Senile, racist crackpot tries ratcheting up the fearmongering
No, the other one.

Republican Senator warns against mutant Islamofascist vampires driving taxis: drooling psychopath Conrad Burns, whose recent comments to firefighters and small Guatemalans have stirred controversy, says the United States is up against a "faceless enemy" of terrorists who "drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night.' "

Bonus stupid points: Pickles Stepford was with him at the time.

Oh good gravy
Mommy, why won't daddy hug me?

He's dead, dear FlatDaddy: life-sized cardboard cut-outs of your loved ones who are serving in Iraq.

Nancy Pelosi Derangement Syndrome

"This is the moment to say that there are things in life worth fighting and dying for and one of 'em is making sure Nancy Pelosi doesn't become the Speaker."

- insane Fox Nooze blowhole Sean Hannity.

The Bush ecomnitude
The US could be in a recession, says new report.

Frist expected to get medical board fine, fire extinguisher for pants
I guess just looking at a video just isn't enough. Senate Majority Leader/douchebag Bill "values" Frist is facing fines and make-overs for not completing his medical board requirements.

In a license renewal form filed with the board earlier this year, Frist certified he had met the state's continuing education requirement - 40 hours over the previous two years.

In response to several inquiries from the Associated Press, however, the Tennessee Republican acknowledged Tuesday that he had not done all the work.

In other words, he lied. That is so fucking magical! What a hypocrite! LOL

There he goes again
Bush is still at it: from Brian Williams' interview with Stupie McLiar Tuesday night:

WILLIAMS: Do you have any moments of doubt that we fought a wrong war? Or that there’s something wrong with the perception of America overseas?

BUSH: Well those are two different questions, did we fight the wrong war, and absolutely — I have no doubt — the war came to our shores, remember that. We had a foreign policy that basically said, let’s hope calm works. And we were attacked.

WILLIAMS: But those weren't Iraqis.

BUSH: They weren’t, no, I agree, they weren't Iraqis, nor did I ever say Iraq ordered that attack, but they're a part of, Iraq is part of the struggle against the terrorists. Now in terms of image, of course I worry about American image. We are great at TV, and yet we are getting crushed on the PR front. I personally do not believe that Saddam Hussein picked up the phone and said, “al-Qaida, attack America.”

But the war came to our shores, remember. 9/11. So we attacked. Iraq. 9/11. You hate America, donchoo, you fascist-lovin' terrist-appeasin' defeatist?

Blithering moron.


Yes.
*****

Catapulting the propaganda
"If you don't support us, you support the terrorists": Bush team to cast foes {Ahem, WaComPo, maybe you mean 'critics'? - Ed.} as 'defeatists.'

[Stinky McSquirtypants] and his surrogates are launching a new campaign intended to rebuild support for the war in Iraq by accusing the opposition of aiming to appease terrorists and cut off funding for troops on the battlefield, charges that many Democrats say distort their stated positions.

Pressed to support these allegations, the White House yesterday could cite no major Democrat who has proposed cutting off funds or suggested that withdrawing from Iraq would persuade terrorists to leave Americans alone. But White House and Republican officials said those are logical interpretations of the Democratic position favoring a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq.

Yeah They've got nothing - so they're making shit up.

Playing politics with terrorism: Fascism, terrism, 9/11, fear... Fascism, terrism, 9/11, fear... Fascism, terrism, 9/11, fear...

[Farty McGameboy] is kicking off another series of speeches to counter opposition to the war in Iraq, Americans' impatience with the rising US death toll and anxiety about possible terrorist attacks. {Who's anxious?? Nobody I know, and I work near NYC. - Ed.}

White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said Bush would use the speeches to assess the war on terror, outline the capabilities of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups and remind Americans of steps the administration has taken to protect the nation.

Whatever the hell they are. And btw, are any Dems at all ever going to mention the "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside the US" PDB??

Bush's new PR offensive is a recycled old lie and thinly disguised McCarthyism. Bush will try to convince the American people that Iraq is a part of the war on terror and, opposing the war is un-American. Never mind that Bush's war on terror is not only phony, it makes real terrorism worse and endangers American lives. What will happen when we get a real terrorist threat? Merely asking makes you a "Nazi appeaser". Bush and Rumsfeld breathe new life in odious McCarthyism. This cynical exploitation of fear does not makes us safer. It endangers us all.

Remembrance of Bush's fiascoes
"As he travels the nation to commemorate Katrina and 9/11, the president is only highlighting the tragedy of his own incompetence."

Five years later, the Day of Remembrance for Sept. 11 should properly begin on Aug. 6 to recall the Presidential Daily Briefing that Bush received in 2001, titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US," which he ignored, dismissing his CIA briefer: "Well, you've covered your ass now."

Before then, the administration had shunted aside the terrorist issue as something tainted by association with Bill Clinton. Counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke was ignored and demoted, pushed off the National Security Council Principals Committee. Despite Clarke's urgent entreaties the Principals Committee discussed terrorism only once, deciding at Rumsfeld's behest not to fly Predator drones for surveillance over Osama bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan. Bush's final dismissal of the threat warning on Aug. 6 meant that the CIA and FBI and other agencies were under no pressure from above to coordinate or even to be on the alert for terrorist plots.

In the aftermath of the derelict approach before 9/11, incompetent bungling has been compounded.

- Sidney Blumenthal.

Senile, fearmongering demagogue gets pantsed
Keith Olbermann kicks ass -

Mr. Rumsfeld’s remarkable comments to the Veterans of Foreign Wars yesterday demand the deep analysis - and the sober contemplation - of every American. For they do not merely serve to impugn the morality or intelligence - indeed, the loyalty - of the majority of Americans who oppose the transient occupants of the highest offices in the land. Worse, still, they credit those same transient occupants - our employees - with a total omniscience; a total omniscience which neither common sense, nor this administration’s track record at home or abroad, suggests they deserve.

Dissent and disagreement with government is the life’s blood of human freedom; And not merely because it is the first roadblock against the kind of tyranny the men Mr. Rumsfeld likes to think of as "his" troops still fight, this very evening, in Iraq.

It is also essential. Because just every once in awhile it is right - and the power to which it speaks, is wrong....

This country faces a new type of fascism indeed.

- Crooks and Liars has the complete transcript and the video.

Dems bash Rumsfeld's Nazi comments
"What the Secretary must be forgetting is what emboldens the enemy is sending our troop into the line of fire without the equipment they need to protect themselves and get the job done. What emboldens the enemy is sending them there without the military intelligence to get the job done." - Nancy Pelosi.

"After 21 months of trying to find something I can agree with Secretary Rumsfeld on, it is true: the American people are being lied to and I totally agree with Secretary Rumsfeld. What I disagree with is the fact that he's the one doing the lying." - Eric Massa, Navy veteran and New York Democratic House candidate.

"It's a political rant to cover up his incompetence." - Sen. Jack Reed, former Army officer and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"Secretary Rumsfeld's reckless comments show why America is not as safe as it can or should be five years after 9/11. If there's one person who has failed to learn the lessons of history it's Donald Rumsfeld."- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.

"He sounded like a batty old man. A more decent society would put him in one of those coats with no cuffs and take him off to one of those rooms with padding on the walls." - Paul Begala.

"Bush compares terrorists to Nazis. His family has made money off of both." - headline on the intarwebs.

Rumsfeld: majority of Americans America-hating Nazi symps
'If you don't agree with us, you're a Nazi lover.'

With the war in Iraq looking like an unwinnable disaster and the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina putting even more focus on the failures of the Bush administration, it was time to divert some of the media focus and crank up the fear/war-mongering rhetoric. Enter Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and FOX News...

Yet another Republican investigated for yet another stupid, possibly criminal action
Inquiry finds massive corruption by Rove, Bush buddy. No, the other one. Again.

State Department investigators have concluded that Kenneth Tomlinson, the head of the federal agency that oversees government broadcasts to foreign countries, improperly hired a friend on the public payroll for nearly $250,000 over two and a half years, used his government office for personal business - including running a “horse racing operation,” repeatedly used government employees to do his personal errands and billed the government for more days of work than the rules permit.

And in a move that will surprise nobody, Preznit Values Integritude "continues to support Tomlinson’s renomination to another term as chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors."

Goddammit
Senate moves to give Bush more power to illegally wiretap. Wtf is wrong with these idiots??

Yale shmale


Link.

Makin' progress
If by 'progress' you mean 'corpses.'

Blasts kill more than 40 in Iraq.

Bomb in Baghdad market district kills 24.

Iraqi hospitals are war’s new ‘killing fields.'

An isolated mistake, huh?
"Only a decade ago, as governor of Virginia, Sen. George 'macaca' Allen personally initiated an association with hate group Council of Conservative Citizens, the successor organization to the segregationist White Citizens Council and among the largest white supremacist groups."

Fox "News" numbers, like their anchors, are shit
While CNN and MSNBC's ratings for the same period have increased, the neocon network nooze channel's have gone down like Rush Limbaugh on a rubber woman.

Awww, poor babies
The National Review nitwits get their panties in a bunch.

Blow it out your ass
Bush critics similar to Nazi appeasers? Fuck you.

[GameBoy McStinkypants] has let Dick Cheney and Rummy launch Cat-5 attacks on critics of the war. Darth Vader reiterated his nutty pre-emption policy, and Rummy compared critics of Iraq to Chamberlains who appeased Hitler, noting that “once again we face similar challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism.”

Somebody needs to corner the defense chief and explain that it’s not that we don’t want to fight terrorism, it’s that we want to do it efficiently and effectively. Why is it necessary to scare the country, make false connections between an ill-conceived war and fighting terror, and demonize critics with outrageously careless historical references to Hitler and fascism?

Fascism is new buzzword among fascistic GOP fascists
"If Mr. Rumsfeld is so concerned with comparisons to World War II, he should explain why our troops have now been fighting in Iraq longer than it took our forces to defeat the Nazis in Europe." - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.

White House aides and Republican strategists said the new description is an attempt to frighten and polarize the sheeplike electorate more clearly identify the ideology that motivates many organized terrorist groups.

"It definitively defines the enemy in a way that we can't because they're not in uniforms," said GOP pollster Ed Goeas.

"Typically, the Bush administration finds its vocabulary someplace in the middle ground of popular culture. It seems to me that they're trying to find something that resonates, without any effort to really define what they mean," said Wayne Fields, a specialist in presidential rhetoric at Washington University in St. Louis.

Pollster Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center, said the "fascist" label may evoke comparisons to World War II and remind Americans of the lack of personal freedoms in fundamentalist countries. "But this could only affect public opinion on the margins," he said.

"Having called these people `evildoers,' fascism is just a new wrinkle," he said.

Stephen J. Wayne, a professor of government at Georgetown University, suggested White House strategists "probably had a focus group and they found the word 'fascist.'

"Most people are against fascists of whatever form. By definition, fascists are bad. If you're going to demonize, you might as well use the toughest words you can," Wayne said.

Heh
"Oil companies nervously drop gas prices, worried that their employees in Washington DC might not be re-elected." - headline on the intarwebs.

Republican to campaign for republican candidate in CT senate race
Republican Jack Kemp will campaign in Connecticut on behalf of egomaniacal dipshit and professional Bushkissing whiner Sore Loserman.

Lieberman, who is banking on Republican and independent support to carry him to victory over Lamont in November, said he was not worried that a campaign visit by a Republican like Kemp would anger Democrats.

Asshole.

"I think if anyone complains about Jack Kemp coming in on my behalf, it just shows that they're still blinded by the old partisan politics," he said. "Jack's a devoted Republican, I'm a devoted Democrat, but we agree on a lot of stuff."

If you're as devoted as you say, you wouldn't be in this race right now, would you? Fuckwit.

Inouye dropping Lieberman like a hot squishy turd
Will support Ned Lamont as the 'Democratic voters' choice in the general election.'

I am so sick of Joe Lieberman. God, do I want to bitchslap that self-righteous little cornhole.

"After the primary, Senator Inouye (D-HI) was most disappointed and unhappy when Senator Lieberman remarked that the Democratic Party no longer represented the mainstream of America, and that the Democratic Party had lost its values."

Bubble-Boy's carefully choreographed Katrina caper

He did not stray far from his script nor venture out of his motorcade as it sped past some of the worst destruction in the Lower Ninth Ward, where rows of gutted homes stood along deserted streets.

Instead, in a series of upbeat events designed to underscore progress, Mr. Bush struck an optimistic - and at times almost defiant - tone.

- the NY Times.

"A trip of staged, studiously happy settings"
"Bush comforts New Orleans." - the AssPress. 'Comforts'? Right.

"Bush traveling to New Orleans for a photo-op is like General Sherman dropping by Atlanta to cheer them up." - Rozius. That's more like it. That I'll believe.

At a stop at a building company in Gulfport, Miss., [Bunnypants] chirped biblically: “There will be a momentum, momentum will be gathered. Houses will begat jobs, jobs will begat houses.”

Douglas Brinkley, the New Orleans writer who recounted the history of the failure in “The Great Deluge,’’ noted that Mr. Bush was merely “sweating bullets trying to get the visit over with.”

“In the Republican playbook, Katrina’s a loser,’’ he said.

Celebrating a heckuva job
End of summer got you down? Cheer up! It’s Bushtemberfest!

Bushtemberfest, or the Festival of Fatal Fuckups, will give GOP-weary Americans a chance to celebrate the non-accomplishments of George W. Bush, the first president to let one major American city be devastated by terrorists and allow another one to drown, all within the space of a few years.

The observance will start with the anniversary of the flooding of New Orleans and climax with the anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center, during which time we will pray — loudly and publicly — that no other disasters befall us while we await the blessed day that King George and his menagerie of religious hucksters, corporate bandits and ideological grifters get their eviction notice...

- The Opinion Mill, which is asking for ideas on how to best observe the holiday, such as "I’ll be celebrating by leaving my kids in the bathtub alone with the water running. When they start crying I’ll yell that I’ll be right there - then I’ll show up a week later!"

I'm not going to read the warnings or directions on the flea bombs the bf brought over, that way I can be totally poleaxed when the house explodes in roiling, stinky flames.

Makin' progress
Security deteriorates in southern Iraq: "A surge in bloodshed left at least 50 people dead in a suicide car-bombing and clashes between Shiite militia and Iraqi security forces yesterday. In a brutal contradiction of claims that violence was decreasing, street fighting in the town of Diwaniya represented some of the bloodiest clashes yet among rival factions in Shiite southern Iraq."

About 100 Iraqi Shiite soldiers have refused to "stand up" -"marking the second time Iraqi soldiers have balked at following their assignment."

The US military announced that nine US soldiers were killed over the weekend in and around Baghdad, eight by roadside bombs and one by gunfire.

Afghanistan is "going swimmingly"
NOT.

"British forces suffered their 14th combat death in Afghanistan yesterday as commanders admitted that intense fighting against the Taliban meant they were using up missiles, rockets and spares at an alarming rate. Apache helicopters have been particularly hard hit with a senior Army source claiming that stocks of weapons and components meant to last until April next year could be used up well before Christmas."

Cyborg short-circuits, continuously plays broken record
Cheney can't scare me anymore, the miserable senile old coot

Americans aren't falling for this ''only more war can protect you from the evil terrorists'' routine as easily as they once did, judging from Bush's abysmal popularity poll figures hovering in the one-in-three range.

It has taken three-and-a-half years, the deaths of 2,600 US military personnel and the wounding of 19,000 others, the waste of $400 billion perfectly good dollars, escalating worldwide terrorism and a virtual civil war in Iraq, but polls suggest even patriotic self-delusion eventually wears thin without evidence and results.

- Robert Steinback, Miami Herald contributor.


"Mehhh! America-hater! Where's muh prunes?"
******

Bush White House to be subpoenaed by wiretap lawyers
Raw Story reports -

Two lawyers, representing hundreds of plaintiffs in lawsuits against Verizon, AT&T, and the US government, will announce today that they are serving both the Bush administration and Verizon with subpoenas.

The announcement is due to arrive at 4:30 PM, outside of Verizon headquarters in New York.

I'd pay to see that!
President of Iran proposes televised debate with Stinky McFartypants.


"Hey, Amanjameedamarzippon, pull muh finger!"
******

CT Dems tell Loserman to piss off
Don't whine in our parade -

Committee call shenanigans on fake Democrat marching with local Dems in town's Labor Day Parade.

"I told him through his office, that as a duly elected Democratic official, he's putting me in an uncomfortable, almost embarrassing position. We have a duly elected candidate, who was endorsed by a historic turnout of state Democrats in the recent primary. I don't have to march with [that Bush -kissing toady Lieberman], the DTC doesn't have to march with him, so why would he want to make it look like he's in good graces with the Democratic Party? He is not in good graces with state Democrats.

"He was privately and publicly asked not to run by many state Democrats, and decided to run anyway even after he lost the primary. Philosophically, I have a problem with that.... And I'm not going to reward that behavior by marching beside him on Labor Day."

- Selectman Herb Rosenthal of Newtown, Conn.

Heckuva job lying for me, Brownie!
Integritude: Former FEMA head and horse-fluffer Michael Brown says Bush and the White House wanted him to lie about the misadministration's response to Hurricane Katrina and to "take the heat for their bungling."

[The misadministration's patsy] cited what he called an e-mail "from a very high source in the White House that says the president at a Cabinet meeting said, 'Thank goodness Brown's taking all the heat because it's better that he takes the heat than I do.'"

Puh, never mind that - JonBenet's non-killer has been released.

Good evening, Godless sodomites…
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert at the Emmys -

Supportin' the troops
In this time of war, it is important that we rally behind the President's courageous initiative to slash the budget for the Veterans' Brain Injury Center - headline on the internets.

'"It's just ridiculous," said Sgt. Maj. Colin Rich, a soldier who has been legally blind since he was shot in the head while serving in Afghanistan in 2002. "Whoever is cutting the budget must have a head injury themselves."

SCLM
"Some say Dick Cheney is wrong to have sex with a six-year-old boy...."


"Mehhhh...."
*****

Can't sleep - clowns will eat me…
Rummy complains media manipulated by extremists. No, the other ones.

Donald Rumsfeld said Monday he is deeply troubled by the success of terrorist groups in "manipulating the media" to influence Westerners. "That's the thing that keeps me up at night," he said.

Gosh. Poor little guy. And everything else is going so well.

In other deluded crackpot news, today Rummy Godwinned critics of the Bush misadministration's disastrous policies and accused them of "trying to appease a new type of fascism."

Rumsfeld portrayed administration's critics as suffering from "moral and intellectual confusion" about what threatens the nation's security and accused them of lacking the courage to fight back.

"Moral..".. While linking September 11th with Iraq again. Yes, with the anniversary of the terrorist attacks approaching, a coordinated White House strategery is underway to warn people how frightened they should be unless the republicans remain in charge. Because they've done such a great job so far.


"Meep. Zorp. Nyyiiii..."
****

Pic from BartCop.

Bush to remember Katrina victims, then forget them for another year
Farty McStinkerson holds 'carefully orchestrated' photo-op. Haven't these people suffered enough?

On the anniversary of his eating birthday cake during mega-disaster Hurricane Katrina, President Bush returned to the still-devastated Gulf Coast promising to start continue federal assistance, and eagerly pointing out signs of progress.

“It’s amazing, isn’t?” he told a gathering under a sweltering sun. “It’s amazing what the world looked like then and what it looks like now.”

Mr. Bush delivered his remarks at an intersection in a working-class Biloxi neighborhood against a carefully orchestrated backdrop of neatly reconstructed homes. Just a few feet out of camera range stood gutted houses with wires dangling from interior ceilings. A tattered piece of crime scene tape hung from a tree in the field where Bush spoke. A toilet seat lay on its side in the grass.

Pressed for a time frame for the rebuilding, Bush said: "Well it's hard for me to say. I would say years, not months."

“It’s friends helpin' friends that turns out tuh make a 'normous difference,” he added, drinking lemonade from Trent Lott's completely rebuilt front porch.


National disaster.
*****

I'm here. Just stuck in incredibly long, boring meetings today.

Yale Shmale
Canadian university launches a campaign to attract students with photos of George Bush under the caption "Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn't necessarily mean you're smart."

Well, there's something you don't see every day
Pompous, drunken bunghole flips off, f-bombs TV audience - Crooks and Liars has the video.

Gosh, it must be doubly worse on the ground
"Katrina Damage Plagues Bush" - headline at the WaComPo, via yahoonews.

Poor baby.

Pwn3d, II
Man in monkey suit makes macaca moron George Allen chicken out of event.

The senator was expected at City Hall, but about a dozen Democratic protesters, an equal number of local Republicans and several city council members and city staff who had gathered along Beverley Street were left shaking their heads.

Pwn3d
War widow to murdering war monkey: you should be ashamed of yourself, you stupid #ucking asstool

 

[Halley] went much farther in her criticism of the President, telling him directly that he was "responsible" for the deaths of American soldiers and that as a "Christian man," he should recognize that he's "made a mistake" and that it was his "responsibility to end this."

She recounted to me that she was "very direct," telling Bush: "As President, you're here to serve the people. And the people are not being served with this war."

The Cheney presidency

The media focuses relentless attention on the president, on the premise that he is actually the chief executive. But for all intents and purposes, Cheney is chief, and Bush is more in the ceremonial role of the queen of England.

Yet the press buys the pretense of Bush being "the decider," and relentlessly covers Bush -- meeting with world leaders, cutting brush, holding press conferences, while Cheney works in secret, largely undisturbed. So let's take half the members of the overblown White House press corps, which has almost nothing to do anyway, and send them over to Cheney Boot Camp for Reporters. They might learn how to be journalists again, and we might learn who is running the government.

- Robert Kuttner.

Selfish egomaniac won't back Dem candidates

Declaring himself a "non-combatant," sanctimonius whiner Joe Lieberman raised anew the question of whether his "independent" candidacy will help Republicans hold onto three Congressional seats in Connecticut and control of the House of Representatives.

The petty little fuckwit was asked whether he still endorses three Democrats looking to unseat endangered Republican incumbents Chris Shays, Rob Simmons and Nancy Johnson.

“I’m a non-combatant,” Lieberman declared. “I am not going to be involved in other campaigns. I think it’s better if I just focus on my own race.”

“It’s a little awkward for me now” to endorse the Democratic candidates in the general election, he said, “since they all endorsed my opponent,” Ned Lamont, who WON THE FUCKING PRIMARY, you WATB LOSER.

Oh baby
I've been dying to see that video of Paul Hackett demolishing rightwing dickhole Van Taylor on Hardball for days, but still can't download it for one reason or another. Thank God Bob Geiger has some of the high points up.

[T]his one in which Hackett slaps Taylor for robotically repeating the same stupid talking point about "fighting them there, so we don't have to fight them here":

"That is a false choice and it‘s silly and ridiculous to even imply that. Al Qaeda represents a small faction of the people who are fighting there. They came there because we are there. We rocked the boat there. At this point, this administration has no strategy to fix the problem."

It was a thing of beauty from the same guy who once said about Bush's "bring it on" taunt: "That's the most incredibly stupid comment I've ever heard a president of the United States make."

That was so cool!

9/11 and Katrina: disastrous experiments in liberalism
Uhhh, excuse me... what???

I'll say it again: rebooblicans are fucking insane.

Hell to the chump
Not news: Boy King asks Virginia officials to close carpool lanes for about 9 hours so his motorcade can get to and from a fundraiser for George 'macaca' Allen.

News: Virginia DOT tells him to piss off.


Pic by the General.
******

Nutbar update
No, the other one.

Florida wackjob Katherine Harris believes separation of church and state is "a lie... because God is the one who chooses our rulers."

Rulers??? Wtf country is she living in???

Fool me once...
With the sclm on its knees as usual, the Bush misadministration has begun to pump up the "Iran threat" -

The country is less than three months away from a crucial mid-term election, and with the GOP facing the distinct possibility of losing its majority in Congress, the administration is desperately trying to play the only card that has worked repeatedly with the voters -- fear of terrorism. It needs a new villain, and Iran's persistent thumbing of its nose at the West over its nuclear program provides the perfect opening to elevate one.

Fear-mongering at election time is one thing. Inventing a case for war where none exists is something else entirely.

Haven't they learned anything????

Gawd
'Nummy nummy numnums! Our manly war president is sooooo dreamy!!! Sluuuuuuurp!' - Hindrocket.

I saw this at Crooks and Liars and nearly wet my pants: powerlameblog's Assrocket gives a sloppy, goopy, enthusiastic handjob to Stupie McStinkypants -

"I had the opportunity this afternoon to be part of a relatively small group who heard President Bush talk, extemporaneously, for around forty minutes {Did that include fart jokes? - Ed.}. The conventional wisdom is that Bush is not a very good speaker. But up close, he is a great communicator, in a way that, in my opinion, Ronald Reagan was not. I have never seen a politician speak so evidently from the heart, about big issues - freedom, most of all.

Time out to vomit!

"I’ve sometimes worried about how President Bush can withstand the Washington snake pit and deal with a daily barrage of hate from the ignorant left that, in my opinion, dwarfs in both volume and injustice the abuse directed against any prior President."

Oh really. Any president? :: blowjob :: But... but... but.... Clinton!

This would be funnier if rebooblicans weren't so scary. And so fucking insane.

Orangie Two

Sean? Sean, where are you? I'm leaving now. Sean?!
Oozing, verminous c-hole gets cornholed -- comedy gold.

'Pay attention to me!! :: flip hair :: Me, me, me!! Or I'm going to take my balls and go home!'

This is hysterical! Skanky, syphilitic crybaby trAnn Coulter - who blames Bill Clinton for 9/11, says Osama is irrelevant and Afghanistan is going "swimmingly" - gets righteously put in her place by Kirsten Powers, subbing for the decomposing Alan Corpse.

The comments at RimJob's Circlejerk Central are priceless.

Lieberman loses lead, endorsement, possibly marbles
Man of the people Sore Loserman's lead over Democrat Ned Lamont has 'narrowed to a razor-thin margin,' new polls by the American Research Group and Rasmussen showed on Wednesday.

In other Loserman news, the director of the United Auto Workers union says he’s "appalled" that Bush's choice for senator has qualified to get on the ballot as an "independent." Bob Madore says Lieberman is "selfish and is only out for himself" and that’s why his union is backing actual Democrat Ned Lamont in November.

I'm sorry, you shit-head monkey
After days of looking like a complete racist boob on TV and on the internets, Sen. George Allen finally apologizes for 'macaca' comments.

With poll numbers slipping, Allen tracked offended darkie SR Sidarth down Wednesday and apologized to him personally, said campaign manager Dick Wadhams {Dick wad? - Ed.}.

"Senator Allen made a heartfelt apology. He told Sidarth he thought he would see him on the campaign trail, but Sidarth had headed back to U.Va., so we Googled his name, found his number and the senator called him this morning," Wadhams said.

Though wherever Allen goes, political scientist Merle Black said, the video will be hard for Allen to shake because it shows him pointing to Sidarth and singling him out for derision, and because he smiled as he needled Sidarth, seemingly enjoying the moment.

To make matters even worse, check out the ad that shared the page with this story (Click to enlarge) -

Hmmmmm... why does this sound so familiar?
Smoking mushroom clouds blah blah blah - GOP now trying to use Iran to scare the bejeezus out of the public right before the November elections -

Some senior Bush administration officials and top Republican lawmakers are voicing anger that American spy agencies have not issued more ominous warnings about the threats that they say Iran presents to the United States.

The complaints, expressed privately in recent weeks, surfaced in a Congressional report about Iran released Wednesday. They echo the tensions that divided the administration and the Central Intelligence Agency during the prelude to the war in Iraq.

The criticisms reflect the views of some officials inside the White House and the Pentagon who advocated going to war with Iraq and now are pressing for confronting Iran directly over its nuclear program and ties to terrorism, say officials with knowledge of the debate.

Bush revamps message on terror fight
"We either fight them there, or we fight them in the supermarkets and streets here" is the new gpuke terra talking point, which when a good portion of the shops around here at least are run by Muslims, sounds kind of - ummmm - inflammatory.

"We leave before the mission is done, the terrorists will follow us here," Bush blatted at his news conference Monday.

Stephen Cimbala, a professor at Penn State University, said Bush and Republican leaders clearly have decided that emphasizing "their leadership in fighting terrorism"* is the best way to maintain congressional GOP majorities.

"And the more issues they can commingle with the war on terror, the better for them," Cimbala said.

Clicky.
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* quotes mine

Oh please
Here we go again. Libral activist judges love terrists!

Puffy, grublike nanny Karl Rove criticized a federal judge's order for an immediate end to the government's warrantless surveillance program, saying Wednesday such a program might have prevented the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Rove said the government should be free to listen if al-Qaida is calling someone within the US {which nobody is arguing, asshat - Ed.}, adding "Imagine if we could have done that before 9/11. It might have been a different outcome."

Gee. Imagine if GameBoy McSockpuppet had actually read the PDB entitled Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the US instead of telling the agent "OK, you covered your ass, now get out," before goin' back out an' cuttin' more brush or playin' "air assault" on his bikey. Jerkoff.

Another republican says something stupid
Senator/sap-head Conrad Burns enjoys his "little Guatemalan man."

Rethug gov Murkowski the loser in hot Alaskan three-way
Another incumbent Republican loses: "One of the most unpopular governors in state history," arrogant moron Frank Murkowski, lost his bid for a second term Tuesday after polling last in a three-way GOP primary.

What do you mean 'we'?
From today's News of the Duh:

"If you think back, it was not the lies themselves, but a campaign of hysteria and character assassination and jingoism surrounding the few pallid lies that forced the door open for Bush's invasion. We were rolled by a Karl Rove media campaign."

Preznit Poopypants now wants it known that he is a man of letters
:: giggle :: Right: "W! I like 'W'!"

Bush has entered a book-reading competition with Karl Rove, his puffy, grublike nanny. White House aides say the president has read 60 books so far this year (while the brainy Rove, to Bush’s competitive delight, has racked up only 50).

Bush's critics aren't buying. A man who so regularly mangles the English language and seems to disdain complexity couldn't possibly be so cerebral, they argue. But portraying Bush as a voracious reader is part of an ongoing White House campaign to restore what a senior adviser calls "gravitas" to the Bush persona. He certainly needs something.

Gawd.

The president's favorite reads so far? The Walter the Farting Dog series.


Man of letters....
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Probably was a big hit on Planet Stupid, though
"What a moronic Presidential press conference!"

What the fuck is he talking about?, asks Fred Kaplan.

America's Junkie^™ says something stupid again
"The sad little drug addict Rush Limbaugh thinks Bush is wrong for not questioning the patriotism of anyone who disagrees with him. Rush, a true scoundrel, will question anyone's patriotism, if nothing more than to take people's minds off of his addictions and, ahem, shortcomings."

Republican: Bush, rethugs are idiots
Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Scarborough Country:

"'Is Bush an idiot?' has sparked a firestorm. The White House is unhappy. A lot of Republican loyalists are unhappy. But again, the only thing I did was ask publicly what a lot of conservatives have been saying privately since Katrina and the Harriet Miers nomination.

"It goes back to hypocrisy. We Republicans, during impeachment, were so outraged that Democrats would bitch and moan behind the scenes and talk about what a disgrace Bill Clinton was, but then when they went on the House floor and the Senate floor, would fiercely defend him ... We would all scratch our heads and say, 'How could they do that? How could they go out and circle the wagons and say something they didn't believe?'

"And yet here we have a Republican administration and a Republican Congress doing basically the exact same thing, where staying in power is more important than staying true to the values that put you in power in the first place. Again, there are more and more conservatives behind the scenes that are voicing concerns, but most of them are afraid to say anything publicly, because they know if they do they'll be branded as traitors to the cause."

Poll: Americans increasingly hate America, troops

Americans increasingly see the war in Iraq as distinct from the fight against terrorism, and nearly half believe the misadministration has focused too much on Iraq to the exclusion of other threats, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

The poll found that 51 percent of those surveyed saw no link between the war in Iraq and the broader antiterror effort, a jump of 10 percentage points since June. That increase comes despite the regular insistence of Bush, Cheney and Congressional Republicans that the two are intertwined.

Focusing on Iraq?
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Bush faces revolt on Iraq
Alternate headline: Repugs revolting

Some of the unpopular war's strongest defenders have turned critical ahead of key November elections, including conservative economist Larry Kudlow, conservative anchor Joe "Is Bush An Idiot?" Scarborough, Republican Representative Walter "freedom fries" Jones, Republican Rep Michael Fitzpatrick, Republican Christopher Shays, and Republican Joe Lieberman.

Even deluded patsy John McCain, after checking his poll numbers, got up off his knees on Tuesday to say the Bush misadministration misled Americans into thinking the war would be "some kind of day at the beach."

Chimpboy to raise moohlah for 'macaca' man
Preznit Farty McStinkypants will be campaigning for Sen. George Allen, who called an American of Indian descent "macaca," a word denoting a type of monkey but used as a racial slur. Allen has said he was just joking about his hair ummmm - calling him a shit-head - uhhhhh, he "just made the word up." He said he didn't mean to demean Sidarth and was sorry if he was offended.
"Senator Allen apologized," said a White House spokes-tool. "And I think it's in everyone's best interest, in this day and age of politics when everyone is trying to improve the tone and discourse {Huh??? - Ed.}, to accept apologies when they're offered."

Actually, he didn't apologize. He just told the media that he was sorry if Mr Sidarth was 'offended.' Mighty white of him.

And what's with the AP, anyway? In one article today they write the Marines are helping "fight the war on terror" rather than being forced to cover Bush's ass in the violent fiasco that is Iraqnam, and in this one, Nedra Pickler - if that really is her name - mentions "that the week obviously has been difficult on the senator and his wife" - poor things! - and if you didn't know what 'macaca' meant, it's "a city in South Africa." Please, 'Nedra,' don't give that wog a second thought. Idiot.

Later: the Allen campaign accuses Dems, liberal media of playing the race card.

Cute: "During six weeks on the run, Willy averaged .005 mph, well short of a new land speed record."

Mission accomplitude!
Oh. Hmmmm.

Bush to put thousands more troops in harms way as trumped-up war spins out of control.

The number of US troops in Iraq has climbed back to 138,000, driven up in part by the need to control the escalating violence in Baghdad.

The increase comes as the US Marine Corps is preparing to order thousands of its troops to active duty in the first involuntary recall since the early days of the war. There is no cap on the total number who may be forced back into service in the coming years.

“We’re not leaving so long as I’m the president,” the AWOL warmonkey said in Monday's news conference. "We're gonna stay the course, whatever that is.”

Dignitude
I'm so glad the adults are in charge!

A top insider let that slip explaining why President Stinky McStinkerpants Bush is paranoid around women, always worried about his behavior. [H]e can't get enough of fart jokes. He's also known to cut a few for laughs, especially when greeting new young aides.

Classy!

Decider decides to do what he's told, support asslicking toady
Monday, Preznit Stupie McStuperson spoke out publicly about his leghumping patsy's bid to win back his Senate seat as a repub an independent, telling a news conference: "I'm staying out of Connecticut. You know, that's what the party suggested, the Republican Party of Connecticut, and plus there's a better place to spend our money, time and resources."

Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time...
Sen. George "Macaca" Allen made a cameo appearance as a Confederate officer in "Gods and Generals." Watch the video here!

Lieberman loses lead over Lamont; heart, head over Bush
De facto GOP nominee Joe Lieberman and Democrat Ned Lamont are in a statistical tie in the race for US Senate in Connecticut according to the latest survey from the American Research Group.

Among likely voters in November, 44% say they would vote for the Bushkissing toady, 42% say they would vote for Lamont, 3% say they would vote for that actual republican guy - whatsisname, and 11% like watching squirrels.

Call made to kick Lieberman out of the Democratic party
Sore Loserman "is trying to start a fake political party - he's doing anything he can to get his name on the ballot," the reboob-enabling little fuck.

Critics of [vichycrat and Bush ball-licker] Joe Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.

A group whose members described themselves as peace activists asked New Haven's Democratic registrar of voters to remove [the rethug-humping] Lieberman from the party, arguing that he cannot be a Democrat while running under another party's banner.

"The law is pretty clear he is no longer a member of the Democratic Party in good standing," said group leader Henry Lowendorf. "There was an open vote and he was voted out. He joined a different party."

President on another planet
Planet Stupid.

Is Bush an idiot? It's tempting to go there, but I'm not sure we'd get very far. While we have the president on the couch, I'm more interested in trying to understand his emotional response -- or lack of response -- to the chaos he has spawned...

Does he believe saying everything's just fine will make it so? Is he in denial? Or do 3,438 deaths really just roll off his back after he's had his workout and a nice bike ride?

- from an op-ed by Eugene Robinson, in the WaComPo.

"Bush says that Iraq is 'straining the psyche of our country.' Someone should tell him that it's pronounced 'psycho' and you shouldn't talk that way about the Vice President." - comment on the intarwebs.



New poll: clear majority of Americans hate America
Opposition to the war in Iraq has reached a new high, according to a poll released Monday.

Just 35 percent of 1,033 adults polled say they favor the war in Iraq; 61 percent say they oppose it -- the highest opposition noted in any CNN poll since the conflict began more than three years ago.

In more bad news for the folksy, straight-shootin' Decider, most Americans don't consider him honest, most don't think he shares their values and most say he "does not inspire confidence."

Bush's tepid ratings do not bode well for his party's odds in the coming congressional elections. Asked which party's candidate they would vote for if the elections were held today, 52 percent of respondents cited the Democratic Party's; 43 percent the GOP's.

"Quittin' Iraq now would be a disaster!" Bush said yesterday. "Just like not quittin' is!"

Quote
"Haven't you heard? Any president not named Clinton who allows 3,000 Americans to be killed by ignoring warnings that terrorists are going to fly planes into buildings gets to stand on a pile of rubble with a bullhorn and proclaim himself Unitary Executive of the New American Empire."

Yeah, no, listen...
The Dictator-tot holds a news conference -

BUSH: The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East. They were --

Q: What did Iraq have to do with that?

BUSH: What did Iraq have to do with what?

Q: The attack on the World Trade Center.

BUSH: Nothing, except for it's part of -- and nobody's ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack.

Ohhhhh.... kayyyyyyyyy.

Q: Thank you, Herr Chimpenstein. More than 3,500 Iraqis were killed last month -- the highest civilian monthly toll since the war began. Are you disappointed with the lack of progress by Iraq's unity government in bringing together the sectarian and ethnic groups?

BUSH: No, I -- I am aware that extremists and terrorists are doing everything they can to prevent Iraq's democracy from growing stronger. That's what I'm aware of. And therefore we have a plan to help them -- them, the Iraqis -- achieve their objectives.

Well said!

BUSH: Helen?

Q: (Chuckles.)

BUSH: What's so funny about me saying "Helen"? (Laughter.)

Q: My name is "Jeffrey," asshole.

OK, I made that one up.

Poodle pissed at Poopypants
Tony 'Piddles' Blair "feels betrayed" by crappy faux-cowboy Bush on Lebanon, last Friday's dinner date.

The alliance between George Bush and Tony Blair is in danger after it was revealed that the Prime Minister believes the President has 'let him down badly' over the Middle East crisis.

A senior Downing Street source said that, privately, Mr Blair broadly agrees with John Prescott, who said Mr Bush's record on the issue was 'crap'.

The source said: "We all feel badly let down by Bush. We thought we had persuaded him to take the Israel-Palestine situation seriously, but we were wrong. How can anyone have faith in a man of such low intellect?"

Keepin' us safer, II
Leaking classified info emboldens the terrists, America-hater! Oh, wait...

British Intelligence asks the misadministration to stop leaking details about the recent London arrests, over 'fears that it could jeopardize the chances of prosecution and hamper the gathering of evidence.' There's more -

It is understood that British anti-terror police wanted to prolong their observation of the suspects for as long as possible in a bid to gather sufficient evidence. There are now fears among some Scotland Yard officers that they may have acted too hastily when deciding to arrest the 24 suspects earlier this month.

Well, well, well: another Bush betrayal of national security for political purposes.

Keepin' us safer
... than those terrist-loving Dems who have been in power these past six years! Oh, wait...

"The federal research agency in charge of countering emerging terrorist threats such as liquid explosives is so hobbled by poor leadership, weak financial management, and inadequate technology that Congress is on the verge of cutting its budget in half."

When will Bush admit the obvious about Iraq?
When will monkeys fly out of your ass?

[Stupie McGameBoy] is confident of ultimate success in Iraq, and he is patiently waiting for its achievement. I'm certain that unicorns exist, and I'm willing to hang around till they show up in my yard. We may both be deluded, but my delusion is a good deal less costly than his...

At this point, it should be obvious to all that, despite the countless tactical successes by our troops, we are losing this war and have no strategy to win it.

Supporters of the administration warn that if we leave now, things will get far worse. That may be. But we are not going to remain in Iraq forever, and there is no reason to think the consequences of our departure will be any grimmer three or five or 10 years from now than they would be today. We are not going to stay long enough to succeed in Iraq, and we have already stayed long enough to fail.

- conservative columnist Stephen 'cut and run' Chapman of the Chicago Tribune, emboldening the enemy and hating America.

Boohoo - is this our president?
Bwaaa! I saw this over at RimJob's Mouthbreathers Anonymous and thought I was going to bust a gut. The column starts off with "bold Bush Doctrine," "stern warnings to Syria" and "magnificent ambition to plant the seeds of liberty and spread freedom throughout the enslaved world" and then it got even better as the author of the piece - some snivelling little Bush asskisser over at NoozeMax - went into paroxysms of fear over some coming apocalypse. Like maybe the gpukes losing the House and Senate.

Now, his TV-appearance arrangers have him standing awkwardly alone, shifting uncertainly from one foot to the other. In the background sit or stand a few unknowns, all scowling as if in disbelief or suffering acute indigestion.

The president's own visage is scarcely recognizable. Disappeared is the buoyant smile, the twinkling eyes.

His syntax, usually a problem (actually not, since its candid openness was a big plus with most Americans, who speak the same way he does) has been all right. But he now seems unable to articulate anything.

Here is a man who is either grievously sleep-deprived, physically and emotionally drained, or weighted down, in honest despair, by realities that would terrify any mortal.

Is he on the verge of saying to himself, "To hell with it. I did my best. And all anyone wants from me now is my head on a pike. They can take this job and shove it. I'm heading home to Crawford."?

What? Our brave, manly war preznit cut and run? Why do you hate America?

Dems may tell Bushlicking vichycrat to piss off
"But... but... Harry Reid likes me!", snivelled the whiny-ass titty-baby.

Advisers to some Senate Democrats are saying privately that Lieberman, who lost his party's primary last week to anti-war candidate Ned Lamont, may not have enough support among colleagues to keep his seniority and status.

Bush cheerleader wants Rummy's job
"With all respect to Don Rumsfeld, who has done a grueling job for six years, we would benefit from new leadership to work with our military in Iraq," de facto GOP nominee Sore Loserman said on Face the Nation.

The Lamont campaign issued a statement Sunday criticizing Lieberman for trying to "paint himself as courageous for clinging to the failed 'stay the course' policy in Iraq and not listening to the voters of Connecticut on the need to change course."

"His new found 'criticism' of the war won't convince Connecticut voters after so many years of stubbornly rubber-stamping Bush's failed policies," the statement said.

Pic via firedoglake.

Fucking insane fucking dumbass scumbag
Catapulting the propaganda... Via ThinkProgress:



Real funny, jackhole. How very fucking professional of you. Jerkoff.

Slow news day.

Update
Bob Geiger is back at BobGeiger.com! Don't miss his attack on the sclm, "All JonBenet, All The Time" and his other hall of shame, Dems for Loserman.

Don't miss
"Proudly wearing the Dark Stain of Valor": Patriot Pampies.

What right-wingnuts see when they read the New York Times, via the Sideshow and Atrios (mouse-over all the headlines and ads).

"How low can press standars go?"

Bob Geiger's Saturday toons.


Clicky.
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It's a man, baby!
Stripie's balls dropped yesterday.

Isn't it illegal
... for dorks to sit on motorcycles?


Click to increase the doofus factor.
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"You're not the boss of me!"
The Dictator-tot blasts federal court ruling on his illegal, unconstitutional surveillance program.

Sore Loserman hires republican
The de facto GOP nominee and rethug tool continued retooling his campaign staff Friday, hiring GOP pollster Neil Newhouse -

Lieberman touted the new hire as proof of his campaign's bipartisanship, saying he "will be essential to our effort to build a broad coalition of Democrats DINOs, republicans, and independents."

From the NY Times:

Republican officials at the state and national level have made the extraordinary decision to abandon their official candidate, and some are actively working to help Mr. Lieberman win in November.

Despite Mr. Lieberman's position that he will continue to caucus with Democrats if re-elected, all three Republican Congressional candidates in Connecticut have praised [the Bush man-whore] and have not endorsed the party's nominee, Alan Schlesinger. An independent group with Republican ties is raising money for Lieberman, who has been a strong supporter of President Bush on the Iraq war.

And even former repuke House Speaker Newt Gingrich has endorsed the Bushkissing vichycrat's candidacy:

"The right thing for people who believe the world is deeply dangerous is to re-elect Lieberman," Mr. Gingrich said.

Wake the fuck up, Dems. Unite in telling that sanctimonious asshat to get out of the race now. And if he doesn't, strip him of his committee seats, the pompous little fuck.


Bad photoshop by maru. Somebody please fix this.
*****

Lying cyborg back on the Fear Trail
While crabby, privileged misanthrope Dick 'five student deferments' Cheney has returned to the campaign trail accusing Democratic war critics of defeatism and "validating" "Al Qaeda types," a costumed protester dressed as "Mr. McChicken" has been joining protesters denouncing the affairs as "chickenhawk conventions."


"Mehhh! Arrrrrr! Grrrr!"
*****

"More propaganda than plot"
We report, you decide -

Former British Ambassador Craig Murray says the alleged transatlantic liquid bomb plot is staged-managed propaganda on behalf of Bush and Blair - who yearn for a "new 9/11" to absolve them of domestic political trouble.

"None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for quite some time," said Murray. "In the absence of bombs and airline tickets, and in many cases passports, it could be pretty difficult to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt that individuals intended to go through with suicide bombings, whatever rash stuff they may have bragged in internet chat rooms."

Friday cat blogging


Orangie Two relaxes after a nice satisfying dump in the herb planter.
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Kerry to Loserman: you really are a fucking dick, you know?
John Kerry calls Lieberman's scare tactics a disgrace:

"That's bunk. That's scare-tactic bunk. And it's an unfortunate statement from somebody of Joe's quality, and I regret it....

"I'm not going to stand for those scare tactics, that's exactly what the Republicans have been doing for the last years. They avoid a real discussion by throwing out a slogan and they scare people....

"It's a disgrace that people are playing to the lowest common denominator of American politics, which is fear."

Friday cat blogging


Stripie and Orangie Three catch some sun on the back deck.
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Fun stuff
Via Elayne, the Alphabet Soup Word Generator and the Vinyl Record Generator.

Easy Bake Coven's got the lyrics to The Sub-Iraqian Homesick Blues.

Star Trek inspirational posters, thanks to Tild!


Click to embiggen.
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Cool
The most amazing galactic images evar.


Clicky.
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GOP in deeper caca
'Security moms' leaving the rethugs in droves

This critical group of swing voters - who are an especially significant factor in many of the most competitive suburban districts on which control of Congress will hinge - is more inclined to vote Democratic than at any point since Sept. 11, 2001, according to data compiled for the Washington Post by the Pew Research Center.

Significantly, Pew and other polls in recent days have found little or no advantage for Republicans in the aftermath of last week's foiled terrorist plot in London...

... and even after crazed cyborg Dick "dick" Cheney and other repuke leaders warned that a vote for a Democrat is a vote for annihilation.

GOP in deep caca
What's this?! Trouble in paradise?!

What I heard here - and in subsequent interviews at the National Governors Association convention in Charleston, SC - from one Republican after another signaled serious trouble for the GOP across a broad swath of states from Pennsylvania to Oklahoma in key midterm election contests for House, Senate and governor.

The impression these Republicans had is that support for GOP candidates had nose-dived this summer - in part because of the chaos conveyed by the daily televised scenes of destruction in Iraq and Lebanon and in part because of the dismal reputation built by the Republican Congress.

Said one, "I'm afraid it will be another 1974," the year of the Watergate election, when Democrats swept everything in sight.

- David Broder.

"There are no hereditary kings in America"
So suck it, Chimpy.

Wiretap ruling affirms that presidents aren't monarchs -

[O]ne judge in Michigan has done what 535 members of Congress have so abysmally failed to do. She has reasserted the rule of law over a lawless administration and shown why issues of this kind belong within the constitutional process created more than two centuries ago to handle them.

- from a NY Times editorial.


"Awww, poop"
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Yee-haw
Cracks appear in NASCAR voters' republican loyalty; in between T-shirts and belts.

Almost one-third of NASCAR fans now intend to vote for Democrats in congressional races this fall, similar to the number planning to vote Republican, according to Zogby. According to political analysts, this has occurred despite no significant increase in Democratic campaigning aimed at this group.

Why does the American Civil Liberties Union hate America?
Heh: the Bushies get a big UFIA from one of those pesky activist judges. Who actually believe the Constitution is more than a goddamn piece of paper.

A federal judge has ruled that the federal government's illegal warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered it ended immediately.

US. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency's program, which she says violates the rights to free speech and privacy.

"By holding that even the president is not above the law, the court has done its duty," said Ann Beeson, the ACLU's associate legal director and the lead attorney for the plaintiffs.

Word to Dick Cheney
Democrats and their state primaries 'validate' terrorists -

"Al Qaeda was in tatters and on the verge of surrender until news of millionaire Ned Lamont's 52%-48% primary victory reached them and rallied their spirits."

- Daily Show correspondent John Oliver.

Makin' progress
With the insurgency at its' highest level since the US invasion began, nobody, not even the White House, thinks Iraq is going well anymore. With the possible exception of Joe Lieberman.

Developments in Iraq could hardly be worse...

“Senior administration officials have acknowledged to me that they are considering alternatives other than democracy,” said one military affairs expert who received an Iraq briefing at the White House last month and agreed to speak only on condition of anonymity.

“Everybody in the administration is being quite circumspect,” the expert said, “but you can sense their own concern that this is drifting away from democracy.”

- Glenn Greenwald.

Staying the course
Funnyman Dick Cheney claims the Bush misadministration has a "war plan."

Keepin' us safer
If by "us" you mean "the misadministration."

Liquid explosive detectors have been available for years - but the Bush WH has been too fucking cheap and uncaring to do anything about it.

Joe Reiss said his company's SmartCheck systems are used at the White House and the US Supreme Court. But they're not widely used in airport security.

Charles Slepian, founder of a transportation security firm in New York, said that technology for detecting explosives in carry-on bags is well understood and readily available, but the US Department of Homeland Security is reluctant to spend the large sums needed to deploy it at hundreds of airports.

"Now they're embarrassed because they have to say that we have nothing in place," said Slepian. "Shame on us. We've had the science for years."

The TSA has not outfitted airports with the devices, in part, because officials have to prioritize where they spend limited dollars, according to Frank Cilluffo, former special assistant to President Bush for homeland security.

Egomaniacal quisling turncoat set to blow election, Bush
Ned Lamont is gaining support -- but the Whiny-ass Titty-baby still has an edge, thanks to rethuglicans.

The Quinnipiac poll released Thursday has Lieberman leading Lamont among registered voters 49 percent to 38 percent. Republican Alan Schlesinger gets support from 4 percent. Lieberman's advantage in the general election comes from broad support among unaffiliated and Republican voters. Some Senate Republicans, meanwhile, are throwing their support behind faux-Democrat Lieberman instead of actual Republican-republican Schlesinger.

Pompous fuckwad. Somebody should really take him into a dark corner and beat the living bejesus out of him. So to speak.


Pic from firedoglake.
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Well, that's OK then
"I wasn't calling him a monkey -- I was calling him a shithead!"

Nearly a week later, Senator/fuckwit George Allen comes up with the latest 'real' 'explanation.' Sounds like a load of caca to me -

What does Macaca really mean? Three Virginia Republicans confirmed that several Allen campaign aides and advisers are telling allies that the word was a made-up, off-the-cuff neologism that these aides occasionally used to refer to S.R. Sidarth well before last Saturday's videotaped encounter.

According to two Republicans who heard the word used, "macaca" was a mash-up of "Mohawk," referring to Sidarth's distinctive hair {???? - Ed.}, and "caca," Spanish slang for excrement, or "shit."

Said one Republican close to the campaign: "In other words, he was a shit-head, an annoyance." Allen, according to Republicans, said it was the first word that came to his mind when he spied Sidarth at the weekend's event.

What a great explanation if it were true! "The first thing I thought of when I saw him was 'shit'!" Jebus.

"So, 'welcome to America, shithead,' is a defense? In what world?" - Brad Levinson.

Macaca gear here. 30% of profits will be donated to the campaign of Sen. Allen's opponent, Democratic challenger Jim Webb.

The smell of fear
"This is going to play big."

[T]hey keep trying: "This nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation." That was our president, of course, still reading "The Pet Goat" to the nation, still quoted straight up as he simplifies a complex world for us. The fanatics who hate freedom will even try to detonate our Prell, our Crest, our Fiji Water, our Eau de Toilette.

Turns out that those of us who thought something smelled funny about the timing and all - peace had just broken out in Connecticut, for instance - were getting a whiff of more than just discarded aftershave.

It's outrageous enough that the arrest in London last week of 24 terror suspects was premature and dovetailed not with the accumulation of evidence against them, but with the White House's need to call the voters who dumped Joe Lieberman "Defeatocrats" (House Majority Leader John Boehner) and coddlers of "al-Qaida types" (Dick Cheney).

But the outrage is magnified by the fact that the Bush administration, even as it stoked national paranoia over a plot to detonate carryon liquids aboard transatlantic flights, was, according to the Associated Press, quietly defunding the development of technology to detect those very bombs...

- Robert Koehler.

The UK Terror plot: what's really going on?

"None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for quite some time. ... In all of this, the one thing of which I am certain is that the timing is deeply political. This is more propaganda than plot."

- Craig Murray.

Boob in the bubble
Hiding behind the presidency, in the super-secret batcave -

When it comes to Iraq in particular, Bush has no interest in engaging in genuine dialogue with people who disagree with him -- even though polls suggest those people now represent a large majority of the American public.

He has no interest in actually arguing the merits of his approach, or substantively defending against the increasingly focused critique by congressional Democrats. Rather, he describes his approach in platitudes, and uses inflated rhetoric to mock the made-up arguments of imaginary opponents.

- the Froomster.

Dear Leader's poll numbers continue to ri...
...fuck... Whoa, hey - JonBenet's killer's been captured!
/sclm

Zogby: Bush job approval at 34%.

In a survey conducted Aug 11-15, the popular was preznit’s job approval rating dipped two points in the last three weeks, despite the airline 'terror plot' and the cease–fire deal between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows. The numbers continue to reflect erosion in the President’s political base. Democrats hold the generic Congressional lead.

Bonus: the latest SurveyUSA state-by-state Bush approval ratings.

Stupid pundits.

Bush is crap, says Brit deputy Prime Minister
Deputy PM John Prescott criticises 'cowboy' President's mishandling of Middle East.

Shows how much he knows: real cowboys ain't afeard a' horses.

The remark is said to have been made at a private meeting in Mr Prescott's Whitehall office on Tuesday with Muslim MPs and other Labour MPs with constituencies representing large Muslim communities.

"He was talking in the context of the 'road map' in the Middle East. He said he only gave support to the war on Iraq because they were promised the road map. But he said the Bush administration had been crap on that. We all laughed and he said to an official, 'Don't minute that'. We also had a laugh when he said Bush is just a cowboy with his Stetson on. But then he said, 'I can hardly talk about that can I?'

Keepin' us safer
Al Qaeda types Stupie McWarrypants

"The jihadists need George W. Bush to sustain their cause. His bloody crusade in the Middle East bolsters their accusation that America is out to destroy Islam. The president has unwittingly made himself the lead recruiter of willing young martyrs."

- William Greider.

Pathetic
In what has to be a milestone of craptaclitude, today I learned how to text-message from my cell phone.

LOL!1eleventy0ne!111!

Cute



"Several Indi squirrel monkeys grab for ice stick in a zoo of Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, on Monday August 14, 2006. Various methods were adopted here to relieve heat for animals in the scorching summer. (AP Photo/Xinhua)."

Makin' progress
“The prospect of a low-intensity civil war and a de facto division of Iraq is probably more likely at this stage than a successful and substantial transition to a stable democracy."

Iraqis are dying in record numbers, according to the Health Ministry and the Baghdad morgue.

And in that other country we're at war with, Afghan opium cultivation hits record high!

In a related story, Preznit Stupie McStupidson is miffed that the Iraqis aren't thanking him enough, reports AJ at AmericaBlog.

O rly?
Despite three major polls showing otherwise, the SCLM continues to assert that the UK terror arrests gave Stupie McDumbass a boost in the polls.

From Atrios:

CNN just now:

His [Bush's] job approval ratings have risen as well.

Last 5 polls I'm aware of:

Gallup: 37 down from 40.
CBS: Unchanged at 36.
Newsweek: 38 up from 35.
Fox: Unchanged at 36.
Harris: Unchanged at 34.

Great job, guys.

Some of my best friends are sheep-fuckers
Rick 'buttplug' Santorum: "See? See???"

Republican nutbag and candidate for lieutenant governor Janet Rowland compares same-sex marriage to bestiality.

Rowland, appearing on a local tv program, said homosexuality is an alternative lifestyle - and for some people, the alternative lifestyle is bestiality. Then she asked "Do we allow a man to marry a sheep?"

Repug man-whore news
No, the other one.

Gay repuke prostitute and former "Washington Bureau Chief" Jeff "manmeat' Gannon has falsely accused Media Matters of "waging an e-mail jihad and internet petition drive against MSNBC" after syphilitic skank mAnn Coulter called Al Gore a "total fag," and has asked Mr Gore for his phone number.

Paula Jones case may force Cheney, Rove to testify
Bwwwwaahahahahahaha!

Lawyers are planning to use the same legal precedent that allowed President Bill Clinton to be sued while in office to force malevolent, authoritarian cyborg Dick Cheney and puffy, grublike Svengali Karl Rove to testify in a lawsuit brought by Valerie Plame and husband Joe Wilson.

Attorney Joseph Cotchett said he will ask a federal court to order Cheney, his ex-chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby and Rove to testify in depositions about their role in disclosing her classified status.

The civil lawsuit accuses them and others of conspiring to publicly identify Plame as a CIA agent to punish her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for writing in an op-ed piece that the Bush administration twisted intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the Iraq war.

Court documents show that Cheney has hired Emmet Flood, a lawyer from Clinton's impeachment defense team, to represent him in the Plame case.

Huh
"Bush's announced summer reading list includes a novel about a spoiled rich kid who kills an Arab for no apparent reason." - headline on the intarwebs.

Yes
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: "Is Bush an idiot?"

Crooks and Liars has the video.

Bigot goes on damage control
Some of my best friends are monkeys Indians, says embattled racist.

In deep (ma)caca: Sen. George Allen on Tuesday sought to contain the political damage from remarks he made to a Fairfax County man that dredged up charges of racial insensitivity -- allegations that have dogged him for years as high-school student, college student, busboy, Chippendales performer, Virginia delegate, governor, senator and now presidential hopeful.

In a statement, Allen said that "Macaca" was a play on "mohawk," because of Dem aide SR Sidarth's hairstyle - which it in no way resembles. Nice try, asshole.

Update: Sen. Allen's sister: "My brother is a violent, bigoted enema-bag who enjoys making others suffer."

Bush will not endorse republican opposing repub Lieberman

It is highly unusual for a sitting president not to endorse a Senate candidate from his own party and suggests the depth of the political machinations over Lieberman's Senate seat after his defeat in last week's Democratic primary by Ned Lamont.

[White House spokes-tool Tony] Snow would not say why Bush would not endorse Schlesinger, but other White House officials have made known their displeasure with him as a candidate and the Connecticut Republican Party has urged him to drop out of the race.

There were published reports last month that Schlesinger had once run up large gambling debts and had gambled under an assumed name.

It wasn't "Bill Bennett," was it?

Dems getting exceedingly pissed off at 'man of principle'
Democrats, finding half a sack between them, are starting to speak out against selfish, egotistical turncoat.

A group of Senate Democrats is growing increasingly angry about loser Joe Loserman’s campaign tactics since he lost the Democratic primary last week.

If he continues to alienate his colleagues, Loserman - who lost the fucking primary - could be stripped of his seniority within the Democratic caucus should he defeat Ned Lamont in the general election this November, according to some senior Democratic aides.

“Lieberman’s tone and message has shocked a lot of people,” said a senior aide who has discussed the issue with other Senate Dems. “He’s way off message for us and right in line with the White House.”

“At this point Lieberman cannot expect to just keep his seniority,” said the aide. “He can’t run against a Democrat and expect to waltz back to the caucus with the same seniority as before."

Nice start, but they've got to do better than that.

[O]ther Democratic leaders have questioned whether it makes sense to take on the loser - and perhaps anger him - when he appears determined to run and relatively formidable right now.

“No one is going to say anything that is directly related to trying to hurt Joe Lieberman,” said Senator Harry Reid of Chickenshit, Nevada.

Fucking pussies.

Cool
The ancient Welsh city of Caer Caradoc has been found -

Caer Caradoc at Mynydd y Gaer, Glamorgan, is one of the most important locations in all of ancient British history. It is the fabled fortress city of King Caradoc 1, who fought the Romans from 42-51AD. Aerial photographs obtained by the research team via Google Earth are available for viewing at realhistoryradio.blogspot.com.

Hopefully I can post some pics later...
******

LOL
"Do you think Bush heard someone talking about Camus but confused him with Shamu? That's really more his speed..." - Joe in DC.

Pickles Stepford: "La la la, la la la!"
Laura Bush campaigns for a rightwing Republican scumsack who thinks raped women should be forced to have children. His opponent? A double-amputee Iraq war veteran.

While touting Roskam's mixed record on the environment, Mrs. Bush chose to omit the controversial conservative's voting history on gun control, abortion and other social issues.

"He and his wife actually founded their hometown's curbside recycling program!” she explained.

Golly!

It's OK, my mom was a wog!
Sen. George "Long live the Confederate flag!" Allen (R-Naturally), bigot - at a campaign rally in Virginia on Friday, Allen repeatedly called S.R. Sidarth, a volunteer for Democrat James Webb, "macaca" - a type of monkey, and in most parts of the world, a racial slur.


Sen. Allen.
*****

Did Cheney go too far?
Do cyborgs shoot acquaintances in the face?

By insinuating that the sizeable majority of American voters who oppose the war in Iraq are aiding and abetting the enemy, Vice President Cheney on Wednesday may have crossed the line that separates legitimate political discourse from hysteria.

Cheney's comments came in a highly unusual conference call with reporters, part of an extensively orchestrated and largely successful Republican effort to spin the obviously anti-Bush message of Ned Lamont's victory over presidential enabler Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary.

"To hear Dick Cheney and company using illogical, over-the-top, fear-mongering rhetoric conflating Ned Lamont's victory with the war on terror is as deeply offensive as it is jaw-droppingly outrageous.

"It would help if the MSM reacted to the GOP drivel by treating it with the contempt it deserves instead of dutifully reporting it as if it contained even an ounce of logic or sanity," said Arianna Huffington.

The Trenton Times wrote: "Leave it to Dick Cheney to turn the results of a fair and honest election into some kind of sinister scenario...

"Actually, comments such as the above are more of a sad reflection on the state of the Bush-Cheney administration, which just doesn't get it. Americans are fed up with the war in Iraq, from the false pretense for going to war to the tragically inept handling of the effort after the fall of Baghdad. Meantime, terrorist groups continue to prowl and plot, as evidenced by last week's arrest of 24 terror suspects in London, while this country spends enormous resources and sheds the blood of so many brave Americans in a war that has no end in sight."

The Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle wrote: "Six years into the Bush-Cheney era, no one should be surprised at the levels the vice president can reduce himself to in his unending efforts to smear his political foes. Yet, he continually comes up with new approaches. . . .

"The shameful smears of patriotic American voters by Mr. Cheney and White House apologists like Mr. Lieberman can't disguise how utterly they and their ilk have failed America. Their unspoken fear is that America is finally on to them."

Joe's pearl necklace
"Lieberman could have been hawkish without actually sucking [republicans'] dicks, too." - DPF, on the intarwebs.

" Mr Civility is being a real prick"*
Dave Sirota: admit it, assheaps - pompous a-hole Joe Lieberman is the de facto GOP nominee.

He's also a conservative idiot.


*Atrios
*****

White House declines to back republican in CT
No, the other republican.

Bush vague on Conn. Senate race, day of the week, whether he wants Coco-Puffs or Froot Loops for breckie.

When asked whether or not Preznit Poopypants supports actual republican candidate Alan Schlesinger, White House spokes-tool Tony Snow answered only that "the president supports the democratic process in the state of Connecticut, and wishes them a successful election in November."

"Wait, wait, wait," a reporter persisted. "I realize he supports democracy, but I'm wondering. Does he actually support his own party's candidate?"

During a combative back and forth that sometimes had the two talking over one another, Snow indicated that he didn't know for sure whether the president supports Lieberman or his Republican rival, but that "there are a whole host of reasons," that Bush may not want to back Schlesinger.

"I think you know the situation in Connecticut," Snow concluded.

Uh-huh. It was Kenny Mehlman's turn to waffle next -

NBC'S DAVID GREGORY: Let me ask you about the Republican candidate in Connecticut. You've been going around the country and have been very clear, forceful in your support for Republican candidates. Are you endorsing Alan Schlesinger to be the next Senator from Connecticut?

MEHLMAN: There's nothing more important to me, as you know, than electing Republicans. It's what I spend my life doing. It's my passion. The way I do it...

GREGORY: So yes?

MEHLMAN: The way I do it is to work with our leadership in the states. And what my leadership in the state has said to me is you ought to stay out of this one. You ought to focus on the House races and focus on the Governor's race.

GREGORY: Why endorse candidates all over the country but not do it here?

MEHLMAN: Again, I do it based on the leadership in the state.

GREGORY: Do you want Senator Lieberman to win, to expose the Democratic Party as divided and weak?

MEHLMAN: Oooooh, look! Squirrels!

The Bush misadministration: hoping for fear
From Paul Krugman:

[M]any Americans now understand the extent to which Mr. Bush abused the trust the nation placed in him after 9/11. Americans no longer believe that he is someone who will keep them safe, as many did even in 2004; the pathetic response to Hurricane Katrina and the disaster in Iraq have seen to that.

All Mr. Bush and his party can do at this point is demonize their opposition. And my guess is that the public won't go for it, that Americans are fed up with leadership that has nothing to hope for but fear itself.

Unfortunately, as some wag put it, "you can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."



Pre-election terrorizing
Playing politics with terrorism: an LA Times editorial calls shenanigans on Dick 'dick' Cheney and RNC headcheese Ken 'tightcheeks' Mehlman -

The republicans' nasty election-year politics are abhorent and unhelpful, "especially when the stakes in terms of national security and civil liberties are so high. You might even be tempted to call it a pre 9/11 mind-set."

Lieberman - idiot, fucking tool
Lieberman has long preached the politics of civility and calm rhetoric, but he appears to be ready to set that aside to defeat Lamont.

[T]he opening stage of his campaign has delivered a decidedly mixed message.

Lieberman's first post-primary television ad promises an era of "unity and purpose." His first post-primary campaign appearance featured a slashing attack on Lamont in which he claimed that success by his rival in November would be "taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England."

Whiny McKissyface also set aside his long-standing policy of kissing major monkey nuts, and pretended he was mad at Chimpy McStupidstein:

"People . . . and not just the Democrats are angry at the direction of this country -- so am I," he said last Tuesday night. "People are fed up with the petty partisanship and angry vitriol in Washington. Let me tell you, I have been there, and I am fed up, too."

"And Ned Lamont winning is a tremendous victory by the people who wanted to blow up these planes in England!"


Pic by seedsofdoubt.com.
*****

Lamont: jebus christ...
Ned Lamont says he was surprised by Schmoe Egoman and short-circuiting cyborg Dick Cheney's claims that his victory could embolden terrorists -

"My God, here we have a terrorist threat against hearth and home and the very first thing that comes out of their mind is how can we turn this to partisan advantage. I find that offensive," Lamont said in an interview Sunday.

He also said Lieberman "sounded an awful lot" like the gpuke talking points coming out of Cheney's piehole:

"It surprised me," he said. "It seemed almost orchestrated. It's sort of demeaning to the people of Connecticut. I thought the senator and the vice president were both wrong to use that attack (strategy) on the voters of Connecticut."

"Awwww - gee, sorry Ned! Didn't see ya there..."
*****

Keepin' us safer
... than those pussy-ass libtards!

Oh really??

The most frightening thing about the foiled plot to use liquid explosives to blow up airplanes over the Atlantic is that both the government and the aviation industry have been aware of the liquid bomb threat for years but have done little to prepare for it.

I know we posted this yesterday, but it bears repeating - especially when the GOP insists on playing the tougher on terrism card every chance they get.

And John at AmericaBlog reminds us that we did get hit after 9/11 - "So next time Bush/Cheney claim we haven't been hit again, ask them what happened to the anthrax killer. Then ask them where Osama is."

Catapulting the propaganda
Bushies asked Brits to time terror plotters' arrests to divert attention from Lamont's huuuuuuuge victory over pro-war, pro-Bush Schmoe Lieberman.

John at C'n'L asks does "anyone doubt the timing of this story now?"

British wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official says.

NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States.

A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case.

In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports.

Don't miss
The week in centrism, at Jesus' General.

No rest for the stupid, via the Pensito Review.

Monkeyfister's "The Best And Worst Job I Ever Had."

The Saturday toons, via Bob Geiger.

A convenient threat, by Robert Kuttner.

"Liquid explosive" - heh!

Cool
Drought unearths treasure trove of ancient monuments

Heatwave conditions, which have parched the Welsh countryside, proved ideal for aerial archaeologists.

Last night they were described as the best for at least adecade with a host of buried sites revealed from the air.

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales made major discoveries using light aircraft to survey the Welsh landscape.

"It has been absolutely astounding. Discoveries have been made across Wales visible both as cropmarks in ripening crops and scorched grassland," said a spokesman. Finds include two early Neolithic causewayed enclosures, Roman forts, a lost medieval church, a bronze age ritual enclosure, lines of Roman roads and scores of prehistoric hillforts across the entire country.

Alas, the article has no pictures.

Bush aides gleeful over UK terror plot
Foresee greater ease in getting away with shitting all over Constitution, people's rights

Woohoo! Thousands of people could've been killed! It's almost like hitting the trifecta!

White House officials said Friday that the fallout from the discovery of the British bombing plot could help the administration advance its agenda in Congress. The officials cited in particular battles over supervising the program of eavesdropping without warrants and how to try detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Taking the White House’s lead, Republicans throughout the country used the arrests of terror suspects in Britain to go on the offensive against Democrats for the second day in a row. They accused Democrats of failing to understand the nature of the terrorist threat facing the nation.

“Yesterday, Bush said we are safer today than we were before 9/11,” Sen. Harry Reid said. “But if one looks around the world today, he could not be further from the truth.’’

Keepin' us safer?
Bush wanted bomb-detection funds diverted

While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot, the Bush misadministration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6 million that was supposed to be spent developing new homeland explosives detection technology.

The administration also was slow to start testing a new liquid explosives detector that the Japanese government provided to the United States earlier this year.

The British plot to blow up as many as 10 American airlines on trans-Atlantic flights was to involve liquid explosives.

Cheney accused of politicizing terrorism, being a complete and utter dickhead
"I don't take anything he says seriously anymore," said Senator Hillary Clinton in response to Cheney's comments that terrorists 'would be emboldened' by the results of the CT primary. "I think that he has been a very counterproductive even destructive force in our country and I am very disheartened by the failure of leadership from the president and vice president."

"They've run this play one too many times," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said. "The American people simply do not recognize any validity in what they're saying."

"We should all be uniting and be together at this point," said NY Sen. Chuck Schumer, the head of the Senate Democrats' campaign committee. "But if they're going to throw the political bombs on this issue, we are going to answer them loud and clear, and we believe we have the political high ground."

Hello, Dali.

Bush and Cheney's reign of [t]error
Dayyum -

The idea is that since Joe Lieberman lost based on his support for Iraq, Americans opposing the war are waving a white flag of surrender to terrorists.

This is stunningly ignorant logic, as well as annoyingly consistent with the Bush administration's fundamentalist myth that Iraq had ties to al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden - a claim by now well-discounted, most notably by a presidential commission...

For Cheney - and other Republicans like GOP National Chairman Ken Mehlman - to suggest that those Americans are encouraging terrorism is reprehensible.

Cheney's comments came out a day before British intelligence officials announced they had thwarted a major terrorist attack. Surely Cheney was aware of the plot and the work to thwart it, and was no doubt aware of the timing of yesterday's announcement.

To exploit a very real terror threat that could have led to major casualties, and to even indirectly implicate Americans who were exercising their democratic right by going to the polls and making a choice borders on the criminal, to say nothing of the insane.

Has Cheney completely lost it?

The latest terror scare is upsetting enough... But the real terror is this: While our Vacationer-in-Chief and his vice president shut down dissent, and discourage questions about the way our government has directed our intelligence and military resources toward a single target in Iraq, we are no closer to understanding or dismantling the threat of al Qaeda.

The immoral and ridiculous claims coming out of the Bush administration's reign of error could ultimately be responsible for the kind of casualties that al Qaeda can only dream of.

- from the Philadelphia Daily News.

Friday prat blogging


"Yo, Lieberman - you wanna wash my balls? Heh heh..."
*****

Who's gonna lead?
Fu Tucker Carlson to be on Dancing With The Stars.

Crisis in the UK!
A day after Bush was briefed on the "imminent attacks," he stayed on vacation and went bike riding. Aides said there were no plans for him to cut his vacation short.

Several senior Republican strategists were uneasy with the possibility that images of [Gropie McGameboy]'s activities in the past week, including bicycle rides in the 100-degree Texas heat, could be used to accuse him of being too casual about the potential terrorist threat.

Instead, Mr. Bush stuck to his schedule; after Thursday’s metal plant tour, he attended a fund-raiser.

Crisis in the MidEast!
"We are working hard now to bridge differences between the United States position and some of the positions of our allies," WH spokes-tool Tony Snow told reporters in Texas, where he has joined Bunnypants on vacation.

"I dare say the president's very actively engaged in this," Snowjob said. "He may go for a bike ride in the morning, but he's spending a lot of time, morning, noon and night working these issues."

LOL.

Fun fact: Stupie McSenseless has dared his staffers to join his "100 degree club"- which entails running 3 miles in triple-digit heat. What stupid fucking goober.

Lamont: don't fuck with me
The winner of the CT Democratic primary slams pompous asshat and short-circuited cyborg.

Joe Lieberman, who on Wednesday decried 'partisan attacks' and 'partisan politics,' accused Ned Lamont on Thursday of not understanding the threat terrorists pose to homeland security.

Lieberman, desperately trying to keep the job his constituency voted him OUT of, continued to attack Lamont's qualifications yesterday through spokesman Dan Gerstein.

"For Ned Lamont to say what's happening in Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terror shows how ill prepared he is to be a US senator," Gerstein said. "Iraq, right now, is ground zero in terms of terrorist activity."

“Wow,” Mr. Lamont said, after asking a reporter to read the Loserman’s remark about him. “That comment sounds an awful lot like Vice President Cheney’s comment on Wednesday. Both of them believe our invasion of Iraq has a lot to do with 9/11. That’s a false premise.”

"I just think that this Bush administration confuses a comprehensive attack on the terrorists with the invasion of Iraq," Ned Lamont said. "I think the invasion of Iraq was a terrible distraction."

Lamont said the invasion diverted attention and resources from the hunt for Osama bin Laden, port security and other critical areas of national security.

"It hasn't made us safer," Lamont said. "I'm happy to have that debate."

"Both the RNC, Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman seem to be reading off the same playbook right now," Lamont added. "But I don't think it's going to stick."

9/11 happened on your watch, assholes
Gpukes, who have controlled all branches of government for the past six years, accused Dems on Thursday of doing too little in The War Against Terra.

"Like these Twinkies, freedom is never free, and we must never be complacent in defending it," Speaker Denny Hastert said from the House snack bar.

"We must be on alert so that our nation does not suffer another attack like 9/11," Senate Majority Leader/douchebag Bill Frist intoned. "9/11, 9/11, 9/11..."

Speaking of doing too little, John at AmericaBlog reports that Bush knew at the start of his misadministration that terrorists had tried to use explosive liquids to blow up planes - so what the hell have they been doing all this time?

GOP, aware of the UK terror plot, gleefully timed the release of the news for political purposes
US knew of plot 'for days'
Bush, Homeland Security, lawmakers, RNC were briefed

From Agence France-Presse, via AmericaBlog:

US President George W. Bush seized on a foiled London airline bomb plot to hammer unnamed critics he accused of having all but forgotten the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Weighed down by the unpopular war in Iraq, Bush and his aides have tried to shift the national political debate from that conflict to the broader and more popular global war on terrorism ahead of November 7 congressional elections....

His remarks came a day after the White House orchestrated an exceptionally aggressive campaign to tar opposition Democrats as weak on terrorism, knowing what Democrats didn't: News of the plot could soon break.

Bush aides on Thursday fought the notion that they had exploited their knowledge of the coming British raid to hit Democrats, saying the trigger had been the defeat of Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.

Snow said Bush first learned in detail about the plot on Friday, and received two detailed briefings on it on Saturday and Sunday, as well as had two conversations about it with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

But a senior White House official said that the British government had not launched its raid until well after Cheney held a highly unusual conference call with reporters to attack the Democrats as weak against terrorism....

"Weeks before September 11th, this is going to play big," said another White House official, who also spoke on condition of not being named, adding that some Democratic candidates won't "look as appealing" under the circumstances.

"Weeks before September 11th, this is going to play big," said a White House official.

The virtue of strong republican leadership, huh
"The weakling-in-chief who failed to oust Saddam Hussein in 1991 was not a Democrat but the first President George Bush." - from a Boston Globe editorial.

And the weakling-in-chief who failed to capture Osama bin Laden was the second President George Bush.

Can't get no satisfaction
Erstwhile Bush backers may abandon republicans -

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted this week found the president's approval rating has dropped to 33 percent, matching his low in May. His handling of nearly every issue, from Iraq to foreign policy contributed to the president's decline around the nation, even in the Republican-friendly South.

More sobering for the GOP are the number of voters who backed Bush in 2004 who are ready to vote Democratic in the fall's congressional elections. Fewer than 100 days before the Nov. 7 election, the AP-Ipsos poll suggested the midterms are clearly turning into a national referendum on Bush.

In a new Zogby poll conducted Aug. 9-10, 2006, an "overwhelming majority of likely-voting Democrats nationwide said they are glad Joe Lieberman was walloped by anti-war challenger Ned Lamont in the primary on Tuesday."

Dems nationwide think their party is stronger for Lamont’s victory, and want their candidates to tout anti-war credentials.

The Connecticut election highlights what Democrats across the country said they want to hear from their candidates – a resolute opposition to the war in Iraq. More than three-quarters of Democrats (78%) said they want candidates who opposes the conflict.

And in a CNN poll, two-thirds of Americans hate freedom.

Another Tony snowjob

"But at least the lead that Mr. Lamont had went from 13 points to six to four on election day. That indicates that even in a fairly liberal state like Connecticut, where this is the one issue, where you had a well-financed candidate who had more money than the incumbent, that you still had a 50-50 split more or less within the Democratic Party on this issue."

Huh... really...

Election results, 2004: Bush 51% Kerry 48% = Bush "mandate"

Election results, 2006: Lamont 51.79% Leiberman 48.2% = a 50/50 race.

"President George W. Bush won the greatest number of popular votes of any presidential candidate in history," marveled Vice President Dick Cheney while introducing his boss. "President Bush ran forthrightly on a clear agenda for this nation's future, and the nation responded by giving him a mandate."

An aggressive posture in terms of our national security
From today's press gaggle with Tony Snow:

Snowjob: In terms of Gropie McGameboy's awareness of what has been going on in England, he has been kept fully briefed in between naps and playing "air assault" on his bicycle.

Q: So there was -- I take it he wasn't awakened last night, and that was because he already knew this was going to happen?

SNOW: That is correct, The little dumbfuck didn't want to be bothered although, we did have intelligence and security people up all night maintaining constant contact with the British.

Q: To what extent does this take away the President's attention from the Middle East problem?

SNOW: What atten - I mean, it doesn't. He's been, obviously, actively engaged in the Middle East, and at the same time this has been going on. It is in the nature of a President's responsibility in this kind of world that you have to be able to keep your eye on a number of challenges at the same time, like how much brush to cut in a certain area, is the kitchen running low on red lollipops, if the bike trail needs to be graded...

Q: No plans to go back to Washington because of this?

SNOW: What?! Shortchange his vacation again?! Are you high?? No.

Q: But you all are convinced that this is a very serious threat and lives were at risk?

SNOW: It was a very serious threat.

Q: How concerned was the President upon hearing all this in his briefing?

SNOW: I don't know. I mean, "concerned" is -- when you hear about things like this, you know there is a necessity to respond and to respond in the appropriate ways. Otherwise you look like a real fucking dork, like during Katrina. So that's -- again, his approach is we've got to deal with this, and that is what US officials and our allies have been doing.

Right
Libtard moonbats are evil!

"Given the invective aimed at Lamont’s grassroots and netroots supporters, it was fun to see Fox News pundit Mort Kondracke whining that Lieberman’s defeat could mean the end of 'civility in American politics' and a victory for 'hatred politics' and 'savage Internet-based attacks.'"

- Jeff Cohen at CommonDreams.

Yeah - good one, Mort. Tell it to Helen Thomas, or Max Cleland or Bill Clinton. Or Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. Or John Kerry. Or John Murtha. Or hell, John McCain. Jerkoff.

Political order upended as republicans praise repub Lieberman
Here we go again -

Republicans had words of praise for [the Bush-kissing toady] whose longtime support of the US misadministration was seen as causing his US Senate primary election defeat.

RNC chairman Ken Mehlman hailed Lieberman as a "different kind of politician, and a different kind of Democrat."

Yeah - it's called "republican."

"Like the proud history of so many Democrats before him, Joe Lieberman believed in a strong national defense. And for that, he was purged from his Party. It is a sobering moment," Mehlman lied during a speech in Ohio.

Integrity.

Democrats abandon Bush leg-humper, back people's choice Lamont
Even as the party's top Democrats gave Sen. Ego McLoserman the kiss-off, the self-righteous quisling would not give up, saying his conscience demanded that he run as an independent in November.

Lieberman's conscience also demanded he fire his campaign manager and spokesman, and ask for the resignations of his campaign staff. It did not, however, demand he stay out of the race to avoid handing the seat over to an actual rebooblican.

Actual rebooblicans who were quick to whip out the September 11 fear card:

Puppy-killing cyborg Dick Cheney emerged from his vacation bunker long enough to say the race "showed there is a significant segment of the Democratic Party" that wants to return to "a pre-9/11 mind-set."

"It's an unfortunate development, I think, from the standpoint of the Democratic Party to see a man like Lieberman pushed aside because of his willingness to support an aggressive posture in terms of our national security strategy," Cheney lied, supporting an aggressive security strategy from his secret fishing hole in Wyoming.

"When we see the Democratic Party reject one of its own - a man they selected to be their vice presidential nominee just a few short years ago - that would seem to say a lot about the state the party's in today," he said.

Yeah. You have no idea. We're extremely pissed off.

"Aggressive posture in terms of our national security strategy" my ass -

See - Lieberman loses and the terrists hit England!
WH spokes-tool Tony Snow: 'a vote for Lamont is a vote for another 9/11' -

"There seems to be two approaches, and in the Connecticut race, one of the approaches is ignore the difficulties and walk away. Now, when the United States walked away, in the opinion of the Osama bin Laden in 1991, {1991, huh? - Ed.} bin Laden drew from that the conclusion that Americans were weak and wouldn’t stay the course and that led to September 11th."

Gee, Tone, you mean like walking away from the Aug 01 presidental daily brief entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside the US? Or when Smirky McStupid told the CIA briefer: "All right. You've covered your ass, now" and then went fishing? Or like when your misadministration disbanded the CIA unit that was supposed to be tracking Bin Laden? Or when Dear Leader finished reading 'My Pet Goat' and then ran and hid while America was under attack? Or when you guys just sat by while North Korea developed nuclear weapons?

Dems: not just soft on terrism, but actual terrists
Well, not "good" "Dems" like Joe Lieberman, but the kooky jihadists of the Taliban wing of the Democratic Party -

"[T]he beginning of a leftwing jihad."

- David Keene of the American Consertive Union (seen at RimJob's Home for Chronic Masturbators).

Taliban Democrats are willing to "kill" one of their own, if he does not conform to the narrow and rigid agenda of the party's kook fringe. Our already-poisoned political dialogue has not only been made more toxic, but contagious. Taliban Democrats have effectively issued a political "fatwah" that warns all Democrats not to deviate from their narrow line, or else face the end of their careers through a political jihad.

- frothing psychopathic douchehole Cal Thomas.

Word
"Its called democracy, but I wouldn’t expect anyone associated with Bush to understand the concept." - buzzbomb.



Ha ha, good one!
"I think it would be irresponsible and inconsistent with my principles if I were to just walk off the field," Lieberman said.

Which ones were they again?

SCLMWs
"The media describes the Connecticut election as a blow to 'moderates' and 'centrists.' But it wasn't. It was a victory for the reality-based, pragmatic community who is sick and tired of failure and extremism." - BuzzFlash.

Pretty much says it all right there
From ABC News, via firedoglake:

According to a close Lieberman adviser, the President’s political guru, Karl Rove, has reached out to the Lieberman camp with a message straight from the Oval Office: "The boss wants to help. Whatever we can do, we will do."

Message to the gpuke-enabling vichycrat whores
You spread your legs, and now you're getting plowed

For six years, we've heard from the smug, failed leadership of Republicans and Democrats alike on Capitol Hill. Now the voters have spoken -- and it's not a message that is going to be well-received by the "don't rock the boat" entrenched status quo Dems on Capitol Hill.

As one of his final failed efforts to retain the Democratic nomination for Senate, Lieberman claimed that a Lamont victory would send the wrong message to voters; i.e, that if Lieberman wasn't re-elected, the Democrats would be considered weak on security.

But the reality is that the majority of Democratic primary voters in Connecticut knew that to elect Joe Lieberman was to be weak on security. Because the policies Lieberman champions of the Bush Administration are merely the fig leaves that cover up unprecedented failures that in their bumbling implementation and multi-year bankrupting of America weaken our nation in a way no terrorists could.

If the Capitol Hill Dems don't back Ned Lamont, they will have the fight of their lives on the their hands. But it won't be with the Republicans, with whom the DLC is so chummy.

It will be with Democratic voters who are ready to throw out the elitist Democrats who value their cozy jobs more than they do the will of the people and the security of our nation.

- from a BuzzFlash editorial.

Two thumbs up for Oliver Stone, one UFIA to syphilitic harpy
Richard Roeper reviews "World Trade Center," calls skanky c*nt mAnn Coulter a 'hatemonger' and 'an unconscionable pig.'

Two thumbs up right back atcha, dude.




PSM
Thanks to work sucking wet lieberman ass, posting may have to wait until I get home. For a few days, any way.

Fair and balanced
Starting Sept. 13, Bush leg-humper and former comedian Dennis Miller will join his asshole buddies as a political contributor on Fox News' "Hannity & Corpse."

I haven't felt such ennui since the burgomeister of Liechtenstein ordered a double frappucino mit latte at the Triesenberg Starbucks.

'Cause you guys did such a heckuva job during Hurricane Katrina
Dear Bushies,

We understand that in case of a National Security incident where the state may have been incapacitated by an event, the President may need to control the National Guard. However, he is granted this authority under the "insurrection act."

The possibility of the federal government pre-empting the authority of the state or governor in natural and manmade disasters is opposed by the nation's governors. We are responsible for the safety and welfare of our citizens and are in the best position to coordinate all resources to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. When federal aid is needed it should be coordinated by the governors.

The nation's governors feel very strongly about protecting our constitutional responsibility to take care of our citizens, and do not want that responsibility shifted to federal officials, as defined by a "serious" emergency.

Drop dead,
The National Governors Association

Lieberman's mistaken idea of who's polarizing

With the enormous amount of damage George W. Bush has done to our country, Lieberman's supposed ability to "work with" the Republicans is not a sign of wonderful bipartisanship that gets good things done - his bipartisanship amounts to his agreeing with a lot of the Repbulican positions, and not being very forceful when he doesn't agree. And in terms of the war, he is not a bipartisan supporter, he's a shill for Bush, and never once held him accountable for the cherry picking of intelligence that was used to rev up the American people to go fight this war...

[M]aybe Ned Lamont can go to the Senate and actually DO something that Democratic voters want their Senator to do.

- Chris Durang, the HuffPo.

Revenge of the irate moderates
“This shows what blind loyalty to George Bush and being his love child means.” - Rahm Emanuel.

The defeat of Senator Joseph Lieberman at the hands of a little-known Connecticut businessman is bound to send a message to politicians of both parties that voters are angry and frustrated over the war in Iraq. The primary upset was not, however, a rebellion against the bipartisanship and centrism that Mr. Lieberman said he represented in the Senate. Instead, Connecticut Democrats were reacting to the way those concepts have been perverted by the Bush White House...

When Mr. Lieberman told the Washington Post, “I haven’t changed. Events around me have changed,” he actually put his finger on his political problem. His constituents felt that when the White House led the country into a disastrous international crisis and started subverting the nation’s basic traditions, Joe Lieberman should have changed enough to take a lead in fighting back.

- from a NY Times editorial.

Sore Loserman
"This is like watching your old uncle soil himself!"

Flipping off Dem voters and the whole Democratic Party, the pompous, self-righteous quisling - after saying he wants to unite, not divide - announced that he will run as an "independent." He should be thrown off every Senate committee he's on.

The voters have spoken. But Joe Lieberman isn't listening. Today, he will file the papers so he can run for the Senate as an independent.

Seconds after saying he'd congratulated Ned Lamont, Joe was taking a vicious swipe at him. But he just could not admit Lamont had won.

"The old politics of partisan polarization won today," Joe said.

The people in the crowd cheered with more energy than this campaign has generated in weeks. But some weren't so thrilled.

Joe told the crowd to e-mail him ideas for making Connecticut a better place. This led a woman to shout, "Can we have peace?"

And you think the voters were divided before on Joe's support of the war?

From his concession speech:

"The old politics of polarization won today. For the sake of our state, my country and my party, I cannot and will not let those results stands today.

"I will continue to offer Connecticut a different path forward.

"People are fed up with the petty partisanship and angry bickering in Washington. It is continually blocking progress on major problems and wasting America's greatness.

"I'll never hesitate to work with members of the other party if it helps to achieve solutions to build better life for people of Connecticut. I will always do what I believe is right for my state and country regardless of what the political consequences may be.

"Tomorrow is a brand new day. [I'll run a] new campaign to unite people of Connecticut, GOP, Democrat and independent, and move forward together and solve our most serious problems together."

Joe Lieberman: It's all about me.

Unbelievable.

Quote

"Republican candidates nationwide are looking at what happened to Joe Lieberman, and thinking about this photo and what it meant as the kiss of political death to Lieberman’s candidacy in so many ways.

"…and they are wondering if they will be next."

- Christy Hardin Smith.

Lamont topples Lieberman and shakes up the country
The politics of failure have failed!

As civil-rights leader Jesse Jackson put it to a TV reporter in the Lamont hall, "Democrats can no longer fake left and vote right. They can no longer be wolves in sheep's clothing."

Fox Nooze gets desperate
Shameless - check out the caption:

Woo hoo!!
Around 9:00 last night I turned on Fox News (Larry King was drooling on CNN and Scarborough was covering Will Ferrell's "anti-Christian film" on pMSNBC) and was soon laughing my ass off. It was beautiful seeing rightwing creeps like Sean Hannity, David Horowitz and others almost in tears as Lieberman lost his joementum and the primary. Hey guys, can you feel the first pricklings of doom tapping you on the shoulder? Mwwwaaahahahahaha. You are going to be so fucked this fall.


Click to enlarge. Check out what's written on the poster.
******

Bush, at 60, still a #ucking retard
Reuters reporter Steve 'kissass' Holland joins Stupie McSweatycheeks for a "brutal" bike ride at the presidental pig farm. In 100-degree heat.

"What I would give to be 16 again!" Bush yelled out at one point as he mashed the pedals of his tricycle Trek bicycle through a wooded area.

In fact, Bush does not ride quietly, constantly shouting out in his Texas twang the names of trees and geographic features and yelling at himself to pedal faster.

"Air assault!" he yelled as he started one of two major climbs...

"Air assault"??! Gawd! LOL

To be 16 again? It doesn't sound like he's made it to the level of an 8 year-old. No word if he stretched his arms out like wings and yelled "Nyraaaarrrwooow! Powpowpowpowpow!"

- dedalus at Blah3.