I distinctly remember one of the early TV reports about this incident mentioned in passing that there were 3 people in the hunting party and the 3rd person was a female. That actually resonated with me but my once dirty mind chose instead to assume she must have been some flunky who was there to wait on Cheney and Whittington hand and foot. I think it's interesting as hell though that up until now I haven't heard any other mention of there even being 3 people in the hunting party. I say "up until now" because now there's a little ripple or two going thru the blogosphere that there was a female in the hunting party, she was there as Cheney's guest, and she's Pamela Willeford, our ambassador to Switzerland. I don't care if it was Zippy the Chimp in drag ... I can't wipe the snarky little grin off my face.

With apologies to Zippy, I'm sure Fox will be all over this like ugly on an ape.

I've always been under the impression that "homosexual sodomy" has been around for just as long as heterosexual sex yet according to Scalia it wasn't a fundamental right when the constitution was written. So we have two things that have been around for a lot longer than this country's been around but only one gets the coveted status of "fundamental right". I thought the Constitution was supposed to preserve freedom, not take it away. Scalia's narrow-mindedness is almost breathtaking and knowing Alito will likely be just as disrespectful of individual rights should be profoundly unsettling to all of us idiots who think that the Founding Fathers never intended the Constitution to be cast in concrete.

I'm such a pathetic human being that I actually laughed out loud when I heard the first mention of this on TV last night. If that's not bad enough, when they said it happened while they were quail hunting, I couldn't get the picture of Dan Quayle out of my head.

Anything and everything that's negative is a big secret in this administration so no one should be surprised that the White House sat on this story until a Texas newspaper reported it. It wouldn't surprise me if all the rabid neocon loyalists out there found a way to blame Bill Clinton for this.

In the unlikely event someone can get Bush to comment about Brown's testimony, he'll probably mumble something about how unfortunate it is that he wouldn't admit to his own incompetence and then he'll no doubt accuse poor Brownie of aiding and abetting hurricanes.

Not only did Bush get the name of the building wrong (back then it was the Library Tower, not Liberty Tower) but he also stated that the planning for this thwarted "terror plot" began in October 2001 and involved shoe bombs that would have been used to blow the cockpit door(s) open. 'Scuse me, but at the time this alleged plot was foiled a good swift kick would have opened a cockpit door because the airlines hadn't even started reinforcing them yet. Next he'll be telling us the shoe bombs were going to be used to blow everybody's feet off so they couldn't run away.

Just when I thought there was nothing they could do that would surprise me anymore, they go and put Tom DeLay on the House committee in charge of handing out (and laundering?) money and the committee that's overseeing the Justice Department's investigation of a bribery scandal that he's knee-deep in. Isn't it good to know that the Republicans' commitment to Congressional reform is as phony as everything else they say or do.

I guess it could have been worse - they could have also found him a seat on the Ethics Committee. Oh wait, I don't think they even meet anymore. Well, you gotta hand it to the Republicans, they just raised hubris to a new level. (Or maybe the Republican leadership figures they'd better start making nice with Mr. DeLay or he'll implicate them when his Abramoff indictment finally arrives.)

Under the Bush administration, words like that delivered from the pulpit would probably result in your getting a letter from the IRS threatening to take your tax-exempt status away.

George Bush was at Coretta Scott-King's funeral for the same reason that he paid his "respects" to Rosa Parks. It was a photo-op, nothing more, nothing less. If he thought he was going to be in one of his "immune from criticism" zones because it was a funeral, then he obviously doesn't know a thing about Baptist funerals. When I'm not outraged at some of the racist posts I've seen from the Bushies who are up in arms about Rev. Lowery's remarks, I'm amused at their complete indignation. Hey, those of us who watched the State of the Union address had to listen to 60 minutes of George Bush telling one lie after another. What's so terrible about George Bush having to listen to about 60 seconds of truth from Rev. Lowery?

Bush and Cheney have been saying for years that anyone who disagrees with just about anything they say or do is aiding and abetting the enemy. I'm sure parrotting their words was a whole lot easier for Sen. Chambliss than having to formulate an indpendent thought or two and then have to articulate it. Saxby want a cracker?

According to Raw Story, "The first ballot to replace former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) was invalidated after the vote tally included more congressmembers than were eligible to vote." I'll bet the fools were using Diebold equipment.