Moral values
Sanctimonious, holier-than-thou good Catholic and fetus abuser Rick Santorum, R-PA, made some wild claims back in late July and early August about Boston and the Catholic Church sex abuse scandals. At that time Santorum tried to pin the blame on Senators Kennedy and Kerry claiming they “did nothing” about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church (which, surprise, surprise, was a lie).

Now, after a three-year investigation, a Philadelphia grand jury has exposed some of the ugliest, most vile sex abuse in the country and one the most most blatant cover-ups. Read more here.
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Pork over people
GOP = Greedy, Oily Pigs

Are Republicans in Washington going to get serious about their fiduciary responsibility to the nation, or are they going to continue wrecking the country's finances to secure their own reelection? As engineers continue to pump floodwaters out of New Orleans and Hurricane Rita selects her target, Republicans have to make a choice - possibly the most important choice since the party took charge of Congress. When the chips are down, to whom will they be loyal: the public or themselves?

- from the usually prone and Bush-kissing Manchester Union Leader.


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Roll out the barrel
While it’s easy to dismiss the National Enquirer, it's also often accurate and can hold its own in a libel suit.

Alcoholism is a chronic disease. As the article relates, the Bushling never went for therapy. It would be much more difficult to believe that he would NOT return to drinking! He attributes his miraculous cure from a very real disease to the strength of his Christian faith. However, his faith doesn’t seem strong enough to produce a moral conversion, as he remorselessly engages in lying, killing and torture. It seems that his religiosity, far from being curative, only aggravates his mental illnesses as well.

The Enquirer has the best explanation so far of why Turd Blossom didn't rush to prop up Dubya with another bullhorn in front of a news camera during and after the destruction of New Orléans - Preznit Partypants was drunk as a skunk.


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We don't need no civil war
Keepin' us safer

Meanwhile, as the insurgency winds down its last throes, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal warned Thursday that Iraq is moving toward total disintegration, and war there could spread to neighboring countries.

Space cadet
Jeb! Bush and his astral buddy Chang are this week's BuzzFlash "GOP Hypocrites of the Week":

When asked about [son] John's latest encounter with the police, Jeb's office said that it was a private family matter. But when it comes to Americans that Jeb thinks are "morally dragging" the nation down, Jeb is quite outspoken about their private family lives.

Maybe he should check if Chang has a brother.
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Are we not men


Devo bassist Jerry Casale on George Dumbya:

"Bush is an insecure, moronic, dickless spud who has to prove he’s macho. There’s nothing more frightening than a dickless, wimpy man who has to prove he’s a god."

:: golf clap::

Effie tries to wake Egon and Jaffa.
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Good crap.
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Beat on the brat
Phil Donahue smacks the living snot out of Bill O'Reilly with a hot, wet falafel.


Clicky.
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Abramoff probe may threaten leading Republicans
Bringing honor and integrity back to Washington...

The widening investigation of lobbyist/Tom "scumbag" DeLay golfing buddy Jack "me off" Abramoff is moving beyond the confines of tawdry influence-peddling to threaten leading figures in the Republican hierarchy that dominates Washington.

This week's arrest of David Safavian, the former head of procurement at the Office of Management and Budget, in connection with a land deal involving Abramoff brings the probe to the White House for the first time.

Safavian once worked with Abramoff at one lobbying firm and was a partner of Grover Norquist, the beetle-dicked national Republican strategist with close ties to the White House, at another. Safavian traveled to Scotland in 2002 with Abramoff, Representative Robert Ney of Ohio and another top Republican organizer, Ralph Reed, southeast regional head of George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign and raving, sanctimonious arch-Christian conservative asshat.

House Majority Leader and corrupt dickrag Tom "you make me want to puke, you fucking bag of shit" DeLay, who once called Abramoff "one of my closest and dearest friends," already figures prominently in the investigation of the lobbyist's links to Republicans. The probe may singe other lawmakers with ties to Abramoff, such as Republican Senator Conrad Burns of Montana, as well as Ney.

"These people all shared transactions together,'' said former House Democratic counsel Stan Brand, now a partner in the Washington-based Brand Law Group. ``That's always something that worries defense lawyers."

Ha ha ha ha ha! Sweet!.


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Learning nothing
The 'Brownie' of US Customs and Immigration:

Julie "who??" Myers, a 36-year-old with limited executive experience, is slated to become head of one of the nation's most critical security-related agencies, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security.

Myers' uncle is none other than the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard B. Myers.

And Myers' husband is DHS chief Michael Chertoff's current chief of staff, John F. Wood.

- from NewsMax, so no link.

Feeling safer yet?


Whatever.
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Integritude
"A blatant disregard for the interests of taxpayers"

(Washington, D.C.) Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named House Majority Leader/corrupt scumbag Tom DeLay (R-Insane) and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Don Young (R-Tinypenis) Co-Porkers of the Month for their response to requests to offset the costs of Hurricane Katrina relief.

According to a September 14 Washington Times article, Rep. DeLay declared an “ongoing victory” in the effort to cut spending, and that the Republicans had “pared [the government] down pretty good.” While claiming to be receptive to proposed offsets, Mr. DeLay said that “nobody has been able to come up with any yet.”

Rep. Young had a much more curt response when asked by a Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reporter about redirecting the combined $450 million for the Gravina Island and Knik Arm (renamed Don Young’s Way) bridges to hurricane victims: “They can kiss my ear.” He then called such a request the “dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”

Jerkoff.


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Supportin' the troops
This came in through anonymous email and I haven't been able to confirm it, but it wouldn't surprise me. You must be effing crazy if you thought the goddamn disgusting bloated bag of shit GOP rep from Alaska wasn't going to pass up the chance to see his name plastered on his 315 million dollar bridge to nowhere.

A group of House Republicans have proposed a plan to offset the costs of relief and rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina that includes trimming military quality-of-life programs, including health care. Possible sources of funding cuts to free up money for Katrina relief include reduced health benefits, consolidation of the three military exchange systems and the closure of the military’s stateside school system.

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Repukes tear into Bush at prestigious, hoity-toity conference of rich white fascists fatcats
Cranky, incontinent traitor Bob Novak - who somehow still has a job - sort of leaks "off the record" grousing, hostility towards Preznit Partyhat from elite rethugs channelling their inner Frenchmen, but does not reveal his sources - except PBS's Charlie Rose, who's a commie symp in the liberal media anyway, so fuck him.


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Great moments in television
CNN's Jack Cafferty nearly sent Wolf Blitzer running to the little girls' room last night.

CAFFERTY: Congressional Republicans are suggesting ways for the government to save more than $500 billion over the next ten years to offset the cost of Hurricane Katrina. Cutting funding on programs from NASA to Medicare to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The question this hour is, what should be cut from the federal budget in order to pay for Katrina?

Andrea in Round Lake Beach, Illinois, writes: Bush's war in Iraq should be de-funded, and the soldiers should be brought home. Let the oil companies, Halliburton and others with an interest in the Iraqi oil fields finance their own enterprises, it should not be a public expense.

Sherrie in Camarillo, California: Oh, no question about it. Congressional salaries, their underlings' salaries, and the president's salary too, while we're at it.

Maggie writes from New Smyrna Beach, Florida: They should cut all perks to oil companies, that bridge in Alaska and all tax cuts to the rich folks, but knowing the way our government works, they'll end up cutting funding for the Army Corps of Engineers, the Centers for Disease Control, and to public services for lower income Americans.

Michael in Plymouth, Minnesota: The bulk of the funding for the restoration of the Gulf Coast should come from the recently passed transportation bill. Even a blind man can see there's enough pork in that bill to feed an army for several years over -- Wolf.

BLITZER: All right. Tom DeLay says there's no pork, everything is essential. I don't know if you heard him say that.

CAFFERTY: Has he been indicted yet?

BLITZER: (laughing) We'll leave that alone.

The unethical scumbag.
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10-week-old male panda cub at the National Zoo in Washington, Sept. 19, 2005, at his sixth health exam. Baby pandas never follow me home...


Bush 'falling apart'
Bunnypants "at his wit's end," says source with a straight face.

'Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life,' Preznit Partypants is boozing again, the paper-of-record for red-state America, the National Inquirer, reports.

A Washington source reveals "The sad fact is that he has been sneaking drinks for weeks now. Laura may have only just caught him (in Crawford, when he learned how bad the Katrina damage was) - but the word is his drinking has been going on for a while in the capital. He's been in a pressure cooker for months."




It's hard work!
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Hmmmmmmm....
Senate Majority Leader/sanctimonious douchebag Bill Frist suddenly pulls the plug on his family's stock - two weeks before it tanks.

Fun fact: his "family business" hospital chain is the largest provider of on-demand for $$$ abortions in the US.

Integrity.


Ahhhhhhhhhh!
Bush braces for worst as Cindy Sheehan's other son drowns in New Orleans.
- headline at The Onion. Heh.

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In other news
Chinese companies name condom for Bill Clinton, vacuum-colored crayon for George W Bush.


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Known unknowns
Must-read: Time magazine's "Ways the Bush [mis]administration fucked up the war in Iraq, over and over and over again."

Hey, look! Rita's now a category 4!

:: crickets ::

Katrina adds to public doubts about Bush
New polls continue to show Bunnypants' numbers sliding down crapper.

Hurricane Katrina did more than wipe out much of the Mississippi coastline and flood New Orleans. The storm and the bungled government response eroded [Preznit PlayStation]'s political standing and dampened enthusiasm for his second-term agenda.

For the first time, senior Republican consultants and lawmakers are warning the White House that Bush's base is perilously close to deserting him. With nearly all Democrats and two-thirds of independents soured on his presidency, Bush needs to hang onto the large majority of braindead, sheeplike zomboids Republicans who back him.

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Great moments in television
On fire! Jack Cafferty blasts the Bushies over their efforts to whitewash the investigation into the Katrina fiasco:

WOLF BLITZER: Let's bring in our Jack Cafferty. He always weighs in on the big stories. The president wants his Homeland Security adviser to conduct an internal investigation. The Republican leadership in the House and Senate want a bipartisan, but Republican-led investigation. Where's the independent 9/11 Commission-type of investigation to get to the bottom of this?

JACK CAFFERTY: I have no idea. That's the short answer. You can't make this stuff up, Wolf. President Bush naming his Homeland Security adviser to investigate what went wrong with the government's response to Hurricane Katrina.

Frances Towsend is the one who most recently oversaw the reorganization of the nation's intelligence services following the WMD debacle. Given the outcome of that effort, she'll probably conclude there was no hurricane.

So what's all the fuss about? Newsweek magazine reported last week that when Katrina struck, no one wanted to tell the president the truth about what happened. None of his advisers wanted to bring him the bad news. What kind of staff is that? Nobody wanted to tell the president of the United States that the nation's 35th largest city had been destroyed? Who are these people and what kind of government do we have when everyone is afraid to tell the president anything when he doesn't want to hear?

Here's the question, is the president's Homeland Security adviser the right choice to investigate Hurricane Katrina? Duh. Caffertyfile, one word, CNN.com.

Let's see, the Democrats want a committee. The Republicans want a committee. The House will have a committee. The Senate will have a committee. We've got this lady that's going to have a committee. This is nonsense. They need to take this thing outside government. This was government's screw-up. Get somebody on the outside to take a look. I think I mentioned yesterday, get a dollar-a-year guy, somebody like Tom Kean who did the 9/11 Commission, and let him get the facts together and issue a report to the public. The public's not going to buy any of this stuff that comes out of Washington. They're not going to believe anything that comes out of these partisan reports, or stuff that was done from within the White House. It just isn't going to wash. You know, the game is up with John Q. Public. They're not buying this stuff anymore.

.. later...

CAFFERTY: Busy place, huh, Wolf? President Bush has named his Homeland Security adviser, Francis Townsend, to investigate what went wrong with the governments response to Hurricane Katrina. I guess they think everybody is going to say, gee, that's a great idea. The question we're asking, is the president's Homeland Security adviser the right choice to investigate Hurricane Katrina? You can't even say this stuff with a straight face.

Theresa in Petal, Mississippi: Bush appointing his Homeland Security adviser to investigate her own departments bungled response to Katrina would be shocking, if it wasn't so tragically typical of this administration. It's like O.J. Simpson searching for the real killer, when all he had to do was look in the mirror. Just how dumb do they think we are?

Steve in Carlsbad, California writes: No one from the Department of Homeland Security can effectively investigate the Department of Homeland Security. The findings would always be viewed suspiciously, would not have credibility. We need an independent commission such as was formed to investigate the 9/11 failures. That is the only was the public will accept any report that's eventually issued.

Ron in Manistique, Michigan: Of course it's a great idea, just like having the tobacco industry do the studies on the health effects of smoking.

Terry in Nebraska writes: What's not fair about investigating oneself. Congress votes on whether to give themselves pay raises. If the public continues to buy hook, line and bobber whatever this president tells them, then they deserve what they get.

And finally Dave in Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Yeah, she's fine, and when there's an impropriety on my tax return, just tell the IRS I'll look into it and get back to you.

Crooks and Liars has the video.


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Restoring honor and integrity
While the world was watching Katrina, House rethugs scotched the investigation of WH svengali and possible traitor Karl Rove.

Republicans on three separate committees this week derailed three formal resolutions of inquiry by Democrats that would have required the misadministration to turn over sensitive information relating to the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame.

Had the resolutions been adopted, they would have led to the first independent congressional inquiries of the Plame affair, and perhaps even the public testimony , arrest and frogmarchi of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, about their personal roles.

"Let us not forget the endless hearings in this committee and others on alleged Clinton-Gore campaign finance violations, the Whitewater claims, and Clinton White House Travel Office firings. These were matters all under Justice Department review at the time of our hearings. Finally, I must remind my colleagues of the numerous House and Senate hearings on Watergate that were simultaneous with the Justice Department's own investigation," Representative John Conyers (D-HugeOnes) said. "So fuck you."

The traitorous scumball.
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