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The Halloweenies Edition of DU's Top 10 Conservative Idiots.

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"Wolf, why do you hate America?"
“Don't you want us to win?”

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, longtime Bush rump-swab, gets off his knees and calls out shrill, hypocritical man-in-a-dress harpy Lynne Cheney for ‘sniping at my patriotism,’ wearing that awful outfit.

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Karma, like GOP candidate, is a bitch
After threatening to slap a wheelchair-bound man suffering from MS, repulsive Wyoming congresswoman loses lead.

The Democratic candidate for the only House seat in the reddest of states - Dick "dick" Cheney's Wyoming - is drawing even with GOP Rep. Barbara "classless douchebag" Cubin after she threatened to slap wheelchair-bound third-party candidate Thomas Rankin.

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Here we go...
White House probes voting machines for Chavez ties, ignores those with ties to conservatives.

The US government has launched an investigation of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting machines following allegations of its ties to the government of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

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Bush "upbeat," still lying about Iraq
Catapulting the propaganda:

While he was discussing the situation in Iraq and explaining the reasons the United States launched a pre-emptive strike against the country, Bush told journalists that "I believe when you get attacked and somebody declares war on you, you fight back. And that's what we're doing."

OK, touchhole, let's review:
a) Saddam did not attack us
b) Iraq had no wmds
c) Iraq did not declare war on us
d) Saddam invited us into his country prior to the war to prove he had no wmds
e) It was mostly Saudis who were responsible for the 9/11 attacks
f) You're a pathetic, lying moron with no decency or scruples.
g) Fuck you, you lying git.

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Constantly changin' tactics to achieve strategery
As we "win support" and build "bonds of friendship," the US military death toll in Iraq for October climbs to 100. Make that 101.

With the insurgency in its last throes, blasts kill at least 35 people and wound scores in Baghdad in one of bloodiest days in the capital in weeks.

A few dead-enders kill 80 in Iraq, 33 in Sadr City bombings.

As Iraqis stand up, they're ... ummmm ... falling over. Dead. 17 policemen were kidnapped and killed in Basra Sunday night. Bonus: Britain will be evacuating some of its staff from the consulate there due to increased attacks by insurgents.

Makin' progr... Violence surges in Iraq.

Democracy's on the march: Bush's "free Iraq" is a living horror film - tortured prisoners huddled in dungeons, murder victims mutilated with knives and electric drills, and distraught families searching for relations who have been "disappeared."

Adjustin' tactics, fourteen thousand weapons the United States has provided to Iraqi security forces cannot be accounted for, a new report to Congress says.

Double bonus: House Majority Leader and clueless partisan douchenozzle John "Boner" Boehner (R-Duh) says “Rumsfeld is the best thing that’s happened to the Pentagon in 25 years."
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And the award for least convincing Halloween costume goes to. . .

Turns out that a phony "progressive" group that sent out mailings in Pennsylvania targeting Democratic candidate for Senate Bob Casey was chartered by former counsel for the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004. I am shocked, I tell you, shocked! Mainly by how fucking stupid some astroturfers are.

(story via TPMmuckraker)

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Hey, Blogger!

"How ’bout YOU back off, beehortch? You work for ME."

More fun than a summer in the National Guard: Lex fisks the hell out of Rumsfeld's press conference the other day. (You don't like the word "bee-hortch," do you, Lex? *gigglesnort*)


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"Boo who?" "Boo you."
(pic via Earthhope Action Network)

Zen moment before the mud flies again























--dg

(Pic from stuffonmycat.com)

Still here. . .

Apologies to all, especially Maru, who as usual has been doing all the work around here. Lameitude, a rotten cold, and stupid homeowning issues have kept me from my desk. But no way will I miss this last week before the election! Anyway, here's a list of things I saw out of the corner of my eye while mopping up the laundry room flood and listening to every drain in my house go bloop bloop bloop:

Rethug family values: it's bad, b-a-a-a-d, for Democratic candidates to take porn money. But gay porn money is fine and dandy for Rethug candidates. Hypocritical asshattery or asshattish hypocrisy--take your pick!

Freedom-hatin'--it's not just for Islamist tools: Pretzelnit McFascist signed a revised Insurrection Act that gives him the power to declare public emergencies within the United States' borders and deploy National Guard troops within our borders. Think he's scared of what might happen if the Rethugs try to steal this election?

"Everything Rush Limbaugh says means the same thing": Lance Mannion pwns the living shit out of Limpballs and his listeners. (Thanks to Lex for the link.)

The Kool-Aid continues to wear off: Bob Schieffer to Mehlman--you're lame. (via AMERICAblog)

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"No, Kitty, don't look!" "Aaaaaah, too late!"

Sincere pumpkin patch, corner of Jackson and Ninth, Oxford, Mississippi.

Oops! Time to go to a commercial break!


TV screen grab from here.
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3 GOP mayors asked to quit for 'not marching in lockstep' with the party

GOP leaders from Arizona Legislative District 4 on Friday called for the resignations of three West Valley mayors, all registered Republicans, because of their endorsement of Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat.

District 4 party leaders said they followed orders from Arizona Republican Party Chairman Matt Salmon in demanding the resignation of any GOP elected official who endorsed a candidate from another party.

"We're letting the public know that if you are a Republican, you should stand by your party or remain silent," said Lyle Tuttle, chairman of the Republican Party of District 4.

"This reminds me of Reverend Jim Jones saying, 'Stand in line and drink the Kool-Aid,'" Mayor Elaine Scruggs of Glendale said.

Busted...
Hypocritical harpy Lynne Cheney: I never wrote about lesbians!

Oh really? Some reviews:

Murder, rape, extramarital affairs and loveless marriages, lynching...

A stunning tale of a lonely young housewife's struggle with the temptations of unnatural love.

Hot and steamy frontier lesbian lovin'!

No one today writes Lesbian fiction quite like Lynne Cheney!

Customers tagged this product with:
Porn
Bad bad bad porn
Gay
Lesbian porn

High moral standards
TPM Cafe is reporting that there will be three more indictments of republicans involved in the Abramoff scandal - but that they are being held back until after the elections:

Rumors flying out of the US Justice Department say that three new indictments in the Jack Abramoff bribery scandal are now prepared ­but are being held back until after Election Day.

The few remaining Democratic attorneys in the Bush Justice Department have been grumbling about the obvious political agenda behind this delay. More Members of Congress falling to the Abramoff investigation is hardly the October Surprise that Karl Rove has been looking for.

The two about to face the music are Senator Conrad Burns of Montana and Congressman John Doolittle of California according to sources inside Justice.

They are all in tough races ­ and the Republicans clearly know that election-eve indictments would seal the fates of all three.

Reader Meryll shows some compassion to the beleaguered repooplicans.


Busted!
"We've never been 'stay the course'" may go down as one of the most ridiculous -- and ridiculed -- utterances of the Bush presidency, says the Froomster:

Less than a week later, there are 96 and counting entries on YouTube making a lie of his assertion, trumpeting videotaped examples of Bush using that particular phrase to describe his Iraq strategy -- over and over again.

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Friday cat blogging


SpiceGirl has the right idea...
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He wasn't talking about torture! He was talking about shampooing!
White House on the defensive after Dick 'dick' Cheney comments that waterboarding is a "no-brainer."


"I'll fucking shampoo their brains out!"
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Arrrr! So - what's going on today, mateys?


What liberal media?
NBC is refusing to air an ad for the new Dixie Chicks documentary Shut Up & Sing because it's "disparaging to President Bush."

Ads falsely claiming Dem candidates are charging taxpayers for phone sex; are mafiosi; or, if they're black, are screwing your white women are still ok, though.