The odds of a supreme court opening in the next year are pretty slim- and once we get past Christmas or so- dems aren’t gonna let Bush make a pick- it’s too late. Hatch is evil- but he ain’t stoopid.

The Bush administration is effectively over- bout the only think left to do is to preside over the defeat in Iraq.

I’d like to think they are going to spend the rest of their time avoiding prosecution but I fear they have one major task left to do- attack Iran.

Something tells me Baird will be out of a job in a couple years.

Brisingamen @ 209

Chills and goosebumps! Sounds like lots of folks have been talking over unsecured cellphones or cordless phones. Or maybe Deep Modem works for the NSA?

That is a little disconcerting. …

If there are either no elections, or if they got the bugs worked out from the 2006 elections so they feel relatively certain of victory even if we’re allowed to think we’re voting, then Jeb might give it a whirl. …

Consider that the 2000 presidential election in Florida has a curious connectin from JEB to an Irish company (which owned Sequoia electronic voting machines at that time) to the ‘hanging chads’.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4994

Bustednuckles @ 125

That is enough equipment for an entire army.
Gone.
Paid for by you and me.

Does anyone know what “flavor” of Kalashnikov is being diverted? Who are the arms dealers involved?

I’m curious, why does the US military have 100,000 AK-47s? It certainly isn’t standard US military issue.

CC @166 – yeah, how stupid does the Idaho Statesman look now? They are doing a big piece on the “rumors” surrounding our Senior Senator, and they miss an arrest TWO FREAKING MONTHS AGO? Nice job, there.

You just can’t get a man to say something he’s being paid not to say.

Perhaps the Dog & Pony Show includes giving the Rep. a ‘brick’ of cash from the Billions we sent over there.

If such a thing happened they should bring it back, take pictures and show it to the press to confirm the military is corrupt.

We need some libertarian dems for the mountain states.

Yep, precisely what I’ve been saying for about 10 years.

They can’t be racists or White Supremacists or anything crazy like that, but they can be small-government, low-taxes types.

here’s what’s totally bizzare about that youtube;

biard says “they are standing up against al qaeda”

what is wrong with this guy?, these are insurgents that want America out of their country…this guy is repeating the bush lines like he has been zombified and is now a mariontte

They probably just can’t believe the military (who are supposed to be non-partisan) would lie to them this way.

War is pretty messy and dangerous and it’s probably impossible for any civilian going over there to get an idea of what’s really going on. It’s like trying to track all the ‘lost’ money and weapons…impossible.

We can only hope Baird faces a serious contender in the primaries. It sounds like he could be smacked down.

I think he needs a little re-education, but not a great deal of opposition. IMO we should focus on flipping R seats to D seats this election.

Still, isn’t it amazing how these people (freshmen mostly I suppose) believe all the crap this administration and it’s military tells them. In light of how it’s been demonstrated that the administration has lied consistently and constantly since they were appointed it’s a wonder anybody believes them when they sneeze.

Why don’t these “winning in Iraq” people get the fact that you can’t “win” an occupation.

Since studies show Al Qaeda is stronger and our enemies are growing, rather than shrinking, it’s clear we are losing and the only way to avoid a complete loss is to change our strategy — beginning with leaving Iraq.

Avoid losing, leave Iraq!