First, the ad (#1 on YouTube!), which brilliantly binds individual Republican candidates to Bush and Iraq. Next, the winger reaction (via Memeorandum):

Batiste, despite protestations, is either a liar or a fool. But, there’s little doubt that he has voluntarily chosen to lay down with dogs, and that he gets up with fleas.

Who are these parasites and dirty animals?  Read more 

Via Ruth a great little piece that I missed in the excrementally fabulous WaPo. Here’s the fun part:

Soltz, the group’s intense 29-year-old co-founder who served in Iraq in 2003, displayed a fiery impatience with the procedural morass that has paralyzed the Senate. “I don’t need some fancy Senate talk about why they can’t vote,” he said in an interview. “We just want a vote. We need a vote that tells the president that his strategy is not working.”

In several news conferences, Soltz accused McConnell of “aiding the enemy” by allowing the Bush administration to build up troops in Iraq at the expense of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. “We are not fighting the war on terrorism, we are in the middle of a civil war,” he said, referring to Iraq. “Meanwhile, the guy who attacked this country on 9/11 is living in a cave in Afghanistan.”  Read more