A rose is a rose

Have you noticed how conservatives are running away from the term “conservative”? Bill O’Reilly says he runs “The No Spin Zone,” even though the registered Republican should be taking Dramamine every night. Dean Esmay, the neocon’s neocon, calls himself a “liberal” because he’s “open-minded” or something. (I was just called a “reactionary” over there, which shows you how deep the rabbit hole goes.) And you should see him shriek like a banshee when he’s called a neocon, even though he lines up perfectly with the neocon view of the Iraq war.

Why are these guys so ashamed of their views? I know liberals kept “liberal” even when it was tantamount to “vicious baby-killing communist.” Too bad these guys (and so many others like them) don’t have the courage of their convictions.

Words mean things.

I’m just sayin’

I can die a happy man as soon as George W. Bush says the phrase, “President-Elect Dean.”

I figure I’ve got about a year to wait.

Department of Is Anyone Frickin’ Paying Attention?

-Halliburton gets $222 million more business in Iraq, putting their total no-bid haul at $2.26 billion. This despite overcharging for gas (!) in Iraq to the tune of $61 million.

-A U.S. Senator revealed this week that the administration told him and other senators that not only did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction, but they also had capability to deliver those WMDs to East Coast cities.

Chronicling all this stuff is getting tiring. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, like sewage down a drainpipe. And pretty soon, if we don’t watch out, we’re gonna drown.

Celebrity Quote of the Day

“I haven’t changed, though,” insists the former bricklayer. “I still have my assistant put my pants on one leg at a time like everybody else.”

-“King of Queens” star Kevin James on his sitcom fame, in TV Guide

Do the math

The right wing loves Joe Lieberman. The right wing hates (hates hates hates) Howard Dean.

Hmmmm.

I wonder which candidate I should support?

Rhetorical question

Do you think every time Alan Colmes has to say “You are watching the network you trust for real news – fair and balanced” into the camera, his soul dies a little?

Quote of the day

“Republicans are big on giving Democrats advice these days, especially on how to conduct campaigns. It’s like Tonya Harding coaching Nancy Kerrigan on the finer points of sportsmanship.”

-P.M. Carpenter, History News Network (via Smirking Chimp)

Admission

All this crowing over Saddam has me thinking about Howard Dean. I so want Dean to win, mainly because I think he’s the right man for the job, and because he can begin to dig us out of the hole we made for ourselves. He stands up for what he believes in, the Democratic values that are actually shared by a large majority of our country’s population.

But I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that a part of me wants Dean to win so all the right-wingers, religious conservatives, and neocons can eat dirt. I’d love to see them take a nice big mouthful. They deserve every morsel.

Is it just me, or is Mrs. du Toit’s online Christmas card mind-numbingly hilarious, on multiple levels?

Listening to…

“Be Careful,” Patty Griffin

Can you tell I like Patty Griffin? 🙂 Her songs have such resonance for me, for many reasons. I feel like she came along just when I needed her.