What was that, three posts before some Neocon clown pulled out a Cindy Sheehan slam? Um, let's see, the difference would have been that she lost her son in war while this guy was a pissed off college student probably looking to end up on Jon Stewart. She was camping out in Crawford looking to start a dialog with the Resident while this guy was coming off like one of those wacko 911 conspiracy theorists.

OK, so how you gonna pull Bill Clinton, Hillary and Ted Kennedy into the discussion now? It never fails.

IMO, the cops were put in a bad spot. You can't let people take over the mic in a public forum like that, and if they refuse to step down, you remove them. The guy was an idiot for resisting and sounded like he'd been rehearsing for weeks with his "Oh my God!" when they tased him. Now he'll go on the Daily Show, write a book and be a blogging superstar for about 6 months.

Whoopee.

WAS.

AWESOME.

Brilliant, brilliant. I love the Neanderthal thinking of the Wash. Times columnist just skewering itself. And Kim Cattrall as a coup de grace?

This is why The Daily Show makes up about 70% of my TV time.

I have no problem with this. See, since impeachment appears to be off the table, the best we can hope for is to so thoroughly disgrace and discredit the entire Repugnant Party before the 08 election so they're electorally wiped out by voters. Then, of course, starts the task of kicking the shit out of the Democrats, but that's another thread.

But with the GOP goal in mind, I can't think of much that's more effective than turning the reins of government over to the batshit-crazy fundamentalist Xtian wing. Let them choose their presidential candidate based on whether he would allow gays to marry at a time when more people are concerned about losing their homes. Let them vet the AG nominee at a time when soldiers continue to meet death in Iraq for no good reason. Let them make the GOP even more of a laughingstock than it already is (a big sloppy thank-you foot tap to you, Larry Craig!).

Then when the Dems mop the floor with them in 2008, we can listen to them whine for another 40 years while they wait for Karl Rove's illegitimate son via a jackal to grow to manhood and remind them how to win elections again.

...can we dispense with this blathering and get to the inevitable?

The talking heads will talk.

Democrats will speak of outrage and incompetence.

Right-wing nutbags will spew their usual lies.

Activists will demand that the funding for the war be pulled or made conditional.

Bush will stick out his monkey chin and posture incoherently.

The Democrats will back down.

And this ghastly political abattoir we've built will run on, shredding thousands of lives with no purpose beyond the ego gratification of a simpleton and his puppet masters.

Gads. We truly are Rome in her last days. Somebody pull the fucking plug already.

1. Bush has indeed left bin Laden alone because he's more valuable popping up from time to time screaming, "Booga booga!" than in a U.S. prison. We will never catch him while Bush is president.

2. Bush will keep us in Iraq as long as he is president, because no one has the balls to cut his funding, and because many of us still buy into the idea that he will act based on reasonable information. Psychopaths don't do that. They listen to the voices.

3. The Democrats will never impeach these monsters. Never. They lack any guts, convictions or sense of duty to the people whom they serve.

4. As utterly bereft of any principled leadership as this country appears to be, it's prime time to bring on the Greens or Independents to challenge not just the Repugnant party candidates in Congress but the Democrats as well. They all deserve a swift boot out the door. Public outrage means this is the best chance in years for some indys to grab some seats.

Now, a plea: Mr. Gore, please, please run. Please.

GoodCelery!, that was mind-bending found poetry, seriously. I have no idea what you were trying to say, but it's got me feeling quite psychedelic.

For all you folks who keep protesting that Craig broke no laws, of course he did. Otherwise there would have been no need for a guilty plea. And in any case, the issue here is not legal. It is the Repugnant Party's boundless, bottomless hypocrisy.

If you are a public figure and build your career on relentlessly savaging the lifestyles and rights of a certain segment of the population, and then are found to be engaging in exactly the lifestyle which you have so viciously condemned, then you deserve to be hounded from our midst. PERIOD. NO EXCEPTIONS.

OK, I'm going to launch an online pool system where we can place bets on which venomously homophobic GOP member of Congress will be next to be involuntarily outed. In fact, I think it would be loads o' fun to also take wagers on the method. Will it be:

a) Caught on amateur video giving it to a trannie in a public park restroom?

b) Trash divers finding credit card statements with $1000s in charges to www.leathercowboysluts.com?

c) Altar boys coming forward to claim they were molested? Oh, silly rabbit, that's the Catholic Church!

d) A spurned, hairy lover coming forward and at the press conference, presenting the Senator's favorite ball gag as exhibit A?

Oh, there is so much fun to be had. Who's with me?