It was prime Pumpkinhead, wasn't it? I wonder if he's "moderating" the republican debate in two weeks if he'll be as "tough" on them. What I learned tonight:
(1) Please, let there be no Hillary candidacy
(2) Dennis Kucinich is short
(3) Mike Gravel needs to get a job
(4) Joe Biden needs to go home
(5) Barak gives great speech, but lousy policy explanations
(6) Bill Richardson needs to think before speaking
(7) Chris Dodd is smart, but never answers kwestions directly, 26 years in DC will do that, Chris
(8) I like John Edwards for now, but he's got to focus more on differentiating himself from Obama and HRC.
(9) I like Dennis Kucinch, but he's got virtually no chance right now. He tells the truth and that's a deadly sin in Washington.

Oh, and please all you stupid politicians (except, I think Kucinich)... old enough to die, old enough to drink get over this Christianist Temperance Bullshit. The biggest problem facing teenagers and alcohol is lack of education and the hypocrisy of the system that encourages alcohol abuse while meteing out punishment. Let's start with a system that allows anyone under 21 with an active duty or reserve ID to get as shit faced as they want... it is, after all what they're off to fight for, right? Freedom?

Obama and HRC both seem to be pretty much towing the 1600 Crew line of "War forever" in Iraq. A great point that HRC voted for the Liebeliar amendment ... yeah, about that other vote again Hillary...? Just asking. Obama for all his self-aggrandizing courage in opposing the war (as an Illinois State Senator) did not manage to vote one way or the other on the LieberLiar amendment ... way to display those leadership traits there, Obama.

I give them all props for not falling for the torture question, except Biden who at first misunderstood it. Torture is the last refuge of the Macho Challenged. I guaran-damn-tee you that if you put Rudy! or Mitt! or any of those others on a Waterboard, they'd change their minds in a big damn hurry...they need only ask McCain about it, but they seem to ignore his experience all the while thanking him for his service while denigrating it by ignoring his wisdom on the question of torture.

I recall watching with disgust a few weeks ago Joseph Lieberliar (I, Myself, Me) talk about invading Iran as our next big foreign policy adventure. Seems that the Lieberliar-Kyl amendment has passed in the Senate, which probably will give Commander Bunnypants all the excuse he needs to Bomb Iran.

By a vote 76-22, the Senate passed the Lieberman-Kyl amendment, which threatens to "combat, contain and [stop]" Iran via "military instruments." Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) called the amendment "Cheney’s fondest pipe dream" and said it could "read as a backdoor method of gaining Congressional validation for military action."

I'm still getting over the fact that so many invertebrate Democrats voted for this piece of shit legislation. I guess that's what makes them spineless in the first place, eh?

Yeah, it's piling on, and yeah in some ways it reaches the same level of inanity that Britney/Lindsay news does but the Saga of Larry continues. I guess he's off to court today (although not in person) to contest his guilty plea for the disorderly conduct charge that stems from his foot-tapping code in the Stall of America at the Minneapolis Airport.

Sen. Larry Craig's attorneys will try to convince Judge Charles Porter at a hearing today that the Idaho senator's guilty plea was a mistake.

Craig has said his foot-tapping, hand gestures, and looks into a bathroom stall were misconstrued by the police officer conducting a sting for bathroom sex at the airport. Craig's attorneys wrote that he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct because he feared his June 11 arrest would trigger a story by an Idaho newspaper that had been investigating his sexual orientation. Craig has denied that he is gay.

Craig won't be attending the hearing, according to Judy Smith, a spokeswoman for Craig attorney Billy Martin.

Poor Larry Craig, he's potentially going to get defeated on two, maybe three fronts today... one, he's got to overcome his guilty plea and convince a judge that as a fucking lawmaker he misunderstood what pleading guilty meant; second he's trapped by the same moralizing rhetoric he's helped stir up over the years if the judge rejects his attempt to impugn the police officer who busted him (and make no mistake, that's what he's doing); and third if he wins his motion it's a sure bet that he's going to go to trial, and I'm betting that's gonna get a whole lot uglier. He might just get handed a stiff sentence for his participation in widening his stance and being against gay rights.

Larry Craig is innocent until proven guilty of disorderly conduct, oh wait, he already pleaded guilty. Maybe he can get Glorious Leader to give him a "Scooter Job"...I understand it's all the rage in republican criminal circles these days.

You know, the one where we take our elected Democratic Leaders seriously because they stand up for US and not lick the assholes of the republican leadership and rank-and-file in hopes that "they'll like us, they'll really like us".

I long for that day to come, when the Democrats stop worrying about condeming MoveOn and actually move on to oppose the 1600 Crew in some meaningful way beyond press conferences and allowing Huckleberry Graham to run the Senate.

That day sure seems far off, doesn't it?

There's just something so wrong with our Pet Moron Preznit talking to the UN about "advancing freedom", the fucking idiot doesn't even actually understand it, except in the context of his campaign contributors (his base) being able to rape, pillage and plunder all cost-plus, of course.

President Bush announced new sanctions Tuesday against the military dictatorship in Myanmar, accusing it of imposing “a 19-year reign of fear” that denies basic freedoms of speech, assembly and worship.

“Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma,” the president said in an address to the U.N. General Assembly. The military junta renamed the Asian country Myanmar, but the United States does not recognize the change.

After the revelation that the 1600 Crew lied to Congress to get an extension of the unConstitutional FISA law passed, it ought to be a fucking no-brainer that the Invertebrate Democrats in the House would start an Impeachment inquiry.

But no, Nancy clutches her pearls and has Beltway Vapors over the idea of actual accountability for the Executive branch. The republican masterstroke of impeaching The Clenis™ over Monica has made the Invertebrate Democrats afraid of their own fucking shadows.

I guess that the Invertebrate Leadership doesn't get two things (1) that the misdeeds of the 1600 Crew will not begin to survive and impeachment inquiry, the concept of "Executive Privilege" does not exist in the Impeachment process ... once the sunshine is let in, all but the most ardent consumers of republican kool-aid will begin to turn on them, as happened to Nixon during the Watergate Hearings and (2) if they, the Invertebrate Leadership don't do something they are going to be in a fight for their very political lives in 2008, because so many of us are sick and tired of their inside the beltway crap.

Are you with me? Impeachment is the Cure. Pass it on.

1. The Debate
   
2. Ahhh, shit. Here we go again.
   
3. Oral arguments
   
4. That day
   
5. What a tool... our Preznit
   
6. Impeachment is The Cure