No Sifting These Tea Leaves: Greenspan Knows Iraq War All About the Oil

Its the oil, stupid. Color me NOT surprised.

Greenspan speaks

Fred Thompson: Clueless

Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Thursday he doesn't know enough about efforts by President Bush and Congress to keep Terri Schiavo alive to have an opinion on the right-to-die case that stirred national debate.

Thompson was asked in an interview for Bay News 9's "Political Connections" program if he thought Congress' intervention to save the life of the brain-dead woman two years ago was appropriate.

"I can't pass judgment on it. I know that good people were doing what they thought was best," Thompson said. "That's going back in history. I don't remember the details of it."

Put another way, Thompson is afraid to piss off the right-wing lunatic fringe. Is this supine, brainless idiot really a major presidential contender?

Fred Thompson: Stupid and useless

North Korea No Nukes

Or right back to where we started from.

Condi Rice had a major foreign policy victory last week by getting a No Nukes pledge from Lil' Kim. Nice work, Condi. No really! This was the one major foreign policy blunder y'all managed to fix.

This makes me imagine a world that BushCo didn't bluster and bumble on to. Imagine if we hadn't invaded Iraq, or mismanaged Afghanistan...

Blumkin-gate

Before even mentioning Larry Craig, a quick note on my absence. I really have been extremely busy the past few months. As the weeks moved on and I didn't blog - hell I haven't even been reading other blogs - I found myself not really missing it. Maybe I'm just a little burned out. Maybe I'm just so sick of blogging about Crapmaster Bush and his house of sycophants. Whatever it was, I jsut didn't have an urge to blog.

I'm really not feeling it now. But hat's off to Larry Craig for motivating me to come up with this witty title. (Reader beware: If you don't know what a blumkin is, you may not want to find out what it really means; its not for the faint of heart.)

Sadly, Blumkin-gate has once again served to take the important issues of the day off the top of the news. Iraq? Insurance for kids? Screw it! Give me Senators soliciting blumkins in public restrooms.

Work, vacations, family: I'm too damned busy to blog

I'll get back into the swing of things when I have more time - not only for my own blog, but also when I have more time to get back to reading many of my favorite blogs, too.

Until then, enjoy the summer!

And ITMFA!

My Schadenfreude Meter Is Stuck on Red Line: Thanks David Vitter

Thanks a lot Senator Vitter, you moral blowhard by day, freakazoid by night, I'm going to need a new schadenfreude meter. This one is busted; pushed way beyond the red line.

From the Quote Machine:

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

We need a U.S. Senator who will stand up for Louisiana values, not Massachusetts’s values. I am the only Senate Candidate to coauthor the Federal Marriage Amendment; the only one fighting for its passage. I am the only candidate proposing changes to the senate rules to stop liberal obstructionists from preventing an up or down vote on issues like this, judges, energy, and on and on.

[Bob Livingston's resignation is] obviously a tremendous loss for the state.... I think Livingston's stepping down makes a very powerful argument that Clinton should resign as well and move beyond this mess. [Vitter on the Clinton-Lewinsky affair and former House Speaker Bob Livingston]

I don't think David will be sleeping too well at night these days:

Vitter's wife, Wendy, said in 2000 that if her husband cheated on her, she would react like a woman who cut off her sleeping husband's penis. "I'm a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary [Clinton]," she said. "If he does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me. I think fear is a very good motivating factor in a marriage

American Research Group Confirms What We Already Know: ITMFsA

American Research Group conducted a survey recently. 45% of Americans want to begin impeachment proceedings against Dubya, and a majority want the same for Darth Cheney. As usual these days, Republicans are off babbling in a corner, while Democrats and Independents agree: ITMFsA.

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ITMsFA (I added the plural.)