Contrary to White House spin, BushCo did quite a bit to help Enron in Kenny Boy’s time of need. Go read this detailed piece and see just how much.

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Nothing but the highest standards for the Republicans:
A major figure in the Election Day phone-jamming scandal that embarrassed and nearly bankrupted the New Hampshire GOP is out of prison and back in the political game.
Charles McGee, the former executive director of the state Republican Party, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and served seven months for his […]

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In that “fair and balanced” way, the AP’s John Solomon has been trying like hell to find a way to pin Abramoff on the Democrats - especially Sen. Harry Reid.
Now he catches Harry taking free tickets to a boxing match. Oh, the horror! From Josh Marshall:
That sounds pretty bad.
Only, there is an exception for gifts […]

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The Pacific Rim area continues to be battered by earthquakes:
JAMPRIP, Indonesia, May 30 — Homeless earthquake survivors living in rice fields and makeshift shacks begged for food and water under a blazing sun Monday as the death toll from Saturday’s quake continued to rise.
Indonesia’s Social Affairs Ministry on Tuesday raised the official death toll to […]

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Lie down with dogs, rise up with fleas:
Staffers from the National Republican Congressional Committee are quietly telling GOP House members to prepare for a possible loss in the June 6 special election to fill the seat of Randy “Duke” Cunningham, now in prison for taking bribes. The Southern California district is heavily Republican, but some […]

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Over at NTodd’s, the begging begins in earnest.

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From Memorial Day 2005:
Soldiers are not chunks of identical clay; they each have a story, their own reasons for being caught in a war.
Brave? Maybe - sometimes, under some conditions. Scared, mostly. The younger they are, the more likely their presence had to do with restlessness, cockiness. The need to be part of a […]

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These questions are just as valid as they were when I first raised them.
Now, I don’t say everything I wrote was a fact. For example, I was never able to verify that there was a disproportionate amount of “green card” recruits killed in Iraq, or that their deaths weren’t counted in the official reports. But […]

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From the roundup of area votes in today’s Inquirer:
CIA director. Senators voted 78-15 to confirm Gen. Michael V. Hayden, 61, as director of central intelligence.
A yes vote was to confirm Hayden.
Voting yes: Biden, Carper, Lautenberg and Santorum.
Voting no: Menendez and Specter.

Specter voted no and didn’t call a press conference to announce it? Interesting. As I […]

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Dan Rubin over at Blinq is pretty pissed off at the National Review appropriating famous rock songs as conservative anthems.
It doesn’t bother me because really, who takes these guys seriously? Other than people just like them, I mean.
I just keep picturing all those weenies from The Corner pounding their puds in their mothers’ basements while […]

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Rumpelstiltskin is my name/ Straw to gold is my game.

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I like the sound of this.

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1. It’s Not You It’s Me - the Little Willies
2. Start Wearing Purple - Gogol Bordello
3. Down on Me - Janis Joplin
4. Daydreaming - Aretha Franklin
5. Strange But True - James Hunter
6. Triad - Jefferson Airplane
7. Everybody Plays the Fool - Main Ingredients
8. When You Come Back to Me - World Party
9. Big Time - […]

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Frank Rich says, oh, it wouldn’t be too awful, he supposes, if Al Gore runs:
LET it never be said that the Democrats don’t believe in anything. They still believe in Hollywood and they still believe in miracles. Witness the magical mystery comeback tour of Al Gore.
Like Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11″ before it, Mr. Gore’s new […]

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Matt Bai, who sometimes gets it and sometimes doesn’t, mostly gets it in this Times magazine piece on YearlyKos:
Politicians know that politics is, by its nature, a tactile business. New technology may change the way partisans organize and debate, and it may even spawn an entirely new political culture. But at the end of the […]

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The New York Times has an extensive piece about John Kerry’s fight to clear his name from attacks by the so-called “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.” Kind of odd that the article doesn’t mention the extensive play the media gave to their baseless allegations.
Oops, another oversight.

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See, this is just the kind of silly shit that gives faith a bad name.

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Sneak preview from American Street: WashPo’s upcoming profile of Denny Hastert. (Not for the humor-impaired.)

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As long as you’re saying rumors are justification for your recent Clinton marriage “story” - when are you following up on this one?

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Miss Molly:
Naturally, in Texas, National Laboratory for Bad Government, we do it all first and worst. We started with this dandy plan to outsource applications and enrollment for social service programs such as food stamps and Medicaid. In theory, we were to save millions—though I never could understand it myself. You see, Texas has one […]

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Just in case you were wondering who the Jew-hating, freedom-hating bastards are… [Via Avedon.]

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Billmon is writing about his adventures in Cairo. Go read.

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Sick bastards:
Clay County prosecutors on Friday charged an Excelsior Springs couple with child abuse for allegedly beating a 9-year-old with a Bible and slamming an 8-year-old into a door.
Authorities allege that Raymond Fairchild, 49, and Deborah Fairchild, 50, punished the foster children for numerous perceived transgressions such as eating too slowly, forgetting to bring the […]

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A right-wing blogger changes his mind.

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And honestly, I don’t understand how any thinking Christian can support these purges:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Joseph Nadeau prayed for storms when he was an altar boy, hoping the lights would go out and he’d be picked to play the church’s creaking organ to celebrate Holy Mass. Now in his mid-thirties, Nadeau’s bold spiritual arrangements […]

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