Energy deregulation will not deliver the promised land of CHEAP

You know, today's NY Times has a piece by DAVID CAY JOHNSTON titled "Competitive Era Fails to Shrink Electric Bills."  Shocking, isn't it, especially since the fraud behind the privatization of public utilities has been articulated several times by several people.

Those Ivy League scum! (unless they're Repubs, of course)

recent Republicans keep tooting that "we're just plain folks, just like you" crap.  Take the Republican running to fill Bill Frist's Senate seat in Tennessee.

Quote of the day

Washington's absolute and stunning obliviousness to the past, its lack of curiosity about the present, what Abbas Hilmi, in reference to the British occupation of Egypt eloquently described as "this dark abyss of incomprehension," is breathtaking. Policy is not made in a vacuum so much as in a stiff-necked straightjacket undermined by the administration's own shortcomings.
Geoffrey Aronson, in a column in the Lebanon Daily Star

Delusions, Act Two: Lights On, Nobody Home

Imagine that. Seems the Chimpy Regime has no contingency plan in place if the Dems sweep the House...

Cliff Kincaid finds blackmail and "closeted Democrats" in the Foley story

Cliff Kincaid, God's gift to mental health professionals and the head of Accuracy in Media, has long been short on logic and/or basic honesty.  He's reached a new high in low thinking however, in a rambling column that is too vague to allow for certainty, but which seems to say that the gay Republicans (Foley, Kolbe, who knows who else) are really "closeted Democrats."

Rove: These (religious right guys) are my friends, they're not nuts

It's now been widely reported that David Kuo, formerly high up in the White House Office of Faith Based Initiatives, has written a book (to be published Monday) in which he accuses Rove and other Repub chieftains of calling the figures of the religious right "nuts" and other non-complimentary terms.

Quote of the day

I don't say that the difficulties we are experiencing round the world are caused by our presence in Iraq, but undoubtedly our presence in Iraq exacerbates them.  I think history will show that the planning for what happened after the initial successful war fighting phase was poor, probably based more on optimism than sound planning.
General Sir Richard Dannatt, head of the British Army, in an interview with the British paper the Daily Mail.

Prosecutors recommend 30 to 37 months in prison for Safavian

When David Safavian was first charged with criminal activity, a lot of right wing propagandists tried to depict the situation as blood thirsty liberals trying to hunt down an innocent man for political purposes, simply because of his association with Abramoff.

Quote of the day:

Have I done something to offend the White House? I am always getting the shaft...they came to Ft. Pierce.  A few weeks ago and said I was not allowed to attend. yet Joe Negron is there...tomorrow Potus is in Martin County and I am told I am not allowed to there either.
Former congressman Mark Foley, complaining in 2004 e-mails to Florida governor Jeb Bush.

[Why the persona non grata status you might wonder if you were a suspicious person]

Bush press conference--it's the same old song

Once again President Bush faced the cameras and the nation in a televised press conference.  Once again he addressed Iraq.  Once again the press inquired about Iraq.  Once again the president offered his same old song.