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This week's hot 2006 election blog topics: Tom Ridge stole that Terror Alert Color Code crap idea; Bush personally approved posting WMD recipes on "thuh internets"; Saddam was convicted of 1982 (pre-Rumsfeld handshake) crimes, but Bush got no bounce; God's Republican prayer inbox must be full; Hell, Bush couldn't even keep his base from yawning this week… and yes, we've got art! All of these topics, and many more. Plus... Rumsfeld. Ass. Door. Bang. Enjoy!

Borat-ing Bush

The funniest pic of the week comes from Daily Kos:

Democrats Win House and Senate, Declare VB Day


A Virginia National Guardsman watches as a statue of George W. Bush is torn down on the lawn in front of the Capitol Building

As for Bush's father, Barbara… how's your "beautiful mind" today?

Best. Yard Signs. Ever.

Found at Bartcop (Weekend-Monday, Nov 4-6, 2006 Vol 1871 - Mud Stuck edition):

Here's an actual sign from Greely, CO (Hat tip to Clinton Crusader):

How's that for truthiness? Speaking of truthiness...

Truthiness Hurts

Still wondering how those BushCo assclowns came up with that whole color-coded terror alert threat crap and that whole plastic and duct tape deal? Don at Satirical Political knows where Tom Ridge stole (yes, stole) the ideas from. Psst! While you're at Satirical Political, be sure to check out Don's HANDY GUIDE TO THE WARRING CRANKS, IN THE GOP RANKS.

Saddam's appeal began on Sunday, but you would've thought that BushCo had discovered fire and hand delivered it to the happy, smiling people everywhere... instead of fessing up to this little boondoggle (courtesy of The Internet Weekly Report):


Yep, the president who "appreesheeates thuh internets" and "loves the Google" has given every rogue nation and terror cell the recipe for nuclear proliferation. Just add yellowcake.

Shortly after the Saddam verdict hit the air waves, Hoffmania blogged:

Now the real work begins: The GOP has only two days to convince their idiot base that Saddam Hussein was found guilty of the 9/11 attacks. Mark our words.

On the other side of the aisle, Glenn Greenwald's Cassandra warning to Dems in the days leading up to Saddam's verdict -- not to just sit back and wait for it to happen -- went pretty much unnoticed.

Retail Sales & You

This chart (from The Big Picture) might explain to President W. Idiot why his "strong economy" crap didn't stick when he was flinging it with gusto:


God's Busy Week

If God has a Republican prayer inbox, it's surely filled to capacity this week, what with scores of endangered R's crying, "Help me, Jesus!" and 30 million confused Haggardites asking for guidance. David Goldstein (at the Huffington Post), however, cites a blogging preacher who claims Ted Haggard's wife is probably partly to blame for her husband's meth-buying romps in the hay with his massaging boy toy:

Writing in his personal blog, Driscoll offers his fellow pastors "some practical suggestions" on how to avoid the type of temptation that consumed Pastor Haggard. And near the top of his list?

"Most pastors I know do not have satisfying, free, sexual conversations and liberties with their wives. At the risk of being even more widely despised than I currently am, I will lean over the plate and take one for the team on this. It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness. A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either."

Get real, Driscoll. Even if your wife looks like Barbara Bush, she's not the reason a man seeks a gay lover, you idiot!

Thank A DUer!

Thanks to Democrat 4 Ever for posting this gem:

NBC First Read - Bush flubs PA town name, heading to Haggard country

campaigning for influence peddling Rep. Jim Gibbons, Air Force One knocks out runway lights in Nevada, government post how to build a bomb on the "internets" - man does Chucklenuts have some bad mojo going on. This would be fricking hilarious if this dumbass didn't have the launch codes.

Kudos to gatorboy for posting this:

Pic of Bush energizing the base.

Thanks to Greeby for this comment about polls and election results:

Hey now: It ain't over till Candy Crowley sings!

And, finally, congratulations and/or best wishes to Dr. Death:

First item on my agenda: I'm Marrying a Box Turtle!

Yep, lurking pukes, you knew it would happen. Dems win, and we immediately marry animals.

Oh, and at our reception we'll serve Rice-a-Roni and Ghirardelli chocolates, now that Pelosi is forcing her "San Francisco values" on all of us.

72 Hours Of Election Hilarity

J.D. Hayworth (R- Buzzard Lips, Arizona) has joined those of us he called "sleazy," in a Hail Mary attempt to con some voters at the last minute. From The Stakeholder:

With his own internal polls showing him losing ground to Harry Mitchell, J.D. Hayworth is desperately clamoring for votes by falsely telling voters that he supports stem cell research. (Source: Wall Street Journal, Nov. 3, 2006)

Ironically, just two years ago, Hayworth said stem cell advocates were offering "false hope in a scheme to win votes" and that doing so "is just about as sleazy as it gets." (Source: CNN's Crossfire, Oct. 13, 2004)

48 Hours Of Dem Determination

The most important blog post of the week was posted by Atrios:

48 Hours

Well, 48 hours or so from now I'll probably be contemplating my exit from our little CNN sponsored election night party, either so I can go celebrate in style away from the camera eye or to run away from the taunts of krempasky or boxturtle ben or assrocket or Captain Ed or who knows what kind of weirdass people will be there.

And, then, the next day we get to work. The big mistake in 2004 was that the netroots or whatever the hell we are at some point started deferring to the powers that be, and then post-election disillusionment combined with a leadership vacuum from those powers meant that things stagnated.

Either way, not this time. Time to keep marching. Worry about, and try to affect, the things you have some control over right now. Wednesday morning you can figure out how to do it better.

Election Day

firedoglake has the details on Laura Ingram's heartless robocall prank. In other late-breaking news, George W. Bush claimed he would "stay up past his bedtime on election night" to wait for the returns. The Huffington Post has the details, along with these blog headlines:

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Related Blog Posts

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* Tim Goodrich: Rumsfeld

So... how long will it take for Bush to give a "hands across the aisle" statement? As of Wednesday morning, I was betting it would be a hell of a lot quicker than the time it'll take for Nancy's new drapes to be delivered.

The Morning After

Femblog nails it with a post on the crucial issue for most voters: corruption/ethics. Meanwhile, Josh Marshall has the money quote from Grover Norquist on the GOP's two-year plan after such a big, huge, ginormous Dem win:

"When we want to go up and they want to go down, we want to go right and they want to go left, there's no compromise," said anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, a close advisor to the White House.

Norquist said the Republicans' primary goal for the next two years should be making the case for GOP control - not bipartisanship.

"Nancy Pelosi will do for the Republicans what (Bill) Clinton did for the Republicans - become the lightning rod to explain that their congressman who they thought was a reasonable guy was really a left-wing wacko," he said.

By the way, thanks to that "left-wing wacko," Dems got to dance in the end zone and start measuring for drapes this morning. Still laughing, Bush? Didn't think so.

Oh, yeah. Rumsfeld has hit the happy trails. From AMERICABlog:

BREAKING: GOP sources say Rumsfeld is resigning
by John in DC - 11/08/2006 12:58:00 PM

Buh bye. MSNBC just confirmed it from a senior White House official. And just a week ago Bush said he was keeping Rumsfeld for the next 2 years.

Quack.

Hmm. Is Cheney next? Pass the popcorn.

The Best Advice

Meteor Blades (at Daily Kos) has some sage words for us all:

Some people are already saying no big deal. Indeed, Charles Krauthammer, who, along with Dr. Laura, pretends to be the nation's psychiatrist, issued a pre-emptive strike last Friday with A Duel, but Not Decisive. Nothing to see here folks, just a blip, totally expected.

There will be a lot of the-Dems-didn't-really-win stuff. Whistling in the dark. Ignore it. The Republican Party came in second last night. The Democrats won. Savor it for a couple of days. Don't buy into the idea that the party's success doesn't mean anything.

Yes, yes, we haven't entered paradise. Did anybody really think that one winning election meant that? We still have a terrible war going on in Iraq, and a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, while Osama has been brought back neither dead nor alive. And there are rumors of other wars. Although the widespread and absolutely-certain predictions of an October-November surprise attack on Iran didn't pan out, and North Korea's Bomb was at least half a dud, the foreign policy of this Administration remains reckless, imperiling, counterproductive, incompetent, corrupt, wrongheaded and immoral. This won't change tomorrow.

But, as the cliché has it, a journey starts with a single step.

Sites like DemocraticUnderground.com and the thousands of noteworthy blogs have made all the difference this year, and we need them to continue their light shining on Republican cockroaches, even though we sent them scurrying for cover this week. As an old German friend once asked me: just because they lost the war, do you really think the true believers stopped being Nazis in their hearts?

Our work has only just begun, y'all. Yes, karma's a real bitch. But so is cleaning up the BushCo mess.

-- Delilah Boyd

[DaveJ]

1. The Internet will be the axis of Democracy

As long as corporate executives cannot control discourse here things should be fine.

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Funny stuff...Thanks

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[NanceGreggs]

3. Always enjoy BLOGBOX ...

But this week's version is especially delicious!

And the line "Rumsfeld. Ass. Door. Bang." was the icing on an exceptionally yummy cake!

[The Count]

4. Great stuff! keep it up!

[formercia]

5. Bush on message

this says it all:

[YOY]

6. I like! Is good!