Go General....

Like Atrios, I'm starting to get a mancrush on Wes Clark, too.

Rock and a hard place...

As pointed out at Daily Kos, Obama is all set to support the Terrible FISA bill, even if it offers retroactive immunity. Cowardly, but he knows it's a safe move.

The commenters there are up in arms, and rightly so, but still swear to vote for Obama. They're upset, won't give him any money or go out campaigning, but they'll still vote for him. I will too. And Obama knows this. He knows were aren't voting for McCain no matter how angry we are, and he knows we aren't going to stay home or vote for someone else, as that's as good as supporting McCain. He gets to look tough on terror and national security with the uninformed masses, even though it pisses off the left, because he knows the left is behind him regardless.

He doesn't need our respect, he doesn't really even need our money. He needs our vote, and he knows he has that.

Sad day

I'd just like to thank Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and the 103 other Democrats who voted for the abyssmal FISA bill today, for taking a big steaming dump on the 4th Amendment. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Seriously, are you ever going to learn that "compromise" means giving Bush and the Republicans exactly what they want?

And where were you, Barack Obama, during this whole business? Way to relase a statement after the vote. You're the leader of our party now, and had you shown some actual leadership, the Democrats in the House might never have gone along with this abomination.

Hopefully the Senate strips the immunity out of the bill when they get it. But if not, I'm sure the Democrats, Obama included, will just roll over and play dead the way their House colleagues did.

The sky is still there...

Gay people have been marrying in California for over a day now and Veronica and I are still married and the world hasn't come to an end.

Yeah, they're not even trying anymore...

Out of gas

So, John McCain wants to save us money on gas by getting rid of the federal gas tax for the summer. Which of course means millions of dollars that won't be going for road maintenance, as that's what the tax is for. And he has no plan to make up the difference, unlike Hillary Clinton who at least taxed the oil company profits.

Speaking of oil companies, Mr. Save Americans Money on gas wants to continue, and even increase, billions in taxpayer subsidies to the oil companies...companies which have been posting the highest profits in the history of the world. So basically, he wants to seem like he's saving gullible people money on the front-end, i.e. at the pump, while taking it back from them on the back-end and giving it straight to Exxon-Mobil, Shell, etc. Now, that's change you can believe in.

Good for the goose?

So, if Michelle Obama is Barack's "baby mama," can we start calling Cindy McCain John's "sugar mama?" I'm just sayin...