It's Red-Meat Week in Wingnuttia, what with (failed) votes on homo nups and the estate tax (or death tax for you conservatives), and don't forget that flag-burning's up next week ... so what else is going on?
• The NSA is going to be combining data from social networking websites (myspace, friendster) with details such as banking, retail, and property records so they can develop extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals. In a related story, the House GOP took another step towards killing off the Internet as we know it.
• The GOP is trying to slash PBS funding again, this time setting up a false choice between Big Bird and handicapped children (yeah, right).
• GOP Rep. Jerry Lewis (LA LA LA, Nice earmark!) seems to have been caught with his hands in the till - set up a slush fund for a daughter-in-law, let one lobbyist write legislation, and tried to set up stock options for another (a former House colleague).
• UN Amb. John "Recess Appointment" Bolton stomped his widdle feet when Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown gave an "astute summary" of US-UN relations that Bolton didn't like.
• Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) says he's real happy that there are no homos in his family.
• A snarling Tom DeLay (R-Nowhere) quit his House seat, attacked his opponents, and claimed he'd do everything just the same.
• Ann Coulter lifted her emaciated leg on 9/11 families, accusing them of "enjoying" the death of their loved ones (9/11 widows respond here). In a related story, Coulter doesn't attend the church where she claims to worship. And she might be a plagiarist (just sayin').
• Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) managed to cave in to Cheney & Co. twice in one week on illegal surveillance (although the second time he wrote Cheney a stern letter).
• The Dear Leader and Rummy claimed that killing Zarqawi is yet another turning point in Operation Enduring War™. Also, a Washington Times hit piece claiming Democrats said the Zarqawi killing was a "stunt" turns out to be, well, a stunt. And finally, Bill "Come on Seven!" Bennett made fun of Christian Amanpour's accent as he accused her of insufficient joy at Zarqawi's death.
tags: bush u.s. nsa impeach bush internet jerry lewis coulter iraq delay bolton specter rumsfeld cheney amanpour bill bennett
Thankfully the World Cup has arrived. Now I can forget about politics for a month.
Posted by: Comandante Agi | June 09, 2006 at 07:44 AM
I almost woudl admire the way the right never stops attacking and fighting if they were not such insipid lower forms of beings...
Why can't the left learn from this? hold no punches!
Posted by: denisdekat | June 09, 2006 at 08:59 AM
there were lots of emotions this week and it's amazing how heartless and hateful the "people of god" can be.
Posted by: pissed off patricia | June 09, 2006 at 09:27 AM
DeLay, Bolten, Bennett, Inhofe...with characters like these championing the right, it's amazing that anyone would publicly admit to being conservative these days.
Posted by: abi | June 09, 2006 at 09:45 AM
Republicans represent the only moral fiber that is left in this country. If you knew what was good for you, you would support them. At least they're not going to Hell like you are.
God Bless,
The God Warrior
Posted by: The God Warrior | June 09, 2006 at 10:04 AM
You forgot to mention Coulter's potential legal problem stemming from voting in Florida. I suppose it goes without mentioning noting the ease by which right-wing disinfortainers get off with a slap on the wrist.
Posted by: M A F | June 09, 2006 at 10:11 AM
Inhofe is by far the funniest, but I'm sure Bennett's just still steaming from the beat down Jon Stewart gave him the other night. Stewart SKEWED the creep.
Where do people like Inhofe come from?
I'm sure Coulter is a plagiarist on some level. I love "lifted one emaciated leg to piss on 9/11 families." Spewed coffee.
Posted by: HelenWheels | June 09, 2006 at 10:33 AM
Dear God Warrior,
I bet you're proud. Oops! That's a deadly sin. And you're jealous that we're smart and interesting. Oops! There's another. And you covet our attention. Man, you're in it deep.
Here, sit in this handbasket.
Posted by: Tata | June 09, 2006 at 11:06 AM
Good stuff, as per usual. It was a particularly busy week; however, I think that the clearly addled and probably stoned Ann Coulter on the Today show wins.
Posted by: Robot Buddha | June 09, 2006 at 11:06 AM
'scuze me Tata. As I am a post-pregnant woman, and the government has yet to establish guidelines for the likes of me, that handbasket belongs to ME.
BTW, Bill O'Reilly says that Ann Coulter has a valid point re: the 9/11 widows. When I read that this morning, I about exploded. What levels of evil will these people sink to?
Posted by: DivaJood | June 09, 2006 at 11:14 AM
I love "lifted one emaciated leg to piss on 9/11 families."
To be fair, the comment is from the linked piece ... I just added the word "emaciated." Remember, if you copy it, it's plagiarism, if you footnote it, it's "research."
Posted by: blogenfreude | June 09, 2006 at 11:48 AM
Pardon moi, Jood dahhhhhhhhhlink.
Garcon! Handbaskets all around! And don't skimp on the pate!
Posted by: Tata | June 09, 2006 at 12:03 PM
I think it's a shame that the integrity of Inhofe's 47 year marriage is so fragile that it's endangered by the prospect of a same-sex couple getting married. Poor man.
Posted by: g | June 10, 2006 at 10:17 AM
Congrats again on the C&L link. Couldn't happen to a nicer propagandist. xoxo
Posted by: Blue Gal | June 10, 2006 at 08:46 PM