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The Brad Blog has just reported that Congressman John Conyers and Senator Barney Frank sent a letter to the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service to clarify whether or not Karl Rove qualifies as a civil officer who may be impeached. From the best Gay News Source on the planet, PageOneQ, we learn that Senator Rick Santorum's Director of Communications, Robert Traynham, is gay.
How does a gay man work for the most anti-gay Senator in the United States, a staunch opponent of gay rights issues and a strong supporter of the Federal Marriage Amendment, which seeks to define marriage as only between a man and a woman?
In Mr. Traynham's own words:
"Senator Santorum is a man of principle, he is a man who sticks up for what he believes in, I strongly do support Senator Santorum."
According to Mike Rogers, an attempt to follow up with another question caused Traynham to hang up the phone.
So why? I mean come on, why? How the hell do you support someone who thinks you are less of a person than he or any other straight person is? How do you support a man who thinks you're going to his mythical "hell" for the way you live your life? Brad Friedman of The Brad Blog is at it again, pulling up rocks and watching Republicans scurry out from underneath.
In an article this afternoon, Brad takes Rush to task for his comments that a "left wing conspiracy", masterminded by the DNC and Wilson, is responsible for the whole Plame affair:
The "theory" that Rush has been pummelling his Ditto Heads with all day: Joe Wilson has been a part of a double super secret background conspiracy with the DNC since day one, well before he was sent by the CIA to Niger.
Yes, that's right. According to Rush, the entire plan to send George W. Bush's own father's Man in Iraq -- a decades-long expert in African and Middle-Eastern affairs to Niger -- was all just a ploy by Democrats "to undermine the War in Iraq and the Bush Presidency," as Rush repeatedly described it.
We suppose then, that Bush 41's letter sent to Wilson saying that he concurred with much of the article that Wilson wrote prior to the war in the San Jose Mercury News was also part of that conspiracy.
Why is Dubya's own father trying to destroy Dubya's own "Presidency", dammit?!
You really have to read the whole thing, it's an excellent dissection of Rush's latest idiocy.
In other news, Brad Scooped the AP (again), in reporting Joe Wilson's calling for Rove to be fired by the administration.
A move that we at Watching The Watchers think would be sanctioned by any administration that cared about national security for real, rather than just gave it lip service to get re-elected.
~A! From the Raw Story:
Two of the Democrats most often mentioned as contenders for the White House in 2008 are currently paying staff to work for local candidates in New Hampshire, home of the nation?s first presidential primary, the paid-restricted Roll Call reports Thursday. Excerpts follow -- Kerry and Edwards spokespersons say it doesn't necessarily indicate a presidential bid, though experts say the move is a "fairly big step."
Well, I know we all supported Kerry in 2004 out of soidarity against Bush, but I was thinking maybe we could have someone this time that we actually WANTED to be president run. We've talked about my anger issues before, and I think it might be time to touch on this subject again.
I owe Markos of Daily Kos an apology. I flew off the handle because he banned some users he thought were inappropriate to his site a couple of days ago, and I never stopped to think about why that was an asshole thing to do.
I know I've said Kos has a responsibility to the left, and he does. And he discharges that responsibility the way he sees fit, and it is not for me or anyone else to tell him how to run his blog, his site, or his topics.
He is right about something when he says if you don't like it, start your own blog, build your own thing.
I fell into the trap of taking the blogosphere too seriously, and maligning the biggest one in the fold for no better reason than that he was the biggest.
For that, Kos, I apologize. I would also like to apologize to John Aravosis of AmericaBlog, for being an asshole to him in the email when he called me on it.
After I took a step back, I realized the only thing I was doing was being a dick. So thanks, John, for helping me see that.
And to all the people on the right I have offended, go fuck yourselves, you cheap tricks.
~A!
Senator Russell Feingold (D-WI) is one of my heroes. The Raw Story is carrying a piece quoting Peter King (R-NY) as saying the media should be shot for paying attention to the Rove story on the Valerie Plame outing. We did it, folks. We've got our community set up and ready to roll.
I'm still customizing everything, and it won't be until tomorrow that I can actually get back to blogging, but for now feel free to go ahead and start up your own diaries, and start getting a feel for the new system.
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