Sigh

6:37 pm EST January 26th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 7 Comments

This incident of idiotic thinking brought to you by the same people who persecuted Galileo and turned a blind eye to an epidemic of child rape.

Buffalo congressman Brian Higgins walked out of a Catholic church service Sunday after a deacon berated him during a sermon for the lawmaker’s recent vote supporting stem cell research.

The public tongue-lashing came during morning Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic church, where deacon Tom McDonnell criticized the Democratic lawmaker.

Higgins, who was baptized and married in that church, walked out with his wife and son.

Topic: Religious Right

Another Rumsfeld

5:41 pm EST January 26th, 2007 | News | 39 Comments

Secdef Robert Gates joins the crowd of idiots characterizing homegrown disagreement as terrorist sympathy. In the past it upset me, but the 30% crew is an ever shrinking portion of American society in their last throes. You know who’s helping the enemy? George Bush. He does everything to make their life easier.

Topic: Iraq

Clear Momentum For John McCain

4:12 am EST January 26th, 2007 | Republicans | 32 Comments

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007, Mitt Romney’s unofficial shill in the right-wing blogosphere Hugh Hewitt declares: “McCain Campaign On The Rocks”.

Hewittisalwayswrong Of course, most observers will realize that Hewitt has no idea what the hell he’s talking about, and in fact if you were a betting man or woman you should put money on John McCain as the GOP nominee based on Hugh Hewitt’s ability to predict the political future (and people are).

Track Record:

Hugh Hewitt, 11/5/06

Whatever the reason, the optimism among Republicans about their improving prospects is as real as the GOP’s momentum. Both houses of Congress could go either way, but Democrats are beginning to understand what it meant to a Browns fan to hear, “Elway in the shotgun as the clock begins to tick down…”

Hugh Hewitt, 11/6/06

The bottom line: Good momentum in most places,a surprising surge in Michigan, hope for Santorum and DeWine. Much much more. Listen or read.

Hugh Hewitt, 11/6/06

Signing off for the night as I will be up early looking for the first wave of Beltway-Manhattan media machine reports of doom for the Republicans and waves for the Democrats.

Don’t believe a word of it.

Hugh Hewitt, 11/6/06

That’s why the wind changed, btw: The GOP remains the mostly serious party and the Dems the almost always silly party. Voters have always known that, but as the election approached, began to consider what control by the mostly silly party would mean. The GOP has always pushed the “elections are a choice” theme, and the reality of that perspective’s impact is seen in the numbers Mehlman cites.

Hugh Hewitt, 11/7/06

I’m alone no longer. Geraghty the Indispensable, responding to Obi Wan Kenobi’s prodding, also senses the oncoming Republican wave. Add to Obi Wan’s poll analysis an unprecedented GOP GOTV effort, and I’m feeling really good.

Of course, homegamers will remember the results of Hewitt’s predictions:

Democrats wrested control of the Senate from Republicans Wednesday with an upset victory in Virginia, giving the party complete domination of Capitol Hill for the first time since 1994, as NBC News reported that Democrat Jim Webb was the apparent winner.

Totally, completely, wrong. In the run-up to the election Hugh Hewitt either chose to believe his own b.s. over the evidence available in poll after poll, or was just making sh*t up. Either way, a clear sign of momentum for Old Man McCain is Hewitt saying the opposite.

Who Knew?

11:08 pm EST January 25th, 2007 | News | 9 Comments

Superman’s hidden past in porn.

Topic: Superman

Tax Dollars At Work

10:57 pm EST January 25th, 2007 | News | 9 Comments

Your tax dollars are working hard to fund a right-wing blog trafficking in pseudo-scientific bull.

How Smart Is You?

7:21 pm EST January 25th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 19 Comments

I got a 26 on this test, which is apparently 44.6% smarter than average.

Topic: Humor

A Loser To Lead Losers

5:04 pm EST January 25th, 2007 | News | 6 Comments

Michael Steele, famous for his double-digit loss to Ben Cardin in Maryland’s senate race last year (his endorsement from rapist Mike Tyson didn’t help), is now in charge of GOPAC, the GOP’s organization that trolls through sewers in search of Republican “leaders”. With a loser like Steele at the helm, we wish them well.

Topic: Michael Steele

More Mitt Romney Flip Flops

4:08 pm EST January 25th, 2007 | News | 1 Comment

Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate who’s positions seem to shift by the hour, had a previous incarnation as a donor to Democratic candidates.

Topic: 2008 Election

Netroots Needs To Get Over Itself

3:36 pm EST January 25th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 16 Comments

I’ll write more about this later, but this wailing from the netroots about Senator Clinton’s campaign not sufficiently kissing their collective asses is distasteful. The downside of the 2006 election is that a lot of people in the “netroots” think the whole thing was thanks to them and as a result are convinced their poop doesn’t stink. They sound now just as bad as the supposed insiders they loathe so much. As I said, more later, but I just needed to point this out now.

Topic: Liberals

Jim Webb, Senator From Virginia

12:45 am EST January 25th, 2007 | Democrats | 11 Comments

Jim Webb is the senator from Virginia, and especially when compared to the past occupant and his racial terrorism, it’s a supreme improvement. That said, I was not personally as impressed with Sen. Webb’s performance in the Democratic Response as so many others seem to have been (The bar is so low for opposition party response speeches that someone not drooling is cause for celebration). And the talk about him being anything like a vice-presidential candidate is lunacy. Policy-wise I agree with a lot of what Jim Webb says and stands for, but from a performance point of view, Sen. Webb is… the senator from Virginia. Okay?