Uh Oh (Part, What, XXXVI?)

We haven't really had time to disgest Bush's nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, but this isn't a very ringing endorsement (not in my book, anyway):

“There is nobody that I believe would give my case a more fair and balanced treatment,” Lewis said. “He has no agenda. He’s open-minded, he’s fair and he’s balanced.”

He has no agenda, but he's gonna give you the "fair and balanced treatment?" He's described as "fair and balanced" twice in three fucking sentences! Forget all you heard about Justices with vaginas or Justices of color. When you're Bush and getting your ass kicked by everyone, including your "friends," you go for white and the Right. We have to assume.

Riding the Scooter

We'd love for there to be a prison bitch named "Scooter" being taken for a ride in the "pokey," but we know that's not going to happen. The indictment itself was a blow to the White House, but the only beating we're going to get now is Libby beating the rap, followed hard upon by the GOP beating the Dems (again) in the mid-terms. Because the Democrats are hopelessly lost.

If you can't reach across the aisle now, while the White House is weak, and get some moderate Republicans to join your cause (should probably come up with one of those first), then go ahead and write off 2006.

Post-Coital

So, after Harriet's withdrawal, I'm wondering who's getting fucked next? Will Bush taunt the champions of the Far Right by making the next nominee a documented moderate judge? Or will he reward those who poo-poo'd his crony first choice by nominating someone whom they wholeheartedly love?

I'd like to think that Bush was trying to have it both ways by nominating Miers, but I don't think he has the capacity to plan even his own failure that far ahead.

2,000

Hey, maybe Bush's next reason for invading Iraq will be "population control for our nation's future stability."

Is that new Iraqi Constitution printed with the blood of our dead soldiers?

There's No "i" in Team. Or, Strangely, in Democrat.

While the World waits for Fitzgerald to announce some indictments on his website, someone needs to let the Democrats know it's okay to come off the sidelines. The field is large, boys and girls. There's plenty of room for new ideas. A plan. Anything other than finger-pointing. And name-calling. The GOP is shooting themselves in every foot they have, so you should jump on it. Really. In a "game" where time is measured in news cycles, the clock is winding down.

Good luck. Losers.

Ignore the Men Behind the Curtain. And What They’re Saying. And Not Doing.

First it's the frantic e-mails from FEMA official Marty Bahamonde to his boss Michael Brown about conditions in post-Katrina New Orleans (eating MREs and shitting in hallways) while Brown was busy grubbing in Baton Rouge. And now we've got revelations that Karl Rove and "Scooter" Libby might have discussed the Plame leak . . . but only talked about what they'd heard from reporters. Mmmm-hmmm. Yeah. We're buying that one.

What we have here is a failure to communicate . . . properly.

Democracy, American-Style

Looks like the Iraqis are experiencing some of the same "problems" we had here in Florida during the 2000 election.

Questionnaire Reveals the Real Harriet?

In 1989, Harriet Miers clearly expressed her support for a Constitutional amendment to ban abortions. Watch that pendulum swing back to the right . . . er, Right.

Stupid Democrats.

Big Smile for the Camera!

Google's gonna be working overtime later this week. How fast will these hit the Internets?

The Best Defense is a Good . . . Terror Warning!

You've probably read this. If you haven't, it likely confirms what you've suspected.

We're glad that baseball season is over (in every way that matters) so that Olbermann will start getting back to the sport that really gets our hearts racing.

Because President Starts with P.R.

When you go into battle, it's good to be prepared. Apparently, the same rule applies if you want to have a meaningful discussion with a group of soldiers. Even if the exchange is being billed as something a little less . . . structured?

Yeah, we know, Administrations have done this sort of thing for a while now. But why does it seem so prevalent now? And why does, increasingly, "scripted" sound like "lying?"

Bush Knows Her Heart (Reprise)

I've grown increasingly concerned about Harriet Miers after hearing the story about reassurances James Dobson received from Karl Rove. Speculation, of course, focuses on Miers being an "evangelical Christian" who is pro-life . . . and whether Rove's assurances extended to how Miers might vote on a case that could overturn Roe v. Wade.

The president believes in her, and has told Conservatives to "trust" him. The First Lady supports her, and probably for reasons besides Miers having a vagina (maybe she, too, killed someone with her car).

The Democrats, in true form, have no idea what to do about her. "Great, Bush nominated a woman!" That's about all we've heard. She could be a fine addition to the court. Or she could be an Administration-programmed ideologue.

Ode to "the Quiet Life"

So, this is what qualifies as a "major speech" on Iraq? Chock-full of new, gripping information? No?

I love this part:

Bush also took on war critics in the United States.

“There’s always a temptation in the middle of a long struggle to seek the quiet life, to escape the duties and problems of the world and to hope the enemy grows weary of fanaticism and tired of murder,” he said.

But Bush vowed to not to retreat from Iraq or from the broader war on terrorism. “We will keep our nerve and we will win that victory,” he said.

I have a feeling that the days of "the quiet life" are long, long gone. Thanks, asshole.

Bush Knows Her Heart

I guess there are lots of reasons to be uncomfortable with Bush nominating Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Like, she's "born again," or wholly unqualified. (Or that she was nominated by Bush, which makes those previous two reasons redundant.) Many Republicans seem nervous and/or disapproving. Even Administration lapdog Senator Trent Lott has reservations.

But why is it when the GOP seem to be walking the thin line between inevitable disaster and overwhelming victory, they always seem to pull it out of the fire? I mean, this looks like a lose-lose for the Republicans, and yet I still can't help feeling uneasy.