The First?

3:16 pm EST December 30th, 2006 | Democrats | 17 Comments

This picture from Friday could be the first baby kissed in the 2008 campaign.

Topic: 2008 Election, John Edwards

The Bush Cult Still Exists

3:12 pm EST December 30th, 2006 | News | 5 Comments

Sitting on Hugh Hewitt’s lap, Dean Barnett pens an ode to beloved leader George W. Bush. Inexplicably, he writes that terrorists are afraid to attack America because Bush is so awesome. Of course, he leaves out that the worst terrorist attack in America’s history happened under George W. Bush.

Topic: George W. Bush

Saddam’s Last

3:07 pm EST December 30th, 2006 | News | 47 Comments

The butcher of Baghdad sleeps with the fishes. Kind of quick and relatively pain-free for such a monster.

Husseinrumsfeld

Topic: Iraq

Kansas Crackup

3:05 pm EST December 30th, 2006 | Republicans | Comments Off

The Republicans in Kansas, harbingers for their national compatriots?

Ford’s Flaw

11:59 am EST December 28th, 2006 | Politics | 74 Comments

I’ve read some assessments of history that say Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon, saving the nation from a criminal trial of a president. But on the other side, I have to wonder if Richard Nixon had been made an example of, perhaps the Reagan and current administrations wouldn’t have felt they could get away with such murder. Right now they’re grabbing any lawyers with warm bodies to cover their now-exposed rears, because the rubber-stamp congress they relied on is no more.

Against Escalation

11:53 am EST December 28th, 2006 | News | 6 Comments

Barack Obama just sent out an email opposing the president’s attempt to escalate the war in Iraq.

In escalating this war with a so-called “surge” of troops, the President would be overriding the expressed concerns of Generals on the ground, Secretary Powell, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group and the American people. Colin Powell has said that placing more troops in the crossfire of a civil war simply will not work. General John Abizaid, our top commander in the Middle East, said just last month that, “I believe that more American forces prevent the Iraqis from doing more, from taking more responsibility for their own future.” Even the Joint Chiefs of Staff have expressed concern, saying that a surge in troop levels “could lead to more attacks by al-Qaeda” and “provide more targets for Sunni insurgents.” Once again, the President is defying good counsel and common sense.

I’ve seen opposition from Biden and Edwards as well. Not Clinton, however. This may be the first major clash of the new political season, and a major test of the 2008 Democratic candidates – they should remember the last time they went along with this president it led to the Iraq War.

Topic: Iraq

Ford

1:11 am EST December 28th, 2006 | Politics | 28 Comments

Hey, I’m sorry for his family but Gerald Ford was the very definition of a practically inconsequential president who’s crowning achievement was the pardon of the worst president in history and elevating Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to power, you know?