A Knight in Dragonland

A “culture of ethical failure” pervades the Bush administration. This time those words were used to describe the atmosphere at the Interior Department, where the departmental inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, recently reported astonishing levels of corruption. A section of the department in charge of collecting oil & gas royalties indulged in a [...]

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Jon Stewart and the folks at the Daily Show expose the blatant hypocrisy of the GOP’s mouthpieces.
Sarah Palin Gender Card from the Daily Show
Hilarious and painfully sad at the same time.

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So, Governor Palin … you fought against the Bridge to Nowhere?
Not so much.

Picture > 1000 words.
Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan, via Ben Smith.

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This was about marketing not governing; hiring for appearance not competence. And they did it – without apparent irony – on the anniversary of Katrina as another hurricane threatens. From from being a reversal of the Bush administration’s worst instincts, McCain seems intent on recreating it – as farce.
Andrew Sullivan
We have had two big presidential [...]

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From the New York Times:

I agree, kid. I totally agree.

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George W. Bush now embraces the concept of a “general time horizon” for troop withdrawal from Iraq.
{SNORT}
Isn’t that the same thing as a timetable? Doesn’t timetable = treason & surrender according to White House propaganda?

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Ten Republican Senators recently initiated a doomed attempt to revive the Federal Marriage Amendment, a Constitutional ban on gay marriage.
Two of the sponsors are Senator Larry Craig of Idaho and Senator David Vitter of Louisiana.
ROFLMAO*
Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan, via The Carpetbagger Report.
* For those unfamiliar with abbreviations of the internet age, that translates into “Rolling [...]

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One of the main criticisms I’ve heard from Republicans (and Clintonistas, for that matter) regarding Barack Obama is that he offers charisma and flowery rhetoric but little in the way of substance. His world-view is naive, and the change he offers is overflowing with hyperbole. That’s complete bull in my opinion, but the [...]

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On the pages of the Pekin Times and Ed Emmon’s Pekin News and Views, Jim Mangan scribes yet another diatribe, this time with some lovely statistics regarding the expansion of the federal government and taxation over the years. Master Mangan rings forth with much woe … but, yet again, proposes nothing in the way [...]

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As Scott Horton says … Worst. President. Ever.
In an informal poll answered by 109 historians, including Pulitzer and Bancroft prize winners, 61% rated George W. Bush as, quite literally, the worst President ever. Most (96%) placed him in the bottom 10. 98% described his presidency as a “failure.”
His competition for the bottom [...]

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There is something about this quest for absolute security that is self-defeating. It is an exercise which, like every form of perfectionism, undermines and destroys its own basic purpose. The French have their wonderful proverb: Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien–the absolute best is the enemy of the good. Nothing truer has ever been said [...]

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I’m wondering … did Aaron Schock visit Hill Air Force Base in Utah in 2006? Maybe that could explain why 4 fuses designed for use in Minuteman nuclear warheads were “accidently” shipped to Taiwan.
Heh.

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Andrew Sullivan sums up Hillary Clinton’s “distinguished record” and disintegrating presidential campaign nicely:
The record is that the senator’s one single attempt at policy implementation – healthcare reform – was an enormous failure in which her own arrogance, secrecy and paranoia derailed universal healthcare for a decade. On the most critical foreign policy decision of her [...]

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Conservative judges apparently are into driving drunk while wearing a cocktail dress, fishnet stockings and high heels.
Cenk Uygur gives his two cents here.
How do you think Cheney, Rove and Limbaugh would look in some fine, satiny evening wear?  LMAO.

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Bold emphasis is my own:
The failure of conservative voters to fall in line behind Mr. Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, among others, reflects a deeper problem for the movement’s leadership. With their inflexibility, grudge-holding and eagerness to evict heretics rather than seek converts, too many of conservatism’s leaders sound like the custodians of a [...]

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