Our cup of bang-head-against-the-wall insanity runneth over in Ari Fleischer’s visit to “Hardball.”

He proudly announces that his group Freedom’s Watch is running a $15 million ad campaign for that thing called war.

Fleischer calls those who complain about the conflation of Al-Qaeda and Iraq “stuck in the 2001-2002 time table and debate.” Apparently, he has moved on.

In Ari’s case, moving past 2001 consists of showing a video where a legless veteran says “they attacked us,” with those words superimposed over a photo of the World Trade Center attack.  Read more 

Quote of the day, from Paul Rieckhoff on Hardball:

“Our troops are not political props, and they aren’t chew toys”.

Indeed.

Remember that Rieckhoff is an Iraq War vet, and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. He was responding to the GWBush speech today to the VFW, and also to Ari Fleischer’s (R-Warmonger) new war porn group.

Here’s from the IAVA response to the speech:  Read more 

Look! Ari Fliescher is offering the Democrats some helpful advice!

And that’s one of the beauties of this thing of ours the press has with Republicans—Once you’re out of the administration, you get to be quoted as offering putatively objective commentary, as if you weren’t still part of the VRWC. It’s so beautiful it brings a tear to my eye. Look who Times stenographer Sheryl Gay Stolberg gets a quote from on subpoenas for Rove. They’re serious!

“There’s a big problem for both the White House and Congress on these subpoenas, and that is that everybody looks bad,” said Ari Fleischer, Mr. Bush’s first press secretary. “The White House doesn’t want to get into a visible public executive privilege court fight because it makes it look like they’re hiding something. Congress shouldn’t go down this subpoena line because they’re only cooking their own goose. It’s great for the base, but lousy for the country.”

Thanks for your concern, Ari. We’ll take that under advisement.

[Reach me that bucket, wouldja hon?]

And now take a look at the headline:  Read more