If it quacks like a lamb, and looks like a lamb, it, well, let Justin Darr tell you:
With the power to appeal to the electorate stolen away, the 22nd Amendment has made every popular President a lamb duck the day after their reelection.
Ah yes, a lamb duck. Perhaps you’d like to know more about Justin?
He is also a fountain of relatively useless knowledge due to years of University study.
Looks like a pretty dry fountain.
Michael Gaynor shows what it’s like to be bipolar:
t seems to me that Mr. Libby is not bearing any legitimate blame for either himself or others, but that his indictment has made him an “object of irrational hostility” (because it appears to me that he is not guilty of any crime and ultimately will not be convicted of one, even if he actually is guilty, because he will not be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt).
He’s innocent, ok, maybe he isn’t but he’s not guilty, but even if he is even guilty, then he won’t be found guilty. Besides, obstructing justice or lying to investigators is just like bobbling a routine grounder:
THE Scooter, the New York Yankees’ star shortstoop [sic] Phil Rizutto, played for thirteen seasons and committed 261 errors during the regular seasons. Mistakes happen even to the best. In 1950 Rizutto was Major League Player of the Year as well as the American League’s Most Valuable Player. In that year his errors dropped to 14 from 23 the year before. But he still committed fourteen errors.
Words fail us.
Kevin Drum wonders if there’s a more effective way to fight the Alito confirmation than by engaging the wingnuts in toe-to-toe nukular combat.
I have my doubts, but I think alternatives to the traditional model are worth considering. Thoughts?
Drudge is parroting some of the stupidest RNC talking points ever. Per Drudge, Democrats are opposing the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court is because… they’re racist against Italians!
Before Judge Samuel Alito was even officially announced as President Bush?s next Supreme Court nominee, he met a wave of racial discrimination from numerous corners of the mainstream media and the Democrat Party. Because of Judge Alito?s conservative and Italian-American background he is often been compared to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and has been nicknamed by the mainstream media ?Scalito.?
This morning, on CNN?s AMERICAN MORNING host Soledad O?Brien said, ?we’ve heard the nickname ?Scalito??. which is of course combining the Scalia, Justice Scalia and Alito. Let?s talk a little bit about their similarities.? […]
One outraged Republican strategist claimed, ?If Alito were a liberal there would be no way Democrats and Washington?s media elite would use such a ethnically insensitive nickname. Italian-Americans should not have to face these types of derogatory racial slurs in 21st century America.?
Fascinating. Y’know, if we lefties were really determined to disparage Alito’s ethnicity, we probably could’ve come up with a funnier nickname than “Scalito” (I’m thinking “Judge WOPner”).
Hey! Alito ban-uh the abortion! Why you make-uh the fun?”
The New York Times, October 31, 2005:
Mr. Bush’s aides portray themselves as victims in this case, battered by conflicting intelligence and ill served by the head of the C.I.A. at the time, George J. Tenet. Mr. Tenet, they argue, did not convey to the White House doubts he had about the validity of the charge.
George J. Tenet. Where have we heard that name before? Oh yeah. George Bush, December 14, 2004:
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is our nation’s highest civil award given to men and women of exceptional merit, integrity and achievement. Today this honor goes to three men who have played pivotal roles in great events, and whose efforts have made our country more secure and advanced the cause of human liberty. […]
Early in his tenure as DCI, George Tenet was one of the first to recognize and address the growing threat to America from radical terrorist networks. Immediately after the attacks of September the 11th, George was ready with a plan to strike back at al Qaeda and to topple the Taliban.
Well, must have been bizarro George that got that Medal of Freedom.
“Hi, I’m Boz Scaggs, and this song is called…”
Alito be runnin’, havin’ great big fun, until he got the note…
Sayin’ toe the line or blow, and that was all he wrote.
He be makin’ like a beeline, headin’ for the borderline; goin’ for broke…
Sayin’ one more hit ought to do it,
This joint ain’t nothin’ to it,
One more for the ro-oh-oh-oh-oad…
…Alito,
Whoa-oh-oh-o-o-oh,
He’s for the money, he’s for the show,
Alito’s waitin’ for the go, oh (ho!),
A-lito,
Whoa-oh-oh oh-o-o-ooh…
He said, “One more job ought to get it,
One last shot ‘fore we quit it
One more for the road…”
“Thoughts” on America seems to think someone found the big scary weapons in Iraq we were told about:
Just what constitutes “Weapons of Mass Destruction”?
Tons of arms, explosives, and chemical, perhaps?
So let’s all click on the link, ok?
BAGHDAD, Aug. 13 — U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said Saturday. […]
Boylan said the suspected lab was new, dating from some time after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.[…]
No chemical weapons are known to have been used so far in Iraq’s insurgency.
Yeah, looky there.
On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed piece bearing this headline:
Libby is charged with lying about a crime that wasn’t committed.
Reminds us of the headline of their op-ed piece during the Clinton years:
Clinton is charged with lying about something that isn’t a crime.
Oh, wait.
Look who’s blogging now.
Which reminds one of a Ziggy Marley song, and that means it’s rime ror ruh Riday Random Ren.
Rait.
[whack! (computer noises)]
Random Ten.
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Fear not conservatives, the 101st Keyboard Brigade is about to get help. Adam Yoshida’s help:
If the time has come to declare war against the enemy at home, so be it. It?s time that we tell the American people the truth about seventy years of treason on the part of certain elements of the Democrat Party ? and of the thirty-five years since the forces of treason took national control of the Democrat Party.
Now is the time to suit up and prepare for battle. I don?t know what is coming. But I know what I shall do.
Sadly, no explanation of how eating twinkies and masturbating to pictures of Ann Coulter will help.
Bradrocket adds: I think I’ve discovered Adam’s plan:
“Mr. President! Adun Yo-shi, Level 5 Ogre Lord from the realm of Wing’nuht, stands ready to serve thee!!”
Aaaaaand let’s see how our friends at Little Green Footballs are handling the news of Scooter’s indictment:
#8 Powderfinger 10/28/2005 11:41AM PDT
Just to be consistent, Libby should get the same punishment as Bill Clinton and Sandy Burglar, combined.
We should force Scooter to go on TV and talk about his penis?
#10 foreign devil 10/28/2005 11:42AM PDT
That incredible moron FitzGerald is on FOX now just babbling on about himself. He is SO FULL OF HIMSELF he even presumes to think and then speak for us by telling we’re sitting there thinking “oh why didn’t you grab him (Libby or Rove) by the scruff of the neck and force them to tell you the truth but we don’t do that.” [paraphrased]
That’s not what I was thinking at all. I’m now thinking I’d like to grab HIM by the scruff of the neck and shake him till his teeth fall out. He’s a grandstanding hotshot. Wants to be a ’singing dick’. So he’s gonna dump three years of investigation on Libby and you wait….it’ll turn out to be shit. But by then Libby has quit, and things change which might not have without this vindictive witchhunt. Vendetta carried out by some guy who fancies himself a ‘top gun’.
You can’t GET HIM TO SHUT UP. HE’S STILL TALKING! THIS GUY REALLY LUVS HIMSELF!
YEAH AND THOSE DICKWAD REPORTERS WERE ACTUALLY ASKING HIM QUESTIONS AND HE STILL KEPT TALKING!!!! IF I WERE IN CHARGE OF THIS INVESTIGATION, I’D CALL JOE WILSON TO THE STAND AND FART IN RIGHT HIS ASS FACE!!!!!!!
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Libby likely to be indicted. Rove won’t be, but will still be under investigation. Fitz likely to extend the term of the grand jury. (Via Josh Marshall.)
So I just watched Keith Olbermann show pictures of diseased lungs on MSNBC, and my first thought was, “Damn, I could go for a smoke right now.”
Anyone who tells you that nicotine isn’t addictive is insane. (Or just senile like Bob Dole.)
The good news is, it’s been more than two weeks since I’ve had a cigarette. I think I’m over the worst.
UPDATE: Now Keith’s doing a segment called “Criminal Poo Fling.” And people wonder why the media gets such a bad rap…
Let’s see if we can spot the logical flaws in JB Williams’ latest column:
Liberals Commit Political Suicide
By JB WilliamsIt?s common knowledge that even long before Republicans won control of the Executive and Legislative branches of government, Democrats relied upon the Judicial branch to advance their agenda.
Yes, long before the Republicans ran the government, the Democrats used the judicial branch to undermine the power of the legislature that they themselves controlled.
Makes sense so far.
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