Once more into the breech: We’ve been having a discussion in the Pensito Review garret about the possibility of a filibuster against the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
Trish has come out in favor of it in rather big way, and is considering quitting the Democratic Party if something isn’t done.
Buck, a […]

I’m going to say something that will have my ancestors whirling in their graves, something I never thought I would say, something that even to me seems incomprehensible.
I’m willing to abandon the Democrats. There it is.
I’m tired of wondering if George Bush will have to roast babies in the Rose Garden before anyone who […]

Joe Conason:
It is obvious that Mr. Abramoff was no stranger to the Bush White House from the very beginning. Well before the President took office, Mr. Abramoff was named to the Bush transition team for the Department of the Interior. He may not have had any discernible qualifications to oversee that department’s appointments, but […]

The editors of Buzzflash are the kings of catchy headlines, but this one takes the crown:
Biden Should be a Greeter at Wal-Mart. He’d Be More Use There Than in the Senate. Biden to Oppose Filibuster. The Guy is in the Tank of the White House or Just a Marshmallow Brain. 1/28
Biden is the […]

For the money: Members of the 82nd Airborne stationed in Fort Bragg, NC, have apparently been nabbed appearing on a gay porn site that originated in nearby Fayetteville. Via Pam’s House Blend:
This apparently goes on a lot — a whole lot — but only comes to the surface on rare occasions like these when the […]

New low: Just when you think you’ve seen the bottom of the Bush team’s depravity and corruption — or is it just monumental cluelessness? — they manage to come up with something new that is positively jawdropping.
Hillman serves as chief of the department’s public integrity section. Must be that special Republican “integrity” that […]

New Bolivian Leader Cuts Salary in Half
LA PAZ, Bolivia - New President Evo Morales cut his salary by half and ordered that no Cabinet minister collect a higher wage than his own, with the savings earmarked for hiring more public school teachers. In totally unrelated news, today the U.S. Congress voted itself a raise and […]

Leonard Pitts can just quit writing now because I don’t think he will surpass this essay.
Remain true to the ideals that have guided us for 230 years or surrender them on the altar of expedience because we were too scared to live up to them
Karl Rove said in a speech last week that this year’s […]

The Week Magazine:
Every three hours, the agency’s spy satellites pull in enough information to fill the Library of Congress
The National Security Agency — so secret it is jokingly referred to as “No Such Agency” — has “wrapped the earth in a spectral web of electronic surveillance,” says Patrick Radden Keefe, author of the book, Chatter. […]