Friday’s Mini-Report

March 9, 2007

Today’s edition of quick hits.

* Seven newspapers have now dropped Ann Coulter’s column. That’s pretty encouraging.

* The IRS is outsourcing its writing of tax rules to the very lawyers and accountants who create tax shelters and exploit loopholes for the superrich.

* TP: Wade Sanders — former deputy assistant secretary of the Navy, decorated former swift boat skipper, and combat veteran — has an op-ed attacking President Bush’s nomination of Sam Fox to be ambassador to Belgium: “And as a military man, it doesn’t matter much who is being attacked — John McCain, Max Cleland, John Kerry, or Jack Murtha — I just don’t believe that assaults on the military records of veterans belong in our politics.”

* There’s a lot of buzz about Rep. David Obey, D-Wisc., chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, losing his temper when confronted by liberal activists who want him to cut off funding for the war. Read the whole thing to get the context.

* Zell Miller isn’t getting any less bizarre.

* Brazil loved Bill Clinton when he was president. Bush — not so much.

* Questions about the prosecutor purge get closer to the White House.

* The “DC Madam” story gets more interesting all the time.

* Michael Barone isn’t nearly as sane as I gave him credit for yesterday.

* I find it amazing that a GOP House member would blame conditions at Walter Reed on injured troops.

* Meet the man the House GOP picked to take the lead on global warming.

Sorry for the abbreviated mini-report, but I gotta run. If these items aren’t of any interest, consider this an end-of-the-day open thread.

Bush’s re-election really befuddled many Brazilians, who figured we just screwed up the first time around. Now they think the average American is a bloodthirsty cowboy that would try to get rid of decent leaders due to blowjobs.

As for the protests – Brazilian police use tear gas at traffic stops, so no biggie.

–WKW

  • Bush’s re-election really befuddled many Brazilians Americans, who figured we just screwed up the first time around. Now they think the average American is a bloodthirsty cowboy that would try to get rid of decent leaders due to blowjobs.

  • * I find it amazing that a GOP House member would blame conditions at Walter Reed on injured troops.

    I don’t. You can almost smell the fear when you read the transcript of his remarks. “Accountability? Who? What? No. It isn’t our fault. Um. Food. Soliders. Mice! Look! A seagull!! Not our faaaaaault! Aeeeiiie!”

    Oh well. I guess I should just enjoy the spectacle of the ReThuglican Party lopping of its own arms and legs and throwing them on the bonfire. Here’s your fiddle Emperor George.

  • You’ve probably heard by now, but the Fox News debate in Nevada is officially dead.

  • You’ve probably heard by now, but the Fox News debate in Nevada is officially dead.

    Really? Do you have a link for that? I sooo hope its dead.

  • Piss off Phil Gingrey (R-CA)! The cockroaches at Walter Reed are not the fault of the troops who are there. I was born at Walter Reed over 40 years ago and the of the things my mom remembers about being there was every time she turned on the lights she could hear the cockroaches skittering away. (..And that’s why I absolutely hate those damn bugs.) Quit blaming the troops for every f-ing black eye the Republican party inflicts on itself. A**hole!

    Getting past the expletives, could this particular DC madam have something to do with the hookers in question that were used to service our friend Duke Cunningham? Maybe that’s why the feds are so quick to muzzle her.

  • Parakeets across the land will be in mourning. They look forward to defecating on Coulter’s face. Come to think of it, she kind of looks like a cuttlebone too.

  • Mr. Straight Gibberish Express keeps delivering the laughs:

    “I would like to see this campaign conducted on past record and ambition for the future…I would hope that gossip — or, quote, ‘family issues’ — would not enter into this campaign.”

    I assume he is talking to his fellow Repugnantcans since they’re the ones who put the D in Dirty tricks (and also the RAT in DemocRATS). But why does he even bother? Everyone knows if a Rethug wins in ’08 (gag), The Missle-catching McCainiac will be first in line to fluff the winner.

  • Warning: this URL is very explicit, so if “money shots” of gay porn stars make you uncomfortable (or you’re surfing at work) don’t go. But if you want the real news about “I was spit on by anti-military Columbia students” and newest conservo-star Matt Sanchez, who reverybody from Coultergeist to O’Lielly to Sean Handjob, former Olongapo boom-boom girl Michelle Malkin and all the other rightie “stars” were slobbering all over atthe CPAC conference, you’ll want to see exactly how our hero really gets slobbered on.

    http://tombacchus.blogspot.com/2007/03/dirty-sanchez.html

    This is going to be SO MUCH FUN this week watching O’Lielly and Handjob bob and weave about this one. It’s just deeeeeeeee-licious! Better than Gannon-Guckert since the real proof is here for all to see.

  • Kudos to Zell Miller. I was wondering “where have all the young men gone..”; and the old dog had the answer. Heckofa job, Zell. Don’t ever change!

    You ignorant jerk.

  • 7 papers really isn’t that good. If she was only in 8 papers that would be great. 7 out of 100, hell if I missed 7 out of 100 questions on one of my tests, I thought that was great!! We have to do better and expect more. We should shoot for 30 papers. We should target papers that are located in neutral or liberal regions of the country.

    In America you can say whatever you want to say but, you should also have to pay the price if you say something that is mean-spirited and hateful. Ask Jimmy the Greek. Ask Tim Hardaway. Ask Tom Brookshire.

  • Really? Do you have a link for that? I sooo hope its dead.
    DailyKos for example has several front page items, (the latest being the text of the fax sent to Fox).

  • Steve:

    I really think Krugman’s article about the US Attorney’s who weren’t replaced is the tip of the iceberg.

    I live in New Jersey and I remember thinking that the charges against Mendendez were sleazy but there might just be enough smoke to cause some people to not vote for him.

    I didn’t realize how sleazy the charges were until I was reminded of them in Krugman’s article today.

    Someone, somewhere, should try and put together a list of all of the charges brought by USA’s before the election that were quietly dropped after the election.

    We never would have heard about any of this if the ‘publicans still controlled the Senate

  • re: Corporal Eleven Inch Sanchez

    I understand he is claiming his (wait for it) privacy was invaded (hur hur hur) by all of the mean, nasty libruls who dug up “dirt” on him and revealed it to the world.

    Let that sink in for a minute.

    This isn’t a case of some guy frolicking with another guy and unbeknownst to him his pal had a camera in the room and the tape got released on the internet. He was a fucking porn star. Lights, Camera, Fluffer, ACTION.

    Mr. Cleaver works in the movie industry (not porn), perhaps he can enlighten us as to how many people who have held lead roles in multiple movies have expected their participation in said movies to be a SECRET after the movie is released. Just a ballpark guess. Zero? Negative 12? There aren’t enough drugs in the world? OK.

    And to top (har) it off, Mr. Sanchez also provided escort services and had his own damn website. Oh yes, what a shrinking violet is our Corporal. Maybe he misunderstood the military’s DADT policy?

    However, to Answer Tom Cleaver’s musings, the last I heard the right is circling the wagons around their newest darling. Malkin was being all protective of poor Rob Longschlong and a lot of other far-right websites are saying it doesn’t matter because he isn’t doing it any more and maybe his experiences made him a stronger person (‘hem) and of course the libruls are all homophobes for laughing their heads off at the delicious Irony of Ann Fggt Coulter standing next to a man who made a living pole axing other men.

    Meanwhile these people STILL harp about Clinton’s BJ. Maybe if Lewinski was a guy?

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