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A joke don't have to be half as funny if it's timely.
Mike Luckovich (click to enlarge).
(Backstory: Cheney agreed it was a "no brainer" when a Fargo ND talkshow host endorsed "dunking a terrorist in water to save Americans from getting killed." In effect, he admitted they waterboard.)
Incredible. They live in another dimension.
Incidentally during this interview with Bill Mahar, David Kuo makes an interesting point, or at least I infer one.
It's George W. Bush's personal quality of being "pastor in chief" that conservative evangelicals are loyal to, not the policies, party, or ideology. It's him. He's got the glow of godliness.
They clearly don't have that attitude about John McCain, Bill Frist nor any other Republican frontronner of whom I'm aware.
As part of a Googlebomb effort (via Hulabaloo, link at left), here are some most unflattering news stories about some Congressfolk.
--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl
--AZ-01: Rick Renzi
--AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth
--CA-04: John Doolittle
--CA-11: Richard Pombo
--CA-50: Brian Bilbray
--CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave
--CO-05: Doug Lamborn
--CO-07: Rick O'Donnell
--CT-04: Christopher Shays
--FL-13: Vernon Buchanan
--FL-16: Joe Negron
--FL-22: Clay Shaw
--ID-01: Bill Sali
--IL-06: Peter Roskam
--IL-10: Mark Kirk
--IL-14: Dennis Hastert
--IN-02: Chris Chocola
--IN-08: John Hostettler
--IA-01: Mike Whalen
--KS-02: Jim Ryun
--KY-03: Anne Northup
--KY-04: Geoff Davis
--MD-Sen: Michael Steele
--MN-01: Gil Gutknecht
--MN-06: Michele Bachmann
--MO-Sen: Jim Talent
--MT-Sen: Conrad Burns
--NV-03: Jon Porter
--NH-02: Charlie Bass
--NJ-07: Mike Ferguson
--NM-01: Heather Wilson
--NY-03: Peter King
--NY-20: John Sweeney
--NY-26: Tom Reynolds
--NY-29: Randy Kuhl
--NC-08: Robin Hayes
--NC-11: Charles Taylor
--OH-01: Steve Chabot
--OH-02: Jean Schmidt
--OH-15: Deborah Pryce
--OH-18: Joy Padgett
--PA-04: Melissa Hart
--PA-07: Curt Weldon
--PA-08: Mike Fitzpatrick
--PA-10: Don Sherwood
--RI-Sen: Lincoln Chafee
--TN-Sen: Bob Corker
--VA-Sen: George Allen
--VA-10: Frank Wolf
--WA-Sen: Mike McGavick
--WA-08: Dave Reichert
Via Digby, a devastating political ad starring Michael J. Fox.
Politics is about real life. Imagine that.
...makes a good point.
A reassuring one.
That cleanup-man James Baker is working up a save-Iraq plan that involves neighboring states.
And attacking or blockading Iran before the election would be a big monkey wrench in the works.
Chris Matthews, interviewing John McCain in front of a university audience in Iowa, conducts a live experiment that hilariously demonstrates McCain's plan to win in Iraq is fairy dust.
Hint: Operation Yellow Elephant would approve.
Excellent new type of villain, guaranteed to be viewed unsympathetically by audiences across the political spectrum. Fresh. Topical.
From the article:
One of the people praised in former U.S. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer's memoirs is a major suspect in the case.
Ziad Cattan was in charge of military procurement at a time when the ministry of defense went on a $1.2 billion buying spree. Allawi estimates that $750 to $800 million of that money was stolen.
Judge Radhi al-Radhi, head of Iraq's Commission on Public Integrity, which investigates official corruption, tells Kroft that a lot of the money that wasn't stolen was spent on outdated, useless equipment.
"It isn't true," says Cattan, whom 60 Minutes found in Paris and who was recently convicted in absentia in Iraq for squandering public funds.
He showed Kroft documents and pictures of equipment that he says is now in Iraq.
An official from Jane's, one of the world's foremost experts in military hardware, says the documents Cattan provided were too vague to prove anything.
I'd pay great kickbacks to an official who would give me millions for useless, unsalable military crap.
As corrupt as the Bushies are, it's grimly ironic they couldn't prevent being embezzled by their own clients.
Of our money, that is.
Righty John LeBoutillier ventures a plan for Iraq (basically, hide in our bases until the screaming stops), and shares a tidbit I hadn't heard:
Last week when Secretary of State Condi Rice tried to land in Baghdad, her plane was forced to circle for an hour because of mortar fire at the airport. And during her meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Noori Al-Maliki, the power went out and plunged the room into total darkness.
Sounds like a bracing trip. I remember the photos of her in body armor, too.
Maybe that White House denial might melt a little.
Duke-Cunningham-web-of-corruption taintee, Congressman Jerry Lewis (R-CA), just fired 60 (!) of the investigative staff that uncovers waste, fraud and abuse of the $900 billion Congress spends annually.
Breathtaking.
Makes Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre seem timorous.
Who says government spending needs oversight?
Blow it aalll...hahahahaha! Soo-eee!
Something tells me a lot of these guys are going to be rehired once the Dems take over (if the Goddess of Liberty smiles upon us).
It'd be nice if a few of them leaked a thing or two to the press, in the meantime.
