Blue Texan

I think 2008 is going to be a fabulous year for the Republican Party. -- The Commander Guy, 3/13/08 That giant sucking sound you heard last night was a GOP in its last throes getting punked in the reddest of the red: In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a

But Algore is like sooooo totally fat and drives a car and has a big house! The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached a record high, according to the latest figures, renewing fears that climate change could begin to slide out of control. Scientists at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii say that CO2 levels in the atmosphere now stand at 387 parts per million (ppm), up almost

The GOP's nightmare year just got a hell of a lot worse: Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr is expected to announce that he's running for president as a Libertarian. His candidacy would be a wild card in the White House race that many believe would hurt Republican Sen. John McCain. This, despite the fact that the GOP brass begged Barr not to run.

From ABC News: For the first time this campaign season, Barack Obama has surpassed Hillary Clinton's support among superdelegates, according to the ABC News delegate estimate. Sen. Obama, D-Ill., picked up two superdelegates this morning giving him a new metric to tout in addition to his current commanding leads in pledged delegates, popular votes, states won, and money raised. Rep.

he wingnuts and fundies are getting warmed up for the general. (h/t Open Left): Some Hoosier voters also received an automated phone call -- illegal in Indiana -- Monday from an organization identified as the National Right to Life political action committee. The call urges the listener not to vote for Obama and claims he will legalize "partial-birth abortion" and allow "abortion on demand."

Last time we heard from Michael Yon, he was saying that We've Always Been Winning in Eurasia Iraq. Today, he ups the ante.

When you look up the word "clusterfuck" in the dictionary, it says "see Terror, War On." Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel bases deep inside Iraq in a three-hour overnight operation, rebel officials said today. The aircraft attacked Iraq's Qandil region, dozens of miles from the border with Turkey, the spokesman Ahmed Danas claimed. Bombers also hit 10 other sites near the northern Iraqi towns of Khnezah and Lowlan close to the Iranian

Of course the Anchor Baby and her minions are blathering on and on about Jeremiah Wright. They desperately want to change the subject. Wouldn't you, if your party presided over this debacle? The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September. How are they going to message this?

Damn you, Rev. Wright! Four US soldiers have been killed along with scores of militants following two days of fighting in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City and rocket fire elsewhere in the capital. The latest casualties, announced yesterday, make April the deadliest month in Iraq for the US military since last September, with at least 44 soldiers dying, according to a toll by the Associated Press.

Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria calls it "the most radical idea put forward by a major candidate for the presidency in 25 years."