Jason Campbell, QB, Washington Redskins

6:54 pm EST November 26th, 2006 | Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Seeking his first win as an NFL starting quarterback, Jason Campbell faced a vital third down with his team trailing late in the fourth quarter.

Through his helmet transmitter, he heard his position coach call the formation.

Then silence. The transmitter went dead. Campbell had to call the play himself, based on the players sent onto the field.

“We could tell that there was something wrong,” right tackle Jon Jansen said. “But he picked up and just took us out there and we ran the play, and it was big.”

The play went for 66 yards and a touchdown. Tight end Chris Cooley caught the pass over the middle near midfield, escaped two tacklers and ran down the sideline for the winning score in the Washington Redskins’ 17-13 victory over the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.

Topic: Redskins

Glenn Reynolds, Ann Althouse, and the Right Wing Christianists

1:15 pm EST November 26th, 2006 | News | 50 Comments

Any time these chuckleheads start caterwauling you know you’ve made a considerably honest hit.

Moment Of Irony

9:46 pm EST November 25th, 2006 | News | 23 Comments

On Thanksgiving, the conservative Republican site Redstate produced an entry lauding the Sierra Nevada along with a painting representing it (along with the obligatory gratuitous dig at Europe) but it is this Republican president that has threatened to log the hell out of those same forests.

The Bush Family Fixers

9:32 pm EST November 25th, 2006 | News | 5 Comments

Why am I not surprised that, once again, the Bushes turn to Saudi Arabia?

UPDATE: Here’s another fixer.

Topic: George W. Bush

The Democratic Congress Can Deliver Stem Cell Research

11:14 pm EST November 24th, 2006 | Uncategorized | 13 Comments

One interesting element of this is that stem cell research has come down on the Democratic side as a "wedge" issue, used effectively in senate campaigns like here in Maryland (Michael Steele, who lost by 10%, compared the research to Nazism) and in Missouri (where Rush Limbaugh accused Michael J. Fox of faking it, and Claire McCaskill ended up winning by 3%). But unlike the right’s endless wedge issues (gay marriage, abortion, etc.) we’re actually going to be doing something about it when we’re in power.

Supporters of stem cell research are confident they will pass legislation expanding federally funded research in the next Congress – regardless of whether President Bush continues to oppose the move.

Congress passed the legislation last year, but Bush killed the bill, exercising his only veto in six years. But the election results have changed the landscape, and Sen. Orrin Hatch believes supporters can round up enough votes to override a presidential veto, if it comes to that.

"I think we have the votes in the Senate to override a veto, and we may have them in the House. I think we can get there," the Utah Republican said. "According to some, we’re only a couple votes short, and I think I know where those votes are."

Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., who will be the lead sponsor of the House bill, said she recently spoke to the 41 new House Democrats and "to describe them as wildly enthusiastic about this bill would be an understatement."
"I think the election really sent a message to Washington that the voters want embryonic stem cell research passed," she said.

I want to see this bill written into law because people need help, but if we don’t get the amount required to override a veto and Bush (likely) vetoes it — well, that’s yet another great argument in favor of a Democratic president two years from now.

Topic: Stem Cell Research

Glenn Reynolds vs. The Facts, Part 2,347,432

11:06 pm EST November 24th, 2006 | News | 1 Comment

The facts continue their domination of the game.

Massive Violence, People Burned Alive, Just Don’t Call It Civil War

11:03 am EST November 24th, 2006 | News | 32 Comments

The freedom train keeps rolling on.

Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said.

The savage revenge attack for Thursday’s slaying of 215 people in the Shiite Sadr City slum occurred as members of the Mahdi Army militia burned four mosques, and several homes while killing an unknown number of Sunni residents in the once-mixed Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad.

Topic: Iraq

It’s Because Their Own Heroes Suck

10:59 am EST November 24th, 2006 | News | 39 Comments

I’ve previously written about the right trying to co-opt liberal leader Martin Luther King for their own cause, attempting to make him their own without regard to the actual history. In that same vein Mahablog catches cons attempting to make one of the most liberal presidents in history, FDR, a conservative hero. Once again, the facts disagree. But we should ask: why do they keep trying to do this? There’s clearly some sort of deficiency with the con icons why they think its a good idea to steal ours.

Bwahahaha, Continued

12:41 am EST November 24th, 2006 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

As the GOP has been ramming down our throats for years, elections have consequences.

Seeking information about detention of terrorism suspects, abuse of detainees and government secrecy, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are reviving dozens of demands for classified documents that until now have been rebuffed or ignored by the Justice Department and other agencies.

“I expect real answers, or we’ll have testimony under oath until we get them,” Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, who will head the committee beginning in January, said in an interview this week. “We’re entitled to know these answers, and in many instances we don’t get them because people are hiding their mistakes. And that’s no excuse.”

To the minority party, this is called "doing your job". Perhaps if you had done this, more of you would be coming back to Washington in January.

Topic: Democratic Senate

The Bush Family Bubble

12:38 am EST November 24th, 2006 | News | 3 Comments

George H.W. Bush, while a better president than George W. Bush, shows us once again why America could only stomach him for one term.

"It takes a lot of guts to tell a father what you said about his son
when I just told you that the thing that matters to my heart is my
family," he said.

"My son is an honest man, he is working hard for peace, and how come
everybody wants to go to the United States if the United States is so
bad?"

First off, your idiot son is not America. In fact, the idea that millions of people want to come to America in spite of your son’s horrible "leadership" is a testament to the strength of the idea of America in face of a family who only wishes to urinate on that dream.

George Bush recoiling like this at the dreaded criticism is the latest chapter in the Bush family’s misadventures with the real world, in which the real world says what it thinks of that dysfunctional clan and the Bushies start fanning their faces like Scarlett O’Hara.

News flash: Your son is going to go down in history as one of the worst and least liked presidents in history. On his watch thousands of Americans have died unnecessarily from terror and war, while an entire city drowned as he yucked it up and the government let corruption run wild. Deal with it.

Topic: George W. Bush