Sometimes, even in the deepest, stinkiest dungheap, you find a flower growing. From Dean Barnett at Hugh Hewitt's place:

I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW BAD I FEEL FOR ELIZABETH AND JOHN EDWARDS. I’m familiar with the body-blow of a sudden diagnosis that turns your world upside down. It’s incredible – you walk into a doctor’s office and within a span of minutes you find out your life will never be the same. In the back of your mind you nourish the hopes of miracle cures or that you might be like that guy in Dubuque who got the same diagnosis but oddly enough lived forever, but the reality of the situation sits there in your mind. You can’t shake it – it just won’t leave. Read more…

The delusional, fascist rump of the Republican Partei--please, please, can we start calling them The Rump instead of The Base--are purging and surging (and binging on Cheetohs). Hugh Hewitt [DCOW] has posted a pledge:

If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution.

(Hilariously, I could take this pledge, since I would never under any circumstances contribute to any Republican's campaign. Maybe I should encourage the breakup up of the Republican party by going over there and signing it. Throw 'em an anvil...)

Anyhow, as usual, the Republicans--until the Republicans repudicate The Rump, they're all the same to me--are accusing Democrats and war opponents of treason ("encouraging the enemy.") Same old, same old.

What's interesting, then? It's a classic case of winger meme transmission--but/and this time initiated by The Last Honest Man, Joe Lieberman: Read more…