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Fred Kaplan in Slate
To put this in perspective: From December 1941 to August 1945, the U.S. government mobilized an entire nation; manufactured a mighty arsenal; played a huge role in defeating the armies, air forces, and navies of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan; and emerged from battle poised to shape the destiny of half the globe. By comparison, from September 2001 to December 2005, the U.S. government has advanced to the point of describing a path to victory in a country the size of California.
George Bush is an unpopular president from coast to coast. He’s extra unpopular in Maryland, a state that went overwhelmingly for John Kerry, and has consistently voted for Democratic presidents and had Democratic senators. Michael Steele is a Bush lackey, and he wants to be the senator of our state. I don’t think so, and especially not after Steele continues to demonstrate how out of touch he is with mainstream Maryland values by hanging out with Bush and getting his endorsement. The Bush-Steele ticket is a no-go for Maryland.
>> President’s Remarks at Steele for Senate Reception
>> Ehrlich and Steele side with Bush
>> Some advice for Mikey Steele
Looks like a smoking gun
Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. was an architect of the Reagan administration’s failed 1985 attempt to have the high court consider overruling Roe v. Wade, according to a memo from the period released today.
Alito, then assistant to the solicitor general, urged his boss to use a case before the court to “make clear that we disagree with Roe v. Wade and would welcome the opportunity to brief the issue of whether, and if so to what extent, that decision should be overruled.”
Bill O’Reilly continues to channel his idealogical forefather, Joe McCarthy
On the November 28 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Bill O’Reilly pointed to “a very secret plan” by the “secular progressive” movement, which he said aims to “diminish Christian philosophy in the U.S.A.” It is a plan he links to his perception that many now avoid the holiday greeting “Merry Christmas.” O’Reilly’s disclosure of this “secret plan” was followed the day after by a rant on his radio show against the “hateful liars” who “spit out” “blatant propaganda” that is “picked up by the mainstream media, and rammed down the public’s throat.”
ALSO: Fox is apparently an ally of the War On Christmas.
Daniel Pipes, writing in the unhinged David Horowitz’s FrontPage, opines that awarding the medal of freedom to Muhammad Ali is a low point in President Bush’s presidency. I think that’s a good indication of just how far afield from the mainstream the base of the conservative movement is.
Ali is without equivocation, one of the most beloved figures in American sports history. Not only for his athletic prowess or his infamous bravado, but for his refusal to be a participant in the most horrible of wars. According to Pipes, Ali has committed the sin of being Muslim, and that deviation invalidates the man’s greatness. What a weird bunch of people.
This pic from CNN is hilarious.
It’s the naval midshipmen before Bush showed up, but still…
The White House has released the “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq”. Oh boy. The one sentence summary of “Victory in Iraq Defined”:
Helping the Iraqi People Defeat the Terrorists and Build an Inclusive Democratic State
It goes into detail:
* Short term, Iraq is making steady progress in fighting terrorists, meeting political milestones, building democratic institutions, and standing up security forces.
* Medium term, Iraq is in the lead defeating terrorists and providing its own security, with a fully constitutional government in place, and on its way to achieving its economic potential.
* Longer term, Iraq is peaceful, united, stable, and secure, well integrated into the international community, and a full partner in the global war on terrorism.
There’s really no concrete definition of victory here, still. But it seems that they’re saying we don’t leave until Iraq is a full western style democracy… with ponies. Of course, Iraq is currently a hotbed of violence with 150,000 U.S. troops holding down the fort, and shows no interest in western style democracy, preferring to enshrine religious Sharia law than anything resemble the U.S. constitution.
So when do we leave Iraq? According to this document, apparently when candy canes and unicorns take command.
Quite bizarre video here of a right-wing pastor in Oklahoma getting punched and reacting in a very odd way.
Every day I look at this shallow husk of a man and think “that’s the leader of the free world? That’s the man who holds all of our lives in his hands?”. And the oblivious one never fails to fail. Three years, thousands of lives and thousands of casualties later… Bush is going to announce his “victory strategy” for Iraq. It will most likely be the same idiotic speech that is the hallmark of his presidency, with a cherry picked audience that doesn’t dare question the man behind the curtain, and contain the same empty gestures that will doom the Bush presidency among the worst ever.
I don’t write much about things like Medicare here, but I can say this - the new drug benefit is something only the pharmaceutical lobby could love. I saw my grandmother over the Thanksgiving holiday, and we discussed it and the paradox of choice. Let’s just say that it’s a good thing she has three daughters and three grandkids to help her decipher this stuff.
As someone who is a strong supporter of the death penalty, I agree with this decision made by Gov. Warner
In a statement issued Tuesday evening, Warner said the destruction by an Arlington clerk of DNA evidence that might have cleared Lovitt on appeal convinced him that Lovitt should spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole, rather than be executed. Lovitt would have been the 1,000th person executed in the United States since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.
I think if you support the death penalty, you should also be in favor of making executions as iron-clad as possible. This case, from what I’ve read, didn’t fit that mold.
The Republican culture of corruption, revealed state by state… I wonder how long until Maryland’s own Bob Ehrlich returns the scam money he’s received from crooked Jack Abramoff?
Bill O’Reilly continues to morph into Joe McCarthy, with his lists and everything. I’m just upset I’m not on it.
Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware
I and some other journalists had lunch with Senator Joe Lieberman the other day and we listened to him talking about Iraq. Either Senator Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he’s completely lost the plot or he knows he’s spinning a line. Because one of my colleagues turned to me in the middle of this lunch and said he’s not talking about any country I’ve ever been to and yet he was talking about Iraq, the very country where we were sitting.
When you’re a lame duck president, it falls to your handlers to manage your reality for you.
What does it say about the president of the United States that he won’t go anywhere near ordinary citizens any more? And that he’ll only speak to captive audiences?
President Bush’s safety zone these days doesn’t appear to extend very far beyond military bases, other federal installations and Republican fundraisers.
Michael Rubin, at the right-wing “think tank” American Enterprise Institute accuses Rep. John Murtha of killing American soldiers. I’m serious.
Even just talking about withdrawal emboldens the enemy, argues Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank. “Murtha’s comments have gotten Americans killed,” he says, “They’ve convinced the terrorists they are on the right track.”
What is wrong with these people? They can make excuse after excuse for how Bush led us into war and royally screwed up the post-invasion - decisions that have directly led to the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis - but when a Democrat rocks the boat, he’s accused of murder. Deranged.
Rubin’s email is mrubin@aei.org.
MORE: David Horowitz calls Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Ted Kennedy traitors and apparently calls for their hanging.
Cons in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Utah are proposing taxes… on porn. The mind boggles at the stupidity.
RELATED: The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award (somebody needs to ask John Updike to explain an “M of receptivity” with a straight face)
I don’t understand the plaudits Cunningham is receiving from certain quarters about his resignation letter today. He resigned because the bastard got busted! The man was bribed like a hooker — to authorize the purchase of material for our armed forces. If he hadn’t been caught with this hand in the cookie jar, he’d be laughing it up. He’s a common criminal who abused the public trust and he should be scorned. No speech filled with phony contritition can change that.
there are live models in the windows of the lingerie shop. Ohkay.
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