Author: Thomas More

This image was prominently displayed in a comment thread on FreeRepublic about the President’s State of the Union speech.

Words fail me.

If you’re President Bush, and the day before your State of the Union speech, with your approval ratings at an all-time low and still sinking, and the former Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, John Warner, publicly comes out against your “surge” plan in Iraq…

…you must be having a Very Bad Day.

From Glenn Greenwald, who has been covering the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the warrantless wiretapping by the Bush administration:

Feingold began by pointing out that the administration, including Gonzales, has many times accused opponents of the “Terrorist Surveillance Program” — meaning those who insisted that eavesdropping take place within the law, within the FISA framework — of “opposing eavesdropping on terrorists” (I can find 20 examples in 5 minutes of that).

Feingold’s first question – “do you know of any one in the country who opposed eavesdropping on terrorists?”

Gonzales: Sure – if you look at blogs today, there is a lot of concern about all types of eavesdropping, who don’t want us eavesdropping at all.

Feingold: Do you know anyone in government who ever took that position?

Gonzales: No, but that is not what I said.

Feingold: It is a disgrace and disservice to your office and the President to have accused people on this Committee of opposing eavesdropping on terrorists.

Gonzales: I didn’t have you in mind or anyone on the Committee when I referred to people who oppose eavesdropping on terrorists. Perish the thought.

Feingold: Oh, well it’s nice that you didn’t have us “in your mind” when making those accusations, but given that you and the President were running around the country accusing people of opposing eavesdropping on terrorists in the middle of an election, the fact that you didn’t have Congressional Democrats in “mind” isn’t significant. Your intent was to make people think that anyone who opposed the “TSP” did not want to eavesdrop on terrorists, even though that was false. No Democrats oppose eavesdropping on terrorists.

Gonzales: I wasn’t referring to Democrats.

So, apparently, all those speeches Bush officials and their supporters have spent the last year giving accusing people of opposing eavesdropping on terrorists, and all the television commercials making the same accusations throughout the months leading up to the election, were not about Democrats at all, but were about random bloggers who are against all eavesdropping. Where? Maybe on Smirking Chimp and Democratic Underground. That is who they meant when they were talking about opposing eavesdropping on Osama bin Laden. They didn’t mean Democrats in Congress. The entire campaign and all of those accusations were directed only to the bloggers who don’t want them eavesdropping at all.

I confess to finding that exchange deeply revolting though satisfying at the same time. Can’t they just all yield all of their time to Feingold?

Damn I wish that man was running for President.

Unintentionally hilarious FreeRepublic quote of the week, on a thread denouncing the idea of ending “don’t ask, don’t tell”:

“I am amazed at the 24/7 obsession that these people have with sexual activity.”

Mind you, this is a site that has a permanent category called “Homosexualagenda.”

Memo to all the gay-hating troglodytes on FreeRepublic:

I’m not the one defining myself by my sexuality. I’m not the one obsessed with sex. I’m not the one calling people names based on who they love.

You are.

Bill O’Reilly’s latest fascination is having a “body language expert” on each week to “analyze” newsmakers and give us “insights.” Insights like that Rosie O’Donnell really doesn’t like Donald Trump – not one bit.

Tonight, she was asked to watch video of (wait for it) Saddam’s execution.

She proclaimed that just before the hanging Saddam “experienced anxiety.”

“We are going in the wrong direction. We should extend the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy to the civilian sector as well.”

-during a discussion of lifting the ban on gays serving in the U.S. military

Gerald Ford seems to be being praised mainly for his wonderful decision to pardon Richard “I am not a crook!” Nixon at the close of Watergate.

I wonder, though, if Nixon had been tried and convicted, whether we might have been spared imperial presidencies such as that of George W. Bush. Maybe these men might not have thought that they were above the law, that they were invincible.

Maybe.

The crapweasel right-wing weblogs are masturbating furiously over Saddam’s hanging. Sort of reminds me of how furiously they masturbated when we killed Saddam’s sons.

The question is, who has to die next to satisfy their itch?

UPDATE: I guess I’m not the only person with this take on things. Funny, if sad.

Far from being a “fine mom,” Mary Cheney is behaving on the level of an animal being bred for its offspring, so she and her partner in delusion can selfishly continue playing “pretend family.”

A Freeper’s head explodes when George W. Bush says Mary Cheney will be a “fine mom.” Instead, clearly, she’s closer to an animal that can still play “pretend family.” Sort of like a mentally-ill horse with a Play-Doh set.