The GOP. Chasing that elusive white robe vote.

Cheney forced to apologize for incest joke about West Virginians

At the National Press Club today, Vice President Dick Cheney raised the ire of West Virginia lawmakers when he made an offhand incest joke about the state, saying he “had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don’t even live in West Virginia.” West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, Sens. Robert Byrd (D) and Jay Rockefeller (D) and Reps. Shelley Moore Capito (R) and Nick Rahall (D) all condemned Cheney’s attempt at humor. This evening, Cheney’s spokesperson, Lea Anne McBride, put out a statement apologizing for the Vice President:

The Vice President’s offhand comment was not meant to hurt anyone. On reflection, he concluded that it was an inappropriate attempt at humor that he should not have made. The Vice President apologizes to the people of West Virginia for the inappropriate remark.

“On reflection, he concluded…”? Exactly how much reflection did it take, Dick?

Appalling:

Report: U.S. Soldiers Did ‘Dirty Work’ for Chinese Interrogators
Alleges Guantanamo Personnel Softened Up Detainees at Request of Chinese Intelligence

U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men — or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report.

Buried in a Department of Justice report released Tuesday are new allegations about a 2002 arrangement between the United States and China, which allowed Chinese intelligence to visit Guantanamo and interrogate Chinese Uighurs held there.

Is it possible to fit “Support our troops as they rough up innocents at China’s orders” on a magnetic ribbon?

Bush gives up golfing because of Iraq war

Just stop talking.

Now.

Just stop talking as if you actually are human. You have sacrificed…nothing.

Nothing.

You rule by fear, by lies, by bravado. We all know it.

We all know it.

As of now, we don’t have the means to treat you as you deserve to be treated, you wretched traitor to our nation.

But don’t ever- ever- say you sacrificed anything.

The dead will deal your justice.

Saw Jon Stewart do stand up over the weekend, and that is one funny mf’er. Refreshing to hear him unbleeped, for one thing!

As asute and sharp as he is as the host of the Daily Show, his standup is riotious, hell he even figured out why the world is in such a state:

“I figured out why we’re in a mess: because there are two types of people in the world. Crazy and busy. Crazy is crazy, and they have all the time in the world, but busy has shit to do…”

If you get a chance, see him.

And lets start with you, madam.

The lawyer for US vice-president Dick Cheney claimed today that the Congress lacks any authority to examine his behaviour on the job.

“Congress lacks the constitutional power to regulate by law what a vice-president communicates in the performance of the vice president’s official duties, or what a vice president recommends that a president communicate,” Wheelbarger wrote to senior aides on Capitol Hill.

Hey, thanks for clearing that up. Because, you know, we’ve been thinking something different all these years.

That is all.

The story is about the Bush presidental library, but the picture is such a perfect metaphor for our little tyrant:

Wearing his fake “Commander in Chief” dress up kit, no heart, no spine, no balls.

Yup, thats our Bush.

The myth of “morning in America” obscured the emerging theft of jobs from the middle class by creating emotional hot buttons for rural and working class voters to gravitate toward: Their values were under attack by liberal extremists, they were repeatedly told. Only the Republicans could save the nation from further moral degradation, the myth went — and only the GOP could guarantee victory in foreign conflicts (even if the conflicts were often unnecessary and the GOP failed to achieve “victory,” however it might be defined).

So, Barack Obama’s remarks in San Francisco, as borne out by a true understanding of the Ronald Reagan myth, are ultimately true. His mistake was that he said what he said in a way that allowed the twin corporate D.C. insiders — McCain and Clinton — to once again demagogue the issue into one of emotion, rather than fact.

And that is what the attack on Obama is about: demagoguery.