Well, there they go again...those goddam activist judges, rewriting the rules. Seems that the "Clean Skies" or whatever that piece of shit program was called is not quite legal per the Clean Air Act. Imagine that, the 1600 Crew violating the law...whoda thunk it?

A federal appeals court blocked the Bush administration's four-year effort to loosen emission rules for aging coal-fired power plants, unanimously ruling yesterday that the changes violated the Clean Air Act and that only Congress could authorize such revisions.

Just saw a Newshour this evening (caught the tail end, no transcript) with David Brooks and Tom Oliphant. Brooks, the Slime Monster of American Punditry spent more time running away from his positions than Lance Armstrong pulling away from the pack in a Tour de France. Unbelievable. He managed to paint the entire invasion and indeed the war, as a colossal fuck-up that was all the fault of Bunnypants, Darth You-know-who and Senile Donnie.

When Tom Oliphant tried to bring up the complicity of the press corps in the invasion and war, neither Brooks nor Lehrer were having any of that. So it's still nice to see our liberal media is still in denial. About Everything.

Hi guys. Somehow, I have had some weird problems with my host and all my files that drive the blog became inaccessible. Comments are still not working properly, and I need to figure that out.

Working on it... -sigh-

At least my host has good tech support, and they have been helping...it's just frustrating to have to go through this.

Will keep you updated. Thanks for your patience.

Update

Glad I have decent tech support... :)

Update 2

Remember, you can still (I think) vote in the Koufax's for your favorite blog More Deserving of Wider Recoginition. My mantle is bare, love to have one thing to dust. Never mind, voting is closed.

Have fun and wear your galoshes.

Caught a CNN segment this morning about the newest poll showing Preznit Fiddling Firestarter at an approval rating of 38%. Which you would think was significant for an "extremely popular preznit" ... according to the Fellating Media. So the guy on CNN was doing "man on the street" interviews where he interviewed three people, two supporters of Government de Bunnypants, and one not so supportive.

One of the interviewees, a woman who was "supportive" recited all the Rovian Talking Points and the CNN Fellater (or in this case perhaps a cunninglinguist) asked no follow-ups at all about why she thought the Preznit was doing a good job.

And I thought the inarticulate one was that woman...no, it was the (empty) talking head from CNN. Inarticulate, and intellectually challenged.

Sorry, I don't have a link.

Seems that the "Pharmacists for Bush" need to learn that most important of all lessons...they're fucked.

Pharmacists say they have been losing money under Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, and they have taken their concerns to the White House, forcing the administration to confront political problems caused by the rocky start of the program.
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The pharmacists who visited the White House were all from Texas. Several have close ties to Mr. Rove and President Bush. ...
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Richard E. Beck, one of the Texas pharmacists who met with Mr. Rove, said, "Pharmacies are losing money on Medicare." Slow payment by Medicare drug plans has caused cash-flow problems for many pharmacies, he said.

Mr. Pittman said he told Mr. Rove and other officials: "If pharmacists don't receive immediate relief, some will go broke. Others are hurting so bad that they will choose not to participate in Medicare and Medicaid."

Hey, it's worked before. I guess that these fools are probably wondering if they really should have voted for Bunnypants. Nah, they aren't. Well, they got what they voted for...now they can live with it. Broke and unemployed.

One of the original "Fighting Dems", retired USN Commander Eric Massa has an excellent diary up over at Kos about an impending visit by Preznit Clueless Nero to his district. Beloved Leader will, apparently, be visiting a freshly repainted school (shades of Mess O'Potamia?) to perhaps read "My Pet Goat" to the kids, but won't cross the street to visit the local VA facility.

Go check it out, and if you can, toss some cash to Eric's campaign. Remember, in 2006 winning isn't everything...it's the ONLY thing.

When I check my sitemeter stats, one of the bright things I find are new blogs who have linked to me. Here are two I like that just showed up today. The Lady Speaks and The Great Divide. Go, read, enjoy! Have fun!!!

Every time that the press bends over (forward or backward) to demonstrate their love of John McCain, this ought to be reprinted:

More than any of his potential rivals, McCain found a way to balance embracing a weakened President Bush...

McCain is no more of a "choice" for America then Frist is, both are the same side of a coin over-spent: they represent a future of debt, insecurity and humiliation for our once-proud republic. They, and especially McCain have been apologists for failed policy initiatives that will resonate far into this century, whose burdens will literally be carried forward by our children and their childrens children.

As McCain left the Peabody Hotel on Saturday to tour the hurricane-damaged Gulf Coast, he was matter-of-fact about his steadfast support for the president. "We elected him, we need him, he needs to do well and the country needs him," McCain said in an interview.

Alexander "I'm in Charge" Haig on Mess O'Potamia:

"Every asset of the nation must be applied to the conflict to bring about a quick and successful outcome, or don't do it," said Haig, an adviser to presidents Johnson and Nixon who says more troops are needed to succeed in Iraq. President Bush's father had 660,000 coalition soldiers for the 1991 Gulf War invasion, more than twice as many as his son had for Iraq's initial invasion.

Alexander Haig at least speaks with the benefit of experience. I don't recall whether or not he bought the Neocon line about the urgency of invading Iraq, and removing Saddam...likely he did, since he's a party-man through-and-through. Now he's making the point that the parallels are becoming so close that the success or failure of the misadventure in Mess O'Potamia will depend on revisiting what went wrong (in his opinion) in SE Asia.

I guess that the one thing that won't be the same is that Beloved Leader can't head down to work on the Senate campaign of some minor family retainer and play water volleyball with ambitious secretaries, or maybe he can, as long as Darth Cheney doesn't play with firearms for the next three years or so.

Bwa hahahahahaha. Claude Allen. Bwa hahahahaha.

"If the allegations are true, Claude Allen did not tell my chief of staff and legal counsel the truth, and that's deeply disappointing," Mr. Bush told journalists after a White House briefing on Iraq.

They all lie. About everything. Is this becoming clear yet?

btw...I wonder if Allen will practice Abstinence in prison, or at least try?

KittY-Killer Frist is back to parroting the Karl Rove "all terror, all the time" line that has worked so successfully for the past five years for the 1600 Crew. It's too bad that people are slowly (really, really slowly) starting to figure out that it's bullshit.

Russ Feingold (the only senator with a real set of certified American Cojones) has proposed censuring Preznit Constitutional Crisis for his flagrant violation of the Constitution and his Oath of Office. Offenses, which with a congress not in the hands of a Rove-driven majority would normally be the grounds for impeachment (yeah, it doesn't rise to the level of fellatio) in any sane times.

Appearing on ABC's This Week, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) announced that he will introduce a resolution tomorrow to censure President Bush for authorizing an illegal warrantless domestic surveillance program. Feingold said President Bush's actions were "right in the strike zone of the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors."

I think it's a crazy political move and I think it in part is a political move because here we are, the Republican Party, the leadership in the Congress, supporting the President of the United States as Commander in Chief, who is out there fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban and Osama bin Laden...

As for the Kitten Murderer's patriotism, well suffice it to say that they could probably use cardio-thoracic surgeons in the Army Hospitals in Mess O'Potamia, and the military will do age waivers for board-certified doctors and give them commissions. I don't see Milionaire Fancy Frist giving up any of his life-perks to join in the fray he allegedly supports, with his body or any other part of him except his big-ass lying yap.

1. Silly Judges, don't they know rules are for "Little People"?
   
2. Buh-Buh-Buh BoBo
   
3. Troubles in River City
   
4. Inarticulate
   
5. Rx for disaster...
   
6. Eric Massa NY-29
   
7. New Kids...
   
8. Not a Maverick, just another political hack
   
9. More from the "No Parallel" department
   
10. Claude the Fraud Watch