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Just when you think the McCain campaign couldn’t get more incompetence than piteous Palin prank, some plurality of criminally stupid McCain advisers let him skewer himself on SNL tonight.

Is this the same genetic defect that will probably elect Jason Chaffetz in the second congressional district.? There are even a few enlightened conservatives freaking on [...]

There’s been a great deal of talk about corruption in politics. The last 8 years have seen a truly shocking level of corruption in government - from the Republicans K Street Project, to the Bushies’ endless politicizing of every aspect of government starting with no bid contracts for any firm connected to the Administration [...]

Senator McCain’s genius political consultants are trying to steer the presidential campaign away from the economy and its down-spiraling fundamentals. Instead, they want to talk about “past associations” of the candidates.
Well, let’s talk. How about Senator McCain’s long friendship with Ahmed Chalabi, the crooked Iraqi politician and former exile who played a leading [...]

According to London’s Daily Telegraph, the architects of the Palin Doctrine are a group of people who have been singularly wrong about virtually everything in the last decade — the neocons, who have been briefing Palin for weeks.
As predicted, the fact that she didn’t know anything wasn’t a bug, it was a feature. She’s perfect [...]

Seemingly endlessly litigated and legislated around, the First Amendment reads simply:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
For [...]

Consistency. If there’s one thing Republicans have going for them, it’s consistency. In fact, no other organization that I’m aware of, whether it be a sports team, a university, a government bureau or a business can point to a track record of such astonishing consistency. For a hundred years now, the Republicans have unfailingly been [...]

Amy Goodman Arrested!
Its time for the law enforcement community to decide of they are going become a community of thugs or respectful civil servants. It takes balls to be a cop. If you are so afraid that you have to man handle women, you should not be a cop. If you’re not [...]

In the L.A. Times, Andrew Bacevich tells it like it is:

Will the next president actually bring about Big Change? Don’t get your hopes up.
Regardless of who wins Nov. 4, we should temper our expectations of what George W. Bush’s successor will accomplish, especially on foreign policy.
In reality, presidents don’t make policy; administrations do. To judge [...]

Last night, Bill Moyers interviewed Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power. It’s worth the time to read the whole transcript. In particular I was struck by this exchange - it began with Moyers reading a quote from Bacevich’s book:
BILL MOYERS: I was in the White House, back in the early 60s, [...]

According to Paul “Sorry-ma’am-this-is-my-job-someone’s-got-to-do-it” Mero, chief of Utah’s conservative Sutherland Institute, the state has a vested interest in your sex organs. Your children, you see, are the state’s means of production, and your sex organs, being the means of producing the means, are therefore a national asset subject to oversight. Lots of oversight. The more [...]

I rarely republish an entire post here. What with hyperlinkage technology in’all.
h/t Firedog Lake.

So, last week I explained — remarkably politely, I thought — why I think it is perfectly all right to say “fuck” when you are treating with sociopaths who sincerely believe that the war in Iraq [...]

Large lies fries anyone?