Congratulations to a great songwriter.

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At first, I thought this was about Bush.

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Great post from Sisyphus Shrugged, with my favorite headline of the week: “Did I mention that Clinton got a blowjob?” (It’s about Janklow having no plans to resign after being charged with manslaughter.)

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Atrios’ backup bloggers now have a blog of their own - including a handy blog dictionary on the right, call “The Lexicon of Liberal Invective.” Check it out.

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From the Washington Monthly via Josh Marshall, the Mendacity Index: which presidents lied about what, and how bad was it? (You’ll never guess who’s winning.)

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Great idea! The AFL-CIO is forming a new union - for non-union working people.
The giant AFL-CIO labor federation plans to unveil what its president, John Sweeney, called a new union — Working America, which will seek U.S. workers who want to “speak out and work to change the direction of this country.”
“We will recruit for […]

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Christie Whitman says no one in the EPA was told to lie about the health risks from the 9/11 fallout.

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Speaking of the New York Times, what do you call the opposite of a cheering section?

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When MoDo writes with nary a snarky line to be found, it brings up an interesting issue. Can it be the media elite are scared of the man they anointed Boy King?

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CAN YOU SAY ‘FUBAR’?
Salam Pax writes about the search for Iraqi terrorists hitting his family home:
Anyway so my brother and father start talking to the medic and he tells them what this is about. They have been “informed” that there are daily meetings the last five days, Sudanese people come into our house at 9am […]

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Josh Marshall makes a weather forecast for Iraq. Chalabi moving in…

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Go read this. In fact, read the entire page.

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Via Atrios, more of Bush’s pandering, amoral, Bizarro-world logic:
President Bush ordered the State Department on Friday to withhold U.S. family planning help from overseas groups that promote or perform abortions with their own money.
The decision expands an order issued two years ago that applied only to family planning money administered by the U.S. Agency for […]

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AND WOULD YOU LIKE ORAL SEX WITH THOSE VOTES?
Now, mind you, Diebold is the same company that alleges there aren’t any problems with their electronic voting machine software:
The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is “committed to helping Ohio deliver its […]

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John Dean takes the legal gloves off and explains Cheney committed an impeachable offense when he lied to the GAO about the energy policy meetings:
The straight arrows at GAO were no doubt horrified that the Vice President of the United States, who is the Constitutional presiding officer of the U.S. Senate, would deliberately mislead the […]

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Tom Tomorrow with a thoughtful look at Dean - and what’s fueling the media attacks against him.
It’s all about the anger, and ultimately I think that’s what has the media confused. Anger at the Boy King doesn’t fit into their templates, and if it continues, it means they’re going to have to come up with […]

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Great post from Jesse over at Pandagon today re: Little Howie’s review of “Lying Liars”:
Anyway, it’s worth a read, if only because it perfectly demonstrates the need for Al’s book. The tone of the article reads as if Al’s an 800-lb. juggernaut marauding over the innocent right, while the whole big community he’s affronted is […]

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A great one from Harley Sorensen, via Bartcop:
“Bring ‘em on,” the man said. He is not a brave man, but he plays one on television.
When it came his turn to fight in a war, he hid behind Daddy. Then he had another drink and hid from the National Guard. Then he had another drink. […]

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From TAPPED, more on that Alabama tax bill and the backing it got from evangelical Christians. Now, this is more of what Democrats need to do - engage people on their terms.
By now, most people have heard about how the conservative governor of Alabama is backing a tax hike in the statewide referendum scheduled for […]

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Today’s Krugman:
It’s all coming true. Before the war, hawks insisted that Iraq was a breeding ground for terrorism. It wasn’t then, but it is now. Meanwhile, administration apologists blamed terrorists, not tax cuts, for record budget deficits. In fact, before the war terrorism-related spending was relatively small — less than $40 billion in fiscal 2002. […]

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I wonder if Anthrax Annie will ever come out of the closet? You figure: David Brock’s former wingnut rhetoric was in direct proportion to the degree of his then-sexual repression. Maybe that’s Annie’s problem, too. Perhaps a nice job at Home Depot?
The problem is, the lesbians don’t want her, either. And the drag queens think […]

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That’s my state. But of course, we have a Democratic governor.
Pennsylvania will file a federal lawsuit challenging the Bush administration’s decision to weaken air quality rules and exempt thousands of old power plants, refineries and factories from having to install expensive pollution controls when they upgrade production facilities.
State Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen McGinty […]

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This one’s so funny, I don’t know where to begin. Condi is reassuring the Europeans (did I fall asleep and miss her anointment as Secretary of State?):
The United States is no global bully, and disagreement between President Bush and U.S. allies doesn’t mean their opinions aren’t valued, his top foreign policy adviser says.
“We need […]

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As we know, some animals are more equal than others. That’s why Rep. Bill Janklow was only charged with 2nd degree manslaughter instead of first. (As one wit put it, “Don’t worry, he’ll have his own show on MSNBC within a year.”)
What I find interesting is the possibility that, as their House margin narrows, the […]

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READER ALERT
Sometimes Blogger is truly strange, and yesterday was one of those days. I made several early-morning posts that did not show up online until mid-afternoon. All I can say is, if you ever notice there’s no new content by 10 a.m., it’s probably happening again. (That, or my new motherboard blew up.)

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