Going after the easy targets

This from everyone's second-favorite satirical magazine...

White House Had Prior Knowledge Of Cheney Threat
Aug. 2005 Briefing Warned, 'Cheney Determined To Shoot Old Man In Face'

In a statement released Monday, White House press secretary Scott McClellan pointed to the number of times that random Cheney attacks have been prevented or stopped by the administration.

"We assure you that protecting senior citizens from vice-presidential shotgun blasts was, is, and will remain the highest priority of this administration," he added.

Looks like Brownie got a new job.

Stop of my vice president will shoot

There has been a lot written about Mary Matalin's performance on Sunday's Meet the Press, but most interesting to me was Maureen Dowd's take on why the furor over our vice president's hunting accident isn't going away.

The reason this story has evoked such fascination is because the vice president is like the phantom. You know, we hear the creak of the door as he passes, but we don't really know what he's up to. We don't know his schedule. We don't always know where he is. We don't know what democratic institution he's blowing off at any given minute, and so this allowed us to see how his behavior and judgment operated pretty much in real time -- with the delay, but pretty much in real time. ... And it covered all the problems of the Bush/Cheney administration: secrecy and stonewalling, then blowing off the rules that are at the heart of our democracy, then using a filter to try and put the truth out in a way that would most suit their political needs, and then bad political judgment in bungling a crisis. I mean, if there's one thing the Republicans are great at since Reagan, it's damage control. But he is such a control freak, you know, he doesn't even care about the damage. ... Mary, it isn't only the press. He blows off the FISA courts, he blows off the Geneva Conventions, he blows off the U.N. to go to Iraq. He wants to blow off everything. He's got a fever about presidential erosion just the way he had a fever about going into Iraq.

The Phantom Fever... catch it in 2008!

International Crisis Response

Friends, now that the Zombie Invasion has been thwarted or at least postponed, I had planned to begin my political writing again. I had some choice words to say on the topic of Muslims who MARCH to protest the writing of a political cartoon against their dipshit little religious founder. I also had a few thoughts on the nature of a government which investigates a woman for sedition merely for writing a letter to the editor criticizing the feds (Albequerque. Look it up.)

Then I stupidly did what I always do before I write a post. I went to a political chat room to hash these ideas over with my ‘peers’ a bit, flush them out a bit.

The liberals…the LIBERALS on this chat room were confused as to why I cared.

Friends, the world has grown terminally stupid. I have some ideas as to why this is the case, but I’m going to have to ponder them, write a bit more and get back to you. I intend to talk at length with the fun party directors and come this weekend, I expect to get back to you all with the new face the party will be taking to deal with what is now the obvious and apparent crisis; that the vast majority of humanity does not deserve to survive.

Self-love and rockets

Pentagon Review Calls for No Big Changes

Does anyone else find this NY Times headline funny? Suprising? No. But funny.

What's next? President's Self-Approval Rate 100%? Wait... did The Onion already do that one?

State of our union is...

You might have missed this in the State of the Union, but probably not this...
[Read the whole darned thing.]

"A hopeful society has institutions of science and medicine that do not cut ethical corners, and that recognize the matchless value of every life. Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research — human cloning in all its forms ... creating or implanting embryos for experiments ... creating human-animal hybrids..."

Sweet Jesus! It's a madhouse. A MADHOUSE!

"Human life is a gift from our Creator — and that gift should never be discarded, devalued, or put up for sale."

Unless, of course, you are poor or black or a "suspected terrorist"... then all bets are off.