Why Preznit Anally Receptive is the stupidest fucking president in my lifetime, or the lifetime of any of my direct descendants to come. Juan Williams of NPR barely fares better...

MR. WILLIAMS: All right, Mr. President, the reports that 300 militants were killed, an American helicopter shot down yesterday in Najaf - that's one of the deadliest battles of the war, what can you tell us?

PRESIDENT BUSH: You know, Juan, I haven't been briefed by the Pentagon yet. One of the things I've learned is not to react to first reports off the battlefield. I will tell you, though, that this fight is an indication of what is taking place, and that is the Iraqis are beginning to take the lead, whether it be this fight that you've just reported on where the Iraqis went in with American help to do in some extremists that were trying to stop the advance of their democracy, or the report that there's militant Shia had been captured or killed. In other words, one of the things that I expect to see is the Iraqis take the lead and show the American people that they're willing to the hard work necessary to secure their democracy, and our job is to help them.

MR. WILLIAMS: Now, you've got a vote tomorrow in the Senate to consider a resolution opposing the troop buildup. Vice President Cheney said last week that vote would validate the insurgents' strategy. And so, do you agree?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, there's a lot of strong opinions about it. My attitude is - my feeling to the Senate echoes what Joe Lieberman said the other day - Senator Joe Lieberman ...

MR. WILLIAMS: Well, another question about Vice President Cheney – he said last week that – here I'm quoting – "we've encountered enormous successes and we continue to have enormous successes in Iraq." Two weeks ago you said, quote, "there hadn't been enough success in Iraq." So it sounds like there's a conflicting message there.

Williams does get inside the Bubble of Codpiece for a moment:

MR. WILLIAMS: By the way, in the speech, you spoke about the Democrats. You said, you congratulated the Democrat majority. And I notice your prepared text said Democratic majority. I surely think that you know that for the Democrats, they think when you say Democrat, it's like fingernails on the blackboard. They don't like it. They like you to say Democratic.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Yeah. Well, that was an oversight then. I mean, I'm not trying to needle. Look, I went into the hall saying we can work together and I was very sincere about it. I didn't even know I did it.

MR. WILLIAMS: Will the budget be balanced through spending restraint or taxes?

PRESIDENT BUSH: The budget is going to be balanced by keeping taxes low. ...

And so it goes. The spin is endless...the bullshit smells no better this year than it did in 2000; the difference? Well, it costs more now.

Another enigmatic program for what reason? I get the premise, but where is it going to be funded from, who's going to run it and how's it going to really function?

A second task we can take on together is to design and establish a volunteer Civilian Reserve Corps. Such a corps would function much like our military reserve. It would ease the burden on the Armed Forces by allowing us to hire civilians with critical skills to serve on missions abroad when America needs them. And it would give people across America who do not wear the uniform a chance to serve in the defining struggle of our time.

Given their penchant for putting self before service, I doubt that many of them will be rushing down to join a "Civilian Reserve Corps" that has all the clarity of purpose that only the 1600 Crew can bring to a mission. For some reason, this just makes me think of a future veteran corps of Walter Sobchaks ("The Big Lebowski" if you've seen the movie, you get the reference, right?) sitting around talking about their experiences in whatever their version of "The Nam" is 20 years from now, because they escaped (or were forced) from Mom's basement and their pointless lives to do something worthwhile. As if.

Gee, maybe he'll talk about fighting AIDS in Africa too. Oh, wait, he did.

The SOTU was pretty much of a yawner tonight. After all, the rubber-assed rubber-stamp republicans were not applauding every bit of jingoistic drivel that popped from Preznit Horse Fluffer's gob this evening. But this comment caught my ear, and I had to go back and check the transcript:

... and that will leave border agents free to chase down drug smugglers, and criminals ...

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., introduced a bill to pardon the agents, joining a growing group of supporters of the men, including Reps. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., and Ted Poe, R-Texas.

"There's a compelling case that this was an extreme injustice," Hunter told FOXNews.com.

Be worth keeping an eye on.

With her sister's strap-on. In the ass. Hard.

Nasty nepotistic bitch has an op-ed in the Washington Post today, and makes the most irrelevant set of Chickenhawk arguments ever. And then caps it off with the Hollywood-Rambo-Chuck Norris argument for continuing to fight in Iraq:

Our soldiers will win if we let them.

Gee, do I hear the siren call of the Friday-night-shit-faced Legionnaire whose entire term of service was spent painting blivets at NAS Nowhere or East Buttfuck Army Base?

Liz Cheney and her entire goddamn hypocritcal family from her draft-dodging father, to her loud-mouthed scold of a bitch mother to her self-hating lesbian sister to her own bad nepotistic self (how do you get to be an Asst Secretary of State? Have Daddy run the man who runs the State Department, that's how) ought to bend over and kiss the asses of every man and woman who has had to go and serve tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. In public. At high noon. Times Square works for me.

The last person in the world that needs to be running their over-paid and spoiled-ass yap right now, after having to watch our country get brought down by her family and La Famiglia Bush for six long years is a self-serving little rich, self-entitled WASP princess.

Her daddy's protege, Dickless George tonight proposed adding 92,000 Marines and Soldiers to the active duty rolls. Given the enlistment age is somewhat higher than it used to be in the Army, and she was one of Crashcart's many deferments, I'd reckon she's right at the outer limit of the age of enlistment. So perhaps she should be in the first 100 of the 92,000 to sign up.

But she won't because like every other scumbag republican of the Dick Cheney family, she'll bluster and bellyache and be nowhere to be found when it's time for the rubber to hit the road. See Five-Deferment Daddy Dick for a reference.

"I did everything to win, but someone didn't let us win."

-John Rambo, fictional character, American Icon of sorts

Fucking Yellow Elephants just piss me off. So this is for them. Apologies to SSGT Barry Sadler for the parody.

Drinking boys found campus-wide
remarks they've made, are very snide
ChickenHawks mean what they say
Pachyderms of the jaune brigade

A Yellow stripe runs down their back
Fortitude is just what they lack
One hundred shots, they'll drink today
Pachyderms of the jaune brigade

Thought they'll yell and scream and shout
About their fight and lack of doubt
Pachyderms who will not serve
Republicans who've lost their nerve

A Yellow stripe runs down their back
Fortitude is what they lack
One hundred shots, they'll drink today
Pachyderms of the jaune brigade

Recruiters wait for them to show
But will they serve? The answer's no
They'll bluster and obfuscate
while others serve and meet their fate

Yellow stripes upon their back
But they won't serve
Because they say
That their ideas will save the day

That Yellow Stripe's a mile wide
They wear it with a willing pride
Sacrifice is not their way
Pachyderms of the Jaune Brigade
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Yeah

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Amazing what you find in the sitemeter stats. Here's another vet from Iraq who has blogrolled me. Go drop by his well-written and thoughtful site.

One Veteran of Iraqi Freedom

Worth a visit, and putting it in your favorites.

The republicans in their own trade-marked style of dog-whistle politics were warning the faithful still at the kool-aid containers that Nancy Pelosi would be trouble. For them. Now, her approach to governing which apparently includes oversight and accountability of the Executive is causing more massive whining on a scale not seen before.

Intensifying a war of words over a U.S. troop buildup in Iraq, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) accused President George W. Bush on Friday of playing politics with soldiers' lives, a charge the White House called "poisonous."
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Saying Democrats were waging a "sound-bite war," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino fired back: "Questioning the president's motivations and suggesting that he for some political reason is rushing troops into harm's way is not appropriate, it is not correct and it is unfortunate."
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"But we will hold the president accountable," she said. "He has to answer for his war. He has dug a hole so deep he can't even see the light on this ... It's a historic blunder."

Yes, it's going to be an interesting time to watch the members of the 1600 Crew lawyer-up, even as they decry the lack of civility and bi-partisanship in Washington. But it's instructive to remember that to a man (and woman) every single one of these fuckers subscribed to the notion (until November 8th) that bipartisanship was akin to date rape. Too bad the American people snuck some roofies into the Kool-Aid. Or something.

OMiGawd ... this has to do it. We've spilled our National Blood and Treasure, involved ourselves in a "foreign entaglement" that's making the bones of George Washington do the perpetual hokey-pokey; executed the leader of a one-time supporter of our military-industrial complex in an ignominous sectarian lynching and split the country in a way not seen since Vietnam for this?

Fatima Ali was a 24-year-old divorcee with no high school diploma and no job. Shawket al-Rubae was a 34-year-old Shiite sheik with a pregnant wife who, he said, could not have sex with him.

Ali wanted someone to take care of her. Rubae wanted a companion.

They met one afternoon in May at the house he shares with his wife, in the room where he accepts visitors seeking his religious counsel. He had a proposal. Would Ali be his temporary wife? He would pay her 5,000 Iraqi dinars upfront -- about $4 -- in addition to her monthly expenses. About twice a week over the next eight months, he would summon her to a house he would rent.

The negotiations took an hour and ended with an unwritten agreement, the couple recalled. Thus began their "mutaa," or enjoyment marriage, a temporary union believed by Shiite Muslims to be sanctioned by Islamic law.

There was once a commercial with a tag line of "You've come a long way, baby". Yes, we certainly have. Not.

I wonder who will clean up the icky stuff from the wingnut brain explosions over this. The Talibangelicals will have a fucking field day with this one. Heh. Indeed.

Yeah, not that cheezy Elvis "Suspicion"... Damn it all and a ham sandwich. It was just a matter of time before Hillary started on her quest (quixotic-al?) for the Oval Office.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) offered her harshest assessment to date of President Bush's Iraq war strategy yesterday, continuing her steady evolution from one of the war's staunchest supporters to one of the administration's most prominent critics.

Clinton's stepped-up criticism came as she nears an announcement of her plans for a likely 2008 presidential campaign and during a period of increased antiwar activity in the Democratic Party aimed at blocking Bush's proposal to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq.

So what's changed? Let's be cynical for a moment and say nothing and everything. And Barak Obama. His imminent entry into the race will be the card that if played, will make Our Dear Friend DLC Clinton shudder the whole length of ther triangulating personage.

Obama will definately shake this race up. He's a contender, although relatively untried in National politics. He'd make a great number two for John Edwards, and he'd get the experience and exposure he needs for a solo run at the White House in 2016.

Hillary? Rich, white and out of ideas. She's successfully triangulated herself into a corner. I don't count her out, but I don't count on her to do much to win me over between now and next year.

Edwards/Obama. An Kicking Ass Ticket. Literally.

Seems that Jim Webb, you know, the one with the son in Marines who is in Mess O'Potamia will give the Democratic rebuttal to the annual orgy of self-aggrandizement that has become the State of the Union.

Let's see, over the last six years we've heard lies, threats, more lies and utter nonsense from the Inerrant Boy King. This year, I'm betting we'll be treated to, hmmmm...at least six mentions of 9/11; terra, the war on terra™ the Evil-doers in Iran; more Dead-Ender Philosophy and making Social Security safe from terrorists by investing in Personal Accounts.

You gotta wonder how Preznit Putz will feel having to stand with his back to Nancy Pelosi. Heh. All these years, he's had the wide-bodied Denny O'Graft covering his six, and now he's got Nancy. Boy, what a change for a Nancy-boy like our Beloved Leader.

Jim Webb, says he'll talk about the redeployment of troops in the middle east. And about economic fairness for the American worker. Sounds dangerously subversive to me.

I used to blog here once upon a time. I will again. I have just been so freakin' busy now that I have a j-o-b again...

Not an excuse, but .... oh, well.

Hi, remember me? :)

Man, doesn't this just sum it up?

In a series of interviews, senior Republicans, particularly in the House, warned Democrats against acting unilaterally in passing their agenda -- a leadership style that the GOP itself used for many years.

Every malfeasance visited on the Democrats for the last 12 years by the republicans will be paid back in the coming months; good or bad it's gonna happen.

Stand by for 24/7/365 non-stop whining.

Or Karen Hughes' pen/word processor, HE'S LYING!. The Bunnypants Soliloquy, or as we call it here at the Fish Farm, The BS, taken at face value or however, includes such laugh lines as:

Together, we have a chance to serve the American people by solving the complex problems that many don't expect us to tackle, let alone solve, in the partisan environment of today's Washington. To do that, however, we can't play politics as usual. Democrats will control the House and Senate, and therefore we share the responsibility for what we achieve.

In the days and weeks since the November elections, I have been encouraged by the productive meetings I've had with many of the new leaders in Congress from both parties. I am hopeful we can find common ground without compromising our principles.

Then there's always 9/11, that old reliable standby:

I believe that when America is willing to use her influence abroad, the American people are safer and the world is more secure.

The outcome of the elections has changed the balance of power in Congress, yet the priorities for keeping our country safe and prosperous go beyond party labels.

Our priorities begin with defeating the terrorists who killed thousands of innocent Americans on September 11, 2001--and who are working hard to attack us again. These terrorists are part of a broader extremist movement that is now doing everything it can to defeat us in Iraq.

Of course who can forget the Double-Secret Imperial Presidency, with more collected secrets than J. Edgar Hoover's couturier?

My principles are no secret.

All in all, it' classic Wrecks-All Wrangler: an alleged "Op-Ed" that's All Hat and No Cattle. Well, maybe just a little Mad Cow.

1. Proof again...
   
2. And what's this all about?
   
3. An interesting aside
   
4. Fuck Liz Cheney ...
   
5. My Friday night song
   
6. Another fine blog
   
7. The Whimpering, or is it Whining?
   
8. When Wingnut Heads Explode
   
9. Triangulation (sung to the tune of "Suspicion", the Terry Stafford version)
   
10. Another Bunnypants moment is coming...