Allow me to let you in on a little Elephantman secret...

You see, I used to be a registered Democrat. Until I grew tired of all of my party's unproductive and mindless class warfare, and tolerance for race-baiting, and its war on the economy, and its support for lottery-style personal injusry litigation, and its stupid layering of consumer "protections" to the point of creating a nanny state. I grew fearful that my party's reckelss disdain for national security in the name of satisfying greivance politics all over the globe might someday cause me and my country some serious harm.

All those positions seemed "unprincipaled and irrational" to me. So I used my brain. I became a Republican.

Naaaah, just kidding! I was never, ever, a Democrat...

As far as I am concerned, the best use of Dick Durbin is "compost pile," and not "facts."

But what the heck, this is as good a time as any to roll out this Dick Durbin charm-fest...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7FaSEQ-fKc

Does anybody have the link to the video clip of the ol' Cook County gangster Durbin doing his sobbing apology to the U.S. military a few days later? That's the one I was looking for when I found this one.

I have to go now. Typing "Dick Durbin" makes me want to go wash up.

Re: Cordesman's comment that "the US intervention in Iraq has driven more than 2 million people out of that country." Did it occur to anyone that the US intervention drove virtually no one out of that country, that the insurgency, our enemies, did. And that a Saddam-less Iraq will welcome back the 2 million or so who fled his murderous regime before his ouster?

Re: Institutions with failing public approval ratiings. Did anybody note where the 2007 Democrat-led Congress has gone in the ratings?

Re: Rep. Jan Schakowsky's military advice. WTF? I say again, WTF? What the F does Jan Schakowsky know about military operations? Why didn't they send her neighbor to the north, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL). At least Kirk can fly an F-15.

I have a better mission for Rep. Schakowsky. Report back on how the scented candle busisness is doing in Baghdad. Or maybe how day care services are coming along. She could help with US supplies to lactose-intolerant seniors in Basra.

Add that to the million new personal-injury litigation jobs, and now you're talking some serious job creation!

But of course we might lose another 10 million jobs in mining, manufacturing, energy production, and construction.

But the Edwards team probably has a "plan" for that, too...

Next to "desperate" in the dictionary, there must be a picture of Pat Leahy.

Who else but Sidney Blumenthal could have proven, so quickly and conclusively, that Rove and Paul Gigot were right?

Gigot characterized Rove as the "the Great White Whale" of the Democrat Left. And Rove had this to say in Gigot's WSJ column today:

"I'm a myth. There's the Mark of Rove," he says, with a bemused air. "I read about some of the things I'm supposed to have done, and I have to try not to laugh." He says the real target is Mr. Bush, whom many Democrats have never accepted as a legitimate president and "never will."

So what does Sidney Blumenthal do? He proves both points correct, in a flash. If Rove is the great white whale, Blumenthal is Ahab. And what does Bluemthal say about President Bush's 2000 election? That it is only a kind of construct in Rove's mind. Gee whiz, history is going to be surprised by that one. You mean to tell me that Al Gore was the 43rd President?

First, I think it is kind of funny.

Second, can any editor or writer at Salon just imagine the fallout from an equivalent bit of satire, playing off racial stereotypes within, say, the Congressional Black Caucus? Can you picture Flava Flave with John Conyers, Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters? "Blue State Ho-Down," anybody?

Just how tone-deaf, or how unrepentantly hate-filled, are we to presume that the Salon audience is?

I mean, I know where to go to find criticism and sarcasm aimed at General Petraeus, and President Bush, and Vice President Cheney. I do a "search" on Salon.

But the Bush administration isn't much in the business of truck-bombing markets and village squares. What the Americans have been in the business of doing, in response to truck bombings, is to send security forces, medical teams, helicopters and relief supplies.

And WE'RE the bad guys?

From what nation does Salon originate?

You know, it wouldn't be at all unpleasant to debate the details of how to stabilize Iraq, if I could only be assured that that is what the Salonistas really wanted.

I don't think it is. First and foremost, above all, what the Salonistas want, is a defeat for Bush and Cheney. If that means a 'defeat' for American troops, then so be it, must be the attitude. One might think that the first reaction, irrespective of party would be, let's hunt down the people who are doing this and pop a hellfire missile up their miserable asses. That's my attitude, and I don't consider it to be a 'Republican' one. I just think it is sick that the first thought after something like this is "what have Bush and Cheney done..."

Just to keep Garrison depressed. Depression is good for an artist.

JEB!!!!