Conservatives Are Full Of Crap

11:11 pm EST November 30th, 2005 | Republicans | 5 Comments

But all sentient beings knew this already.

 

The Real WWII Comparison

10:11 pm EST November 30th, 2005 | News | 46 Comments

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.

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Michael Steele Gets The Kiss Of Death

3:11 pm EST November 30th, 2005 | Politics | 5 Comments

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

 

Alito vs. Roe

3:11 pm EST November 30th, 2005 | News | 11 Comments

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.”

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I Have Here In My Hand…

2:11 pm EST November 30th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

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.

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The Right vs. The Champ

9:11 am EST November 30th, 2005 | Politics | 40 Comments

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.

 

Bush’s Speech

9:11 am EST November 30th, 2005 | Politics | 22 Comments

This pic from CNN is hilarious.

It’s the naval midshipmen before Bush showed up, but still…

>> The President’s Evolving Vision

 

Denial of Reality

8:11 am EST November 30th, 2005 | Politics | 37 Comments

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.

 

Turning The Other Cheek?

1:11 am EST November 30th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 9 Comments

Quite bizarre video here of a right-wing pastor in Oklahoma getting punched and reacting in a very odd way.

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The Slow President

11:11 pm EST November 29th, 2005 | News | 11 Comments

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.

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