Via Josh Marshall, this comes from one of your premier bloggers on the right:
Obama thinks he is a good talker, but he is often undisciplined when he speaks. He needs to understand that as President, his words will be scrutinized and will have impact whether he intends it or not. In this regard, President Bush […]

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What took me two and a half minutes to say in video form takes Daniel Larison one sentence:
but it seems clear to me that the ever-declining standards that conservatives have set for what makes a candidate acceptable to them and the declining quality of the political leadership they have received are very closely related.
Problem, of […]

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Bush to address the nation tonight on the economic crisis.
Honestly, is there any way he’s going to inspire confidence? Mr. 19 percent? What’s he gonna say? Ten bucks says he invokes Teh Terrorists.

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Hey, did you hear there’s a new Sarah Palin doll out?

Hmmm… sounds familiar. Oh yeah:

I’m thinking the people who have the Bush doll are most liable to buy the Palin version.

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You come out of this week with the feeling that a large group of Republicans, maybe a majority, maybe a large majority, would prefer it if Sarah Palin was at the top of the ticket, not playing second fiddle to John McCain.
But you also realize that the most fervent Palin partisans have been the most fervent […]

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All sorts of goodness, really, to be gleaned from McClellan’s upcoming book:
The president’s real motivation for the war, he said, was to transform the Middle East to ensure an enduring peace in the region. But the White House effort to sell the war as necessary due to the stated threat posed by Saddam Hussein was […]

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Pictures being worth a thousand expletives.

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Via Kevin Drum, Rick Perlstein explains why that “Thank you, President Bush” was planted in that Lititz lawn in the first place:
The “Reagan rebound,” he said at this morning’s panel “Bushed: Conservative Failure and the Danger the Legacy Lives On,” “allowed them to define conservative government as a success.” It had, indeed, been a conscious […]

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If you wanted a snapshot of how out of touch the conservative movement has become, and why it is in the process of becoming so marginalized, you need look no further than this one.
The Conservative Political Action Conference is happening this week, a confab where the movement gets together, gives itself whiplash by nodding in agreement […]

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Il Dunce makes a funny. Or maybe his speechwriters do.
Sullivan, yesterday, made the succinct point here:
I’ve now heard Dodd and Clinton say that the president takes an oath to defend the Constitution and the territory and people of the United States. This is the president’s oath of office:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will […]

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Our Glorious Leader:
President Bush compared Congress’ Democratic leaders Thursday to people who ignored the rise of Lenin and Hitler early in the last century, saying “the world paid a terrible price” then and risks similar consequences for inaction today.
Because Ahmadinejad has the Wehrmacht at his dispoal and he’s about to march on Poland.
Honsetly, I know […]

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Kill me now. Yet another account of the Leader’s visit here - this time in quiz form - indicating how stupid he is, and by correlation, we are:
How well were you paying attention to what President Bush said in Pennsylvania this week?
1) Complete George W. Bush’s statement: “One way to love your neighbor is _____________”
a) […]

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In this Associated Press photo from today’s confab with the Leader, on the left, we see one Sherry Wolfe, who - I’m told - halfway through the event removed an article of clothing which covered this shirt, emblazoned with the message: “George Bush your war killed my friend’s son.”
On the back: “Brent Adams Killed Dec. […]

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