A million little bitch slaps

Okay, I promise, that's the last "clever" play on the title of James Frey's work of speculative fiction.

Anyway, I guess Oprah has finally gotten over the "betrayal" and "hurt" portions of her break up with Frey and is ready to move on to the nationally televised evisceration of The Author Frey.

Who do you think you're messing with, bitch? Jenny Jones?

Mind you, I find it slightly disingenuous of Oprah to get all offended about this. My point being, if the only reason you enjoyed the book was because of it's supposed "truthfulness", then it really wasn't that great a book to begin with. I mean, get over it, Oprah. Or at least get honest and do it Jerry Springer style.

It's Cindy Adams, but...

Okay, here's what she said: Jack Abramoff's partner Mike Scanlon admitted to digging up former Congressman Robert Livingston's private life. Set to become speaker, Livingston then got sidelined for Tom DeLay's man Denis Hastert. Prosecutors now checking if Abramoff and Scanlon took Livingston down at DeLay's behest.

I'm taking it with a grain of salt, but it certainly does make DeLay's resemblence to Tony Soprano more pronounced...

Hope for lawyers

Wonder if this means he's going to cancel his Adult Swim guest spot as well?

I also liked Gonzo's quote from the CNN article: As far as I'm concerned, we have briefed the Congress.

Well, Gonzo, as far as I'm concerned your boss wiped his ass with the Consitution of the United States and got caught

Now he's gonna be naked for a reason!

He won't be able to afford clothes.

And let's just not do the obligitory gay/prison jokes. They just demean us all.

Somehow, I don't think he's worried

Bloggosphere falls on Chris Matthews...sun still expected to rise tomorrow.

Somehow, I don't think he's worried and it's amazing how this man has managed to piss off just about everyone at some point.

The New Political Weapon: Tears!

That's right. Feeling put upon and maligned because you started an unwinnable war on false pretenses while pervily listening in on private conversations of Americans? Try crying like a little girl.

George Clooney made Abramoff's daughter cry...someone's gonna get sued.

Now, let's ignore for a moment the fact that what really made his daughter cry is the fact that her father is a crook and got caught. No, let's instead blame the actor and shift focus from the guilty party, making him more "human" and "family-loving". Indeed, let's get Daddy Abramoff to write a letter saying how inappropriate Clooney's remark was and how it reduced Princess Abramoff to "a fit of tears."

Gee, Princess, let me know if you're gonna tear up like that everytime your dad get's cornholed by a large black man named Spyke in the next twenty years. I want to buy stock in Kleenex.

Well, that probably won't happen, because rich, connected, white men never go to jail for their crimes. Still, Princess, your dad is indeed a jack-off who raided the political system and got his ass caught.

It disgusted me when Alito's wife teared up ON FREAKING CUE in his hearings. It disgusts me that it's now being used to try and soften Abramoff's image. The new weapon of political wingnuts everywhere is good old fashioned bitch-ass crying.

THERE IS NO CRYING IN POLITICS!

If you can't handle it, don't get involved. If you're really so upset about your granddaughter crying, don't make her a target by writing off a pointless and unsupported letter. If you don't want to hear your husband refuse to answer any sort of question, don't sit in the hearing and certainly don't sit in plain sight of the cameras...well, plain sight after an aide comes up and tells your husband to skootch his chair over a couple of inches 15 minutes before you mysteriously decide to let loose.

Christ on the Cross, what's next? Dick Cheney going racoon-eyed on a Barbara Walters special?

This isn't politics. It's manipulation. And it's disgusting.

Better late than never, I guess.

Way to catch up, Missouri legislature.

Mind you, it only jumps into action now that servicemen are being killed.

I remember back in the 80s and 90s when Phelps and his merry band of inbred idiots were "protesting" the funerals of AIDS victims. However, I guess the pain of their families and friends just wasnt good enough for legislative action.

Phelps makes me seriously question my Quakerism.

Hillary Clinton is a prick (but I still may have to vote for her)

Joshua Frank has an interesting tidbit of info.

In a recent memo to receptive ears, the American Israel Public Affiars Committee (AIPAC), the same people involved in the Israeli/Pentagon spying incident, stated it was "concerned that the decision not to go to the Security Council, combined with the U.S. decision to support the 'Russian proposal,' indicates a disturbing shift in the Administration's policy on Iran and poses a danger to the U.S. and our allies." The "Russian proposal" in question concerns an agreement between Russia and Iran that would let Iran continue to pursue and use nuclear power.

Apparently, Israel's some 200 nuclear warheads (that it won't admit to having) aren't enough to make it safe from Iran. The interesting thing of note here, though, is who the AIPAC is buying politically.

Hillary Clinton has now compounded her whole flag-burning nonesense by basically accusing Bush of not acting unilaterally enough on Iran. At her Princeton University speech (and interesting counterpoint to Gore's speech, he gave a good one, she seems to have been on powerful drugs), she accused BushCo of a whole laundry list of dropped balls regarding Iran and charged that he was willing to "outsource", aka hide behind various other nations, dealing with the Iran and North Korea questions. She supported throwing the whole thing to the UN Security Council for sanctions, which, frankly, seems like just more "outsourcing", but I wouldn't want logic to get in the way of a woman who rants like Kitty Dukakis on a drinking binge.

Interestingly enough, this is exactly what the AIPAC is calling for. And guess which Democratic darling, who appears to have undergone a recent values realignment of Kerry proportions, is the top Democratic receiver for AIPAC funds for 2006 or far?

Since October 31, 2005, Clinton has received $58,000 from the AIPAC.

Now, my grandmother was a wise woman and she always said, "The only two things you can't find in politics are coincidences and an honest man." Update "man" to "person" and the saying still seems to apply.

Oh, Hillary, someone needs to put you in a shopping bag because you've been bought and paid for. And, honestly, you were pretty cheap.

It is also interesting to point out, as a friend reminded me on his blog, that Bill Clinton is partially responsible for Iran's state of nuclear capability with the colossal intelligence blunder that was Operation Merlin. Of course, using this sort of logic, one could also damn Bush because Regan created both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein back in the 80s, but this entry is about Hillary and that fact that while she's talking about how big a threat a nuclear Iran is, she completely fails to mention that she knows because she was there when Clinton helped create it.

However, with all this said, I would still vote for her over any likely Republican candidates. I'd do it resentfully and I wouldn't campaign for her, but I'd still do it.

Jesus meets Citizen Kane

I guess that's sort of what he's going for. All the power, none of the moral issues.