Quotes ... reverse chronological order (generally) ...
"These are analogous, how?"
Kurtz’s comparison is, for lack of a better word, ridiculous. In
Digby’s example, Republicans were dishing dirt, which turned out to be
false, about an innocent family. In Kurtz’s examples of Bush
administration wrongdoing, unknown insiders came forward with evidence,
which turned out to be true, about a White House that was pushing the
legal boundaries of executive power to the breaking point. 
... that way, he achieves the "balance" so crucial to The Culture of
The Village. A Republican has done this. A Democrat has done that.
Therefore it's all equal. (Though it requires you to ignore that "this"
is planting stories about John Edwards' hair, while "that" is the
soul-wrenching shame of Abu Ghraib. But the important thing is that the
story has one R and one D in it.) 
Clearly, people on the right are very, very angry right now and they
are lashing out at their most hated enemies: Americans who disagree
with them. The question is, why are they suddenly ratcheting up the
rhetoric?
Black America is under assault by a biased criminal justice system, and
the Jena protest was a spasm of its collective consciousness. This
system, correctly labeled “the prison-industrial complex,” is the
primary site of racial oppression today, and one of its most corrosive
aspects is what many activists call the “school-to-jail pipeline.”
The Jena Six case revealed that pipeline in all its perverse glory:
white students’ punishment for hanging nooses remained within the
context of school discipline, while the black students’ cases were
exported to the criminal justice system. 
SCHIP collateral damage ...
The answer is that, like the US Chamber of Commerce, they aren't really
pro-life or pro-business, they're just pro-GOP and pro-Bush. It's
helpful to see them exposed; call it "SCHIP collateral damage".
That's where the Democrats need to make their stand. "Family values"
Republicans value war, guns, blastocysts, all-powerful government
police agencies (when they are in charge of them) and huge
corporations, period. They hate taxes and anyone but themselves. When
confronted with an economic problem where the working, taxpaying
parents of sick children can't afford the monstrous burden of
over-priced health insurance for their kids, their answer to the
problem is a simple, "don't have kids." It's obvious by both their
rhetoric and their policies that Republicans don't value families so
let's take that lie off the table right along with their completely
discredited claims that they have "honor and integrity" and they are
good at economic stewardship and national security.The only thing they have left is that they believe in low taxes. That may be enough for the 28 percenters, but I doubt seriously if the rest of the country find that very inspiring.
... when they took down Howard Dean, they really took us down. And the
old saying, 'Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer'?
That is why Howard Dean is still DNC chair - that once powerful
position now a retirement home for old threats to the established
order.
Within five weeks after George W. Bush moved into the White House
(after a stolen election, let's not forget), his administration sought
to wiretap without any legal oversight whatsoever, severely punishing
those that insisted on obeying the law.* Not work to change the law,
mind you, but rather to disobey the laws of this country with total
impunity.Within five weeks. Long before 9/11. Kee-rist.
Better watch out, the
marketers are looking for your 'protective frame' ... Horror
movie fans seem to already have a protective frame of safety, distance
or detachment that lets them absorb fear and still enjoy themselves, he
said. "In other words, experiencing mixed feelings within a protective
frame may well be more fun,"
Andrade and Cohen wrote in the journal. 
A safe prediction ...
If current trends continue, only 83 of the 177 verbs studied will be
irregular in 500 years, the researchers predict. They predict that the
next irregular verb to regularize will be wed, meaning that
just-married couples will no longer be "newly wed" but will have
blissfully "wedded."
...
Oh? It isn't there already?
You simply cannot find examples in recent years of Republican
presidential candidates' physical ticks or trivial personal foibles
that the press has pounced on and announced to be wildly important and
deeply revealing. That's just not a distraction Republican candidates
have to deal with. The media phenomenon only applies to Democrats and
the phenomenon only exists because journalists manufacture it.
I
have come to the conclusion that she is perfectly "likeable"... she is
just presented to us through a prism of a press corps that doesn't like
her for the same reasons it doesn't like Al Gore... i.e., she is a
Democrat who is not a pathological liar.
Looking for Jesus ...
The political comrades who enable those who hate among us are soon to
be massively defeated
...
Oh, how I hope he's right! Oh, Annie, Annie, Annie ...
Re: If she [Annie the
Coulter] had said that Christianity were no better than,
or worse than, Judaism she would have been betraying her faith.She said a bit more than just that. I can say that I think Pepsi is superior to Coke without saying that Coke should be eliminated and everyone should drink Pepsi.
But I have no explanation for this current round of unusually
spectacular conservative crap, other than perhaps the melting icecaps
have released all the excess Stupid that was trapped in ancient ice as
the dinosaurs died off.
...
I suppose Republican Stupid must come from somewhere, but why pick
on the dinosaurs?