Ah. Via the magic of tea-bagging, “conservatives” have discovered the joys of disruptive political protest, something they’ve been pretending to be better than for what, nine years? Decades? A half century? A century? Forever? Anyhow, nowadays they’re really into it. I don’t think they’re really all that good at it, though, at least insofar as it’s possible to be “good” at it.

As several here have noted, there is a particularly odious op-ed spinning the CIA torture innocence position in today’s New York Times by self professed novelist Joseph Finder.

An update on the cross-country Teabagging from CNN.

Hundreds of people turned out for a series of weekend events as the Tea Party Express cruised across northern Nevada.

The caravan of tour buses, RVs, cargo trucks and SUVs kicked off a cross-country tour Friday in Sacramento, California, and plans on holding events in 33 cities en route to Washington, D.C.

The lack of confidence holding the economy back is on the part of lenders, not buyers. Our financial industry is badly in need of the dose of reality it gifted our economy with – a fall yet in the making.

8 year 8 years 8 years. That’s the sum total of Dick Cheney’s defense for institutionalizing torture. But I wonder how our allies feel about that defense?

Jill Richardson of San Diego is one of our own, a commenter who turned into a blogger (www.lavidalocavore.org), who then got the contract to write the book, Recipe for America.

The new American Dream.

Here is Glenn’s fine piece on the subject, which he also wrote about in a piece entitled “Why the health care debate is so important regardless of one’s view of the ‘public option.’”  Well worth reading, and deserving of all the praise given by Moyers.

The panelists on ABC’s This Week agree that if torture works, we should do it. Why stop at torture?

Via Burnt Orange, while Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) appeared at a MoveOn.org health care event yesterday and reaffirmed his support of the public option, a couple hundred America-hating wingnuts staged a counterprotest.

CEO worship is back in fashion. Time Magazine spouts a plume of perfumey adoration all over Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, a true life story of rags to riches, with no warts on him or the firm.