Republicans

Must have missed this one. NPR not teh suck on this one. Steve Curwood from Living on Earth" Read below the fold...

WaPo:

Department of Veterans Affairs doctors are furious over a recent decision by the Pentagon to block their access to medical information needed to treat severely injured troops arriving at VA hospitals from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Because those two little letters mean so much; like calling us by our right names. Froomkin called Politico's interview with Turd Blossom "predictably fawning", so I had to go read it, and amidst the teabagging found this:

Q.What are you doing differently in your job, substantively or stylistically, in 2007 compared with 2006, before the election?

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But apparently his handlers have concerns:

Rudolph W. Giuliana learned that lesson again yesterday when a "vulnerability study," including warnings about his "weirdness factor" and other perceived liabilities, surfaced from his second campaign for New York mayor, 14 years ago.

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If I may take a fraction of your precious attention--consumed as your attention must be by the latest extremely accurate coverage of the late, great Anna Nicole Smith's hatred of Catholics--I'd like to talk about torture. Vanity Fair: Read below the fold...

Yes, Denny the Hutt is still in action, and apparently believes he's a draw for Republican candidates. No doubt he is.

[Hastert] recently endorsed Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination, signaling that he may play a public role in the former Massachusetts governor's campaign, at least in helping court Chicago-area donors.

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Republicans block Iraq war debate. So, what are the anti-Democrats afraid of?

Of course, they're all afraid of actual military service, for themselves or their kids, we know that ("other priorities"), but I meant, but why would the anti-Democrats be nervous about going on the record and giving Bush's "new way forward" an "up-or-down" vote of confidence? Read below the fold...

The Last Honest Man votes with Republicans not to debate Iraq.

Let's just not talk about it, OK?

What cowards Republicans are. Wusses, all of 'em. Starts with the whole chickenhawk thing, ends with them not even being willing to stand up to defend their own trillion-dollar Clusterfuck. Damn pitiful.

NOTE Oh, and Senator Warner voted against his own resolution. Snicker. So much for being Bipartisan: Read below the fold...

Sweet Jeebus, the Senate anti-Democrats are going to filibuster the Iraq resolutions? Even their own?

What are they so afraid of?

What's wrong with a debate on the merits?

And, whatever happened to "up or down" votes? Read below the fold...

The delusional, fascist rump of the Republican Partei--please, please, can we start calling them The Rump instead of The Base--are purging and surging (and binging on Cheetohs). Hugh Hewitt [DCOW] has posted a pledge: Read below the fold...

[C&L readers, welcome! The United Arab Emirates post you expected is here.]

AP:

LARRY MARGASAK
The House on Friday overhauled the board supervising its teenage pages, responding to a scandal that left youngsters vulnerable to a lawmaker's sexual come-ons and helped Democrats win control of Congress.

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Confession time...

In 2006, I ran for the US House against an unholy a far-right DINO and lost in the Primary. I drop the phrase, "I placed second in a three-way race", to either joke-it or to save face--it could be either. In reality, the incumbent got 86.2%, I got 10.0% and Mr.Last Place got 3.8%. Read below the fold...

The excellent Pachacutec on ICE concentration camps for children who, having been born here, are US citizens.

See, it can happen here.

And it can happen to you.

Oh, wait. They're brown-colored. Sorry. Forget I posted. Read below the fold...

It was really wrong of me to ask whether all the megachurch "pastors" gay, or only some of them. Christianists, can you ever forgive me? Because some of the megachuch pastors are child abusers, too (via memeorandum): Read below the fold...

What a surprise:

Featured in the video are four generals and three colonels, including Maj. Gen. Jack Catton Jr., who is on active duty at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. Catton was investigated by the Air Force last spring after he sent an e-mail from his work account urging Air Force Academy graduates to contribute to a Republican candidate for Congress.

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