This picture from Friday could be the first baby kissed in the 2008 campaign.
Archive for December, 2006
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.
The butcher of Baghdad sleeps with the fishes. Kind of quick and relatively pain-free for such a monster.
The Republicans in Kansas, harbingers for their national compatriots?
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.
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.
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?
Things you miss when you’re in Georgia with your family. John Edwards is in.
The chances of me updating between now and tomorrow is slim and none, so Merry Christmas to everyone.
I love it when the GOP picks up the Democrats bad habits.
The campaign for conservatives to tell the truth about what they truly believe marches on. Congressman Virgil Goode stands by his anti-Muslim tirade and not a darn word of condemnation from the GOP.
And really, why should they? Goode just said what so many of them believe in their hearts. At least he was honest.
(Of course in the Land Of Double Standards that is conservatism, those Muslims better condemn stuff… or elese…)
UPDATE: Perennial idiot Dan Riehl argues the wonderful concept also known as “those effing muslims, you never know”.
I think he’s learned from 2004. The 2008 election, at least among Democrats, is going to be won by the candidate who seems the most real.
A couple of weeks ago Michael Steele was supposed to be coronated as the RNC chairman after having accomplished nothing, but now he’s nowhere to be found. Nowhere.
I can’t be the only one who finds strident atheists like Sam Harris as annoying and dogmatic as their religious fundamentalist counterparts. Its people like that who alienate the mushy religious-nonreligious middle like myself.
If you want to see just how bad I am at Madden (and this is “bad” in the old sense of “not good”) I’m now on XBOX 360 Live as “owillis1977″.
Football is just a game, folks.
Wannabe presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani somehow omits his first two wives and children from his online bio.
Hand drawn animation is back at Disney.
Once again, conservative Republicans have the courage to tell us what they really believe. Encouraged by our campaign for cons to speak truth to power, Rep. Virgil Goode says straight up how much he hates:
In a letter sent out to select supporters earlier this month reacting to the controversy (among certain extreme conservatives, at least) over Muslim representative-elect Keith Ellison’s (D-MN) decision to be sworn in on the Koran, Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) warned that the U.S. must close its borders to guard against the influx of still more Muslims. In it, he also proudly recounts his retort to a Muslim student who asked him why he did not include the Koran with The Ten Commandments on his wall. "As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, The Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office," he says he told the student.
Michelle Malkin says “2006: The year of perpetual outrage” what’s funny is that she’s talking about Muslims, when in fact nobody has made a living out of outrage like Michelle Malkin.
But then, that’s why we have The First Law Of Malkin.
Redstate was created to blatantly copy Daily Kos for the right. It’s never really succeeded at that, having none of the influence that Kos has cultivated on either the conservative movement or fundraising for the Republican party (all the candidates supported by the right lost this fall). Now Redstate is selling out to Eagle Publishing, one of the cogs in the right-wing publishing machine. Sure, for the founders it probably means a nice financial compensation, but as a political vehicle it’s clearly a failure. Like much of the right, Redstate is not "grassroots" but another extension of the staid old power base in Washington. They just made it official today.
The comment pages here at HughHewitt.com are plagued by the presence of a fellow named Snapdigger. Snap annoys everyone; he’s a relentless imbecile cut from the same cloth as Oliver Willis.
Al Gore is practically mentally ill.
Just so you know what school of “thought” the intellectual lions of the right are coming from. It’s our ongoing mission.
“I encourage you to go shopping” - George W. Bush 12/20/06
From “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” to this. Wow, what a disaster.
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