You see, the insider-trading Bill Frist plans to Bring in da' Homophobia on the Senate floor just in time to rile up some gay-bashin' good times.

John Gibson

Democrats and Republicans, I'm sure, will be united on this point. No bargaining with bin Laden, and he's still got to answer for killing 3,000 Americans in New York.

But the far lefties ought to pay attention to the other things he said. He was quoting our own far left and Europe's as they have cheered the polls showing Americans support for the war waning, that some Americans want to pull out from Iraq.

No amount of dem-bashing is enough for him these days.

It's not : President Bush broke the law when he eavesdropped on Americans without getting a FISA warrant either before or after doing so.

It's     : Isn't breaking the law part of the job?

In your America, Chris.  Not mine.  I remember when Republicans would impeach a President for breaking a law.

After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq.

Eason Jordan resigned last night as CNN's chief news executive in an effort to quell a bubbling controversy over his remarks about U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq.

It's not a "right" story or a "left" story. It's a story about 150,000 young men and women who are black, white, hispanic, asian, republicans, democrats, independents, gay and straight and perhaps socialists who are sacrificing life and limb for the current Commander in Chief (doesn't matter if we agree or disagree with him -- they are there dying) -- and they have been accused of nothing short of murder....

More after flip...

Is anyone surprised?  

But I disagree with the ThinkProgress statement that this development would make the scandal unmanageable.  There are many scandals already, many of them involving truly impeachable offenses (some punishable as war crimes).  But it doesn't matter a whit.  

But this is just silly:

But it's going to be quite interesting to see how this all plays out with the court. There are some people in the White House that feel, very strongly, they prefer to have a controversial Supreme Court nominee to get the debate in the country back on moral values, cultural values and off of Katrina, Iraq and Tom DeLay.

So, it plays several different ways. It's going to be fascinating.

Schmuckountability is spreading from the Administration to our Armed Services like wildfire.  It's a top-down, bubbling-over sort of nastiness that only a full pullout seems likely to curtail.  The kind of nastiness John Kerry talked about after returning from Viet Nam:

The Country doesn't know it yet, but it's created a monster.

A monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence and who are given the chance to die for the biggest nothing in history.

As signs of an all-but-lost species' recovery waft past the White House, the EPA is expected to redact much of its upcoming report on the subject, choosing language more friendly to the political leanings of current leadership.  Scientists warn this could allow the Limbaughanus Hannitidiotus to push back against the recovery of the Mediata, once again ensuring our citizenry can maintain its shift-sustaining ignorance of current events, leaving the ecological pendulum dangling dangerously to the right.

UNC--A school not far from my adopted home state--has a winner of an article on their hands.

I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport.

I don't care if they're being inconvenienced. I don't care if it seems as though their rights are being violated.

I care about my life. I care about the lives of my family and friends.

And I care about the lives of the Arabs and Arab Americans I'm privileged to know and study with.

They're some of the brightest, kindest people I've ever met.

Racial profiling is a subject that even some staunch liberal voices have gotten behind.  But I don't think any of them openly sanctioned rape.  Perhaps she's just a little worked up, and will calm down a tad as she continues...

I don't know what to call it, but I'm laughing.  

Apparently a lot of other countries think this is more than a joke.  

Bush, and republican Presidents in general (during my lifetime) are very fond of spending other people's money, especially when it tends to end up lining the pockets of their friends.  Borrowing to grow their pet-portions of government while complaining of government's costly girth.  Cutting taxes while increasing spending, and claiming that putting money in the pockets of the rich will eventually put money in the pockets of the poor.  Nonsense, of course.  Widening the gap between poor and rich seems to be the mantra of their collective conservative subconscious.

And for this, I declare Bush Jr, Bush Sr, and Ronald Reagan fully schmuckountable.

I argued several days ago, that Brown and Chertoff should be fired now, rather than later.  Prior to that, Rep Brad Miller D-NC had predicted exactly the tactic the Republicans would take.  Maybe I missed the memo, but Miller's taking note of this approach finally made me realize it was what we had been seeing all along.

Preach personal responsibility, but do not practice it.  Follow the Republican mindset of "I got mine you shoulda got yours", which itself is an ode to personal responsibility.  But when that responsibility involves admitting an error or taking blame, push it off until tomorrow.  Procrastinate.  Delay.  

And then, at some phantom moment in time, flip the logic to letting sleeping dogs lie.  Let bygones be bygones.  Let's not dig up those old topics, we've got enough problems today.  Only for that phantom moment do you actually allow someone to question you.

Which brings me to my new, Bush-inspired word.

Ferris has a point.  If we're not one of the people practicing a certain philosophy, then why should we care?  But, when that philosophy rises to power and attempts to remake society in its image, much to the detriment of all of those not practicing the philosophy, even impugning and demeaning those that refuse to, we must care.

George W. Bush has several 'ism' problems.  

I give you my thoughts on that matter. Available in both jpg and png for your viewing disgust.

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It was intended to appease labor.  It was intended to help get Grover Cleveland reelected (it failed).  But over time, it was looked at as a reminder, that just as we thank our veterans on Memorial Day, without labor this country could not be.

Bill Frist might disagree.  

W. stayed on vacation a few days after Katrina hit.  What's a few more days out of five weeks, anyways?  Couldn't hurt.  As I've stated, just some black folk down there.

Bill Frist is looking to vote on repealling the estate tax on Tuesday.  Congress is back in town, Katrina has distracted us all, and taxation is the only thief that can affect the super rich.  Besides, the super rich are being forced to give their money to charity in order to avoid paying taxes.  Best to take from those damned charities before they are able to do any good, that might make the Republican core beliefs seem anti-American.

In New Orleans.

The subject was the conditions in New Orleans, looting, and the question of where support is.

Olbermann remarked that he had heard Rush Limbaugh earlier today saying that those that were still in New Orleans deserved what they had gotten, as they had chosen to live there.  Olbermann went so far as to call him, "that Limbaugh".  Denouncing the inherent inconsiderate nature of such a statement.

But Sharpton made the point that struck me...