Per aspera

I have nothing interesting to say, so I’m going to link you to interesting things others are saying:
Glenn Greenwald describes Your Harry Reid-led Senate in action:
Harry Reid — who has (a) done more than any other individual to ensure that Bush’s demands for telecom immunity and warrantless eavesdropping powers will be met in full and […]

To this:  The Most Vulgar, Disgusting, and Foul Joke in the World

John Holbo writes:
Possible slogan for ‘08: ‘Anybody can make a mistake. To really screw things up requires a Republican.’ Maybe with a cute kitten, wearing a Goldwater button, barely clinging to a clothesline. And I’m talking slogans for the Republicans here. The Republican party is in some danger of becoming the party for those who […]

Digby has a post up at the Campaign for America’s Future about right-wing postmodernism. I avoid the word conservative because “epistemic relativism,” as Digby puts it, is rather radical.
I’m not sure if it’s that we’ve become used to it or the administration has used less of it recently, but I don’t find myself pounding […]

I’m sure it’s a perfectly wonderful sign for the armed forces, not to mention the republic, that so many generals lately have felt compelled by their sense of duty to their country to retire from the military:
Sanchez: Iraq war ‘a nightmare with no end in sight’
Sanchez, who retired in 2006, said it was his duty […]

Also via Atrios, Ezra writes a very clear distillation of why those poor “liberal hawks” deserve every bit of abuse they get from the dirty fucking hippies on the blogs.

Via Atrios, the most hopeful news I’ve heard a very long time.  Look!  Democrats who aren’t reflexively craven.  It’s like seeing a school of coelacanths.

From a diary by litigatormom on Daily Kos, a portion of the 60 Minutes interview with The Commander-in-Chief:
    PELLEY: Do you think you owe the Iraqi people an apology for not doing a better job?
    BUSH: That we didn’t do a better job or they didn’t do a better job?
    PELLEY: Well, […]

I’m pretty sure they’ll revoke my blogging license if I don’t do an election summary. To begin: so much for the genius of Karl Rove.
Anyway, the situation is encouraging. As of right now, AP’s calling the VA senate race for Webb.
Both houses, by fuck. Both.
Democrats have won 29 seats in the house, […]

This was an accidental post (stupid Ecto), but it was up long enough to be commented upon before I noticed it. So I can’t exactly delete it, since it’s now part of the conversation. I’ve put it behind the jump. I’ll put up more of what the monetization guys call “content” when […]

What were the Democrats of Connecticut thinking when they voted against this man?
During last nights debate, Sen. Lieberman, noting Abraham Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus, declared, “We’re in another time like that.”
Can America afford to have a Senate that lacks Joe Lieberman’s honesty and integrity?

Lindsay Beyerstein of Majikthise rounds up some disputation of the latest Lancet study [.pdf] of excess Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion from some of our comrades on the right, who will let nothing deter them from their commitment to bravely defending the powerful. My favorite quotation was this:
When the statistics announced by hospitals […]

Follow this link for pictures of a waterboarding apparatus that was used by the Khmer Rouge.
Waterboarding is an enhanced iterrogation technique that it is now fully legal to use, under U.S. law, against any one of us, should the President decide that he doesn’t like the cut of our jibs:
6. Water Boarding: The prisoner is […]

Second-hand - a cabbie from Uganda describes what it was like:
“Bush is a dictator. Did I offend you?”
“No. What makes him a dictator?”
“You cannot joke about killing him. Hell even under Amin we danced and sang death songs at him. He had a hotel complex that he tortured people in. The difference between Bush and […]

That’s that, then.  The President said to Congress, “I am not bound by the laws you pass,” and Congress voted to agree with him.
I guess since the Constitution has been pretty much used up as toilet paper by now, Congress found themselves having to wipe their asses with Magna Carta, too.
Every Republican in the House […]