The chairmen of the Iraq Study Group told a Senate panel:

"While I was standing around quibbling this bitch got stuck up a tree" Read more…

I'm listening to the Baker Commission stuff on NPR. Hey, Chris "Torture is Sex" Shays is on the air right now.

The corruption of language is just unbelievable. "Gravity of the situation," "at some variance with what has been White House policy," "these are real giants: Vernon Jordan, Leon Panetta, Sandra Day O'Connor," "these are people every member of Congress respects," "the President needs to rethink," "no blank check," "a way forward," "Baker is bringing back realist, consensus, bipartisan .... "

As arrogant and ignorant as swans. Another meaning for "bi-partisan": Read more…

Why would anybody, let alone the Dems who just took back power--some power; how much has yet to be determined--take anything that Bush says seriously?

Take Donald Rumsfeld--please. Six months from now, the "resignation" of the long-expendable Rummy will be seen to have all the inevitability and all the signifiance that Britney handing K-Fed his walking papers had. "Strong signal"? Like Wearing blue ties? Oh, puh-leeze. Since when is passing the buck to a subordinate and heaving him over the side sending any other kind of signal than business as usual continues in the Bush administration? Now, handing Rummy over to a war crimes tribunal, that would be some signal.

And take the Baker Commission. Last I saw Jim Baker, he was on the teebee, red-faced, sweating, and shouting, helping the other "adults" steal Florida 2000 for Bush. And I'm supposed to see 41's consigiliere as some sort of "elder statesman"? Even if I made the assumption that the criminal Bush regime was America's natural ruling party--an assumption the teabaggers of the Beltway press, desperate to preserve the plunging values of their Rolodexes, clearly make--would I be inclined to regard Baker's innocuously named "Iraq Study Group" as anything other than a crude Republican attempt to leave the Democrats holding the bag for the Republican Clusterfuck that is Iraq, while electing a Republican in 2008?

Well, actually, yes, I would.

Take the Constitution. Because that's what the Republicans want to do: Read more…