Is Michelle Malkin Really That Stupid?

3:01 pm EST January 25th, 2006 | Republicans | 43 Comments

The answer seems to be: yes. There’s no excuse for George Galloway meeting with Uday Hussein, but frankly he was just following in the footsteps of the right’s beloved Donald Rumsfeld.

Rut Roh

1:01 pm EST January 25th, 2006 | Politics | 7 Comments

AG’s memo raises questions on Patriot Act

A footnote in Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales’s 42-page legal memo defending President Bush’s domestic spying program appears to argue that the administration does not need Congress to extend the USA Patriot Act in order to keep using the law’s investigative powers against terror suspects.

On occasion facts creep into caca, and undermine entire swaths of caca.

King George Doesn’t Give A Crap About Louisiana

12:01 pm EST January 25th, 2006 | News | 16 Comments

The imperial presidency marches on

The Bush administration, citing the confidentiality of executive branch communications, said Tuesday that it did not plan to turn over certain documents about Hurricane Katrina or make senior White House officials available for sworn testimony before two Congressional committees investigating the storm response.

What’s funny about this is that faux Democrat Joe Leiberman is simply perturbed that the White House is actively obstructing an investigation into its malfeasance where hundreds of Americans were killed, but you’d think that Joementum would have realized these jackals only care about their own hides and not about the people they rule over.

Topic: George W. Bush

The Smell of Corporate Welfare

12:01 am EST January 25th, 2006 | Uncategorized | 10 Comments

Don’t you love it when big business lays off thousands of workers and gets a huge wet kiss in the form of tax breaks? You bet

Here was Ford Motor Co. announcing yesterday that it had cut 10,000 jobs last year and that it will cut up to 30,000 more. But shedding jobs at muscle-car acceleration rates didn’t stop Ford from pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars courtesy of the American Jobs Creation Act.

No, I’m not making this up. Right there, on page 2 of one of its news releases yesterday, Ford said that “repatriation of foreign earnings pursuant to the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 resulted in a permanent tax savings of about $250 million.”

The “American Jobs Creation Act” passed the House with 207 Yeas from Republicans, and 124 Nays from Democrats.

Topic: Economics

What Is This Constitution You Speak Of?

12:01 am EST January 25th, 2006 | Uncategorized | 9 Comments

The people in charge at the National Security Agency, you know the ones who were ordered by the president to spy on American citizens in America without getting an easily obtainable warrant for no good reason, don’t understand the constitution.

Where I’m from that’s a pretty important part of running the country.

Topic: Snoopgate

Rick Santorum Defends Great Sacrifice

8:01 pm EST January 24th, 2006 | Republicans | 23 Comments

The way to support the troops is to… put a Rick Santorum sticker on your car. No, really.

I’m hearing that Santorum is already a frontrunner for moron of the year.

Jack Murtha Was Right

5:01 pm EST January 24th, 2006 | Politics | 42 Comments

His stand against caca, once again, is supported by the facts

Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has become a “thin green line” that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon.

Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract, concluded that the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency. He also suggested that the Pentagon’s decision, announced in December, to begin reducing the force in Iraq this year was driven in part by a realization that the Army was overextended.

As evidence, Krepinevich points to the Army’s 2005 recruiting slump – missing its recruiting goal for the first time since 1999 – and its decision to offer much bigger enlistment bonuses and other incentives.

I await the next missive from ~~Voldermort’s~~ Bush’s Oz-based crap factory.

Kittens Yes Or No

2:01 pm EST January 24th, 2006 | Republicans | 21 Comments

August is conducting the 2006 George W. Bush Dead Kitten Survey to find out how much the right would support Bush and his war on kitties.

Intelligent Design, That Stupid Thing, Hurts Our Children

11:01 am EST January 24th, 2006 | Politics | 28 Comments

The NY Times has a reader’s forum on intelligent design (some would say there’s a “debate” but you can’t have a debate between scientific fact and mythology), and I think this response hits the nail on the head.

Dale A. Robertson, Ottawa: If Marx said that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce, he had the order inverted for evolution in the U.S. The farce was the Scopes trial, the tragedy that today young students may be diverted from careers in biology or related fields by creationist twaddle. If a major university showed some backbone, and announced that high school biology credits from Kansas would not be recognized, and that entering students in any subject related to biology would have to take a special exam and possibly remedial instruction, this would go a long way towards eliminating this waste of time and resources.

I can’t wait for the first generation of intelligent design-mangled kids hitting the real world of science and realizing that the idiotic nonsense they’ve been taught has left them unprepared for reality.

EJ Dionne Joins The Caca Defense Corps

11:01 am EST January 24th, 2006 | Democrats | 6 Comments

Rove’s Early Warning

What Democrats should have learned is that they cannot evade the security debate. They must challenge the terms under which Rove and Bush would conduct it. Imagine, for example, directly taking on that line about Sept. 11. Does having a “post-9/11 worldview” mean allowing Bush to do absolutely anything he wants, any time he wants, without having to answer to the courts, Congress or the public? Most Americans — including a lot of libertarian-leaning Republicans — reject such an anti-constitutional view of presidential power. If Democrats aren’t willing to take on this issue, what’s the point of being an opposition party?