A question...

Should we waterboard Gonzales to get him to confess?

Poor Fredo

He probably thought that quitting would let him get away with it.

Justice Dept. Probing Whether Gonzales Lied

The Justice Department's inspector general indicated yesterday that he is investigating whether departing Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales gave false or misleading testimony to Congress, including whether he lied under oath about warrantless surveillance and the firings of nine U.S. attorneys.

Running away doesn't make the perjury disappear.

Complete and Total Meltdown

Bush is destroying the military.

Surprise, Surprise: The surge isn't working.

Ok - so we were supposed to wait till September. Keep in mind that the purported reason for the escalation was to give the Iraqi Government a chance to meet benchmarks.

WASHINGTON - Congressional auditors have determined that the Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out by lawmakers to assess President Bush's Iraq war strategy, The Associated Press has learned.

Here's a prediction:

1) Every agency and group with a hand in auditing this thing will release a report or statement saying that the "surge" is NOT working.

2) Then Petraeus, on September 15th, will issue a report that comes straight out of fantasyland, saying that it's going EXACTLY as planned.

3) And the press will fail to question the General's integrity or the honesty of his report.

I'll give you odds.

Spotted by Jordan Bailey. Stolen from Cute Overload

Put on a happy face

WASHINGTON - The Iraqi government will become more precarious over the next six to 12 months and its security forces have not improved enough to operate without outside help, intelligence analysts conclude in a new National Intelligence Estimate.

Daily Show: Three Generations of “America to the Rescue”

New RNC Slogan

"The Republican Party: Defining Sanity Downward."

Whaddya think?

Deuling Quotes

There's the video of him saying it below, but I'll repeat the text:

"There's a process taking place, and the fundamental question is, will the government respond to the demands of the people? And if the government doesn't respond to the demands of the people, they will replace the government."

Well, the people are demanding that we get the hell out of Iraq, of course.

This is part of the reason why:

"No one has the right to place timetables on the Iraq government. It was elected by its people." - Al-Maliki

True enough, dude. But you ALSO don't have the right to have the American military propping up your worthless ass.

Ok - no timetables. Let's get the hell out.

Listen to Bush

He's right.

The war through the eyes of some soldiers.

"As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day."

Here.

Stephen Colbert on the New AT&T

Obama wants to ease Cuba embargo

I'm surprised. This is actually kind of gutty, and shows some leadership:

MIAMI (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is leaping into the long-running Cuba debate by calling for the U.S. to ease restrictions for Cuban-Americans who want to visit the island or send money home.

Obama's campaign said Monday that, if elected, the Illinois senator would lift restrictions imposed by the Bush administration and allow Cuban-Americans to visit their relatives more frequently, as well as ease limits on the amount of money they can send to their families.

``Senator Obama feels that the Bush administration has made a humanitarian and a strategic blunder,'' spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in an e-mail. ``His concern is that this has had a profoundly negative impact on the Cuban people, making them more dependent on the Castro regime, thus isolating them from the transformative message carried by Cuban-Americans.''

He's right, of course, but it's probably VERY risky to say so, and it can lose Florida easily.

But good for him. About time we see some guts.

Uhhh....yeah

GOD, I would like to see the Democrats DO something besides bluster.

During a press conference this afternoon, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced that the White House had still not responded to the committee's subpoena for documents relating to the legal basis for the warrantless surveillance program. "Time is up," Leahy said, "we've waited long enough." He went on to say, however, that he remained open to cooperating with the White House for the production of the documents: "I prefer cooperation to contempt." But if the administration has still not responded to the subpoena by September when Congress returns from recess, he said that he would pursue contempt proceedings in the committee "if that's what it takes."

And how many times do these people have to jerk your chain before you realize that YOU'RE BEING MADE A DAMNED FOOL OF?

"You'd PREFER cooperation"? Well, you're NOT GOING TO GET IT. What, Leahy - do they have to call you on the phone and actually tell you to go fuck yourself?

Oh, my bad - they actually DID tell you to go fuck yourself. IN THOSE WORDS.

And you're STILL waiting for cooperation?

It STILL wasn't enough for you to figure it out?

What the hell ARE you - an abused wife or something?

GROW SOME DAMNED BALLS.

How did I get stuck in a party of such spineless cowards?

Bush should join the Taliban

If he hurts them as much as he's hurt America, he'll be doing us a huge favor.

WASHINGTON - Sapped by nearly six years of war, the Army has nearly exhausted its fighting force and its options if the Bush administration decides to extend the Iraq buildup beyond next spring.

The Good War, Still to Be Won

When the New York Times doesn't suck, they are very good.

Nuts To You

Since Merv Griffin just died and I said nothing about it, I thought I'd make up for that by posting him singing "I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts." How's THAT for service?