McSame: The Early Years

CNN is running an hour-long puff piece on both candidates...first half hour was Obama, second is devoted to McSame.

For some reason, CNN totally glossed over McSame's first marriage...watching this schmaltz, you'd think Johnny Mac went straight from the Hanoi Hilton to the Keating Five hearings.

Bizarre.

There was one nice clip of him arguing with W, though...must be from the 2000 debates. W is so pissy; McSame so angry.

McSurge Throws Stuff At Walls

Here is the latest argument from Team McSame: Obama is just like...Bush.

Yeah...that'll stick.

McSame's campaign is hopeless; and the candidate is hopeless. Maybe these arguments worked in 1992 Czechoslovakia.

Bush and Abramoff Together Again

Abramoff and Bush...

Like Rogers and Astaire, like Gilbert and Sullivan, like Currier & Ives, like Ben & Jerry's...

4 new pics of Black Jack Abramoff with his buddy Bush have suddenly appeared, after the White House staff had assured us that they only had met twice (based on 2 previously release photos). Of course the Giant Corrupt Abramoff Lobbying Machine had nothing to do whatsoever with Junior Bush and his Giant Corrupt Administration.

And there's word now that Rove would secretly meet Abramoff on Washington street corners to avoid a paper trail of their meetings.

The plots thicken. And tomorrow is the day that Henry Waxman has indicated he wants all the Plame-related FBI interviews with Bush and Cheney. Interesting-er by the minute.

Snuggle Time

McSurge is running low on fundage for his doomed campaign.

Call in the Grand Pioneer hisself: George W. Bush!

``Any sitting president, even one whose approval rating is in the low 30s, can raise money,'' said Jim Pinkerton, a Republican strategist. ``McCain has to distance himself from Bush, but he also has to reassure the Republican base -- and that means snuggling up.''

Mmmmm. Snuggling up to W. Doesn't get any cozier than that!

Frog March, Not So Interrupted

So the House Judiciary Committee has finally subpoenaed Karl Rove, Bush's Brain.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall at their closed door meetings. Are they prepared to go the Inherent Contempt route?

I'd love to see that. Rove arrested in Texas by the House Sergeant-at-Arms, flown back to Congress in handcuffs, tried in the well of the House and imprisoned for the balance of the Congressional term.

Oh, and let's hope they grab Miers and Bolten while they're at it.

Bush Calls Dems 'Appeasers'; McSurge & Joe Agree

Who are the only 2 people racing to Bush's defense, after he used his speech to the Knesset to deride Obama and Dems as akin to Nazi appeasers?

1) St. John McSurge, natch.

2) LIEberman, channeling Zell Miller. When will Joe get his comeuppance?

Kudos to Hillary for coming to Obama's defense. And Biden, who can drone endlessly at times, simply called it "bullshit." Kerry, Pelosi and Reed all made statements attacking Mr. 19%.

The GOP's Mississippi loss the other day has finally emboldened the Dems.

Assorted Thoughts

Well, I just typed for 15 minutes, spilling my proverbial guts, and a Blogger system error ate my post. Bastards!

So I'll try again, but this time more telegraphically.

PA primary OVER. Good. Good for Hill. Peeps gave her $$$. She's gonna need every centavo.

Gorgeous taste of summer today. 80. Sunny. Ate lunch outside.

Gas rocketing. Oil surging. Shortage of rye flour HERE, in the US of A. End of Western Civ? Feels like it. Hopefully not. Don't want Chimpy and Darth to cancel elections.

War rages on. Petraeus to Centcom. Odierno to head Iraq. More kids die daily.

Can November get here fast enough??????

Fire Up Them Impeachment Engines

...not that there hasn't been a surplus of impeachable acts these past 7 years...

Bush II, the Decider, decided to tell the American people the truth (for a change).

It behooves Congress to impeach. Now. Not later. Not never. Now.

And if we can get 60 votes in the Senate next year, we can join the World Court, and ship these miscreants directly to Brussels for their own war crimes tribunals.

Martin Luther King & 1968

I turn 50 this year. I was 9 when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, 40 years ago today. Bobby Kennedy was murdered later that summer, soon after my birthday, another American tragedy. And my father died in between, an American hero on a much smaller scale, but a hero of mine in any case.

So thoughts of 1968 bring back many sad and strange memories for me. It really seemed like the entire world was crumbling around us, between the war and the violence in the streets and all the protests and civil unrest. Nixon resurgent, and the beginning of his reign of error.

40 years have gone by...and where are the protests? We have a war as heinous, if not more heinous, than Vietnam, if only because we should be so much wiser. We have lost many of our civil rights in the meantime, because we've allowed fearmerchants like Bush and Cheney and Rove to steal them in the night like so many petty thieves. We have more people in prison per capita than mainland China, and we torture people routinely in the name of national security.

And Bush is trying for his 3rd term, via the zombie corpse of McSurge.

We could use a Rev. King right about now. In fact, there probably hasn't been an American moment in the past 230 years where we couldn't have used a Martin Luther King.

40 Years Ago Today...

...LBJ told the world he was hangin' up his spurs, the lascivious old bastard.

I was tuned into POTUS08, XM radio 130, this morning when I heard his gravelly Texas drawl oozing out of my speakers mid-speech.

I remembered that in '68 Johnson had surprisingly announced that he was no longer in the running for re-election. It oocurred to me that this was probably the anniversary...why else would they be rebroadcasting one of his speeches? He would have had to have done it this time of year...

The speech was apparently 35 minutes long, so I guess I caught the last 20 minutes or so.

The announcement, at the very end, was jarring different from the tone of the rest of his speech. Much of what I heard was devoted to recapping history and progress in Vietnam. I enjoyed getting to hear most of it today, even though the whole time I kept thinking about the awful parallels with Iraq.

If only Bush had had such qualms in 2004, maybe we'd be out there by now. But no...he is not only ignorant, he's stubborn.

1-888-995-DOPE

How hard is it to read a phone number aloud?

Apparently, this was fairly challenging for 43, who screwed it up the last time he tried it, too.

Can't remember the number?...turn around, W - it was on a big freaking banner behind you.