One Utah

This is video just snuck its way into my e-mail. Its pretty funny. I’ve been pleasantly surprised on occasion by Utah AG Mark Shurtleff. He can be compassionate when its under the radar, but the he keeps tripping on his ambition and gets himself on the wrong wrong wrong side of issues.

Here’s [...]

The Trib:
Utah senator disappointed in colleague’s convictions
After Monday’s conviction, Hatch released this statement: “It is very disappointing to see this verdict today. In my dealings with Sen. Ted Stevens, I have always found him to be very honest and straightforward. My prayers are with the senator and his wife and family at this difficult time.” [...]

Breaking news from Associated Press:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been convicted of lying about free home renovations and other gifts he received from a wealthy oil contractor.
The Senate’s longest-serving Republican, Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial documents.

Yeah, yeah …. It’s late and I’m tired. But this little ditty just made me smile/want to cry. I mean … come the freep on, McCainiacs!!!!

(CNN) — Bail was set at $50,000 Friday night for a GOP campaign worker who made up a story about being attacked by a man angered by [...]

According to the LA Times, veteran Republican operative Mark Jacoby has been arrested for voter registration fraud.
But this is not the first time, according to the St. Petersburg Times, the Republican party in 2004 hired Mr. Jacoby through another firm and he ran the same scam then–and they knew about it and hired him again [...]

Michelle Bachmann declares that some members of Congress are anti-American.
Chris Matthews actually tries to get her to answer. Of course she can’t/won’t. (H/t to Kos)

See the full 7 minutes of crazy after the flip.

Conservatives are already preparing a post-election narrative (no surprise here - as 2004 starting looking like Kerry couldn’t pull it off, progressives began preparing a post-election narrative).
By all indications - the presidential race aside - this is shaping up to be a bad year for Republicans and conservatives. Current polling suggest Dems could emerge [...]

Via Talking Points Memo: the Virginia Republican Party, headed by a guy who thinks there is no difference between Senator Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden, delves deep into the sleaze bucket. This has to be seen to be believed.
Republicans are desperate. Senator Obama is leading in Virginia among likely voters by a [...]

I’ve criticized Andrew Sullivan as a political commentator. He’s a very bright person but somehow it took him a long long time to realize that American conservatives are nothing like the British Tories he grew up admiring. George W. Bush is not Margaret Thatcher. Sullivan, however, is offering some of the most [...]

 
From fifty-thousand feet all the way down to pebbles on the beach, the distribution of this anti-Muslim DVD on behalf of the Republican candidate for President evokes the Nazi rise to power.
 

photo credit: Kier42

From Chris Rodda. On Friday, September 26, the end of a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam’s War [...]

I finally found what appears to be a thorough list of Republican indictments and convicted felons. Of course the list is huge.
There are so many corrupt and criminal Republicans, that people were becoming bored, or used to it.
Just wait till the Democrats control Justice. I imagine you will see the number [...]

There’s no bull like Wall Street bull…
It’s already being called “a financial PATRIOT Act,” and “cash for trash.” Read it and weep: Text of Draft Proposal for Bailout Plan.
It puts the power of the purse in the hands of the executive instead of the legislative branch. The dollar amount is not [...]