TELLIN' IN LIKE IT JIZ

The vice-president really does believe that he can somehow champion a party that declares that his daughter must be barred from any legal protections for her child and marriage and never be confronted with the contradiction. Sorry, Mr vice-president, but one day you will have to address how you can front a party dedicated to smearing, marginalizing and disenfranchising a member of your own family. Wolf Blitzer's question is not out of line. Your hypocrisy is.

-Andrew Sullivan

KKKORNYN

Senator Jon Cornyn (R-Water Carrier), the day after the 2007 Hate of the Union Address, pushed Democrats to do more than criticize (the Iraq War)
"I think the responsibility of the new majority in the Congress is to come up with an alternative," he said. "If they don't like this one, what do they like? What is their plan for success?"

For so many reasons, this guy doesn't have the shit for brains he was born with!

TRICKY DICK

Asked by Wolf Blitzer about criticism from a conservative group about the pregnancy of his daughter Mary, who is in a relationship with a female partner, DickCheney expressed irritation with the question.
"I'm delighted I'm about to have a sixth grandchild, Wolf," he said. "And obviously I think the world of both my daughters and all of my grandchildren.
"And I think, frankly, you're out of line with that question."
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"Out of line?" It's not a monarchy yet, Fuckwad. Also, whatever happened to politely telling someone "I'd rather not talk about it." Never use a polite suggestion when a frightening scowl, smear, or scold will do!

The reason why Cheney exploded - (it was the same reason that led to all of the Faux crying by Republicans when Kerry mentioned - gasp - that the daughter Cheney was so proud of is going to be constitutionally discriminated against by him) is because in Cheney's world all conservatives get along - they're all on the same hate. He didn't want to be called out on his hypocrisy.

God Bless Wolf, though. I've met the guy several times, and he'll still keep asking these kinds of questions - even if it means irritating both Cheney and his wife, Lon. The more those two insist that they are exemplars of moral probity, the more that the hate they have - which just sludges off the screen - gets reflected back at them.

THIS WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED ON FAUX

Vice President Dick Cheney was interviewed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer and aired in segments on today's situation room. Cheney appeared to be slightly bothered after Blitzer questioned how he felt about criticism aimed at him from members of his own party:
BLITZER: Here's what Jim Webb, senator from Virginia said in the Democratic response last night -- he said, "The president took us into this war recklessly. We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable and predicted disarray that has followed."
And it's not just Jim Webb; it's some of your good Republican friends in the Senate and the House are now seriously questioning your credibility, because of the blunders and the failures. Gordon Smith...
CHENEY: Wolf, Wolf, I simply don't accept the premise of your question. I just think it's hogwash.
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The best defense is a pathetic offense, I guess. Can Dick Cheney get any more loathsome. Is that (in)humanly possible? Walking scowls all across the country are afraid that the answer is probably "yes"

THE MIRROR LOOKS BACK

G.W. Bush's seventh Hate of the Union address, a slack screed of his greatest hits (invoking 9/11 gratuitously, falsely linking it to Iraq, telling us "we must fight them abroad so we don't have to fight them here," telling us "they hate us for our freedom," bashing the government that has done so much for him, smirking through "anecdotes" showing how much greater real Americans are than him, and so on), was memorable, if for nothing else, for the following line:

"You did not vote them into law. I did not sign them into law. Yet they are treated as if they have the force of law. The time has come to end this practice."

What, might you ask was he talking about? As it turns out, he was talking about earmarks.

By the way, though, the quote applies just as well to - that's right, Presidential signing statements. Just one more example of this President's colossal would-be hypocrisy. "Would be" because hypocrisy kind of requires having ideas in the first place.

Only one more of these.... and then - it's over!

"HERITAGE, NOT HATE"

This weekend, I attended a conference (of attorneys) at Stone Mountain, Georgia. For those of you who do not know, Stone Mountain's historical significance comes from its being the site of the formation and foundation of the Second (and present-day) Ku Klux Klan. Appropriate, given the company with whom I was with. And once I found out the fact, I no longer wondered why there were so many extra sheets tastefully arranged on my hotel bed.

The above infelicitous phrase, which reeks of a primitive defensive self-awareness, is, the more I talk to Southerners, so much sloganeering - why is it that people who use it so much are so ignorant of the 4-year period of history encapsulated by the phrase - not to mention the history of the South both before and afte that period?

For an interesting take on the phrase, check out:

http://www.chicora.org/heritage.htm

TELL-A-NOVELA

I thought I'd try my hand at a certain kind of writing, just for (my, anyway) fun:

She placed her sinewy fiellating fists over his dirty love spigot, and started to pry it open. As she grabbed its hairy tentacles, aquivering with the preeminence sprung from their priapic pipelines, she ripped open the scum spigot, and, as if from on high, a celestial pool of white ambrosia gushed across her flushed face.

Cheeers.

RING MY BELL

On the eve of Andrew Sullivan's announcement that he is poised to grace yet another American Institution (this time, he will be traveling across the sea of the Atlantic), a timely reminder that the debate over The Bell Curve lingers on:

http://www.slate.com/id/2128199/

Liberals who dismiss the notion that race is linked to intelligence simply because the link has not been proven lock, stock and smoking barrel are akin to "creation scientists) who believe that just because evolution has not been proven beyond a metaphyislca doubt, creation accounts for our existence.

At the same time, though, wanna know why there has been no reputable (let alone even detailed and thorough) follow-up study of The Bell Curve that echoes its conclusions? Because conservatives, as Paul Krugam once said, are the kinds of folk that favor "revelation over research". In this case, the word "revelation" is the lynch (no pun intended) in that it both preceded and was preceded by what Republicans call "research".

This debate (unlike the evolution "debate," really, which puts ignorance on one side while the other side marches on to the beat of progress) - the debate over nature v. nurture - is one worth having. But the debate won't happen, as Justice Scalia once said, as long as both sides allow themselves to fight freestyle while placing Marquis of Queensbury rules on their opponent.

THIS JOKE'S ALREADY HATCHED

"President Bush (the squinty-eyed stupid one) writes a column for the Wall Street Jour... Wait a minute. Everyone who thinks he actually wrote it: raise your hand. Hmmmm... It's like the Marines asking for volunteers at a College Republicans convention. Sorry, but this column has Karen Hughes size fourteen footprints all over it."