At last, an Iraqi moderate supporting Dear Leader:

Al Hakim’s resume is truly impressive. He’s an Ayatollah and a son of an Ayatollah. He speaks fluent Farsi – having spent half his entire life living in exile as an honored guest of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. As a dedicated theocrat – he allied his sectarian legions of Iraqi exiles with the Iranian army in the Iran-Iraq war. It’s safe to assume that he puts his faith based political doctrines above his country – a trait he shares with his host.  Read more 

Yes, we’ve got to hold the Republicans accountable for what they’ve done, not just under the criminal Bush regime but for the last thirty years, since they started building the VRWC so they could hold wages flat and grab as much as they could.

But, for our own self-respect, and to win back the respect of the world, we’ve also got to repudiate the Republicans, and what they’ve done to the country. Thoroughly, systematically, visibly, ruthlessly.  Read more 

This makes me happy:

By Hans Johnson
A trend of local, below-the-radar party-switches is undercutting Republicans as they face the sternest challenge in a decade to one-party control of Congress and several state legislatures. Such party-switching by elected officials often indicates that the label they are shedding has lost appeal and foreshadows poor performance at the polls.
Some recent switchers are exiting GOP ranks with a bang. Distorted priorities, the federal deficit and the Iraq war are common themes in their announcements. And in a direct swipe at the far-right ideology that has become a governing credo in the Bush years, they cite intolerance in the party as the chief reason for leaving.  Read more 

Oh. My. God:

Republican Sen. Conrad Burns [Racist-MT] says the United States is up against a faceless enemy of terrorists who “drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night.”

Actually, this is quite understandable; when you’re the back seat of a cab, you can’t see the driver’s face, and so it’s quite natural to be terrified. After all, the driver might be one of the Not Us.

I hope, though, that since Conrad’s obviously not just wetting the bed, that for the sake of the rest of us who take taxis he keeps a personal supply of Depends and sanitary wipes with him at all times.  Read more