but they will call it Iraqis drop dead day. And they will be right.

Shouldn't we try to be MORE responsible than George Bush, the least responsible president in history?

If you REALLY want to freak out the alleged 'scary, armed white men,' don't go on this picnic. Instead, volunteer for duty in Iraq. After all, we wrecked their country, so aren't we obliged to try to put their country back together again?

Nothing would scare the conservatives more than a morally responsible and courageous left, a left determined to do the right thing rather than the easy thing. Instead, we just have this 'fruity' playtime left.

because the Democratic party desperately needs new competition and new blood. For too long the national Democratic party has been nothing more than a lobbying front for tired and timid incumbents.

But with every blogger in the land against him, I'm afraid Joe Lieberman is probably a shoo-in. Imagine, for instance, fevered Internet activists setting up their own phone banks to unload their fantasies of Israeli domination on hapless Connecticut voters. Can we say 'backfire,' anyone?

Ned Lamont cannot hope to win just by being the darling of the netroots. If that's all he's got going for himself, then he will surely lose. He needs to present himself as a actual, viable, serious senatorial candidate to Connecticut voters. No matter how much the netroots might hate Joe Lieberman, being anyone but Lieberman isn't going to win it for Lamont.

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Be sure to be wearing underwear in case one decides to fly up your shorts.

...whether it's from the left or the right.

It's not everybody, not by a long shot, but the stupidest people have a way of shouting down the rest. It happens in high schools, small towns, and entire countries (Germany, 1932-45). Now it's happening on the Internet.

This is just Mob Science 101.

You wonder why people don't compliment the Republican for marrying the liberal.

but looking closer I guess he did dig up his wings.

God bless IE 7 beta: it has a zoom function, so I can read and see the comics now.

Why can't the Head dance? He's got arms coming out of his jaw, so maybe he's got little feet under his neck.

that in the run up to the Iraq war, we were told that the president's belligerent talk was just a ruse to make Saddam mind the inspectors. Then suddenly we were told that we had to invade, otherwise all of the president's tough talk would mean nothing.

They are trying to pull the same shit here. Will we be dumb enough to fall for it again?

It's a failure even by the standards of the Bush administration. The Iraq war sunk their poll ratings and they've put the oil supply in danger. They've increased turmoil in the ME and in the end we may have to pull out of the ME completely--so much for the 'permanent' bases.

Now they are desperately searching for a way out of the mess they've created. Like criminals holed up in a bank, they are starting to think that blasting their way out may be the best way to go. They might go down, but at least they'll go out in glory.

The real problem is the senile tendency of the left wing to keep giving backhanded credit to the right wing. The right wing is NOT, as the clownish Chomsky left likes to claim, super competent, all powerful, and malevolently successful at securing our prosperity, our oil supplies, and our security.

It was the LIBERAL wing of the US that was successful at securing our material prosperity and standing in the world, not the right wing. It was FDR who brought us to unprecedented prosperity and to being the world's leading power. The Bushies come from a segment of American politics that hated FDR and wants to refute all of his works: SS, the UN, maybe even rural electrification. Now the world that FDR made is under threat from the Bushies.

The Bushies are just fuckups and any objective observer can see that. Unfortunately, the left wing can't see it, because they keep seeing the US government in Evil Daddy terms: as a daddy who may be cold, distant and evil, but who in the end somehow manages to provide his guilt ridden kids with comfortable trust funds. This is, to say the least, a conflicted and contradictory view of the US.

When asked why there weren't and aren't enough troops in Iraq to maintain order, he blames the generals, saying that he puts in the number of troops that the generals ask for.

Imagine if Harry Truman had been like George Bush. He would have nuked China and then whined, "But MacArthur told me to!"

Imagine if Abraham Lincoln had been like George Bush. He would have lost the South and then whined, "But I only did what General McClellan told me to do!"

He's already pre-blamed the coming failure of the war on the Iraqi people. Everything in Iraq depends not at all on what we Americans do, but on what Iraqi insurgents, tribal leaders, and religious fanatics do. IOW, he is putting our fate and our credibility in the world in the hands of other people--not to mention the lives of our volunteers and the lives of untold Iraqis. This is about as irresponsible as a president can ever get.

...our country would be a totally different place if it existed at all, if every time there were some critics... we tossed in the towel.

Firing Rumsfeld wouldn't be 'tossing in the towel.' Lincoln didn't 'toss in the towel' when he got rid of General McClellan. The US won the cold war just fine without the services of Douglas MacArthur.

Good leaders focus on the goal, not on the 'critics.' Far from being resolute, George Bush is simply being weak when he refuses to fire Rumsfeld.