Professional wacky lady Lynne “Love Me Some Lesbians” Cheney was just on CNN with Der Blitzer, and in the promo for the segment, Wolf asked Jack Cafferty what he thought of her criticisms of their “Broken Government” series as a “collection of Democratic talking points.” Cafferty shrugged and said, “Who cares?”
Reminds me of that scene [...]

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Lots of buzz about George Allen and some rather nasty stuff in his divorce file. Stay tuned…

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This year, victory will come down to voter turnout. We’ve found the Democratic-leaning people who often don’t vote in mid-term elections like this one. If we can just get these “unlikely voters” to vote, they’ll provide a winning margin in a whole bunch of races.
Over 30 races are in a dead heat – margins of [...]

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Oh yes, John McCain’s quite the man of character, isn’t he? Well, John, lie down with dogs, rise up with fleas, as the nuns used to say:
The ad, which has gained nationwide attention, was quickly denounced by the Ford campaign and even saw the supposed beneficiary of the ad, Republican Senate nominee Bob Corker, call [...]

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Do you mean to say we have a rogue regime that does whatever it pleases?
The United States’ new anti-terrorism law contains a number of provisions that fail to meet obligations the US has under international law, with some appearing to contradict the right to a fair trial, a key UN rights expert said on Friday.
Martin [...]

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Tomorrow. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
By the way, I’m glad Eric wrote this so I didn’t have to. I’m much too busy reading complex works like this to argue with someone who has never studied astrology and who doesn’t understand the purpose of or uses for archetypal mythology.

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Oh, look. A rabid wingnut U.S. Attorney has been appointed to a committee in charge of making sure the votes are counted correctly in Georgia. You have to read this to believe it.

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Amnesty International, with a statement that would have been unthinkable only a few short years ago:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ — Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA’s Executive Director, issued the following statement in response to Vice President Cheney’s comments on water-boarding:
“What’s really a no-brainer is that no U.S. official, much less a Vice President, should [...]

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A gun-toting man wearing a George W. Bush mask robbed a disabled Connecticut man of his Social Security check.

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Civil unions for all. The government should stay out of the church-sanctioned marriage business.

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NBC is refusing to accept ads for the new Dixie Chicks documentary focusing on free speech.

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I know, I’m surprised it’s Republicans, too:
The Orange County district attorney’s office has charged 11 people with fraudulent voter registration stemming from a Republican registration drive this year that resulted in dozens of Democrats unwittingly being signed up as Republicans.
Those charged had been paid as much as $10 for each voter they registered as [...]

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Letterman gets the game, and he’s just not playing:
October 27, 2006 — ANY lingering doubts that David Letterman detests Bill O’Reilly will be laid to rest tonight, when the gap-toothed funnyman has the conservative Fox News powerhouse on his CBS “Late Show” and machine-guns him with insults.
In a tape previewed by Page Six, things [...]

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The question for me, I suppose, is why anyone is surprised about the media treatment of Michael J. Fox.
The job of a good corporate journalist is no longer to reveal; it is to scold. Journalists no longer aim their slingshots at giants; instead, they level rocket launchers at those who are seen as threatening the [...]

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Democrats.com with a good idea:
When the polls close, we propose that Democrats across the country gather outside their County Election Office for a candlelight vigil to Count Every Vote, all wearing the same color: Blue.
Imagine a Blue Revolution, every bit as joyous and historic as the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Cedar Revolution Lebanon, the [...]

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Then you have to kind of wonder how political his enforcement efforts are in general, don’t you?
The commissioner of internal revenue has ordered his agency to delay collecting back taxes from Hurricane Katrina victims until after the Nov. 7 elections and the holiday season, saying he did so in part to avoid negative publicity.
The commissioner, [...]

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He told them exactly what they wanted to hear. See, it works!
LONDON (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda terror suspect captured by the United States, who gave evidence of links between Iraq and the terror network, confessed after being tortured, a journalist told the BBC.
Iban al Shakh al Libby told intelligence agents that he was close to [...]

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All these reasons to vote GOP…

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Glenn Greenwald on wingnut legal “experts”:
It should surprise nobody that armies of “conservatives” have become overnight experts in New Jersey Constitutional law and have pronounced the 66-page decision (.pdf) from the New Jersey Supreme Court to be a tyrannical embodiment of judicial activism. But in issuing these condemnations, none of them mentions a single provision [...]

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Booman says Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania look like a blowout for the Democrats, and Stu Rotherberg says to expect a tidal wave of historic proportions. Larry Sabato agrees.
Look: This is all about getting out the vote. The more people who vote, the harder it is to hide voter fraud. We also can’t act as [...]

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Oh, look. Marines in Iraq are finding they can only access right-wing blogs. Nice, huh?
How about some of that democracy we keep hearing about?

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Mike Fitzpatrick, machine Republican, is a fucking liar.

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Via Billmon.

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Via Rittenhouse Review, who informs us it’s only $25. Be there or be square.

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Laura Rozen has some more details on Wacky Curt Weldon’s attempts to get dirt on opponent Joe Sestak.
Meanwhile, Ken Silverstein at Harper’s says a detailed briefing on ITERA’s corruption wasn’t enough to deter Curt from shilling for them.
And if you’re trying to keep track of Republican scandals, here’s a scorecard.

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As far as I know, it’s an open secret that the Republican running for Florida governor is gay. But of course he’s denying it:
A young rising star in the Republican Party has boasted to witnesses of his sexual relationship with Charlie Crist, the frontrunner in the Florida governor’s race who has repeatedly denied that he [...]

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Fred & Ginger, who did everything Fred did, only backwards and in high heels:

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My friend Ryan sent this after attending a rally for Patrick Murphy this morning:

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Trying to vote in November, I mean:
The maker of Maryland’s electronic voting system replaced a flawed electronic component in several thousand touch-screen voting machines in 2005, state election officials acknowledged this week.
To eliminate unpredictable “screen freezes” that have occurred since the machines were first used in Maryland in 2002, Diebold Election Systems installed new system [...]

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Baseball as assimilation.
Lots of problems with baseball these days. Kids are playing soccer or basketball instead - after all, the equipment’s a lot cheaper. Maybe that’s why inner-city kids are turning away in droves.
But damn, is there any sound like the crack of a bat hitting a ball on a summer night? To me, that’s [...]

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