I had barely read it when gag reflex kicked in big time. If there is one figure in the history of American politics who can be said to have lowered the discourse at each and every step on his tenure, it is George-fucking-Bush.

He has demeaned the office of presidency, nearly destroyed the Department of Justice with his fawning and corrupt lapdog Alberto Gonzales, struck down the Great Writ, turned our government into a den of thieves and torturers, and disgraced the Republican Party for all time.

Compared to the imbecile Bush, Richard Milhous Nixon is a paragon of virtue.

Just what kind of Kool-Aid swilling moron is this Townsend woman, anyway????

What a chickenshit!! He talks big, but like all those Republican creeps he's just a dickless wonder.

It does end the speculation, however:

Q. Was the First Imbecile a hands-on criminal violator of national security, or was he just the unconscious idiot he appears to be??

A. He may be an unconscious idiot . . . but he was in on the crime AND the cover-up.

Can Nancy put that impeachment thingy back on the table now??

Not so fast, dude. Who says Congress has to approve anybody Bush nominates???? Impeach Cheney, don't confirm any replacement, then impeach Bush. Or the other way around. I'd actually rather like seeing Cheney in the Oval Office. It would eliminate the idiot middle man we've had for the last 6 years, and the odds of Cheney having the Big Coronary are pretty damn good . . . ergo . . . instant elevation of the Speaker of the House.

Which is another damn fine reason to replace Pelosi with Kucinich or Barney Frank or somebody marginally competent.

Two words: Thomas Pynchon.

That said, something about Hillary reminds me of the folks in the First Class cabins on the Titanic: Sink? It wouldn't DARE sink!

The very idea of the First Imbecile agreeing to something in principle is truly, if unintentinally, hilarious. Fortunately, the way I understand it, his little agreement does not have the force of law behind it. Congress must ratify treaties before they become law.

Memo to George: YOU broke it; YOU bought it. It's your legacy, fool. Don't try to pass the tab on to us.

How many military bases in foreign countries do the Chinese have, one might ask?? The Russians? The North Koreans?? The Iranians. The Venezuelans? The Syrians? How come all the bad guys only have their troops in their own country??? Just askin' . . .

The late Norman Mailer proposed an analogy where the United States was a crazed paranoid who would wander the neighborhood late at night shitting on peoples' lawns and ranting about how everyone was out to get him! That's us.

Welcome to the American Empire/Nightmare.

Were. " . . . if Mattie Ross were after his tail . . ."

didn't inhale . . . and he didn't have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky . . . and he's still working on what the definition of is is.

Put it in a sock, Bill.

but the next time I need the opinion of some senile old coot who still thinks Viet Nam was a good idea, I'll call ya. In the meantime, pipe down please, UFC's on the Tube.

is apparently so unfamiliar with that Bible he was unable to distill Christ's take on capital punishment when asked: What would Jesus do?

He rambled incoherently about how many folks he had fried as governor, then ducked the actual question. When pressed on the issue, he opined that Jesus was too smart to run for office.

Mike - if you look in that big book says Bible on it, you might note the part where Jesus says . . . and I quote the divinely inspired word of God here, asshole:

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

just another fucking liar.

So, let me get this straight --- a draft-dodging coward who relied upon five separate deferments to avoid putting his fat ass in harm's way during Vietnam; a drunk-driving college flunk-out with seriously impaired hairline; a fat old man with a bum ticker who used to stand on stage while his skank wife twirled flaming batons and then douse them in a coffee can full of water wants to question OTHER PEOPLE'S MASCULINITY.

What a flaming asshole.

A Federal judge had ordered the CIA to produce the tapes. The CIA lied and said they didn't exist . . . so, for starters . . . we have obstruction of justice, perjury and/or lying to a Federal official, conspiracy, destruction of evidence, and of course, the underlying water-boarding . . . which is felony assault and arguably attempted murder.

Keep in mind when hearing water-boarding defenders (like Rudy and Romney) that post-WWII we HUNG Japanese soldiers who had water-boarded US POW's.

Send the stupid asshole to Iraq, stationed outside the Green Zone. Or maybe to the Tribal Areas in Pakistan, or the poppy-growing region of Afghanistan.

Venezuela, maybe?

Omigod - for crying out loud, Camille:

secular humanism has failed . . . the avant-garde is dead . . . liberals must start acknowledging the impoverished culture that my 1960s generation has left to the young . . . atheism alone is a rotting corpse. I substitute art and nature for God -- the grandeur of man and the vast mystery of the universe.

How does secularism not include the physical world - that's exactly what it means ya stupid bitch. Unwrapping the vast mystery of the universe is a secular pursuit.

"I substitute art and nature for God . . ." WOW . . . you are so fucking awesome, you go girl!!!!

Cause I have a feeling that given the choice of (1) democratic society with less concentration of income or (2) non-democratic society with concentratiion of income, the smart money will be betting on #2.

Can we have a roll-call vote in the Congress, please?????