Our favorite troll points out, proudly, that Clinton fired all the US attorneys. So did Bush, upon assuming office, as is fairly typical when a new party takes power, particularly in an age when one party no longer believes in the American system of impartial jurisprudence, and must choose parafascist religious freaks and/or racists as judges to satisfy its knuckle-dragging "base."

Trouble was, some of Bush's own US attorneys were insufficiently "loyal," and unwilling to prosecute Democrats on trumped-up charges in advance of elections while actually prosecuting Republican thieves like Randy "Duke" Cunningham and such. That is, and I'll write slowly for you Shooter, is that Bush took the unprecedented step of firing HIS OWN, REPUBLICAN US attorneys because they weren't corrupt enough for him.

Got it?

While your ridiculous talking points may work some places, please remember that your audience here is a little too smart to fall for that.

High Priestess? I quite nearly knocked over my Daiquiri at the honor. (Fortunately, it's in a pineapple, for both durability and vitamins....)

I'm getting the "Towelhead" banner ad too, Omooex, so don't take it too personally. And what a handy way to hide the curlers, come to think of it.

Oooh, I can hardly wait for the media jackals to flay that poor lil' Palin and thereby lay out, once and for all, the hypocrisy and intellectual vacuity of the Bush/McCain GOP, once and for all. No more Mr./Ms. Nice Spokesmodel; those days are over.

Heaven knows that the WaPoo's formidable and incisive Shailagh Murray won't put up with petty, substance-free attacks. And watch out when Charlie Gibson gives her the what-for if she drags out that old canard that cutting capital gains taxes might, over time, reduce tax revenues. And that tough liberal lion Brit Hume will cut her off at the knees when she calls Obama "presumptuous." Katy Couric, you can bet, is sure to tear her from limb to limb if she steps into that snake pit, which will be a welcome relief from Chris Matthews' relentless examination of her boobs. And you know that Bill O'Reilly's producers are lining up a string of PETA spokesmen to back up the NOW people they've booked to give her a real, old-fashioned grilling.

I could go on, but maybe somebody else has some even better scenarios to toss in, and perhaps we could set up a Saturday Night Pool to see how many of them come true.

It's nice to know that the righties have more than one set of talking points for their paid astroturfers.... Too bad they've given it away with a string of ads, promoting "More Nukes" riding along with "Drill here, drill now" on a BS bicycle built for two. One would presume this sockpuppet would rather have a nice little check from API than a nuclear waste dump in his/her backyard, but the great hole in the argument is that Nuclear Power represents the largest transfer of public funds into Republican pockets since, well, Halliburton. No insurer would ever insure a Nuclear plant, and no community would want one, and no power source has ever been so, well, Soviet in its gigantism and stupidity.

The very existence of nuclear power requires forcing frightening poisons, police-state security, and a domineering and deceitful government robbing the public to enrich unaccountable monopolies, on a public that would never accept such a travesty were it sold honestly.

It wasn't a bunch of DFH's that sounded the death knell of nuclear power in the US, but rather the corruption, waste, incompetence, and terrifying negligence of its operators and performers.

All Nukes are is a backstop for the MCI, in the unlikely event that the public ever loses its taste for endless war.

But you have to hand it to them for covering their bases. A lot of plutocrats might have to get real jobs with out a new government handout.

Now, I've heard absurd claims from the besotted right, but arguing that George Bush is smart is a bridge too far. Harvard MBA? If Bush were CEO of the US, given his perfprmance, he'd not only have been fired long ago, but probably indicted. Aside from getting elected, after a fashion, through the help of others, the man has failed, spectacularly, at everything he's ever attempted, including bicycle riding, pretzel-eating, and staying on a Segway, Aside from Clapham and a similarly delusional, violent minded dwindling minority of frightened, frightening, Americans (throw them lawyers in Gitmo!!!! Christ.) everyone knows that Bush is by far the worst President, and one of the worst despots, in history. Moral judgements aside, Hitler won some pretty astounding military victories and embarked on a rather eye-popping public works program..... Aside from photo ops, Bush shows no signs of being capable of doing anything, perhaps including wiping his own ass.

Repeat all the absurd claptrap you want, Clapham, but saying Bush is smarter than Gore, Kerry, or Nixon's dog Checkers is probably a laugh line even over at the Freepers, where you ought to be getting back.

Good point, AKA Smith. I would argue that Bush is not really dumb, but merely has a disdain for learning and education, coupled with the cocky arrogance of the privileged that he knew he would never be competing on a level playing field, so why bother? He delights in the fact that he can say "Nucular" all he wants... Like the Red Queen, words for him are what he says they are, and. cossetted by layers of adoring minions and other less delicate enforcers, his word, however bungled and unintelligible, is literally law.

Of course, his lack of curiosity has made his tenure disastrous, harmed the whole world, and probably has his daughters aching to get married and rid themselves of that name, but as he said, "History.... dudn't matter... we'll all be dead." Sociopathic? Yes.

Dumb? Only to a normal person, which he clearly is not.