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On the Importance of Keeping Religion In My Crosshairs

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I want everyone who considers religion irrelevant to politics to consider a few things.

The Carpetbagger Report, one of the best political blogs in existence, regularly runs a Saturday feature called “This Week in God.” Steve Benen finds religion intersecting politics often enough to find abundant examples for his feature, and they’re usually chilling. Some past highlights: a lawsuit against the Wilson County school system in Tennessee for “allowing a group of parents to pray during instructional time and pass out fliers to students on campus;” Arizona’s voucher program coming into direct conflict with the state Constitution; and a religious right group encouraging churches to ignore federal tax law and act directly to help the Republicon party achieve success.

To find those items, I had to wade through over a dozen stand-alone posts exploring too many ways that religion is directly impacting politics. And this is all in just the last two months.

We’re at a point in this country when an American can’t be elected President without impeccable Christian credentials (despite the Constitution’s implacable statement that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States”). We barely managed to elect a Muslim to the House, and I’m sure you all remember the uproar from the Christian right over that one. “Academic Freedom” bills are springing up like wood mushrooms in Seattle (trust me, they spring. A lot). Crazed white evangelical pastors are feted at the White House (whereas crazed black evangelical pastors are pilloried by our crazed media talking heads). I could go on, but I think you have the idea.

But if you still think that fighting religious idiocy and advocating for more reason and critical thought are sideshows to the main political battle, consider this terrifying tidbit from the New York Times:

What happens in Texas does not stay in Texas: the state is one of the country’s biggest buyers of textbooks, and publishers are loath to produce different versions of the same material. The ideas that work their way into education here will surface in classrooms throughout the
country.


It should terrify you that eight people have the ability to influence education throughout the United States.

The Texas story wraps politics, religion and science in a tidy package. School boards are political bodies. The state board of education in Texas is packed full of creationists right now – they hold a near-majority, and they’re perilously close to approving science standards that slip in another creationist Trojan horse: “Strengths and weaknesses.” This would erode the quality of science education throughout the country, thus putting us ever further behind the rest of the world. Religion has gone virulently political, and it’s infecting us all.

If you read the article, you’ll hear from plenty of Christians who are no more happy about this than I am. It’s going to take a united front of atheists, agnostics, and people of all religious persuasions who believe that church and state should remain resolutely separate to ensure that a fundamentalist Christian worldview isn’t forced on us all.

That means speaking out. That means stamping out the fires of fundamentalism whenever they flare up. And that means that there’s going to be plenty of talk about religion around here for the foreseeable future. The Smack-o-Matic 3000 shall know no rest as long as rabidly religious fuckers continue their efforts to make their religion a matter of our politics.

On the Importance of Keeping Religion In My Crosshairs
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Break Out the Bubbly! Barack Did It!

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Congratulations are in order:

There was a lot of screaming and jumping up-and-down in the Hunter household last night.

He did this thing.

Judging from what he’s done in the past, I don’t doubt he’s going to go all the way.

I shall be very proud indeed to have Barack Hussein Obama as my President.

As for those of you who don’t like it, Spider Jerusalem said it best when he said:


You can kiss me in the same place as his KISS HERE tattoo. I’m sure it won’t take a rocket scientist or comic book geek to figure out where that might be.

Break Out the Bubbly! Barack Did It!

Note to Hillary: Get the Fuck Over It

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Last night, Obama effectively clinched the Democratic nomination, becoming the first black man to ever have a real shot at the nation’s highest office. The news doesn’t seem to have reached Hillary Clinton:

For nearly a year and a half, the biggest hurdle between Obama and the nomination was Hillary Clinton. Now that the race is over and Obama’s the nominee, his next biggest challenge is still Hillary Clinton.

Indeed, for those of us expecting a graceful farewell speech, Clinton’s remarks were a bit of a curveball. It was almost as if news of Obama’s victory hadn’t reached them yet. McAuliffe introduced her as the “next president of the United States.” Clinton congratulated Obama, not for winning, but for running a great race. At one point she said, “No matters what happens in this race…” as if the race remains unresolved. Clinton added that she would be “consulting with supporters and party leaders, to determine how to move forward,” as if she was still pondering how to launch a comeback. Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” played as Clinton smiled and waved. The Clinton campaign sent an email to supporters referring to the campaign in the present tense.

As Dana Goldstein put it, “The more I think about it, the more it seems that Hillary’s entire speech was manufactured to rile up her supporters — instead of priming them to shift their allegiance to Obama. Yes, there’s a situation with Michigan and Florida. But is it really fair for Clinton to claim that her 18 million supporters nationwide have been made ‘invisible?’ Who’s supposed to be the bad guy here, scary Howard Dean? Clinton is offering more fighting rhetoric. But the fight should be over.”


This is getting fucking pathological. It seems the little switch in Hillary’s brain marked, “You’ve Lost, Retreat and Fight Another Day” is broken. She’s displaying the same spectacular disconnect from reality that Bush, McCain et al suffer. She really is the psycho ex-girlfriend of the Democratic Party. She’s become something of a stalker. Obsessive letters and escalating odd behavior may not be far behind.

I have some advice for her:

Get the fuck over it, Hillary. You lost. You can lose without being a loser, but this fighting-a-losing-battle bullshit makes you look fucking pathetic. You’ve already flushed your reputation, your husband’s reputation, and everybody else’s good will down the toilet. It’s now working its way through the sewer system with the rest of the shit, and if you don’t do something to turn things around, your reputation and every good thing you’ve ever done is going to end up in the same cesspool that Bush and Cheney inhabit. Everyone except for your batshit insane true believers hates you now, even those of us who liked you in the beginning. You need to stop looking like a psychotic Republicon wanna-be with a liberal platform and start looking like a fucking Democrat. The path to redemption starts with admitting you came this close, you lost, and it’s time to move the fuck on.

You’ll be happier. We’ll be happier. This country will be better off. Just let it the fuck go. Fight another election.

Or just join McCain’s campaign as his Veep. You two psychos would be perfect for each other.

Note to Hillary: Get the Fuck Over It

Moderate Christians: If You Wanted to Clean Your Own House, You'd Best Fetch Your Brooms Now

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It’s time to sweep the cockroaches off the public stage and back into the cracks where they belong.

Coral Ridge Ministries hosted the Reclaiming America for Christ conference in March of this year. The conference didn’t gain the media scrutiny it should – after all, there was no angry black man ranting from the pulpit. It’s stocked to overflowing with rich white fuckers spewing venom, hate and ignorance, and we all know the media has bags full of free passes they hand out for rich white fuckers who spew venom et al, at least until an outraged blogging community forces so much attention on matters that a few of them end up treated sarcastically on ABC so that the media can claim its independence from… well, you know.

Cute illusion, that, and useful as far as it goes, but an illusion only. When the right-wing fucktards can get a Dunkin’ Donuts commercial pulled over the terrorist-idolizing properties of a black-and-white paisley scarf, but no attention is paid to the terrorist-idolizing speeches of far right evangelicals, you know something’s rotten and the media’s refusing to admit it can smell.

Observe:

“I am not here to call the church to partisan action,” Perkins explained. “I am not here advocating for a political party. I am here advocating for Christian citizenship.”

Lest any of the assembled miss the point, Perkins offered up the story of Phineas, grandson of Moses’ brother Aaron, from Numbers 25. Phineas was rewarded by God with an “everlasting priesthood” for killing an Israelite and his Midian lover because God had forbidden the mixing of the men of Israel with the women of that tribe.

The story is, essentially, the vindication of the criminalization of “miscegenation” — a sentiment consistent with Perkins’ past courting of such racist groups as the Ku Klux Klan and the Council of Conservative Citizens, America’s largest white supremacist organization, according to journalist Max Blumenthal. (Perkins bought, on behalf of political client Senator Woody Jenkins, a phone-bank list from former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke.)

[snip]

“We read that Phineas arose and he took action…,” Perkins said.

“Not only is prayer required…I warn you that if you begin to pray for our nation that, at some point in time, you’re gonna be prayin’ and you’re gonna feel a tap on your shoulder and hear, ‘Son, daughter, I’ve heard your prayer; now I want you to do something about it.’”

Just in case his message should be misconstrued, however, Perkins offered this caveat: “Now, let me be clear, in case the media’s here,” he said, “I’m not advocating you go home and get a pitchfork out of your storage shed and run into your neighbor’s house.” Phineas, the Bible tells us, used a javelin.


Stop. Let’s take note of several things here.

1. Tony Perkins believes that one day, God will literally tap these frothing haters on the shoulder and direct them to do something about their prayers. We know what the prayers of the theocons are, don’t we? Rid the world of non-believers, homosexuals, abortion providers, Muslims, and sundry other undesirables; bring about Armageddon; bring America back to their narrow brand of noxious Christianity. Can we guess what the “do something about their prayers” might be?

2. In case not, consider carefully the story he tells. A man murders two people for no greater crime than some intertribal nookie in the Tabernacle, and is granted “everlasting priesthood.” Seems like this “Thou shalt not kill” thing comes with a fuckload of exceptions.

3. Take especial note of that “in case the media’s here” line. What might he have said if there was no possibility of somewhat sane people with recording devices being present, I wonder?

Prup at The Reality-Based Community calls Perkins’ speech a “dog-whistle shout-out to Christian Identity terrorists.” And he has some nervous-making detail on the subtext of that speech that should have you feeling very thoughtful indeed after reading it.

Anne Coulter, another august speaker at the conference, has no such sense of subtlety:

In her remarks to those who pledged to reclaim the nation for Christ, Ann Coulter equated the lives of aborted fetuses with those of the doctors and abortion clinic workers who were murdered by anti-abortion
terrorists.

“Those few abortionists were shot or, depending on your point of view, had a procedure with a rifle performed on them,” Coulter told her audience, which responded with laughter.


Ah, yes, those perfect Christians. They do so lurves them a good, clean joke about murdering doctors.

And what does the media do with people who surreptitiously celebrate and encourage such acts of domestic terrorism? They invite them on to speak – over and over and over and over again. While a Dunkin’ Donuts gets booted for having Rachael Ray dressed in the wrong sort of scarf.

Let me be crystal clear: these fuckwits aren’t Christians. I know it, and you know it. They wallow in the darkest, filthiest verses of the Bible. To them, Christian love is something you administer with a rifle. They lambast divorce, but they happily divorced reality long ago. And they’re taken seriously in our political and spiritual arenas.

They want nothing less than a theocracy, dictated by them, with only their views aired and practiced. They’ll advocate any means to get there, up to and including violence and terrorism. Those things, they say, are righteous as long as they are the ones doing them.

They’re making Christianity look less like a religion and more like a dangerous pathology that must be quarantined every day.

So, moderate Christians: if you want to rescue a shred of your faith intact, I’d suggest you get busy now. Get up, get loud, and sweep these fuckers out of power before they pick up their javelins and their rifles and murder your faith.

Moderate Christians: If You Wanted to Clean Your Own House, You'd Best Fetch Your Brooms Now

Care to Take Some Action?

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My inbox is filling up with fuckwittery. Would you do me the great good favor of helping me clear it out?

They Kill Kids.


Well, that certainly got my attention. Go on.

Dear friends,

Final negotiations are underway right now in Dublin, Ireland on a treaty to ban cluster bombs. Arms manufacturers are pushing governments to riddle the treaty with loopholes and delays — and the final text will be decided in the next 72 hours.

Cluster munitions don’t just kill during war. They scatter small, shiny, unexploded “bomblets” on the ground that hold their deadly charge for years. When children pick them up, they are often maimed or killed. Most governments agree that these weapons should be outlawed, but back-room pressure is rising to undercut a strong ban.

If enough of us act before the treaty is signed on Friday, we can drown out the weapons merchants and convince our governments to ban cluster bombs once and for all. Click below to send a message, and then forward this email to friends and family:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/ban_cluster_munitions/13.php?cl=92415442


Canadian Cynic has a great post up this. Don’t know about you, but I think we need to do a little something to let our governments know that maimed and murdered children are not an acceptable by-product of war.

Next message:

If Bush says it’s legal…


Oshit. No good can come of this. What’s the stupid fucker done now?

Dear ACLU Supporter,

It’s okay to break the law if the President tells you it’s okay.

That’s the outrageous proposition at the heart of a new FISA “compromise” that Republican Senator Kit Bond is pushing on
Capitol Hill.

His goal: to let off the hook telecommunications companies that willfully cooperated with illegal spying.

Senator Bond wants to bury lawsuits filed against telecom companies in a secret court. And, when they get there, he wants cases dismissed if the companies can show that the President gave them a note saying his request for customer information was legal.

Tell your representative: Just because the president says it’s legal doesn’t make it so!

Over and over, you and the ACLU have drawn a clear bottom line for Congress. We’re demanding:

Real accountability for telecommunications companies that broke the law.

No government spying on Americans without an individual warrant.

So far, we’ve persuaded Democratic leaders in the House to hold the line.

But now, some Democrats who want to look tough on national security are getting nervous, and they’re being tempted to support this flawed “compromise” spying bill.

Senator Bond’s proposal wouldn’t actually look at whether
telecom companies broke the law; it would just look at what the Bush administration told telecom companies was the law. Legitimate cases against telecom companies could be dismissed by a secret court, simply because the Bush
administration issued a sham certification.

Don’t let it happen. Your representative needs to hear
from you now before Congress comes back to work next week.

Tell your representative you demand accountability.

Thanks for all you do in defense of freedom.

Oh, for fuck’s sake, yet more FISA fuckery? It’s starting to look less like legislation and more like a zombie every day: it keeps coming back from the dead. How many more mutations are the Republicons and the fucktard Democrats who enjoy licking Republion balls going to force on this bill?

Let’s get something clear: in a democracy, breaking the law isn’t legal just because the President said so. That’s how dictatorships work. Are we dictatorship or democracy? Why the fuck do I have to ask this question in my own damned country?

Muster up your outrage and do some signing for me, would you, darlings? Thankee kindly.

Care to Take Some Action?

On the Other Hand, I have Good News…

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…No, I didn’t save a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico. But I found this gold nugget in my inbox:

Your dad is going to vote for Obama. Can you believe it? If he gets nominated that is who he will vote for. If he doesn’t, then he will vote for McCain. Me, on the other hand, if he doesn’t get nominated, then I can do a write in vote, and I will still vote for him. I would rather put a gun to my head than vote for Billary or McBush.

He is crazy and she is a socialist. No thanks.


My father. My bloody father, who I don’t think has ever voted for a Democrat, is going to cast his ballot for Barack.

And my stepmother, who is even more conservative than he is, won’t even dream of voting for McCain.

When the fuck did I step down the wrong leg of the Trousers of Time? This can’t be the same universe I woke up in this morning…

On the Other Hand, I have Good News…

It's Two-for-One-Day in the Rejecting Rabid Reverends Department

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This amuses me to no end:

For months, John McCain has faced questions about his associations with radical religious televangelists like John Hagee and Rod Parsley. And for months, McCain refused to disassociate himself from the extremists, even going so far as to defend the hate-filled rhetoric. McCain said Hagee had been “taken out of context”) and repeatedly say he was “honored” and “glad” to have their support.

Yesterday, after the latest revelations that Hagee believed Hitler was fulfilling God’s will, McCain gave up.

Senator John McCain on Thursday rejected the endorsements of two prominent evangelical ministers whose backing he had sought to shore up his credentials with religious conservatives.

Mr. McCain repudiated the Rev. John C. Hagee, a televangelist, after a watchdog group released a recording of a sermon in which Mr. Hagee said Hitler and the Holocaust had been part of God’s plan to chase the Jews from Europe and drive them to Palestine.

Later in the day, he also rejected the endorsement of the Rev. Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, Ohio, whose anti-Muslim sermons were broadcast on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday.

I wonder how this is going to look in frothing fundie circles? Can’t look good to them that McCain dropped their pathological pastors like hot rocks just after ABC news started running segments like this:

I especially loved how ABC juxtaposed all of McCain’s smarmy praise and inane defense of this shite with Pastor Parsley’s ravings. Verily, ’twas a work of art.

Tristero said it best when he said:

But here’s the best part:

Hagee also issued a statement saying he was tired of baseless attacks and he was removing himself from any active role in the 2008 campaign.

Good idea. Memo to all christianists:

Go thou and do likewise.

Amen, brother. A-fucking-men.

It's Two-for-One-Day in the Rejecting Rabid Reverends Department

I Could Work for the FBI!

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This admission is going to slaughter my extreme-left-wing creds, but…. I wanted to become an FBI agent at one point in my life. I didn’t pursue it for a variety of reasons: their physical training program is guaranteed to murder an underweight, asthmatic chainsmoker, it’s usually a day job, I’d need an expensive degree to make it as a behavioral profiler, long work weeks would kill free time to write, the political bullshit one has to swallow is astounding, etc. But I still have a soft spot, something in me that goes squishy with pride when I read about the FBI catching the bad guys and Doing the Right Thing.

And they do some awesome good things.

But it’s a schizophrenic bureaucracy, and whilst one Division is doing awesomely good things, another Division is acting the part of laughable fuckwits with too much power and really stupid ideas. It’s too bad that’s the Division I could actually work for:

Carroll, who requested that his real name not be used, showed up early and waited anxiously for Swanson’s arrival. Ten minutes later, he says, a casually dressed Swanson showed up, flanked by a woman whom he introduced as FBI Special Agent Maureen E. Mazzola. For the next 20 minutes, Mazzola would do most of the talking.

“She told me that I had the perfect ‘look,’” recalls Carroll. “And that I had the perfect personality—they kept saying I was friendly and personable—for what they were looking for.”

What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.”


The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force wants to investigate vegan fucking potlucks.

What tells me they’ve gone right round the bend and straight into George W. Bush land, where the terrorahrists are everywhere, spying on leftist Americans is an essential part of the War on Terrorah, and there’s ponies in Iraq?

Carroll got offered the job by virture of his hippie good looks and having gotten busted spray-painting a campus elevator, but he’s an amateur compared to me. All I’m missing from my resume is some criminal mischief. Vegan potlucks? Oh, this animal muncher does a killer vegan stirfry. I can talk the talk, walk the walk, and cook the tofu, my darlings, oh, yes. I even owned a copy of the Compassionate Cook.

That’s what I get for living with a vegan for three years. All I need to do now is engage in some unauthorized interior decorating, and I could live my dream.

By infiltrating vegan fucking potlucks. Because we all know how dangerous those veggie killers are.

Unfortunately, this isn’t even a sign of how pervasive the Bush Administration’s police state has become, because the FBI has always had a penchant for doing boneheaded shit like this. What else can you expect from an agency stamped with the personality of a paranoid psychopath who looked pretty in pink? They’ve always had a problem comprehending the fine line between constitutionally protected political dissent and groups that pose a serious threat to American civilization as we know it. Most of the Bureau knows and loves the Constitution, but there are some divisions that don’t seem to have ever read a copy. They seem to dump all the paranoid wingnuts into one section and let them amuse themselves trying to stir hippies into doing something slightly more criminal than dressing badly and chanting peace slogans at government officials.

Pathetic fixation they have, really. And that’s why this is making me laugh rather than scream. The FBI is too fucking inept at domestic political intimidation to really pose a serious threat. They always let slip what they’re doing, end up spectacularly embarrassed, and get their hands slapped by their Justice Department masters… awshit.

Oh, fuckity-fuck-fuck-fuck.

The Justice Department’s still in the hands of Bush’s assclown brigade, isn’t it?

Vegans: be afraid. Be very afraid.

I Could Work for the FBI!

Isn't That Up to the Iranians?

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If I didn’t care about the future of my country, I’d vote for McCain just for the entertainment value. He’s a bottomless well of inanity.

Case in point: his recent statements on Iran.

Time Magazine’s Joe Klein, who has been taken to the woodshed more than once by Glenn Greenwald, indulged in some journalism that should earn him a cookie. He’s indulged in some political snark that should earn him a trip to Disneyland. Go read the column for the snark: we’re dealing only in the business here:

On Friday, I promised to check into whether Obama had ever said that he would negotiate–specifically, by name–with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Indeed, according to the crack Time Magazine research department and the Obama campaign, he never has. He did say that he would negotiate with the Iranian leadership–but, on matters of foreign policy and Iran’s nuclear program, the guy in charge is the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. As of today, John McCain was still accusing Obama of wanting to negotiate with Ahmadinejad. Why doesn’t the McCain campaign and other assorted Republicans ever accuse Obama of wanting to negotiate with Khamenei? Well, because Khamenei isn’t quite the flagrant anti-Semite Ahmadinejad is…and, as we keep hearing, Obama has a Jewish
problem.

Ye gods, Joe, what’s wrong with you? Fact-checking? Accurate reporting? Has Faux News taught you nothing? This looks suspiciously like reporting, something many bloggers were convinced you’d given up on.

I checked his facts, my darlings, and he is absolutely correct: Ahmadinejad isn’t the totalitarian leader of Iran that he’s portrayed to be by the so-wrong Right. (As to Obama never mentioning Ahmadinejad by name, I don’t have a crack research department, so I’ll have to take that one on trust, along with never having seen Obama quoted as saying he’d negotiate with Ahmadinejad. Don’t burn me, Joe.)

John McCain, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have access to Wikipedia, and in another startling episode of actual journalism, Joe Klein – the same Joe Klein who was soundly beaten for dumbassitude by Glenn Greenwald just a week ago – caught him out:

If you’re unable to watch this amazing performance by George Bush’s trained monkey and wanna-be successor, you can still enjoy the fuckwittery courtesy of Carpetbagger’s most excellent summary:

So, Klein, to his credit, asked McCain about this at a press conference, inquiring as to why McCain keeps accusing Obama of reaching out to Ahmadinejad when that hasn’t actually happened. When Klein noted that it’s Khamenei who is “in charge of Iranian foreign policy and also in charge of the nuclear program,” McCain said he respectfully disagreed.

After noting Ahmadinejad having spoken to the United Nations, McCain concluded, “I mean, the fact is he’s the acknowledged leader of that country and you may disagree, but that’s a uh, that’s your right to do so, but I think if you asked any average American who the leader of Iran is, I think they’d know.”

Savor this for a moment. Verily, this is the Republicon understanding of reality. Allow me to enumerate it for you:

1. Objective facts, such as who the chief executive of a country is, can be disagreed with.
2. You have a right to disagree over said facts.
3. The average American determines what reality is.
4. By average American, of course, Republicons mean the average dumbfuck who’s stupid enough to parrot what the Republicons want reality to be. Average Americans who know what the actual facts are need not apply.

And this batshit insane bullshit is spouted by McCain with an air of overwhelming arrogance. You can tell he’s impatient with Joe Klein and his “facts.” The resemblance between McCain and Bush in that video is eerie, if you’re not immediately overwhelmed by the resemblance between McCain and an evil-fucker version of Wallace.

I reiterate: if so much wasn’t at stake, I’d totally vote for the assclown. At least I’d never run out of material. It’s too the American President, unlike the Iranian version, actually has executive power: if it didn’t, McCain’s disastrous views of foreign policy, health care, the economy, and reality in general wouldn’t have any impact on the well-being of the country if he were elected.

Alas, since that’s manifestly not the case, I’m going to have to vote for the guy who knows what the fuck he’s doing, and give entertainment value a pass.

Isn't That Up to the Iranians?

Savor this Image, and Then Make It So

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I got a delight in my inbox today from the American Freedom Campaign:
Tell Congress: Arrest Karl Rove
More than seven years too late, it appears as if a growing number of congresspersons are realizing that they are part of a co-equal branch of government. After allowing their institution to be disrespected and at times ignored by the executive branch, top officials in Congress are finally expressing a willingness to use their full power under the Constitution to rein in an out-of-control administration.
The current target: Karl Rove.
Rove has been asked by the House Judiciary Committee to testify about his involvement in the Justice Department’s prosecution and imprisonment of former Alabama Governor Don Siegleman. As Rove has so far refused to testify voluntarily, members of Congress have started sending signals that they are prepared to go to the mattresses over this.

My darlings, few things would make me happier than to see Karl Rove’s pudgy little arse in jail.
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