* Can someone please pay attention to Joe Lieberman for five minutes so he stops threatening to switch parties again? [Political Animal]
* If you watch closely, you can see George Allen’s lost destiny flash in front of him. [CBN]
* One surge, two surge, three surge, more! [MoJo]
* Send Dennis Kucinich some money so he can get a real office and stop standing in front of that “typical American workplace” backdrop. [PrezVid]
* “Most of America” is with Tom Tancredo on his “nuke Mecca” policy. [Liberal Avenger]
* Gingrich is gone ’til November. [Political Insider]
* All President Bush needs is the same “good faith” exit cover Wolfowitz got. [Colbert Nation (PDF)]

On this day 232 years ago, brave American terrorists fought the military in Taxachusetts. The battles immediately followed the military surge that was supposed to secure the insurgent strongholds of Concord and Lexington. MORE »

Normal life came to a screeching halt today in America as news of an awful mass murder spread across the nation. Politicians canceled rallies, Congress delayed impeachment proceedings and office workers stopped their usual banal chit-chat about teevee shows or whatever for impassioned if still ill-informed discussions of gun control, violence and the dangers of creative-writing programs. MORE »

Remember the SURGE that would finally win the war against whoever it is we’re fighting in Iraq for some unknown reason? Well, it’s a big success — if by “success” you mean U.S. troops are now dying at the fastest rate since the invasion four years ago! MORE »

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* Congressional Democrats look to time machine to stop troop surge. [WP, NYT]
* Changing kaleidoscope of “things President Bush could’ve started instead of a war,” moves to alternative fuel technology. [WP, NYT]
* Bursting hybrid owners’ bubbles feels good. [USAT]
* Sooner or later one of the “softball” questions lobbed up at Rudy Giuliani is going to break a window, then he’ll get all crazy, kicking homeless people and yelling about “America’s Mayor’s foot in their ass.” [NYT]
* Sorry Bill Richardson, but it’s about popularity. Just how these things go. [NYT]
* Bill Clinton’s tongue has made him rich. [WP]
* Rep. Sam Johnson is the House’s Walnuts, Syria nuking jokes and all. [LAT]
* Iraqi embassy rebuilt with less “blood, sweat and tears” than, well, you know. [WP]

* New JFK assassination film released only 45 years after the Powers That Be killed him. It’s great how the “amateur photographer” got establishing shots of the Texas School Book Depository and the sixth-floor windows before the murder. [Raw Story]
* The teevee causes “cancer, autism, dementia” and other problems, no matter what you watch. PBS probably causes AIDS. [Scotsman]
* Seriously, watching the teevee will kill you, and then your corpse will sit there for a year or so. [IHT]
* Texas congressman Sam Johnson (R-Schizophrenic) was all for withholding U.S. military funding in Bosnia because “the president has tied our hands, gone against the wishes of the American people, and this is the last best way I know how to show my respect for our American servicemen and women.” Obviously, he loves the Iraq Surge today. [Reason Hit & Run]
* U.S. spies reading, laughing at your e-mail. [Cryptogon]
* This little fascist Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Cunt) wants all your Internet traffic and searches and IMs and emails recorded forever and provided to the government, even though Google already does that. {Security Focus]
* WALNUTS! McCain kicks Rummy when he’s down. [CNN]

The Senate’s pro-SURGE forces brought some awesome new ideas to the debate on Friday, but none was as powerful as the new reason for the Iraq War provided by the honorable Jeff Sessions (R-Cracker) — we had to invade and occupy because Saddam Hussein kept sayin’ he won the 1991 Gulf War!

The House passed the Iraq resolution! And they managed it before we finished working (though not before we started drinking)! Good for them! MORE »

* House Iraq wrist-slap resolution day is today. Thanks to Harry Reid, Senate will be voting tomorrow while you drink. [WP, WP, NYT]
* The, “and then what” part of the resolution still escapes Democrats. [LAT]
* Other troop surge, in that other war, couldn’t get a Senate vote on a Wednesday if they promised a bowl of navy bean soup for showing up. [WP, NYT]
* Shady dealings of Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons still lack hookers. [WP, NYT]
* Condoleezza Rice was this close to a Palestinian-Israeli peace deal. [USAT]
* Start stockpiling water and granola bars now - the “Y2K7DSTFU” is upon us! [WSJ]
* The blood-thirsty congress-murdering rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln. [WP]

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