The link to the Howard Kurtz column goes to a column about the coverage of Thompson's wife. This is the column I think Glenn meant to link to: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/06/05/BL2007060500451.html

1) George W. Bush like baseball.

That's as long as the list gets.

BTW, when he owned a baseball team, he had no problem with spending tax money to pay for his team's stadium.

Like all good Republicans, he has principles*.

*sometimes

(specifically, principles can be dropped in times when they don't help him and his cronies---see rule of law/ Libby, accountability of the poor/ rich and powerful, etc).

Bob Barr and Bruce Fein (the latter more so) have been consistent in their opposition to attempts by the Bush Team to circumvent the Constitution. They have been consistent right from the start. Other passengers got on board along the way but, I think, will quite readily get off if a new conservative leader is chosen in the next primary. The WSJ editorial board has not yet picked up the gauntlet thrown down by the NRO crowd. The NRO boys are fighting mad: with words that is. No one is joining up to go to Iraq!

Not only was Chaffee booted last November, he was also Chafee, not Chaffee.

Anonymous @1042am:

http://logicalnegativism.blogspot.com/2006/06/hes-not-leaving.html

Take careful note of the DATE.

And finally to Anonymous at 9:29am, Not only did Chafee NOT vote for Kerry, he also did NOT block the Bolton confirmation:

http://www.slate.com/id/2118601/

...Chafee fell short even of Voinovich's hesitations. He too recited some of Bolton's many shortcomings—his intimidation of intelligence analysts who dared disagree with him, the dismal signal his appointment will send to the world—but ended by endorsing the nominee. Bolton had testified he would follow the president's instructions, to work with Congress and the committee. "I want to take him at his word," Chafee proclaimed.

I mean, geez, there's enough revisionism going on around here...when it's this easy to prove, we should prove it.

I beg to differ. I am a classic liberal. The kind of liberal that we had before the socialists made the word "liberal" a cuss word and all decent liberals had to start calling themselves progressives; or later, libertarian. I just go a step further into Robardianism and regretfully conclude that a modern nation-state can not be controlled and must be done away with at some point in time.

These labels mean little in the upcoming election cycle, however --- the Democratic Party has the rare chance to once again become the "big-tent" it was and perhaps forge a ruling coalition that will last for a generation. But, I wager they will blow the chance by letting 20 years of frustration out as hate --- and convince the huge amount of people who call themselves conservatives that the Democratic party is not for them.

I hope history shows me to be wrong.

Instead of waiting, how about reading. As in, the links on the right hand side of the page (probably yesterday). Links to all kinds of MSM stories about that.

Difference: No one here is defending him, except for the (one would hope) normal "innocent-until-proven-guilty" statements. (You know, the foundation of our justice system that was thrown away with habeas corpus by Bush.) How about the fact that Libby was found guilty by a jury and "conservatives" are still whining that he was treated "unfairly"?

What's the matter? Silence not enough for you? Of course not. One of your buddies gets indicted, and you're all shouting and screaming about his innocence even if you know nothing. You seem to expect shouting.

So watch us not shout or scream, about either guilt or innocence, until the verdict is in.

Grow up.

a bit off topic, but ...

No. Completely off-topic. And irrelevant to the issue at hand.

Do you have something to contribute, or are you just desperate to change the topic from the ruination of the Elephants?

I think one tremendously positive thing Bush Jr. may have done is to have finally ended America's romantic involvement with the putrid rotting legacy of the right wing, pseudo-revolutionary "Reagan revolution."

They can't get away from it.

The Reaganites and the post-Reaganites promised that their ideas, their plans, their schemes would work if only given a chance.

Well, They Got Their Chance.

They had absolute, unchallenged power. The ultra-right wing nut squad finally got their hands on the Presidency, the Supreme Court, the Congress, a majority of State Governorships, I believe a majority of State Legislatures.

They had untrammeled worship directed at them from the major news media. The so-called mainstream news media sat on stories of law-breaking by the President and endlessly promoted reporters, pundits, and editorials which fawned over the President and his insane squad's looniest ideas.

They had their hands on everything which before they had promised had they ever gotten their hands on, they would have set everything 'right'.

And after having possessed maximal, boundless, unchallenged power, they failed.

They threw their agenda hard against the American public, and the public bought it, by a hair, for a moment. But then the globby mass started to unstick itself from the public, and as it slowly gooped its way to the ground, it left a fetid slime trail which the public recognized as dead and offensive matter.

Even their idiotic grassroots followers know that they were betrayed -- the IRS still exists, the Bible isn't back in school, hip hop music still sounds on the airwaves, the Mexicans are still here...

...and worst of all, these bold and beautiful Neo-Fascist Warriors led a majestic war of nobility and tanned and bronzed chests which broke out in the pathetic stink-fest it now is, and the one, the only, the last remaining justification for their claims to Warrior Leadership School washed down the drain.

The Republicans revealed themselves to be failures in the arena of war and martial values. And one good thing we know about popular fascist movements is when they are revealed for their military weakness, their vaunted authoritarian majesty vanishes.

Ha. Ha. Ha. Suffer in your shame and humiliation, O Ye Warriors Who Would Not Serve.

WORST OF ALL: THEY CAN'T BLAME A-N-Y-O-N-E ELSE.

They had absolute, total, unquestioned power. And they were rejected. They were Reagan II, same ideas, twice the steroids, none of the tranquilizers.

And they just hate it. They can't conceive of it. Why aren't people loving them? They had it all!! They were supposed to be loved, to be strong forever!! Everyone hates liberals!! Everyone loves conservatives!! How can they not like us anymore?

Oh, don't get me wrong. There will be a right wing in this country. There may be even the beginnings of a new popular fascist movement among the most-betrayed feeling grassroots right wingers who are obsessed with "illegal immigrants" when it means "brown" and who are actually working class people deeply betrayed by their elites who outsourced their bright futures.

But no longer can they play this game that, "Well, our ideas and bright and brilliant and beautiful and will make America that happy land of the 1920s or 1950s again, if only we had power."

They had power. They had ultimate power. They had complete power. And they tried every one of their crazy ideas and failed openly, publicly, embarassingly.

Enjoy it. It couldn't happen to a worse group of cruel, heartless pseudo-patriots.