Republicans

So it's Nephew Weekend for me (yeah!) and we're sitting here watching The Day the Earth Stood Still (What is it about 50s movies that make them so perfect for young kids? No swearing, gratuitious violence or sex, that's what). I'm trying to teach him about truth and lies. He's only 3, but he's bright and chatty and I think he's asked me "Why?" about 1 million times today. So I think he's ready for "advanced" concepts like the difference between truth and lies. Read below the fold...

This just beats all. Who is this, and why does she hate women so? Read below the fold...

WSJ "Opinion Journal" today:
"Democrats and Cannibals
The Kos kids try but fail to devour party moderates."
BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Friday, August 17, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
And what else do we know 'bout good ol' Henry Cuellar? Read below the fold...

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Hat tip to DailyKos, where the diarist "Free Exchange On Campus" provided the quotes below: Read below the fold...

The Charlotte Observer:

Coy Privette, a retired Baptist pastor, conservative lawmaker and outspoken advocate for Christian groups, was charged Thursday with paying a prostitute for sex acts.

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Case closed, I'd say. Barbara Jordan on impeachment (via the Bra'ed One). It's a case study for today's Democrats on how to talk about the issue, so go read the whole, wonderful thing. I'm going to pull out quotes on the legal rationale: Read below the fold...

Yikes (via Rondam):

Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack.

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Via that Rubber Hose guy (Cliff Schecter (Blue Tide Rising))), this would be laughable if it weren't... well, so extremely laughable:

I, _______________, promise never to abandon my present Republican Party affiliation for the purpose of political gain. ...

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Just a passing fancy. Even though the NSA does bug everyone including Aunt Molly, and ratfucking and blackmail are Republican signature moves. Read below the fold...

Many have commmented on Sara Taylor's alas, no longer remarkable views on oath-taking, but nobody, so far as I know, has called it out for what it is. Here's the transcript of Leahy and Taylor's exchange via Big Orange:

LEAHY: And then you said, I took an oath to the President, and I take that oath very seriously. Did you mean, perhaps, you took an oath to the Constitution?

TAYLOR: Uh, I, uh, yes, you're correct, I took an oath to the Constitution. Uh, but, what--

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Via Andrew Sullivan, Jeanette Maier, whose small business Senator David Vitter (R-Canal Street Brothel) patronized, tells her story: Read below the fold...

Via the fair and balanced Ana Marie, this saccharine little vignette:

One of the Romney family's 1980s routines had been to gather in Mitt and Ann's bedroom each night to say their prayers together. Another family dog from that era, a yellow Labrador named McKenzie, would join them, putting her paws up on the bed in mock prayer, Ann told the Globe.

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It really is a disturbing trend.

I mean, strap your dog on top of your car? Sure, Seanus is in a carrier, but Jeebus, even so. Whoever heard of such a thing?

But did I call my shot about Romney being "hinky", or what? Read below the fold...