Huffpo: “Rudy the Transvestite”

Jeffrey Feldman, Daily Kos’ self-appointed “Frameshop”, in today’s Huff:
Of all the words used to describe the campaign of Rudy Giuliani, transvestite may be the most accurate. The video from 2000–which shows Donald Trump thrusting his face into Rudy’s deftly sported novelty breasts–may be the first thing that comes to mind. But Giuliani’s fetish for frocks [...]

It be’s official

It seems the Congressional Black Caucus has backed Speaker Pelosi into a corner:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The House Democratic Caucus voted on Tuesday night to give Rep. William Jefferson, D-Louisiana, a seat on the House Homeland Security Committee. This comes after the caucus stripped Jefferson of his seat on the powerful Ways and Means committee last [...]

Not quite a meltdown

That meltdown McQ was expecting yesterday hasn’t quite manifested itself yet, but I think we do have the Matt Stoller equivalent of a histrionic Chris Bowers IMORTANT ACTION ALERT this morning:
Real antiwar Democrats, like Ted Kennedy and Russ Feingold, people who are working to end the war, are damaged by this type of irresponsible behavior. [...]

In order to save the toe, we must destroy it

Well, that was unpleasant. I just returned from having the hideous ingrown toenail on my left big toe fixed (using the term loosely, mind you), as the Doc took one look at it and suggested I come back in a couple of months to do the other one. Evidently, he believed he had [...]

Shiver…

Oh, man. Just got a call from the podiatrist, he has an opening at 8:50 AM tomorrow. I was really, really hoping to put off having my ingrown toenails fixed until Friday, so that I could spend the weekend in my lounger “recovering” with a case of Icehouse. Now, not only will [...]

Hear, hear…

Stuttaford at the Corner:
Who is losing Afghanistan?
George W. Bush, that’s who. His watch. His administration. His incompetence. His arrogance. His failure to learn from failure.
I wish I could say that I was surprised by this latest report from Aghanistan, but I’m not:
“British officials are worried about the consequences of US proposals to eradicate Afghanistan’s [...]

I love the smell of threats in the afternoon

Markos Moulitsas:
It’s increasingly clear that Nevada didn’t deserve to be moved up in the calendar. They apparently don’t understand that Democratic caucuses have nothing to do with the Republicans watching Fox News.
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This is on Dean and Reid, who are happily legitimizing the right-wing’s favorite propaganda outlet. And it will be on any Democratic candidate that [...]

Sorry, Steve

I tried, man, I tried. My meager WordPress skilz won’t allow me to put your ad up on the sidebar at its current size, and I don’t have Photoshop here at work. I’ll resize tonight, and get it over there.
In the interim, here’s this:

Steve has provided a lot of free ice cream over [...]

Quote of the day

Goes to Matt Stoller:
Dean is hurting us in Nevada, Pelosi is not able to manage the mandate on Iraq, and Reid is a disaster in the Senate. Our leaders do not respect our politics, but more importantly, they do not seem to respect the public will. And that means that come 2008, it’s [...]

Ouchies

Never one to miss a good Greenwald takedown, I noticed McQ’s masterful version over at QandO this morning. I’m going to have to work on my skilz to play in this league, it seems :-)
The best part:
UPDATE: Mona gets a special thanks for beaming in and providing info that proves Greenwald is a bigger [...]