2008 archive

Freakin’ delusional hack, courtesy of Josh Marshall:

. . . and I certainly wouldn’t take this bet.

Bush.

Delusional, as always.

Scott Ritter in the Guardian. Read the whole thing (emphasis added):

Bush, in his revealing interview, claimed he wished “that the intelligence had been different”, but that was never really the point. Bush, like so many others, had made up his mind regarding Saddam independent of the facts of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Try as he might to spread responsibility for his actions by pointing out that “a lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein,” the fact is WMD was simply an excuse used by the president to fulfil his self-proclaimed destiny as a war-time president who would avenge his father’s inability (or, more accurately, sage unwillingness) to finish the job back in 1991, in the aftermath of the first Gulf war.

(snip)

The most important aspect of Bush’s interview rests not in what he admits, but rather in what he avoids, when he stated that the failure to find WMD in Iraq was “the biggest regret of all the presidency.” He doesn’t regret the decision that led America to war, or the processes that facilitated the falsification of a case for war. He doesn’t regret the violation of international law, the deaths of so many innocents, the physical destruction of Iraq or America’s loss of its moral high ground. He merely regrets the fact that his “gut feel” on Saddam’s WMD arsenal was wrong.

Furrfu.

I do not get charges on my cell phone bill for roaming. I have this plan, you see.

Roaming. Not the same thing as Roving.

My cellphone carrier is honest.

It roams. It doesn’t Rove.

(Truth. It’s not a Republican Thing.)

Via Atrios.

According to the test, I’m a

. . . Peace Patroller, also known as an anti-war liberal or neo-hippie. You believe in putting an end to American imperial conquest, stopping wars that have already been lost, and supporting our troops by bringing them home.

See the list of liberal breeds here.

Take the test here.

Via Delaware Liberal.

(Second link fixed.)

Some time ago, I described how, every time conservatism fails, Conservatives circle the wagons and claim that “X (insert conservative poster boy of the day) is not a true conservative.”

You can review the post here.

And here you can see history redundantly repeating itself all over again once more.

One more time: Contemporary Republicanism is a failed theory founded in greed and incapable of governance.

Oh sure, it looks good in a suit, speaks impressively in meetings, writes nice memos.

But it is morally, intellectually, and spiritually bankrupt.

The evidence is all around us.

Those who do not see it are those who refuse to look.

Via Andrew Sullivan.

Jon Swift tautly, irrefutablely argues as to why the Walmart Tramplers should be pardonned. Read the whole thing, as he expands his reasoning to even wider perspectives. Here’s an excerpt:

Prosecutors may even try to score cheap political points by filing criminal charges against some of these bargain hunters, who have been called “savages” and “animals” by demagogues in the liberal media. Of course, my heart goes out to the family of this man who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, but while it is unfortunate that someone got hurt, capitalism is not a dinner party. There will always be some collateral damage in a free market. Socialists who hate capitalism are now trying to scapegoat these patriotic Americans who celebrated an American tradition by rising before dawn on the day after Thanksgiving to express their love of this country by partaking of the bounties of the free enterprise system. How can those of us who were not there judge people on the front lines of the Christmas shopping rush?

Via Andrew Sullivan.

No such thing, right?

Dave Zweifel in the Madison, Wisc., Capital Times discussing an article by Dan Shelley in the Milwaukee Magazine.

Shelley wrote that conservative radio hosts around the country, including Sykes and Wagner, were e-mailed daily talking points from the Bush White House, the Republican National Committee and, during election years, GOP campaign operations. They would also check frequently with other talk show hosts, including Rush Limbaugh’s Web site and the online sites of conservative bloggers, to make sure everyone was on the same page.

Via Raw Story.