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Weekend Wingnut Roundup

The Dear Leader set an alltime record this week - a 30% approval rating.  The wingnuts must be beside themselves:

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Ace of Spades - the State Department scares me about as much as frosting.
All Things Beautiful - those nasty Democrats are scheming to deny the President a glorious victory in Iraq - it's right around the next corner!
American Thinker - you can give me all the data you want showing the left isn't anti-Semitic, but my sixth sense tells me they are, and I'm always right about that sort of thing.
Ankle Biting Pundits - Feingold wants to stop the troops from being slaughtered in a senseless war - how he must hate them.
Atlas Shrugs - the AP falsely reported that four U.S. soldiers were kidnapped by insurgents posing as ... what?  It's true?  A retraction?  Please - not while I'm blogging!
Blogs for Bush - one wingnut newspaper said we're winning in Iraq - so let's declare total victory.
Blue Crab Boulevard - the senseless killing in Iraq must continue, yet the American public is too dumb to understand that.
Captain's Quarters - Israel is unsure whether the Iranians have a nuclear program in much the same way we were unsure about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, so they'd better nuke Tehran to be on the safe side.
Confederate Yankee - a few dead Iraqis is a small price to pay for sub-$2.00 a gallon gas.
GOP Bloggers - lookit here ... we found us a Democrat Mark Foley! - sure the kid was 18, but we'll take what we can get.
Hugh Hewitt - Democrats can't be trusted on national security, and now it looks like Republicans can't either ... where oh where will we find the dictator we need?
IMAO - okay, we admit Obama didn't go to a madrassa, but there HAS to be something ... THERE JUST FUCKING HAS TO BE SOMETHING!!!
Instapundit - Robert Kagan says there's a pony, so that means there's a fucking pony, OK???!!!
Little Green Footballs - can you believe Muslims are against vaccinations?  Good Christians like us would never do that!
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - the New York Times thinks only Muslims can have holy days, and this confirms their hatred of our cherished Judeo-Christian way of life.

Weekend Wingnut Roundup

Bush cratered, Hillary got in, Barack is thinking about it, and Colbert stole O'Reilly's microwave - the wingnuts must be in an uproar:

Ace of Spades - Hillary's need for a listening tour proves she knows nothing about real Americans ... she's so fucking Oprah.
All Things Beautiful - President Bush should send talented civilians to Iraq to be slaughtered alongside our soldiers.
American Thinker - we already have all those cool guns 'n stuff over in Iraq, so why not infiltrate Iran?
Ankle Biting Pundits - I really admire Sam Brownback - he's always been against the right to privacy unlike that Johnny-come-lately Mitt Romney.
Atlas Shrugs - I sure do hate me some Christiane Amanpour and the Crescent News Network.
Blogs for Bush - I'm too chicken to sign up and go fight, but isn't soldier talk cool?!
Blue Crab Boulevard - some Clinton-appointed judge won't let Texans eat their horses - what's up with that?
Captain's Quarters - Hillary, Sillary, Shrillary ... much too much sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Confederate Yankee - no Baghdad mosques were blown up after all, so it's full steam ahead to Iran!
GOP Bloggers - the Dems have a woman, a black guy, and a Latino running for president?  Just wait until we nominate an intolerant white guy, assholes!
Hugh Hewitt - although many Republicans are already in lifeboats, I'm going to stay on board and help Bush steer this Iraq thing straight into that iceberg.
IMAO - McCain/Feingold '08!  Sure would be a quiet campaign, that one ...
Instapundit - so now even Ahhhnold is a girly man.
Little Green Footballs - I contend that those Baghdad mosques claimed to be destroyed were only damaged - no insurance adjustor would ever total these mosques!
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - enlist?  Oh please - I'm wingnut royalty, and besides, all I have to do is link to this Milspeak post to prove my bona fides!
NRO (K-Lo) - looky here - we're having a wingnut roundup of our own with bright lights like Newt, Mitt, Jeb, Jonah, and Malkin.  Should be a real hatefest!
Patterico's Pontifications - I don't spank my children, except when I do.
Riehl World View - when our soldiers murder Iraqis I expect slaps on the wrist all around, and perhaps even a stern letter.
Sister Toldjah - the AP talks about Sam Brownback's record of hatred and intolerance as though it's a bad thing ... don't you just hate the AP?

Weekend Wingnut Roundup - sort of ...

Agitprop is busy this weekend moving to a more secure undisclosed location ... the Weekend Wingnut Roundup will return next weekend with added security and a new 'surge' of wingnuts.  Stay tuned.

Weekend Wingnut Roundup - Gallows Humor Edition

So the Dear Leader finally showed up his Daddy - Saddam is dead.  What do you suppose the wingnuts have to say about that?

Ace of Spades - lookit here ... I found a picture of Kofi Annan with Saddam!
All Things Beautiful - while we're at it we should take out Ahmadinejad.
Althouse - oh my, Matt Drudge is running two revolving sirens!
American Thinker - most tyrants die of old age, but we hung Saddam!  USA! USA! USA!
Ankle Biting Pundits - I have your fair trial right here ... get me a fucking rope.
Atlas Shrugs - of course the Islamofascists at the New York Times won't dance on Saddam's grave with me.
Blogs for Bush - Saddam is now standing before our Christian god, and boy is he pissed!
Blue Crab Boulevard - of course the AP didn't bother to mention Saddam's atrocities until after his execution.
Captain's Quarters - Saddam went to his death without crying or begging, and the New York Times proved it hates America when it pointed that out.
Confederate Yankee - 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... hanging dictators gives me such a hard-on.
GOP Bloggers - we refer you to our other wingnut site for our reaction to Saddam's death.
Hugh Hewitt - Saddam should have appealed to the Ninth Circuit instead ... fucking liberals.
IMAO - we're having a Saddam executon haiku party!
Instapundit - Saddam is dead, and may I add that Bush is certainly no Genghis Khan.
Little Green Footballs - the AP says Saddam's countrymen were 'vengeful' - oh please!
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - I'll just stay here above the fray until one of my wingnut overlords tells me how to react to the execution.
NRO (K-Lo) - as usual I have nothing useful to add, so I'll just link to our execution editorial that completely ignores past U.S. support for Saddam.
Patterico's Pontifications - this is a huge step forward even though it will change nothing in Iraq.
Powerline - Saddam and Gerald Ford both opposed the Iraq war ... what's up with that?
Riehl World View - I prefer even Saddam to those New York Times liberals - don't they understand we've turned yet another corner in Iraq??!!

Holiday Weekend Wingnut Roundup

It's the holiday season ... do you suppose the wingnuts are reaching out to their fellow man?

Ace of Spades - Palestinians killing each other gives me a warm holiday feeling.
All Things Beautiful - I have an inalienable right to shove my religion down your throat ... and Merry Christmas!
Althouse - oh my, those awful Chinese are going to war against Christmas too!
American Thinker - non-Arab Muslims do not necessarily want to slit our throats, but of course every Arab Muslim wants to slaughter you in your bed.
Ankle Biting Pundits - looks like Mitt Romney has another flaw in addition to being Mormon - he opposed the Contract on America!
Atlas Shrugs - the terrorists handed the House and Senate to the Democrats, so blame Democrats if Hamas attacks in the U.S.
Blogs for Bush - you know it's coming ... George W. Bush, King of the World!
Blue Crab Boulevard - not only is Iran going nuclear, giant German killer hamsters will soon be on the loose.
Captain's Quarters - that liberal Barack Obama is black enough for whites, but is he black enough for blacks?
Debbie Schlussel - this week I'm freaking out about Frank Costanza's War on Christmas and Chanukah.
Flopping Aces - John Kerry will be made the new Ambassador to al-Qaeda once the terrorist Democrat Congress takes office.
GOP Bloggers - why can't Democrats lose with dignity, like us?
Hugh Hewitt - if I throw up enough World War II Christmas imagery you'll believe that Iraq is that war's moral equivalent.
IMAO - Democrat party, Democrat party, Democrat party!
Instapundit - with luck, the Canadians will soon have a murder rate to rival ours!
Little Green Footballs - American Muslims upset about Rep. Goode's call for a halt to Muslim immigration?  What crybabies.
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - sure it's early for me to make up my mind re: '08, but Giuliani's brand of fascism is pretty appealing.
NRO (K-Lo) - as usual I have nothing useful to add, but let me state for the record that I approve of Mitt's newfound hatred of gays.
Patterico's Pontifications - even a wingnut of my caliber can't get too worked up about the Jamil Hussein kerfuffle.
Powerline - could it be that the Dear Leader has given us another Shi'ite-dominated, pro-Hezbollah, anti-American, anti-Israel Shariah state with lots of oil?  Naaaahhhh!
Riehl World View - if we take out al-Sistani and al-Sadr we'll get that pony for Christmas!
Sister Toldjah - moonbats roasting on an open fire make me smile.

Weekend Wingnut Roundup

Another week, another flock of wingnuts:

Ace of Spades - I am actually delusional enough to believe the Republicans would have retained the House and Senate had Bush sent more troops to Iraq before the election.
Althouse - if you put me in a room with a bunch of Federalist Society wingnuts I look almost liberal ... honest!
American Thinker - the present clique of Islamofascists ruling Iran is not Iranian.
Ankle Biting Pundits - 80% of Egyptians and 90% of Jordanians hate us ... not that it's Bush's fault or anything.
Blue Crab Boulevard - talk to Iran and Syria?  Oh please - why bother when Bush's saber-rattling is all that's required to keep them in line?
Captain's Quarters - Iraq in civil war?  Perish the thought ... I've got your civil war right here, and it's in Palestine.
Debbie Schlussel - this week I'm freaking out about Mayor Bloomberg - he could do for Hillary what Ross Perot did for Bill.
Flopping Aces - I might not be able to make the trip to Iraq, but I'm sure Michelle Malkin will go and send glowing reports of all the painted schools and ponies and stuff!
GOP Bloggers - looky here!  We found an Obama real estate deal that we might be able to whip up into a Whitewater ... cue the Swiftboats!
Hugh Hewitt - Ahmadinejad's hatred of Jews is waaayyy bigger than Dennis Prager's hatred of Islam.
Instapundit - Newt Gingrich says the Flying Imams should be prosecuted for pretending to be terrorists ... who am I to argue?
Little Green Footballs - take a look at these scary Muslim photos and explain to me we shouldn't nuke 'em all.
NRO - why not begin your kids' wingnut indoctrination now with a few holiday book purchases from our website?
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - children go to bed hungry in America?  C'mon ... we're all so well fed!
NRO (K-Lo) - first they banned the Salvation Army, now they're selling Che Guevara stuff ... Target, why can't you be more conservative, like, say, Wal-Mart?
Patterico's Pontifictions - I will prove to you that a particular AP fabrication leads to the conclusion that fewer Iraqi children were killed by our bombs ... never mind that thousands have been.
Powerline - I used the words "Oliver North" and "Marine Corps intelligence" in the same paragraph ... get it??!!

Weekend Wingnut Roundup

What a week!  Bolton exits stage far right, daddy told the Dear Leader he had to pack up his war and go home (and the Dear Leader's approval rating hovered at 30% and should soon plunge into the 20s), Darth Cheney's lesbian daughter is pregnant (how did that happen?) ... do you suppose the right wing nut-o-sphere has anything to say?  And, for bonus points, pick out the verbatim quote:

American Thinker - global warming?  Not where there's profits ... arghhh!
Ankle Biting Pundits - can you believe Mitt Romney is being attacked by our fellow wingnuts for supporting gay rights?  We've always loved teh gay agenda!
Blue Crab Boulevard - they can have my trans fats when they pry them from my cold dead hand.
Captain's Quarters - I note with approval that the wingnut party in Canada has passed laws making it more difficult for the other party to raid the treausury for partisan objectives and ... what?  The Office of Faith-Based Initiatives?  No, can't say as I've heard of it.
Debbie Schlussel - it's obvious - those who don't support Israel unconditionally will be breaking Jewish shop windows before you know it.
Flopping Aces - Iraqi children killed by our bombs?  Nope, I'm having none of it unless you bring me the bodies.
GOP Bloggers - Democrats, cop killers, and the French - peas in the same fucking pod.
Hugh Hewitt - if James Baker ran a bipartisan Blue-Ribbon panel tasked with saving social security, his commission would conclude that no real progress on social security was possible until Israel ceded the Golan Heights to Syria and made whatever concessions necessary to mollify Hamas.
Instapundit - Kurds ... the new Jews.
Little Green Footballs - Muslim women can now ride Grand Rapids public transportation in disguise.
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - as usual I have nothing useful to add, so I'll just confirm my nerd status by making an inapt Dune reference.
NRO (K-Lo) - as usual I have nothing useful to add, but isn't it great that Iraqi oil revenues are up a bit?  So what if the country is a complete fucking mess!!
Patterico's Pontifications - confident that a middle-class BOBO blogger like me will never have to face the death penalty, I sure do wanna see me some executions!
Powerline - ISG report, Jews as victims, Vietnam-era bugout, blah blah quackity quack ... oh shit, we've got nothing.

Weekend Wingnut Roundup

Ace of Spades - can you believe the Democrats won't spend billions on a missile shield?  Well, goodbye Los Angeles, hello sharia law!
American Thinker - everything wrong with The Left can be understood through their opposition to genetically-modified soybeans.
Ankle Biting Pundits - among other things, the Democrats will now interfere with the oil companies' inalienable right to break the law.
Blue Crab Boulevard - WAAAHHH!  They're going to take my war away!  Stupid Baker-Hamilton Commission!  WAAAHHH!
Captain's Quarters - at least the fucking liberals lost in Canada.
Debbie Schlussel - I'm still freaking out about The Flying Imams ... one minute they'd be praying, then out come the boxcutters!
Flopping Aces - civil war?  Feh - only in the minds of you Democrat defeatists and war-critic quagmirists - a mere comma in Our Leader's Glorious War to Resubjugate Brown People.
GOP Bloggers - can  you believe the Democrats memorialized Gerry Studds after he had an affair with an underage page and ... what?  Page was of legal age?  The hell you say!
Hugh Hewitt - I demand an investigation into the immigration status of John Kerry's landscapers.
IMAO - next time, I say we just go into a country, destroy it, and then leave it to rot - that'll show those French crybabies!
Instapundit - things are so bad I've been reduced to recommending French cookware.
Little Green Footballs - some associate professor in a red state says the MSM hates Bush - who are we to argue?
NRO (Byron York) - 'Hussein' is a terrorist middle name and 'Felix' isn't - ALLEN '08!
No Left Turns - the new meme is Bush = Churchill, so pay attention wingnuts!

more wingnuts tomorrow!

Thanksgiving Weekend Wingnut Roundup

Do you suppose the wingnuts are thankful for anything? 

Ace of Spades - we're thankful Robert Altman is dead.
Althouse - I'm thankful for rechargeable batteries.
American Thinker - we're thankful that people in Baghdad get 4 to 8 hours of electricity per day ... and just look at all those painted schools!
Ankle Biting Pundits - we're thankful that Democrats are so obsessed with sex - can you imagine why they'd object to an HHS appointee who says married people shouldn't use contraceptives? 
Atlas Shrugs - I'm thankful we have smart people like Hugh Hewitt on our side!  I mean - he wants Rick Santorum on the Supreme Court - how smart is that??!!
Blue Crab Boulevard - I'm thankful I live in a country with a leader stupid enough to continue a senseless slaughter for no reason.
Captain's Quarters - I am thankful for those who differ with me politically.  Sure they're beneath contempt, but once in a while they help me tighten up one of my wingnut arguments.
Debbie Schlussel - I'm thankful I don't have to wear a burqa, although I'm freaking out because the new Democrat majorities will impose sharia law any day now.
Flopping Aces - I'm thankful that, here in the good ol' U S of A, cops have the right to kick down a door without knocking and shoot a 92 year-old woman to death.
GOP Bloggers - we are thankful that people in America can go work for Wal-Mart for shit wages and aren't forced into slavery for $2.00 a day like that Indonesian housekeeper in Colorado.
Hugh Hewitt - I'm thankful for Mitt Romney - unlike Bush, he's a candidate who might have read actual books ... and can name them!
Hot Air (Allahpundit) - we're thankful for Tom Tancredo - only someone that completely batshit insane can make Michelle Malkin seem almost rational.
IMAO - I'm thankful I thought up this Simpsons trivia thing ... I'm too depressed to blog about the election, and I've got to blog about something.
Instapundit - I am truly thankful that there are lots of other wingnuts for me to link to ... I barely have to write, or even think!
Little Green Footballs - we're thankful that a bunch of smelly old hippies might get shot along with the Palestinians they're shielding.
NRO (Charles Krauthammer) - I'm thankful I have the opportunity to warn you about Borat - did you know it's an attack on evangelicals?  Of course you didn't, you moron.
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - as usual I have nothing useful to add, but I'll admit I'm thankful others are serving so I don't have to drag my ass over to Iraq and fight for my country!
NRO (K-Lo) - as usual I have nothing useful to add, but I admit I'm thankful someone recorded some Elvis songs in Latin.
No Left Turns - we're thankful we remember enough high school philosophy to pull out some Aristotle and reason to the wrong conclusion.
Patterico's Pontifications - I'm thankful for Libertarians - they're so easy to mock!
Powerline - we're thankful for The Flying Imams - racial profiling rules, bitchez!
Redstate - we're thankful for the polygamy-slippery-slope argument - it comes in handy whenever we want to restrict the freedoms of people we hate.

Weekend Wingnut Roundup

You'd think that, in the face of their crushing defeat, each and every wingnut would undertake a sober self-analysis, wouldn't you?  Think again:

Ace of Spades - dude, big fake plastic boobs never went out of style.
All Things Beautiful - soon Saudi Arabia will be sending us some Sharia Law with every barrel of oil.
Althouse - my my ... do you think Courtney Love acts out sometimes?  Not that there's anything wrong with that.
American Thinker - liberals brought us Joe Stalin, so what do you suppose they have planned for us next?
Ankle Biting Pundits - shit, even Dallas is trying to attract teh gay tourists.
Atlas Shrugs - first, let's kill everyone at the State Department.
Blue Crab Boulevard - damn I miss the Cold War.
Captain's Quarters - behold as I use my wingnut powers to distort one statistic and prove there's no such thing as global warming.
Confederate Yankee - want to win in Iraq?  Massive. Fucking. Firepower. Baby.
Debbie Schlussel - James Bond and Vladimir Putin - separated at birth?'
Flopping Aces - Pat Leahy killed off Reagan's War on Terror and he's gonna do the same thing to Bush's.
GOP Bloggers - new boss, same as the old boss.
Hugh Hewitt - I demand an up or down vote for every wingnut judicial appointment!
Hot Air - so what if campus police taser a few lefty students?
IMAO - I'm so depressed about the election that I'm catblogging.
Instapundit - we sure do hate us some Rachel Corrie!
Little Green Footballs - Israel is missing the opportunity to kill more Palestinian women and children - what the fuck is up with that?
NRO (J-Pod) - while I blame liberals for everything that's wrong in the world, I particularly blame Arab liberals for failing to support Bush's democracy building.
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - as usual I have nothing useful to add, so I'm off to New York City for a Bar Mitzvah.
NRO (K-Lo) - as usual I have nothing useful to add, so I'll just take a pot shot at Arlen Specter.
No Left Turns - why base public policy on the rational when it's so much easier to look it up in the Bible?
Patterico's Pontifications - Milton Friedman's death makes me misty for the good old days, when poor people were just left to starve.
Powerline - John Bolton says Israel gets a pass when it kills innocent civilians - who are we to argue?
Redstate - why do animated penguins hate Antarctica?
Riehl World View - and don't forget to send your favorite liberal a batch of cookies topped with powdered anthrax!
Sister Toldjah - it takes a man like John Bolton to ignore the excessive and arbitrary killing done by the Israelis ... what a guy!

Get Your Hate On

The Republicans' recent midterm losses have no doubt stunned them into mometary silence.  Of course, a few of them are still able to accuse lefty bloggers of being little more than terrorist mouthpieces, but many conservatives are back on their heels and can't form a coherent smear.  No bother - in the spirit of bipartisanship, Agitprop provides here a list of suggested topics about which Republicans can renew their just and mighty wrath:

• English-language al Jazeera debuts this week;

• A top Marine says there was no plan for post-Saddam Iraq;

• The Church of England said that doctors should be allowed to show compassion by letting severely-disabled babies die;

• Parents have been coming to the aid of their children instead of forcing them to take responsbility and clean up their own messes (like good conservatives);

• Dan Rather is back;

• Rudy Giuliani is getting ready to run for president as a Republican - this gay-loving, pro-abortion, cross-dresser must be stopped; and last but not least;

• The reason we don't have any workers for low-wage jobs is because they've all been aborted, and this means Mexicans are coming to rape your women.  Be very afraid.

Weekend Wingnut Roundup

Democrats take the House and the Senate, Rummy goes to that up-armored Humvee in the sky, Macacawitz concedes, Little Ricky gets his ass kicked, Holy Joe hangs on, Dems take DeLay's and Foley's old seats ... whew!  What a week.  And what a week in wingnuttery:

Ace of Spades - Karl who?
All Things Beautiful - Hugh Hewitt says we lost because of Foley and an enemy that upped the body count on purpose right before the election - who am I to argue?
Althouse - I support the Republican Party?  No, you must have me confused with some other wingnut law professor.
American Thinker - Rick Santorum's loss had nothing to do with Rick Santorum.
Ankle Biting Pundits - fundamentals people, fundamentals - fags, flags, and four more wars will bring us victory in 2008!
Atlas Shrugs - no more Rummy?  No more Bolton?  Who's going to invade sovereign nations and chase diplomats down hallways now?
Blue Crab Boulevard - Robert Gates as head of DOD?  You might as well just sign the deed to Iraq over to al Qaeda right now.
Captain's Quarters - having learned nothing from the recent election, I'd like to run this list of wingnut presidential hopefuls by you ... whaddaya think?
Confederate Yankee - deadly neocon war machine?  Feh - we've killed sixty, maybe sixty-two thousand tops!
Debbie Schlussel - my power company is run by terrorists.
Flopping Aces - democracy is on the march in Iraq!  I mean, look at all the dead terrorists 'n stuff!
GOP Bloggers - now that the Democrats have won the MSM can start reporting all the good news coming out of Iraq ... just look at all those freshly-painted schools!
Hugh Hewitt - Hillary is already adding newspapers to the Vast Clinton Propaganda Machine.
Hot Air (Allahpundit) - shocked, shocked I am to find that the Democrats used the fact that Iraq is a complete fucking mess as a campaign issue!  Shocked!
IMAO - firing Rummy appeases Democrats, and Democrats appease the terrorists ... stupid Democrat terrorists!
Instapundit - if the BBC keeps telling the American people the truth about the Bush administration we Republicans are totally fucked.
Little Green Footballs - of course the terrorists would never have blown up the White House before the Democrats won, but now all bets are off!
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - can you believe Republicans are mad at a little ol' neocon like me?
NRO (K-Lo) - I'm getting all hot and bothered about a Romney/Santorum ticket for 2008 - that would show how compassionate we conservatives are!
NRO (Michael Rubin) - well, our non-stop warmongering has pissed off the Germans something awful - time to take our toys and move to Poland!
No Left Turns - I imagine that Bush's imagined fuckups did him in because it took so much time to defend him from imagined failures that his real failures were masked and ... what was I saying?
Patterico's Pontifications - take heart - eleven Democrats were stupid enough to vote for Clarence Thomas, so maybe we can sneak some more wingnuts onto the federal bench.
Powerline (Hindrocket) - the terrorists like the Democrats, the terrorists like the Democrats!  And whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!
Powerline (Mirengoff) - Iraqi democracy?  They just need to follow the instructions on the package we gave them ... as for us, we just need to kill us a few more terrorists and then ride off into the sunset.
Redstate - Mike Pence loves Blastocyst-Americans, so he should be Minority Leader.
Riehl World View - can you believe Henry Waxman wants to investigate Bush for the response to Katrina, government contracting in Iraq and on homeland security, political interference in regulatory decisions by the EPA and the FDA, and allegations of war profiteering?  He's got a shiny bald head!
Sister Toldjah - this photo of Charlie Rangel with Michael Moore prooves Rangel is a terrorist.
Townhall (K-Ham) - for my grand finale, I'll reorganize some deck chairs on the HMS House Minority Leader. 
Townhall (Oliver North) - Democrats think their subpoenas will stop terrorist attacks - boy have they got another thing coming!
Townhall (Rusty Shackleford) - as sure as I'm standing here, the Democrats owe their new majorities to Jon Stewart.

Wingnut Roundup - Electoral Blame Game Edition

Bush turned our government into a criminal enterprise, started an unwinnable war, and polarized the nation - do you suppose the wingnuts think these things had just a little bit to do with the defeat of their beloved GOP?

Ace of Spades - we lost because we failed to provide quality customer service.
All Things Beautiful - we're going to lose because of Bush Derangement Syndrome™.
Althouse - liberals think that when the Republicans win it's not because people actually want them to win but because they have devious ways of jacking up the numbers - mean nasty liberals!
American Thinker - Santorum lost because he concealed his true wingnut nature - Santorum '08!
Ankle Biting Pundits - we blame Mitt Romney.
Atlas Shrugs - I blame the jihad-loving MSM and the fact that Republicans are way too accomodating.
Blue Crab Boulevard - not only did we lose, giant snails are taking over Barbados.
Captain's Quarters - I blame the Catholics.
Confederate Yankee - if we lose it won't be because I didn't link to enough delusional wingnuts!
Debbie Schlussel - I blame liberals in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor.
Flopping Aces - goodbye wingnut judicial appointees, hello cut and run.
GOP Bloggers - we blame Tom Tancredo.
Hugh Hewitt - Santorum's loss is really a good thing because now Bush can put him on the Supreme Court.
Hot Air - some gay marriage bans passed, so that proves America still loves us!
Little Green Footballs - the fault lies not in ourselves, fellow lizards, but directly at the feet of The New York Times.
Macsmind - maybe now the press will look into all those Democrat scandals.
Michelle Malkin - conservatism won although the GOP lost, and best of all we have retained our God-given right to fag bash.
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - I blame Rich Lowry.
NRO (K-Lo) - I blame childish voters for throwing a temper tantrum. 
NRO (Myrna Blyth) - I blame mud.
NRO (Ramesh Ponnuru) - cloning and stem cells and Reid - oh my!
Patterico's Pontifications - we blame the Republicans, but only because they let Maxine Waters run unopposed.
Powerline - we blame the Democrats for having no plan for Iraq - how dare they let us hoist ourselves on our own petard!
Redstate - if we'd banned abortion, started more wars, and denied old people their drugs then we'd have won this thing.
Riehl World View - Lieberman's victory proves Iraq had nothing to do with this ... no, seriously!
Sister Toldjah - I blame the American people for wanting "change" - what the fuck is wrong with the way things are?
Townhall (Kevin McCullough) - I blame you wingnuts who didn't get up off you butts and vote for wingnut candidates ... because of you the advance of the moral sewer is coming closer to each of our homes ... GAAAHHH!!!  It's over!  We'll never have a state religion now!!!  GAAAHHH!!!
Townhall (Michael Medved) - I blame the viciousness of the political process, particularly Democrat viciousness - why can't they all be docile, like Joe Lieberman?

UPDATE:  More blame here.

graphic: Comandante Agi

A November Surprise - Regime Change!

Do you suppose Rove might come up with a November surprise this afternoon?

OK, so there wasn't an October surprise - no Osama in the dock, no Democratic scandal of significance, no Dem candidates found with dead girls or live boys.  So let's conclude our little photographic tour reminding you why you should vote to finish the Republican party off for good.

The Architect:

The Croupier:

The Fixer: 

God's Diagnostician:

The Tyrannosaurus of Turpitude:

Regime Change Anyone?

Weekend Wingnut Roundup

What a week!  Pastor Ted flamed out (sorry), Dick Cheney told most of the country to go fuck themselves, Lynne Cheney told Wolf Blitzer to go fuck himself, Republicans lied about the viability of Saddam's so-called nuke program, and now all four military newspapers will tell Rummy to go fuck himself right before the election!  And, predictably, the neocon rats are jumping off the HMS George W. Bush.  Whatever will the wingnuts do?  (And yes - one's a direct quote - can you guess who?):

Ace of Spades - so some preacher you never heard of is a homo - so fucking whaaa ... he had weekly contact with Bush?  Oh.
All Things Beautiful - the MSM is the only thing standing in the way of the Republicans retaining their House majority - bad evil nasty MSM!
American Thinker - all is lost, but at least we've still got Bill Clinton to kick around.
Atlas Shrugs - why do Laura Bush, Condi Rice, and Karen Hughes hate America?
Austin Bay Blog - things are so fucked up here in Texas that I might just vote for Kinky Friedman.
Blue Crab Boulevard - six Arab nations are looking to go nuclear - obviously it's all Joe Wilson's fault.
Captain's Quarters - Bush's non-strategy in Iraq is certainly better than anything Democrats might come up with.
Confederate Yankee - OK, let's move the goal posts again - sure Saddam didn't have any eggs or even a kitchen to cook 'em in, but he had a cookbook, and that means he was weeks away from that nuclear omelet.
Debbie Schlussel - why does Borat hate America?
Flopping Aces - so what if suicide bombers in Iraq have killed thousands of soldiers and civilians in George Bush's war of choice!  But a college student in a suicide bomber Halloween costume?  Now that's something to get worked up about!
GOP Bloggers - Joe Lieberman was betrayed by his party when members of that party went to the polls on primary day and voted for someone who would actually represent them.
Hot Air (Allahpundit) - Ghouliani and Santorum hate John Kerry too, and we're gonna beat this dead Kerry horse until you go out and vote Republican.
Hugh Hewitt - do you think exploiting the college kid who dressed up as a suicide bomber for Halloween will save Little Ricky?  No, no ... neither do I.
Instapundit - did you know you can get New Zealand butter online?  Well, you can.
Little Green Footballs - Charles Krauthammer says we're all gonna die when the Muslims get together and nuke us - who are we to argue?
Macsmind - why do the troops hate America?
Michelle Malkin - can you believe that the Missouri stem cell bill is supported by companies that might make money from stem cell medical advances?  I mean, they act like we're living in a fucking capitalist country!
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - heh, I made a funny isotope joke.  Pass the paste.
NRO (K-Lo) - Rudy loves Little Ricky ... isn't that sweet?
NRO (Ramesh Ponnuru) - Andrew Sullivan, as your intellectual superior, I cast you out of WingnutDome - begone!
Patterico's Pontifications - four of my last five posts are about John Kerry, and I'll keep it up until you forget that Bush and his minions have destroyed the country.
Powerline - like J-Pod, I blame the Iraqis for the mess they're in - can you believe they were stupid enough to vote in a bunch of religious nutjobs who then proceeded to polarize their country?
Sister Toldjah - I've linked to a website that shows live shots of the border, so you wingnuts divide up into groups and start watchin' - email me right away if you see any Mexicans.
Townhall (Ann Coulter) - whatever Karl Rove is paying John Kerry to say stupid things, it's worth every penny.
Townhall (Dennis Prager) - there there ... I know you wingnuts are really angry because Republicans spent more during the past six years than Democrats ever would have, but at least we got a neat-o border fence out of it.
Townhall (Kevin McCullough) - God hates fags, especially New Jersey fags.
Townhall (Rich Lowry) - I can think of several reasons to vote Republican, and one of them is to stop President Bush.

Join The Club

So Wolf Blitzer is all surprised that Lynne Cheney questioned his patriotism.  Has he been living in a sealed container these past six years?  A few modest examples:

Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
George W. Bush, Sept. 20, 2001

However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: the terrorists win and America loses.
George W. Bush, Oct. 30, 2006

The thing that's partly disturbing about it is the fact that, the standpoint of our adversaries, if you will, in this conflict, and the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task.
Dick Cheney (on Ned Lamont), Aug. 9, 2006

Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide.
Zell Miller (on John Kerry), Sept. 1, 2004

It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Dec. 7, 2005

Wolf, get used to it!  And welcome to the club!

Poster: © Austin Cline

Weekend Wingnut Roundup

Less than two weeks until the election - what do you suppose the wingnuts are doing?  And can you pick out the direct quote?  No peeking.

Ace of Spades - we sure do hate us some Andrew Sullivan - he stole our clever YouTube idea!  We hereby command all wingnuts not to link to him.
American Thinker - you Democrat Jews and Democrat blacks are traumatizing yourselves by clinging to outmoded concepts like fairness and tolerance, so you should chuck it all and vote GOP.
Atlas Shrugs - George Soros, moveon.org, and the Democrats - Israel haters all, and thus Jew haters.  And you people complaining because your El-Al flight was delayed?  Jew haters too!
Austin Bay Blog - OK, let's move the goal posts again:  even if the terrorists knew we were watching their money transfers, even if anything with a spinal column knew we were watching, if you label a program "SECRET" nobody knows about it by definition.  So let's hang Bill Keller for treason like, right now.
Blue Crab Boulevard - Iraq is not like Vietnam except when I say it is - if we pull out there will be a Cambodia-style blood bath, and the blood will be on the hands of the people who didn't want the war, not those who started it.
Captain's Quarters - 9/11!  Terrorists!  Vote Santorum or you'll all die!  9/11!  Your throats will be cut and ... GAAAHHH!!!  We're going to lose the Senate too!  GAAAHHH!
Debbie Schlussel - this week I'm freaking out about a Detroit area Catholic church that sold its building to some Muslims who'll turn it into a mosque ... next thing you know it'll be sharia law statewide, let me tell you.
Flopping Aces - 16 year olds are adults, so James Webb writing about fictional kid touching is far worse than any real kid touching Foley did.
GOP Bloggers - so what if Don Sherwood (R-PA) choked the living shit out of his girlfriend?!!  Harold Ford, Jr. went to a Playboy party, and he probably saw some women there!
Hot Air (Allahpundit) - well, we've lost the House, and if we don't hold the Senate it'll be prewar-intel investigations 24/7.  How about a little bipartisanship?
Hugh Hewitt - bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, down by a run, bases loaded - Lynne Cheney swings ... and it's over the fence, a home run!  What?  Oh, that 's right - it's football season.  Damn.
Instapundit - phoning it in again, I'll link to some NRO piece that discusses the Webb/Allen race - man, that is some weird-assed shit!
Little Green Footballs - Iranian mullahs have noted that Bush's invasion of Iraq has placed the Republican party on the path to electoral destruction ... hmmm, the Democrats say the same thing, so they must be mullahs too!  Why do Democrat mullahs hate America?
Macsmind - if your 14-year-old daughter was being held by terrorist-sodomizer-rapists you'd want someone with information waterboarded, wouldn't you?  This is why we have to let Dick Cheney waterboard all the Pakistani cabdrivers he wants!
Michelle Malkin - hold a U.S. citizen incommunicado in military detention for 6 months without charge?  Well, if his last name is Hussein he must be a terrorist - fine by me!
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - how can one possibly conclude that Michael J. Fox's stem-cell ads are politics as usual but that attacking Jim Webb for writing fiction is dirty pool?
NRO (J-Pod) - the Fox/Webb difference?  It is true that Jim Talent wants to restrict some forms of stem-cell research.  By contrast, Jim Webb does not take a position in support of grown men placing their sons' penises in their mouths.
NRO (K-Lo) - as usual I have nothing useful to add, so I'll just observe that Bill Richardson and Purell hand sanitizer spell doom for Hillary in 2008.
Patterico's Pontifications - now a Democrat in Texas has accused his Republican opponent of writing smut ... can you believe it?  What?  Republicans Lynne Cheney and Scooter Libby and DINO Jim Webb?  Nope, I don't see any pattern.
Powerline - lefty bloggers should just shut up and take Lamont's impending defeat like men - face it, he's too liberal for even Democrats to vote for and ... what?  Lieberman has lots of Republican support?  So what's your point?
Spurious George (R. Kramer,  Danger Seeker) - Ken Mehlman says the key to absolute power is to run more Republicans unopposed - who am I to argue?
Sister Toldjah - Jim Talent loses in Missouri and the next thing you know the place will be overrun with human clones - mark my words.
Townhall (Dennis Prager) - I ask that you compare the positions of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times on same-sex marriage, but I'll only give you the WSJ link.  Not that I'm suggesting anything ....
Townhall (William F. Buckley) - I fear that gays are not ready  for marriage because, as they will find, getting divorced is more difficult than changing your address.

graphic: Comandante Agi

Wingnut Roundup - Joisey Edition

Do you suppose the wingnuts are freaking about the New Jersey Supreme Court decision directing the legislature to give gays rights that every other Garden Stater has?  Count on it (and yes, one is a direct quote):

Ace of Spades - the New Jersey marriage decision is the Rove October Surprise we've been waiting for!  Fags and flags baby ... we're gonna hold the House!
Althouse - oh my, do you suppose the New Jersey Supreme Court kicked the gay marriage can down the road to help Democrats?  Naughty naughty court!
Blue Crab Boulevard - gays should not resort to the courts but should just shut up and wait for the legislature to give them equal rights ... that approach has always worked in the past.
Captain's Quarters - civil rights for gays?  Feh!  Good old-fashioned American contract law provides everything they need to form loving and lasting relationships.
GOP Bloggers - we urge gays to wait for the people to grant them equal rights instead of relying on activist judges - that way we the people can continue to keep them in the closet where they belong.
Hot Air (Allahpundit) - this decision doesn't seem to help Republicans a bit.  We are well and truly fucked.
Hugh Hewitt - the New Jersey diktat is a very big deal, underscoring as it does the left's assault on constitutional majoritarianism as well as traditional marriage, and reminding voters that every vote for any Democratic senator is a vote against marriage as a Democratic majority in the Senate puts loopy Patrick Leahy back in charge of the Judiciary Committee.
Instapundit - this decision probably won't help the GOP at all so ... wait!  I'll poll my wingnut readers and click my heels together three times and - and my wish will come true!  There's no place like the House!  There's no place like the House!
Little Green Footballs - there was a homo-nups decision?  Who knew?  We're too busy freaking out about Muslim cabdrivers who won't drive drunks around.
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - as usual I have nothing useful to add, so I'll just reprint this comment by a reader who wants to marry his Mommy.
NRO (K-Lo) - as usual I have nothing useful to add, so I'll just link to this piece of wingnuttery that concludes the New Jersey decision will kill off marriage and self government with a single stroke of the pen.
Powerline - if we wingnuts stay home on November 7th, then the world will be run by activist judges, and then do you know what will happen?  Married men kissing in public, crushing taxes, and a terrorist under every mattress.
Sister Toldjah - as I have often said, this monkeying around with the definition of marriage will result in population declines and men marrying farm animals.
Townhall (K-Ham) - I'll admit I don't know what he hell I'm talking about, but I smell a big fat judicial activist rat.

graphic: Comandante Agi

The More Things Change ...

Tata here again:

Pinkies up! Today in understatement: nothing changes. North Korea breaks into the nuclear club but can't get a seat in the dining room. Miss Jeff Skilling regrets she's unable to lunch today. To paraphrase Dot, you can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her blink. Finally, Miss Manners would not approve when one glove's in the lying lap -

Under the new rules, schools could separate genders for a variety of subjects if they believed it offered educational benefits, such as promoting greater student comfort or higher attendance. In all cases, enrollment in a single-sex class would be voluntary. If a school creates a single-sex class, it would not be required to offer the other gender its own similar class, but it would have to offer a coed version of it.

- and the other's in the smarter soup.

Return of the Wingnut Roundup

Yes, the Weekend Wingnut Roundup is back - stop bitching about it and take a look:

Ace of Spades - can you believe we've lost Jonah Goldberg on Iraq? Fucking Surrender Monkey.
All Things Beautiful - can you believe we've lost Condi on Israel? Fucking Surrender Monkey.
American Thinker - Republicans suppress the vote?  Banish the thought!  This time Democrats are suppressing Republican votes by having Mark Foley IM teenagers for sex.
Atlas Shrugs - religious tolerance? Catholics helping Muslims build a mosque? Feh - it's a recipe for getting your throat cut, believe you me.
Blue Crab Boulevard - Iraq is so not Vietnam - if we pull out of Iraq like we did Vietnam, there will be like, tons and tons of bloodshed and ... what?  Oh.
Captain's Quarters - Islam = Arabs = Terrorists = Nazis.  I mean - do the fucking math!
Debbie Schlussel - this week I am freaking out about Arabic translators - every single one of them incites jihad, even those working for Fox News.
Flopping Aces - sure we're going to lose the House and the Senate, but at least we've still got Ted Kennedy to kick around!
GOP Bloggers - Republicans are the party of accountability, as demonstrated by our halfhearted calls for the resignation of a GOP House candidate who was caught red-handed trying to suppress the Latino vote.
Hot Air (Allahpundit) - everybody knows the terrorists are coming in from Mexico, so why won't Bush and the Democrats get serious about border security?
Hugh Hewitt - DeWine is fucked, and so are we.  Won't you voters wake the hell up?  Democrats in charge!  Barney Frank!  Nancy Pelosi!  9/11!  9/11!
Instapundit - if the military could control what the news media reports, we'd have the Iraq war won in no time.
Little Green Footballs - CNN should be barred from reporting from Iraq because they report what goes on there.
Macsmind - myself and a couple other wingnuts here in Florida are going to vote on November 7th, so the pollsters predicting a Democrat rout are obviously idiots.  It's not over 'til we say it is!
Michelle Malkin - a Democrat accused of leaking the National Intelligence Estimate to The New York Times?  Would it surprise you if I said "Verdict First, Trial Afterwards"?  No, nor should it.
NRO (Jonah Goldberg) - we will permit the Iraqis to have a republic as long as it allows us to do what is necessary (i.e., whatever we want to do).
NRO (K-Lo) - Republicans don't deserve your vote, but hold your nose and do it anyway.
Patterico's Pontifications - well, this gay outing thing certainly isn't helping Republicans, so both sides should disarm.
Powerline - can you believe the Democrats would just stand aside and let the Republicans self destruct?  C'mon - come out with a program we can attack!
Sister Toldjah - Hugh Hewitt says we won't be destroyed in November ... do you think that's enough to prevent  ... aw, fuck it.

Yes We've Got Bodies

Tata to the rescue yet a third time:

Today's news is chock full of human bodies: dismembered for profit, melted for military science, bared for tourism, rubbed by priests, and televised by CNN - not to mention sliding down the food chain or up it. Here in the US, all that matters is that the people produce 'em. In fact, they're so important you'd think not everyone had one.

The Strictest Constructionalist

Tata to the rescue again:

Anyone who still thinks Ronald Reagan was a sweet old duffer should realize it's not dark outside his rectum 24/7. This guy was a Reagan appointee, and better than a few other turds still clogging up the mainstream:

Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday defended some of his Supreme Court opinions, arguing that nothing in the Constitution supports abortion rights and the use of race in school admissions. Scalia, a leading conservative voice on the high court, sparred in a one-hour televised debate with American Civil Liberties Union president Nadine Strossen. He said unelected judges have no place deciding politically charged questions when the Constitution is silent on those issues. Arguing that liberal judges in the past improperly established new political rights such as abortion, Scalia warned, "Someday, you're going to get a very conservative Supreme Court and regret that approach."

No, no, I'm already sorry anyone listens to you, and don't get me started about your participation in the bloodless coup that resulted in two bungled wars and nearly a million dead. But enough about me, what do you think about my rights?

Scalia, who marked his 20th anniversary on the court last month, generally finds himself taking the opposite position to the ACLU. Most notably, he wrote a majority 5-4 opinion last term giving police more leeway to enter private homes.

That Justice Scalia! A real stickler for manners! We wouldn't want to disturb the neighbors with all that pesky knocking and identifying. Thank you, Saint Ronnie! I was feeling a little too reasonable about equal access to education, control over my own body, and due process. Thank Jebus you put a stop to that!

Agitprop is Exhausted

So Agitprop is tired ... exhausted even.  Maybe the Bush "administration" is collapsing, maybe it isn't.  Maybe the good guys will take both houses, maybe they won't.  Maybe the Wingnut Roundup will be back next weekend, maybe it ... OK - it will.  The Roundup is taking a well-deserved vacation, but next week it'll be back.

In the meantime, you could read this.  Or this.  Or this, or this, or this.  Or even this bit of good news.

Just sayin'.

Compassionate Conservatives

Compassion may be in the air, as Dear Leader exalts tolerance and patience with moribund epidemiologists, which probably explains our government's new-found interest in the safety of Iranian airline passengers.Don't worry, neocons! Once they land, even common decency won't prevent you from finding exciting ways to torture smelly old children. To borrow a page - har har! you'd never part with one! - from your own playbook, some say you're ill-mannered barbarians, but you're not really fighters, are you? No, as Mr. Santorum has always hinted, you're lovers. Not even Pine Sol will clean up that stinky mess.

Mecha-Streisand

Tata here again.

What's with all the gay Republicans? Everywhere you turn, there's a new story about a Republican outing himself in a most embarassing way!

NEW YORK - The most riveting moment of Barbra Streisand's Madison Square Garden concert was one of the only unscripted ones. Streisand endured jeers as she interjected a political skit into Monday night's show, exchanging zingers with a celebrity impersonator playing George Bush as a bumbling idiot. Though most of the crowd offered polite applause during the slightly humorous routine, it went on a bit too long, especially for those who just wanted to hear Streisand sing.* "Come on, be polite!" the well-known liberal implored. But one heckler wouldn't let up. And finally, Streisand let him have it. "Shut the (expletive) up!" Streisand bellowed, drawing wild applause. "Shut up if you can't take a joke!" With that one F-word, the jeers ended. And the message was delivered - no one gets away with trying to upstage Barbra Streisand, especially not in her hometown.

Got it? No one fucks with Babs, not even Ken Mehlman!

*You will hear what La Streisand wants you to hear, you cheeky bottom! Submit!

Hat tip: friend of Poor Impulse Control Paulie Gonzalez. Gracias, amigo!