the media's liberal bias or the Democrats' criminalization of politics?

- sent in by MikeD.

Next: Fox News gets audited by the IRS

"In scandalous times, Bush could learn from Clinton."

LOL

"[U]nlike President Clinton, Bush is presiding over an unsuccessful, even incompetent, administration."

- from the fair and balanced website of the Bush Propaganda Channel.


President Bush, wiping repuke jiz off his face in this undated photo.
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It must be about a brazillian square miles!

"Wow, Brazil is big!"

- Preznit Dumbass von Stupidstein, to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 11/6/05.

Well, we're back from Florida. The biggest disaster, aside from hurricane damage and the bf's parents' computer (or, more accurately, computer-shaped paperweight - God, what a piece of shit) had to have been the non-indictment of slimy, corpulent pusbag Karl Rove... how #ucking lame was that?? God, am I cheesed.

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