Pwn3d
Republican Congressional candidate's assertion that Bush has a strategy for success in Iraq greeted with laughter by Veterans group.

Republican Vern Buchanan was interrupted by laughter during a debate before a group of veterans Thursday when he insisted that the White House has a strategy for the war in Iraq.

He was reduced to pathetically spouting well-worn repug talking points, such as "The (Democratic) Party, I believe, want this cut-and-run mentality" and "The war in Iraq is part of a larger war on terra. We can't forget that 3,000 people were murdered on 9/11." Asshole.

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Integrity and accountability
Congressional repubs fire auditor who uncovered corruption in Iraq.

This is unbelievable:

Investigations led by Stuart Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton, and discovered that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces.

And tucked away in a huge military authorization bill that [Preznit Integritude] signed two weeks ago is what some of Mr. Bowen’s supporters believe is his reward for repeatedly embarrassing the administration: a pink slip.

The order comes from the Republican side of the House Armed Services Committee over the objections of Democratic counterparts during a closed-door conference, and it has generated surprise and some outrage among lawmakers who say they had no idea it was in the final legislation.

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Catapulting the propaganda
To help keep republicans in power, Fox News will repeatedly air a documentary prior to the elections to remind the public that Democr Islamofascists want to kill us.

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Syphilitic stank all over CNN
The most trusted name in news rolls like a dog when harpy skank trAnn Coulter threatens to not appear if forced to debate with a liberal.

CNN reportedly canceled a scheduled appearance by Air America's Sam Seder, who claimed that he was to debate Ann Coulter on The Situation Room - but that Coulter "refused to appear with me," because, Seder said, "she was afraid I might mention her reported refusal to cooperate in a [felony] investigation into whether she voted in the wrong precinct." Co-host/twit Paula Zahn did not ask Coulter about the report. Instead, Zahn hosted Slate.com contributor and Kerry-hater Mickey Kaus, to discuss Sen. John Kerry's "botched joke."

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Heh
"Why is it the war on terrorism seems to be fought between September and November every even-numbered year?" Sen. Barack Obama, at a campaign rally for Jim Webb.

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Why do you hate America?
Well, the new gpuke talking point isn't exactly phrased that way, but it might as well be.

All over the dial this past week, you could hear one rethug after another slavishly parrot the latest soundbite, "clearly aimed at challenging the patriotism of critics of the war in Iraq": do you want us to win? Maybe they should be asking the same question of themselves:

Gpukes commit major security breach
Are Republicans working directly with the terrists?

AmericaBlog reports that GOP leaders and the Bush misadministration put incredibly sensitive and dangerous information about how to build a nooculer bomb on the internets.

So when does the talk radio outrage start? What about the investigations? Where the hey is Senator/douchehole Rick Santorum?

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Huh - maybe Bush really IS thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people.
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FUBAR fact: from today's AP: "working a southwest Missouri campaign crowd like a yell leader, Bush blasted Democrats on Friday, saying they have no plan to keep Americans safe from terrorists." Uh-huh.
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God bless America
Vote and vaccs program shitcanned because the GOP was afraid that too many minorities would be tempted to vote when they showed up for the free flu shots. The decision "followed two days of criticism from some conservative bloggers and talk radio shows hosts after officials announced the program Monday."

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Lauer: shame on Dems, and shame on you
Matt Lauer coldcocks former Bush chief of staff Andy Card on this morning's 'Today':

"He made a joke and he said he blew it. Look me in the eye and tell me with even a fraction of your heart you think John Kerry meant to question the intelligence of U.S. troops in Iraq?"

He added, "I think a lot of Democrats should have shame on their shoulders this morning because they ran away from this guy as opposed to standing up and saying it was just a mistake."

Word.

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Repug adulterer paid mistress to shut up until after the election
Integrity! It's the gift that keeps on giving! A Republican congressman accused of strangling his mistress agreed to pay her $500,000 if she kept quiet until after Election Day.

Rep. Don "sure wood" Sherwood - a 65-year-old married father of three who is considered a family-values conservative - acknowledged the woman was his mistress, but denied abusing her and said that he had settled her $5.5 million lawsuit on confidential terms. She has received less than half the money so far, and will not get the rest until after the Nov. 7 election.

Fun fact: Preznit CharacterCounts campaigned for this decent, moral bozo just last week.
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This just in
The Saddam verdict is expected on Sunday - but his defence team today asked for a delay in sentencing, saying Saddam "believed Sunday's expected verdict was timed to boost President Bush before the U.S. mid-term elections." Developing...

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Friday fun

I love the webcomic XKCD.

Hugh Laurie before he was House, singing "Mystery." (Don't drink anything while watching, or it will go up your nose.)

From the makers of the Bass-O-Matic, it's WillItBlend.com. Mmm, that's great chicken 'n' cola! (Ew.)

Cats train for post-election fracas:





Erma pretends the camera strap is Rethug brownshirt 'nads. Sic 'em, girl.











--dg

Comment of the week

From AMERICAblog:

Can someone help me out here- I'm a red state hick homophobe and think the Republicans are in power thanks to the baby Jesus. How should I vote next Tuesday?

• Democrats are 'straight' but support gay rights.
• Republicans are all being exposed as 'gay' but are against gay rights.
• Can someone tell me if I can still go to heaven by supporting gay rights or by supporting someone that's gay?
• Come to think of it--if I've heard a sermon against homosexuality by a gay preacher, does that make my religion gay too?

As Scott Adams once said, "Hear that popping sound? It's a paradigm shifting without a clutch."

--dg

Changin' the course!
Makin' progr... At least 119 Iraqi policemen were killed in shootings, abductions and bomb attacks last month.

As the Iraq war continues to go "remarkably well," two civilians were kidnapped and at least 17 people were killed "in car bombings, mortar attacks and roadside explosions in Baghdad on Wednesday, as the sounds of gunfights and explosions reverberated through the capital for much of the day."

Adapting to win, Iraq president Talabani said Thursday that US troops should stay longer in Iraq, like at least three more years.

Supportin' the troops: the US soldier who was abducted in Baghdad and left behind on Bush's obeying of the Sadr militia's orders is still being held by his captors.

Adjustin' our tactics, the US toll for October was 105 dead and 700 wounded. Bush is "pleased with the progress," blames Democrats.

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Bus driver who flipped Bush the finger fights back
The bus driver who got fired after some tattle-taling little repuke douchenozzle squealed on her may be reinstated.

A bus driver fired for flipping off President Bush claims she was wrongfully terminated. The 43-year-old bus driver's union has filed a grievance on her behalf. The complaint came from Congressman Dave Reichert (R-Pindick), who was traveling with Bush in June to a fundraiser.

"Our dear leader was having fun until I pointed out what this - person - was doing," Reichert later whined.

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Osama isn't running, boneheads
Republicans are reeking of desperation, sez an editorial -

GOP reliance on fear-mongering and terrorist finger-pointing as a campaign tactic is growing old.

Part of the Republican playbook consists once again of conveniently confusing the war in Iraq with the post-9/11 war on terror. The disingenuous formulation remains: Criticize the war in Iraq and you're a Bin Laden sympathizer. Voters seem to be growing tired of such manipulation. Who knows, they may even notice that Al Qaeda's leader, in fact, has not been captured — except in the video montages of Republican campaign ads.

- Oh, snap!! From an LA Times editorial.

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Crooked and a dumbass
Howard Dean said Wednesday that Smirky McStupid is a lot like Richard Nixon, on top of being such a total fucking bonehead (paraphrasing):

"I think George Bush is the most incompetent president we've had in our lifetime. I mean, President Nixon was a sneaky, corrupt little fuck, but no one could say he was incompetent."

Not like this assclown!

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And fuck you!
Another editorial writer digs his old nutsacs out of the junk drawer, bashes the gpukes.

Republicans evidenced their election desperation by braying about an offhand comment that Sen. John Kerry made at a California college rally. Was Kerry making fun of the president, or warning students against the pitfalls awaiting the undereducated in general? It doesn't matter. Kerry was right either way.

- from a Seattle PI editorial.
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A toast, sir...
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"Tell you what: if you are in the army and are insulted about the comment, you are who Kerry was talking about." - comment on the internets.


Feigned outrage - almost as distracting as squirrels!
Stupie McStupidhead has been equating voting for a Democrat with supporting terrorists - but does anyone remember when Bush revealed that he spent most of his time plotting to kill millions of Americans?

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -George W. Bush

No reasonable person thought he really intended to murder US citizens, but we have dumbasses all over the country getting their panties in a wad now about Kerry screwing up.
-- from milk_plus

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trAnn Coulter voter fraud case likely to go to prosecutors
Karma, like "Ms" Coulter, is a bitch.

Values and accountability... The Godless, syphilitic harpy has "refused to cooperate" in the investigation about whether she voted in the wrong precinct, so the case will likely be turned over to state prosecutors Friday, the Palm Beach County's elections chief said yesterday.

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The Great Divider
Hot damn! A great editorial in the NY Times:

As President Bush throws himself into the final days of a particularly nasty campaign season, he’s settled into a familiar pattern of ugly behavior. Since he can’t defend the real world created by his policies and his decisions, Mr. Bush is inventing a fantasy world in which to campaign on phony issues against fake enemies.

In Mr. Bush’s world, America is making real progress in Iraq. In the real world, as Michael Gordon reported in yesterday’s Times, the index that generals use to track developments shows an inexorable slide toward chaos...

Mr. Bush has been pushing divisive themes all over the nation, offering up the ludicrous notion the other day that if Democrats manage to control even one house of Congress, America will lose and the terrorists will win. But he hit a particularly creepy low when he decided to distort a lame joke lamely delivered by Senator John Kerry...

[W]hen candidates for lower office make their opponents out to be friends of Osama bin Laden, or try to turn a minor gaffe into a near felony, that’s just depressing. When the president of the United States gleefully bathes in the muck to divide Americans into those who love their country and those who don’t, it is destructive to the fabric of the nation he is supposed to be leading.

This is hardly the first time that Mr. Bush has played the politics of fear, anger and division; if he’s ever missed a chance to wave the bloody flag of 9/11, we can’t think of when. But Mr. Bush’s latest outbursts go way beyond that. They leave us wondering whether this president will ever be willing or able to make room for bipartisanship, compromise and statesmanship in the two years he has left in office.

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Denny to spend more time with his buffet counter

House Speaker Dennis Hastert is expected by many Republicans to step aside as the GOP's leader if Democrats win big in next week's election. He may be on his way out even if the GOP emerges with a narrow majority.

The No. 2 House Republican, Majority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, is looking very much like a candidate to fill Hastert's shoes even though some Republicans appear to be agitating for fresh faces all around, win or lose.

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Pathetic
The shameless repukes, scared shitless, are desperately trying to keep attention off Iraq by lying through their asses and again invoking 9/11.

"John Kerry, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the 'blame America first' crowd, they want to blame Iraq on the president, Rumsfeld and everyone else," said autofellating shitbag John Boehner, R-Etard. "Why don't we blame it on the terrorists, the people who killed 2,000 people here in New York?"

Uhh, why would we do that?

John Boner, President Stupid, Dick "other priorities during Vietnam" Cheney and the rest of the "blame Bill Clinton first" crowd, they want to blame Iraq on everybody but the inept, bungling powermad nincompoops that lied us into that country and have fucked it up ever since. Impeach them. Impeach them all.

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Dean: Boehner had better fucking apologize for blaming the the mess in Iraq on our troops
Last night, during an interview on CNN, House Republican Leader John "boner" Boehner blamed the military for the Bush misdministration’s majorly fucked-up Iraq fiasco:

Boehner: Wolf, I understand that, but let's not blame what's happening in Iraq on Rumsfeld.

Wolf Blitzer: But he's in charge of the military.

Boehner: But the fact is the generals on the ground are in charge and he works closely with them and the president.

Howard Dean, like many of us, had had enough:

"After the Bush Administration’s numerous failures in Iraq, to blame our brave troops is just wrong. John Boehner should apologize immediately. Once again, Republican leadership is pointing fingers rather than taking responsibility for their failures. Our brave troops deserve better from Republican leaders like Don Rumsfeld, John Boehner and Dick Cheney.”

Dean was joined by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and DNCC Chairman Rahm Emanuel:

Reid: "John Boehner ought to be ashamed. He's blaming our troops for failures in Iraq. If he wants to cast blame, he can start by looking in the mirror because he and his Congressional Republican colleagues have rubberstamped the Bush Administration's failed policy for nearly four years. Our troops in Iraq have performed bravely. It's political leaders like Congressman Boehner and Donald Rumsfeld, who have failed. I expect President Bush and Congressional Republicans, who demanded John Kerry apologize, hold their own party's majority leader to a much higher standard. There's no spinning his disparaging comments. He made them. He needs to apologize."

Emanuel: "President Bush used to say that he would listen to the generals. Today, he says he’s happy to listen to Secretary Rumsfeld while his lieutenant in Congress, John Boehner blames the generals on the ground for the chaos in Iraq."

And by Sherrod Brown, running for Senate in Ohio:

"Of course, they (Republicans) are using it as a rallying call because they want to change the subject. John Kerry stumbled on a joke, it didn't come out right. The people who should apologize are George Bush and Mike DeWine for sending our troops into battle without body armor and without examining the cooked intelligence."

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Bush: yore doin' a heckuva job, Unca Rummy!
BubbleBoy "pleased" with Iraq "progress."

In an interview in the Oval Office Wednesday Bush credited Rumsfeld with overseeing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while overhauling the military. "I'm pleased with the progress we're making," the president said. He replied in the affirmative if he wanted Rumsfeld and Cheney to stay with him until the end.

"Maybe we can all be buried together!"

What... the... fuck happy bullshit planet is he on??? Unbelievable..

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Bush owes us an apology - for his destructive presidency
Whoa - another must-read by Keith Olberman:

There is tonight no political division in this country that he and his party will not exploit, nor have not exploited; no anxiety that he and his party will not inflame.

There is no line this President has not crossed — nor will not cross — to keep one political party in power.

He has spread any and every fear among us, in a desperate effort to avoid that which he most fears — some check, some balance against what has become not an imperial, but a unilateral presidency. And now it is evident that it no longer matters to him, whether that effort to avoid the judgment of the people, is subtle and nuanced — or laughably transparent.

Senator John Kerry called him out Monday.

He did it two years too late...

A brief reminder, Mr. Bush: You are not the United States of America.

You are merely a politician whose entire legacy will have been a willingness to make anything political — to have, in this case, refused to acknowledge that the insult wasn't about the troops, and that the insult was not even truly about you either — that the insult, in fact, is you.

So now John Kerry has apologized to the troops; apologized for the Republicans' deliberate distortions. Thus the President will now begin the apologies he owes our troops, right?

Even more disturbing: [Senator/Bush asswiper John] McCain demanded [an] apology, while electioneering for a Republican congressional candidate in Illinois. He was speaking of how often he had been to Walter Reed Hospital to see the wounded Iraq veterans, of how, quote "many of the have lost limbs." He said all this while demanding that the voters of Illinois reject a candidate who is not only a wounded Iraq veteran, but who lost two limbs there: Tammy Duckworth.
Support some of the wounded veterans. But bad-mouth the Democratic one.

This, is our beloved country now, as you have re-defined it, Mr. Bush. Get a tortured Vietnam veteran to attack a decorated Vietnam veteran, in defense of military personnel, whom that decorated veteran did not insult.

Or, get your henchmen to take advantage of the evil lingering dregs of the fear of miscegenation in Tennessee, in your party's advertisements against Harold Ford.

Or, get the satellites who orbit around you, like Rush Limbaugh, to exploit the illness — and the bi-partisanship — of Michael J. Fox — yes, get someone to make fun of the cripple.

Oh, and sir, don't forget to drag your own wife into it:

"It's always easy," she said of Mr. Fox's commercials — and she used this phrase twice — "to manipulate people's feelings."

Where on earth might the First Lady have gotten that idea, Mr. President? From your endless manipulation of people's feelings about terrorism?

Read the whole thing here. Video links included. God bless help America.

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"Kerry botched a joke. Bush botched a war." - comment on the interwebs.

Dean to Awol McStupid: fuck you, you pansy-assed chickenhawk twerp
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean yesterday ripped into Bush for his comments regarding John Kerry:

"I think it also focuses on the President's own 'intemperate' language," Dean told reporters. "Saying that voting for Democrats is voting for the terrorists to win, I think is intemperate, especially coming from a guy who is criticising someone who did serve, and President Bush has never served."

I want to when Bush is going to apologize for "Bring 'em on!" or "Mission Accomplished." Or "I'm pleased with the progress we're making" in Iraq. Or calling the coffins of our dead soldiers "trans-shipments." Or "just a comma." Or "I know those WMDs are around here somewhere..." Or leaving one of soldiers behind enemy lines this week. Or "They've got [number of troops in Iraq that] they can live with." Or 3000 lives. Or "Lucky me, I hit the Trifecta."..

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More ownage--a must-read

Sy Hersh, investigative journalist, spoke at McGill University in Montreal on the Misadministration and Iraq:

I don’t know if he’s in Iraq because God told him to, because his father didn’t do it, or because it’s the next step in his 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program.

Hersh has been working for nearly 40 years as a journalist specializing in military and security topics, and helped expose the My Lai massacre in 1969, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.

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Gee, Keith, why don't you say what you really think for once? :)

Olbermann pwns Chimpy McFlydown (some more), and gives John McCain a well-earned wedgie for good measure.

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More blood on their hands

Truth emerges about soldier's death: she committed suicide in Iraq after objecting to interrogation techniques.

This is just fucking sad, and makes me think not only about the dead and wounded, but about all the people who have been and will be emotionally scarred or destroyed by this war. Because believe me, it takes a special sort of sociopath to think of him or herself as a person of integrity and decency while perpetrating crimes against humanity.

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"You talkin' about me? Mah ears are burnin'."

"Heckuva job! *zzzzttt* *blargh* Don' poke me, Laura, ah'm awake!"

Andrew Sullivan: if you liked how they handled Katrina, then you're loving Iraq.

Vote. Their. Sorry. Asses. Out. (And send McMoron and McBirdshot to live in Baghdad or New Orleans for the next 8 years.)

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My, what a big. . . closet you have, Ted.

Male escort claims that Ted Haggard, pastor of a Colorado megachurch and President of the National Association of Evangelicals, paid him for sex over a three year period. Y'all, I can't stress enough who this guy is--he's one of those people with a direct line to Pretzelnit McMoron. After James "I wish his mother had practiced abstinence" Dobson, he's probably the most influential evangelical in the country.

You know, I also hate sounding as though I disapprove of gays, or of anything that happens in private between consenting adults--so for the record, I sure don't. But I can't help but enjoy it when these hypocrites are shown for what they are. And it's never that they have a girlfriend or a boyfriend on the side or anything that seems kind of normalish, albeit skeevy. There always seems to be risk-seeking behavior or violence, coupled with alcohol or drugs to numb out the consciousness of what it is they really want to do/are doing. Out me!/No, don't out me! Ooh, the shame./Um, whatever you just did--would you do it again?

Let me leave you with a quote from Haggard's own website, where he talks about Bill Clinton:

"Bill Clinton's White House was the most responsive in recent history," he said. "He really wanted to please evangelical Christians. He's a Bible-believing Christian himself; his problem was, he was a sex addict."

Guess it does take one to know one.

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Hee hee - not only did this good fambly-values Christian have a sexual relationship with a gay hooker, he also had a somewhat different kind of relationship with methamphetamine!
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*****

Pic by HomoHabilis.

"Dick Cheney says Iraq violence is up because insurgents want you to vote 'Democrat', not because his fat ass lacks any sort of coherent security plan to maintain stability in Iraq in the first place." - headline on teh interwebs.

Changin' the course!
Makin' progr... Over 40 people have been reported kidnapped in Iraq.

As the Iraq war continues to go "remarkably well," a suicide car bomber kills 23 people in a Baghdad wedding party - including nine children - and wounds 19 others.

Adjustin' our tactics, Rumsfeld OKs plan to increase cannon fodder in Iraq.

Adapting to win, Central Command reports Iraq is very close to chaos, with both the army and police "ineffectual" and “violence at all-time high, spreading geographically.”

Fun fact: the Air Force has requested extra funds to help pay to transport growing numbers of troops being killed and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Fun fact 2: Awol McFuckhead left one of our soldiers behind enemy lines when the Iraqis ordered Bush to pull our guys out of Sadr City.

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Dem activist to file charges against Allen thugs
Why do Senator Macacawitz's staffers hate freedom?

W. Michael Stark, last seen being shoved, put into a chokehold, slammed head-first against a window and wrestled to the ground by three of George Allen's goons, is pressing assault charges against them.

Charlottesville Police Lt. Gary Pleasants said Stark reported the incident yesterday and indicated that he wanted to press assault charges against the men. Pleasants said police are investigating and trying to determine the names of the Allen staffers involved.

"We will find out who the people are and he can go to the magistrate and try to obtain a warrant for them," Pleasants said.

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Life's a bitch, and then you get impeached
Bad: Bush is energizing the base.
Good: The Democratic base.

Smirky McGoober, on the campaign trail, can't stop talking about Iraq - and repug strategists wish he'd stop:

One GOP strategist, speaking candidly about the president on the condition of anonymity, offered this assessment: "I'd say he's at least 50 percent of the problem."

"He should stay away," the strategist said.

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Rethug values and high moral standards
Stupie "character counts" McGroperson will appear on the radio show of a lying, intolerant, hateful bigot and admitted junkie who was arrested on the suspicion of bringing illegal drugs into the United States not that long ago, and who last week mocked a person suffering from a life-threatening disease. What will we tell the children??

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Powermad quisling aggressively pursues GOP votes
It's all about me! Me, me, me!

[The smarmy, power-hungry sore loserman] has alienated plenty of Democrats with his independent bid. Just imagine their anger if he costs them control of the House.

Lieberman's coattails could carry the GOP incumbents to re-election and undercut Democratic hopes of majority control.

"There's resentment on a lot of people's parts," said Richard Smith, Democratic town committee chairman in Milford, a New Haven suburb. "There's something about the American character. We love a good fight, but we also love people who play by the rules. C'mon Joe, you're a Democrat or you're not a Democrat. Sometimes, self-interest takes the day."

Meanwhile, Retard McJesus continued to heap praise on the greasy-assed vichycrat, tellling Hannity and Corpse, "one man who stood by his decision is Joe Lieberman. He understands the consequences. The Democrat party ran him out of the party because he stood on principle. The thing that amazes me is the Democrat party used to be the party of, you know, Harry Truman and John Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt, people who understood you need to confront problems so a generation of people could grow up in peace."

No, your asshole buddy left the Democratic party when he blindly followed you instead of confronting the problem you made of Iraq. The Democratic party listened to the will of the voters, you halfwitted blowhole.

Rethug family values
So, US Rep. John Sweeney - when did you stop beating your wife?

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Fear and smear is all he's got
Changing the tone in Washington, Awol 'uniter' McLiar said Monday that a Democratic take-over in the House and Senate -- resulting in some kind of real benchmark in Iraq -- would amount to a victory for the terrists.

Oh really? Maybe he better talk to some in his own party -

"We have certainly advised candidates to not appear that they are marching in lock step with the administration in terms of how the Iraq war is being conducted,” a senior Republican Party Senate strategist said, insisting on anonymity. “If you aren’t speaking out against the way that this war has been conducted, you are dead in the water.”

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Kerry discovers set of 'nads in box in garage
John Kerry gives a boisterous one-fingered salute to the stuffed-suited hacks and doughy pantloads hiding behind their dorito-and-cumstain-encrusted keyboards.

"Enough is enough" is right. And that goes for the cringing pussy Dems cowering under their beds, afraid to take on the miserable lying bunglers in the White House and in the media. Fuck you. Fuck you, and your craven 'strategists' still pissing in their pants in fear instead of firing back with both barrels. Fuck you, you worthless asshole cowards.

"They know precisely what I was saying. And they're trying to turn this because they have a bankrupt policy and they can't defend it to the nation and they can't defend it to the world. And I'm not going to stand for this anymore; period.

“No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut-and-run policy in Afghanistan and a stand-still-and-lose strategy in Iraq,” Kerry said in his statement. "No way. It disgusts me that a bunch of these Republican hacks who've never worn the uniform of our country are willing to lie about those who did. It's over."

And God bless Al Sharpton, who told Fuc Tucker Carlson last night that "If John Kerry is smart, he will keep the issue out there about what he said about Iraq" and "thanks be to Tony Snow. He's brought [the war] back front and center."

Meanwhile, Senator/douchehole Rick Santorum opponent Bob Casey suggested that the White House should “fire Rumsfeld instead of trashing Democrats:”

"From what I can gather, Kerry botched a joke. That's what he said, and I take him at his word. He served in combat. Last time I checked, the president and the vice president did not. The White House and the Santorum forces should get to work on dealing with the real problems in Iraq. The first thing they should do is fire Mr. Rumsfeld instead of spending a lot of time trashing Democrats."

Reminder to those suffering from Democratic Derangement Syndrome: Kerry isn't running for anything right now. Assholes.

Update: Kerry apologized this morning. Bush, Rumsfeld et. al. have not.

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WH caught in another boner
Remember that plot to blow up 10 US-bound planes that disrupted air travel for months? The two brothers charged have been released due to lack of evidence.

Fun fact: the Bushies pressured the Brits into making the arrests prematurely - like right before the Lamont/Loserman primary election.

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Word
Where's our apology, repukes?

The country endures a government that merges blithering corruption with murderous incompetence.

Congress, which once spent an entire year investigating a married man's attempt to cover up an illicit act of oral sex, has shown no curiosity whatsoever about a war that the Bush administration elected to wage that has killed and maimed hundreds of thousands and led our own people to commit war crimes and squandered hundreds of billions of dollars and degenerated into civil war. The contrast is deafening.

Garrison Keillor.

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