The Democratic party is trying to figure out where to go from the recent election debacle as it considers a new party leader. One of the arguments is whether the party should go to an attack dog strategy, something the "moral" and "character-driven" Republicans have no ethical problems doing. Its hard to know where to stand on this. Do you want to run a clean campaign and lose, or be president knowing you are there based on lies you told morons who watch Fear Factor and Jerry Springer, who think Rush Limbaugh is not an utterly decrepit hypocrite junkie? Then again, as this article states, fighting back is not a bad thing. It beats coddling torturers, like newly-elected Senator Salazar has.
Speaking of lies, Bush basically lied to the Pope about Iraq. Hope all you Catholics who voted for Bush choke on your breakfast. And then maybe fall down a flight of stairs for good measure.
Lying to the American people. The junta paid conservative pundit Armstrong Williams a quarter million dollars to push its No Child Left Behind policy. While they aren't apologetic for it, hopefully Williams feels a modicum of shame for taking public tax dollars to be a willing tool of the GOP. That, and his column has been dropped from various newspaper because, well, because he's an unethical shill. More on the White House's stealth nomination of Alberto Gonzales as they refuse to release any of the papers they have from him. Ten bucks says they're either already shredded or hiding to Bush Senior's library along with Dubya's DUI, military records, and that case where Laura killed her ex-boyfriend.
Speaking of lies, Bush gets a new speechwriter as, presumably, his old one just couldn't look at himself in the mirror anymore without bursting into inconsolable weeping. Meanwhile, his brother picked up a speechwriter once accused of plagiarism in his editorials. Nice.
Mahmoud Abbas won the Palestinian election in what was apparently a clean, fairly efficient process (though the voter rolls might be suspect, a la Florida and Ohio). Not that I expect anything from a guy who cuddles with masked bombers; but hey, a bunch of Arabs held a democratic election without violence, and we didn't have to invade them for it to happen. Think about it.
Meanwhile snivelling GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi wants a new election because he didn't like how the last one turned out. Hopefully, this gets rejected as handily as fellow fascist Viktor Yanukovych's attempt to subvert democracy was in the Ukraine.
Last scary political story: Newt Gingrich wants to be president.
Military news. Here's an idea, let's put together hit squads and start taking out the brains behind the insurgent movement. Not sure why it took so long for us to consider this option. Best of luck to you guys in those units. I really hope this helps the situation.
The army is actively working to provide marriage counseling for returning troops. Yet another excellent idea.
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