I would like to thank you profusely for mulishly and obstinately refusing to slink away in shame over the scurrilous and patently false charges that you’re a totally major ass-bandit like myself

;-) … But…But … he’s not homosexual, he just likes having sex with men…

I may be naive (or sane), but I have never understood why these crazy people need to know all this information. What are they looking for? They obviously aren’t looking for real terrorists. Blackmail material? Potty stuff a la J.Edgar to get their jollies? …

We need a candidate like Edwards out on the stump showing some righteous indignation, some moral fury over this stuff.

We need a real red, white and blue speech about patriotism in bright colors and with a loud brass band.

We need some humor to show the public we Dems understand and will not only fight for what is right, but will do it in style.

Isn’t it ironic that Ronald Reagan started as a Dem and learned a lot of his style and rhetoric from FDR and then used that to charm Republicans? It’s strange. Now, for some Gawd awful reason there is mention of Senator Larry Craig considering a switch to Dem. Talk about weird.

I want to see Dems showing the colors and talking proud about America and how we don’t need to be in Iraq to ‘win’ and how we don’t need to be afraid and how we can rationally face our domestic problems and solve them. I want to see that CAN DO attitude front and center, wrapped in the flag and proud.

Sounds corny, doesn’t it? Well, sometimes showing your feelings (as the bloggers here have been with regard to their young children) is just natural.

Americans may be needing some confidence boosting here in the near future and Dem candidates can do that.

Rah rah!

anyone else get the feeling that Larry Craig is starting his campaign to stay in the Senate?

i’m more focussed on his lawyer. whutaguy, arguing for Craig and for Vick at the same time, I believe?!

there are ambulance chasers, but…

slime-chaser? dueling-devil-chaser? nutjob?
scuse, mebbe i’m too tired like Jerry was lassnite…

I must say I disagree with your word choice here—”deranged” should be changed to the more accurate and applicable choice in this case: “Evil”.

Those who wish for mass-deaths to invigorate them are not just crazy–They are malignantly Evil.

anyone else get the feeling that Larry Craig is starting his campaign to stay in the Senate?

My suspicion as to what’s going on behind the scenes: There was a big push when the Foley scandal broke to purge all of the gay Republicans from Capitol Hill. I think a lot of those gay Republicans (I mean the staffers here, not so much the elected officials.) lost their jobs after the 2006 election swept many of their bosses from office, so the furor died down quite a bit. Now you’ve got the Craig scandal. Bob Novak is running around telling people that no one on the Republican side of the Senate was terribly surprised by this scandal, which seems to me to be egging on the purge-faction. I think there was–and is–a significant amount of disgust among the true believers about the number of powerful gay Republicans on Capitol Hill. The fact that Craig lost his scalp so quickly has got to make all of those gay Republicans wonder if they’re next. Those folks–and their sympathizers–want Craig to stay on and fight it out.

The beauty of this fight is that you’ve got two truly despicable groups (virulent homophobes on the one hand, hypocritical Uncle Tom’s on the other) who are thrashing it out. Pass the popcorn.

james @ 123

One of the main difficulties regarding this crew is that we are not a signatory to the Rome Statute and neither is Iraq.

I think it’s important that WE clean up our own mess HERE. For our sake. For our dignity. For our Republic.

I agree. And, the War Crimes Act of 1996, a Republican bill, has just the right wording; it makes violations of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions into federal crimes. The Bushies tried to gut it via the Millitary Commissions Act (MCA) of 2006, but I’m not convinced that they succeeded. Also, many of their crimes occurred prior to the end of 2006.

It doesn’t really matter what the report says:

Next Monday, lawmakers are to hear long-awaited testimony from Gen. David Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker.

President Bush is expected to use Petraeus’s report to boost the argument that his strategy of increasing U.S. troop strength has improved security in Iraq, and that an abrupt reduction would be a disaster.

The same report will also be cited by anti-war Democrats who say military success has little relevance given the failure of Iraqi politicians to stop sectarian fighting and create a viable government.

Since we already know where this report comes from and who’s written it, wouldn’t it be nice if we could eliminate the fiction that it is Petraeus’s Report?