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"You know what? I really think if you walked into a cabinet meeting and started hurling your feces at the wall—Bush would name a state after you." - John Stewart on Josh Bolten's appointment as Chief of Staff

Wow. So Bush's move to "shake up his administration" is to fire the only guy who hasn't comitted a felony. Genius. John Stewart's take here.

Anyway, with the removal of Andrew Card, I imagine we'll be sinking to new levels of filth, particularly since the guy replacing him is responsible for at least $1.8 TRILLION of our national debt - all in a mere three years (PDF here). And yes, each yearly budget is in the top 5 worst in American history.

The FAUXNews idiots thinks torture is cool. That tells you everything you need to know about conservatives I imagine.

Meanwhile, GOP stalwarts are pretty much being begged not to turn away from Bush, even as his house of cards falls apart.

A little bit old, but I love this take on Bush pretending he's not pandering to apocalyptic Rapture types with his everlasting war on whatever.

No Child Left Behind leaves any subject that's not reading or math way behind as school's scramble for ways to teach Bush's unfunded mandate. Sometimes, that's all the coursework children are allowed to have. That must be because the president can't speak, refuses to read, and - judging by his budgets - can't count on anything higher than the fingers on his hands. It does suck that at least a piece of a generation of children will be suffering for his idiocy.

Scalia is channeling his inner Cheney (please, don't let you mind go there and has started flipping off members of the press.

The Army, for some reason eager to suck up to Rumsfeld, has banned the use of all privately purchased armor. So, basically, instead of worrying about saving soldiers' lives, the Army wants to save face for their jerk of a SecDef who has done nothing but sell them out since day one. Military intelligence at it's best folks.

As Jack Abramhoff gets ready to do a mere six years in the pokey for being an all-around creep, I've been wondering where the next batch of Republican fanatics are coming from. Well, there's always Joe Lieberman (audio found here). But he's not as bad as Official White House Kicking Boy John McCain who is now pandering to the religious right.

Well, that's enough for now. I'll try to cook something up for tomorrow as well.