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Russ Feingold (D-WI) is making a lot of sense about Iraq. I wonder why more people aren’t.

A left-winger looks at half a glass of water and says it’s half full. A right-winger looks at the same glass and wants to know who drank half their water.

-from a commenter at Queen of All Evil

My question, as always, is who are these millions of people that make up Bush’s 35 percent? After all, these are the people who would staunchly defend the President if he reached into Dakota Fanning’s chest on live national TV and pulled out and ate her heart greedily, the bits of blood and muscle spattering the camera lens.

Dick Cheney? 19 percent.

“This is unacceptable. This is America. And if you don’t like America, find another place to live…..That said, we are respectful and tolerant of all religions and all people.”

-Hillsborough County (FL) Commissioner Brian Blair on The O’Reilly Factor Thursday night. Blair was upset over the local school board’s decision to cancel all school holidays based on religion after the board heard a request to honor a Muslim religious holiday on the school calendar.

O’Reilly went on to opine that it was “absurd” in a “Judeo-Christian country” like the U.S. that schools honor Muslim religious holidays.

Fitzgerald made it clear, from the very start of his press conference, that Valerie Plame’s status as a CIA officer was CLASSIFIED.

CLASSIFIED.

He also made it clear that Libby leaked the info to Matt Cooper and Judith Miller, and lied about it.

Clear enough, wingnut bastards? OK. Great.

CLASSIFIED.

And lying about it is a serious crime, not a “technicality.”

“Truth is the engine of our justice system.”
-Patrick Fitzgerald

Yeah.

Stolen from This Modern World.

On many political web sites I frequent, both liberal and conservative, I find time and time again liberals patiently explaining obvious truths to clueless/venal righties. Then they do it again. And again. These liberals are beginning to resemble friendly Labrador retrievers who will bring the tennis ball back indefinitely, until they finally collapse in exhaustion.

Some of the truths we have to explain over and over:

-Valerie Plame was a NOC.
-Bill Bennett and some random liberal crank are not the same thing.
-Saddam didn’t try to get tons of uranium from Niger for his non-existent nuclear program.
-Protest and celebration are not the same thing.
-If perjury was a crime then, it’s not a “technicality” now.
-The Flight 98 memorial is not a secret Muslim plot.

This game of Whack-a-Mole with patently obvious truths reflects badly on both sides. The right willingly believes as many falsehoods as necessary to keep their heads from exploding with cognitive dissonance (think “Scanners”). But even worse, the left takes the bait – again and again and again.

Stop taking the bait.

Democratic Underground is right: Cheney is vulnerable, which is the only reason the Washington Post could see fit to write “Vice President for Torture.”

The DU poster put it succinctly, and correctly: the man is a monster.

On a side note: it was odd last night to see the fictional female U.S. President Mackenzie Allen (Geena Davis) dealing with one of those perfect hypotheticals that pro-torture people love throwing around: you have a suspect in custody with specific knowledge of imminent terrorist attacks, and no time for traditional police work. It’s Dick Cheney’s wet dream, frankly. And they played all the angles by having the President call for doing everything short of torture, while the evil Attorney General ordered torture behind the President’s back. So they got the results of torture (the amazingly correct intel), while keeping the President’s hands clean. Neat trick.