Rightwing big thinker Charles Krauthammer trashes Reagan’s 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of other Republicans,” by picking at the weakness of the GOP’s ‘08 field — and then speaks ill of Reagan too, for good measure:
Major grumbling among conservatives about the Republican field. So many candidates, so many flaws. Rudy Giuliani, [...]

In case you’re just tuning in to this story, last Tuesday, Oct. 23, as the wildfires raged in Southern California, FEMA held a news conference that was broadcast by the cable newsers. Within hours, however, it was revealed that the entire news conference was fake. That’s right — good ol’ gubmint propaganda:
The Bush administration was [...]

Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is.
– Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, in April 1999, referring to the war in Kosovo

On Friday, while former Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld was visiting France, human rights groups based there and in the United States filed complaints against him, charging him with approving torture:
Rumsfeld is accused of authorizing torture at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
The French complaint accuses Mr. Rumsfeld of authorizing torture [...]

Hilarious. Read it here.

In her book, “Lustful Utterances: Cohn to Bush 1981-1986,” Leola McConnell, a retired “muscle dominatrice,” claims to have participated in BDSM sex with George W. Bush back in the day when he was just a superannuated fratboy and son of the vice president. Here’s a quote from the book’s online promotional material:
Through “Lustful [...]

Maybe it’s time for the vice president to retire so he can rest up before he’s arrested and tried for his crimes.

It was, I suppose, predictable that professional bloviator Bill O’Reilly would get his panties in a twist over author J.K. Rowling’s (yawn) revelation that a character in the Harry Potter novels was gay. Rowling told an audience at Carnegie Hall last week that the headmaster of Hogwarts Academy, Albus Dumbledore, was gay.
Despite the fact [...]

New York Times columnist Gail Collins perfectly captures the conventional wisdom about Mike Huckabee in today’s edition:
Why would the family values crowd prefer a batshit crazy adulterating New Yorker, a Hollywood actor/abortion lobbyist or a Mormon to one of their own?
Like Bill Clinton, Huckabee was born in a town called Hope and became a pretty [...]

Lt. Gov. John Garamendi:
“How about sending our National Guard back from Iraq, so that we have those people available here to help us?”
“I’ve got some doubt about the value of President Bush coming out here. How many times did he go to New York or to New Orleans and still made promises but hasn’t delivered. [...]