"This program has been one of the most successful intelligence efforts in American history," Bush added proudly.

Okay, so let's sum up here. Among an endless stream of very public failures that the Bush Administration has produced, Bush claims that one effort is one of the most successful in American history. However, no one can actually verify this "success," since the whole project is secret.

Bush's only example of success he can point to is one that is secret. Does that strike anyone else as odd? Kinda reminds me of the nerd in high school who claimed to have had sex with several beautiful models who, alas, live in foreign countries and cannot be contacted.

I understand Tina Brown's book is apt to be quite good. That's not the point.

The point is why on earth Salon adds a blog about an author plugging her book? There are lots of authors out there plugging books. Will each one get their own blog on Salon? Hell, I wrote a book one time. Where's my Salon blog?

Honestly, I find this more offensive than all the Paris Hilton stories combined.

What's such a big deal about calling a spade a spade? Yes, Pace is incompetent. The reasons why he's incompetent are manifold. Reid should have stood by his assessment and listed off the reasons.

But that would be too offensive to the status quo for our timid Democrats, wouldn't it?

This aggression will not stand, man.

Particularly this line:

And I think the president will have the same mind-set when he returns to Texas at the end of his presidency.

We need to eliminate this faulty mindset in our worst president ever, by bringing him up on criminal charges that will keep him either in court or in prison for the rest of his life.

RealName is part of a large movement of one-time Bush supporters, all of whom are finding themselves in the exact same predicament. They're realizing that, as a direct consequence of their poor judgment, our country (which they occasionally give lip service to loving) has suffered more damage than any enemy we have today could ever have conceived of. That is, every day they wake up in the morning, every newspaper headline in the world screams at them "I told you so!"

Keep in mind, most people voted for Bush due to a flawed, overly simplistic, manichean belief that the world is divided between good and evil. Because the mind of the average Bush supporter (which includes RealName) cannot accommodate nuance, they are left with no other conclusion than that they have aided and abetted evil, if not being actually evil themselves. This, in turn, creates a cognitive dissonance that, in a great many, compels them to go online, search out comments made by Bush's opponents, and ridicule them in a vacuous, pointless manner that would make an 8-year-old blush.

I visit a fair number of right wing blogs, and I'm here to tell you, this phenomenon is very wide spread. RealName, Tiberius and Elephantman are just our local representatives of an intellectual bankruptcy that is rife throughout the country.

von Spakovsky appears to have lied to Congress under oath. Imagine, what if not only does he not get the position, but he also gets done for perjury in the process?

Stevio, unlike lemmings, these republicans are dragging us over the cliff with them.

I only wish the republican rhetoric of personal responsibility, hollow though it may be, could be legally enforced. That way, we could increase the tax debt of all Bush supporters to pay for the damage Bush has done. We could collect funds from Bush supporters to compensate the Iraqis for what we have done to their country. I'm thinking, if Republicans were to pay, say, 75% tax for a while, we could clean up New Orleans, address climate change, and refocus our foreign policy on goals that actually, you know, provide benefit. At the same time, republicans can feel that they are meeting their own personal responsibility and making amends for their errors, so that they can one day return to the fold of respectable Americans. This could be a win-win, if only republicans actually believed in what they say.