Thanks to Think Progress for this little deal: Seems Gonzo WAS involved after all!...

Of course, the news today that the house passed the spending bill, laced with a withdrawal timetable attached, well, it didn't exactly sit well with our bucolic dictator....

For a long time now, the right wing noise machine has tried to vilify everybody who ever objected to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and saved a special venom for anyone who wanted to close that place.

Here's what a US News & World Report blog had to say about a recent Pew poll on how interested the public is in the US Attorney firings:

The Bush apologist network is in fine voice over the US Attorney firings. Half of the proud corps of propagandists" (PCP) jumps up and down screaming Clinton fired all the US Attorneys, while the other half of the PCP has formed an echo chamber which keeps repeating "it was about immigration prosecutions, it was about immigration prosecutions, it was about immigration prosecutions."

For those who just can't wait for the next opportunity to hand James Dobson a few more dollars, here's a press release announcing Focus on the Family's new attempt to raise funds...uh, I mean religious awareness:

The Republicans are trying to defuse the furor over the US Attorney firings via one tactic they used over and over again in the Valerie Plame incident: hey, you may not like it but it wasn't a crime. Repeat "It wasn't a crime" 100 times in a row, as fast as you can, and you'll get an idea of the audience effect they're after.

The statement:

People in the middle class have long been said to be a robust pillar supporting the socio-economic stability of a country. So, the bigger the middle class, the better our society is. However, the number of those in the middle class here was learned to have declined substantially while those in the upper and lower classes has increased in the last 10 years, according to a report released recently...It makes one wonder whether or not a chronic social state making the rich richer and the poor poorer is being revived. The crumbling of the middle class means nothing other than those in a state of economic hopelessness are increasing. Those driven out of the middle class are set to be deprived of their courage and hope that they would be better off if they work harder.

As if the DOJ audit report on the mess the FBI has made of National Security Letters wasn't bad enough, now the FBI official in charge of the bureau's Communications Analysis Unit says he discovered the frequent legal lapses and reported his concerns over them to his superiors in early 2005.

I had an interesting experience on Sunday. I turned on Meet the Press just as Russert started his four-way debate on Iraq, with the one-and-only Richard Perle as one of the two voices insisting on victory & nothing but (Tom DeLay was the other). Perle sounded so....irrational...that I started doing a little background checking and, yikes!

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