It isn't officially part of that Republican invention known as the "American Values Agenda," but good old Sam Brownback has introduced legislation that would make it a crime for doctors in Oregon to prescribe federally controlled drugs in order to help a patient commit suicide, even though doctor-assisted suicide is legal in Oregon, and has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
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If companies will lie about employing the severely disabled in order to get preferences for government contracts, why wouldn't they lie about being owned by disabled military veterans?  They would, of course.

In Bushworld, the economy is bright, jobs are plentiful, and the world itself is smelling very rose-like.

In the news, real average weekly earnings dipped again last month and, by my calculations, are down overall for the period from June of 2005 through the end of July, 2006.  And that rose-like aroma seems suspiciously like a cheap aerosol air freshener concealing something just a little more...pungent.

A piece by Tom Lasseter for McClatchy Newspapers offers a pretty grim view of the current state of, and likely outcome in, Iraq. Yes, Mr. Mehlman, "adapt to win" indeed.

From ++M.J. AKBAR:

Bush and Blair are good at winning a war on the ground. They are experts at losing the battle for the mind. Their firepower is impressive. Their persuasive power is abysmal. There is no mystery in this. No one really believes what they say, because they have made a habit of shifting the truth to define their objectives, or shifting the objective when facts have changed....Bush and Blair perhaps believe that they can survive on the strength of media headlines. Today's headlines are so often tomorrow's boomerangs. Bush and Blair have lost the plot.

++Editor-in-chief of The Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle newspapers.

From ++Bill Gallagher:

Polls show most Americans still believe George W. Bush keeps them safe from terrorists. Fifty percent of the American people continue to believe Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction. With a crew like that, it is no wonder Bush is still captain of our national ship of fools.

++Gallagher is a Peabody Award winning former Niagara Falls city councilman who now covers Detroit for Fox2 News

At last month's "Aspen Ideas Festival," there was a panel on "Conservatism in America" which discussed the state of that political concept today, which necessarily required some description of where those ideas came from, and how the advocates of those ideas came to power.

My least favorite arachnid-American, the one and only Ken Mehlman, seems to have changed course.  Remember all those millions of repetitions of the mantra "stay the course, not cut and run?"  Down the tubes, off the table, in the can, down the toilet, gone like the smile from a salesman's face when you say no.

New mantra?  "Adapt-to-win."  Which also describes where the mantra came from.

Shazam! A whole week now, and the GOP is still fuming over the Ned Lamont win over Joe "Dino" Lieberman..........

Journalism may be alive and well, but you wouldn't know it from this story. From the AP business beat:

Experts: Better care prevents oil leaks

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