Wonkette

Looking for a sadistically corporate way to spruce up your Christmas tree? Best check out the sparkly new Blackwater ornament! A great way to complement your Fallujah Snow Village, Halliburton poinsettia and Cheney tinsel. [Copyranter]

One of the Bush Administration’s top Iraq bumblers is quitting after four disastrous years. After fucking up everything from the pre-invasion plans to the provisional government, Meghan O’Sullivan will give up her current post as deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan, she announced Monday. MORE »

* Alberto Gonzalez looks down at the flag pin on his lapel and realizes he could’ve saved one more. [WP, NYT, LAT]
* Halliburton gets the hell outta Dodge. [WP, NYT]
* House drops the pointless language about not invading Iran from funding bill. [WSJ]
* Another guy in a green suit gets fired over Walter Reed clusterfuck. [WP, NYT, USAT]
* Nancy Pelosi turns the sprinklers on the hippy dipshits camped outside her house. [NYT]
* Republicans don’t like being “bottoms,” pray to Reagan to deliver them from this fate. [NYT]
* Iraqi firewater will make you crazy. [NYT]

We’ve all been wondering where Cheney would seek exile, and today the answer was delivered: Dubai. MORE »

Nothing says “Bomb Iran” like markets wizard George Soros plunking down $62 million for a nice chunk of Halliburton stock. MORE »

As all the other reasons for the Iraq invasion and occupation are tossed aside for being either intentional deceptions (WMDs) or just plain feel-good nonsense (democracy, human rights, whatever), the real reason for the war has been a total success: U.S. and British oil companies will take over Iraq’s oil fields under a new Iraqi law written by the Bush Administration. MORE »

• Iran already has a nuclear weapon, American military already in country, world fucked, etc. [The Agonist, Think Progress]

• Halliburton is totally fine knowing you hate them, as long as the soldiers keep chowing those so very profitable cheeseburgers. [Americablog]
• Fired Air America talk show host Mike Malloy is now a “l33t hax0r” who wants the “bastard pod-people running our Air America” to rot in hell. [Hot Air]
• Michigan Republican Mike Rogers is totally cool with anal rape jokes, sodomizing strangers. [Livingston Daily]
• Senator Saxby Chambliss knows deep down in heart that the south will rise again, but is still pissed about the last time. [Raw Story]
• Nevada congressional candidates say the darnedest things. [Political Wire]

We were all excited when this ABC News headline came across our Truth Wire: “Anything Goes At Interior Department.” Anything? Like boy-prostitute rings in the White House and that sort of deal? MORE »

As the Bush Administration’s bold remaking of the Middle East and Central Asia goes from strength to strength, it was destined that the White House would have to get involved in the battle between the fictional character Borat and his native land, Kazakhstan.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has reportedly never thrown a Jew down a well, will actually discuss the Borat Problem with Bush at the White House and Castle Bushenstein in Maine later this month. But will a horse-drawn Lada make it all the way to America? The answers, after the jump.

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• US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan will now enjoy the clarity of knowing that the Geneva Conventions apply again. [WP]

• Condoleezza Rice is very, very disappointed in Iran, after they failed to respond to last month’s proposal that they give up their nuclear programs. “That then means that we would be on the path to the Security Council.” [NYT]
• Robert Novak reveals his secondary sources in the famous Plame column — Bill Harlow, CIA public information officer; and Karl Rove. His “primary” source’s name has not yet been revealed. [Human Events Online]
• The Army is ending its exclusive, multi-billion-dollar deal with Halliburton to provide “logistical support” to American troops worldwide. [WP
• Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to Iraq. A suicide bomber killed seven people, and "Security forces also found the bodies of 20 bus drivers who had been kidnapped earlier north of Baghdad." [WP]
• Hillary Clinton is the number two recipient of donations from the health care industry. [NYT]

We like Al Kamen. But the Post website seems to screw him over — big Milbank pictures on the homepage every other damn day but we have to squint to find Kamen’s byline? The day Dana Milbank proves that a Senator is into fisting is the day that’ll be fair. MORE »