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June 30, 2006

Friday Video - Notorious VP

From Real Time with Bill Maher, we have a video promoting the VP's new album, Get Quail or Die Trying. Do not step to this mutha fucka or you'll get a boot in the ass!...

June 29, 2006

Bush Gets Thumped on Tribunals

After getting cock blocked by the Supreme Court on military tribunals for those held at GITMO, the President tries a unique approach to laws he doesn't agree with: he's going to ask Congress to change them. Sure, anyone who...

June 28, 2006

The Democrats who voted FOR the flag amendment

Shame on all of the Democrats who voted for the amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States: Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Dayton (D-MN) Feinstein (D-CA)...

June 27, 2006

Rock the Casbah - Israel Set to Strike in Gaza

Shit is heating up fast in Gaza right now. Israeli troops and tanks are massed along the Gaza border in anticipation of air and land strikes inside the Strip if a kidnapped Israeli guard is not immediately returned. The guard,...

Limbaugh Busted Again

Rush Limbaugh has been busted for illegal possession of drugs again. This time, the 55 year old Oxycotin addict was nabbed with boner pills prescribed to someone else. Limbaugh was detained at a Florida airport where officials found a bottle...

June 23, 2006

Friday Video - Colbert Stumps Congressman on Ten Commandments

Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland sponsored a bill allowing the display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings. Obviously, he feels very, VERY strongly about this. But can he actually name all ten? Not so much... More......

June 22, 2006

If That Was A Good Week. . . .

Apparently, President Bush has recently had what is considered by some people to be "the best week" of his second term. Wow! That's really saying something. What's more, according to a recent Zogby International poll, the president's approval numbers "have...

June 21, 2006

YOU Are an Enemy Sympathizer!

In an increasingly polarized nation, civility is often the first casuality of politics. Last week's bogus Iraq war debate had one Republican reach a new low and by extension, condemn the majority of Americans as enemy sympathizers....

June 20, 2006

ANYbody But You

In an odd CNN poll that asks Americans how they'd vote (or not vote) in 2008, Hillary Clinton gets the predictable cold shoulder from nearly half of respondents. According to CNN.com, "Respondents were asked whether they would 'definitely vote...

June 19, 2006

The New Republicans

New to POLJUNK, Jude Lemrow chimes in on a new movement of Conservatives who are represented by the vitriolic hyperbole of Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and other blowhards. But are there more of them than us?...

June 16, 2006

Round and Round

Our friends at Blogs for Bush seem ready to hoist that old Mission Accomplished banner again. While the last week or so has certainly brought some good news for Team Bush, I don't know that anyone who pays attention is...

Jefferson Dumped from Committee

When Tom DeLay was indicted a while back, the Republicans took their reputations and the rules of the House seriously and forced him out of his position as Majority Leader. It was a shining moment of ethical virtue and showed...

Friday Video - He's Got Whole World In His Hands

A vision of grace and poise......

June 14, 2006

Dems Promise to Be Bad Cop

Democrats have now gone on record saying they'll indeed exercise more oversight if they win control of Congress this fall. Depending on who you are, you can read that two ways: Checks and Balances will finally be restored to our...

Turd Blossom Comes Out Smelling Like a Rose

So, a day later and the only confirmation that Karl Rove has been told he's not a target of Fitzgerald's investigation is word from his lawyer of a letter he received from the prosecutor—A letter he won't produce for the...

June 12, 2006

Settling In

Before the war, we had some assurances this would be a quick victory with rose pedal parades and dancing Iraqis as a finale. There was General Richard Myers who said this would be a, "a short, short conflict" against an...

June 9, 2006

Friday Video - Olbermann Smacks Coulter

Not to become a complete shill for the Countdown with Keith Olbermann, but when he has excellent commentaries two weeks in a row putting the screws to a couple of our favorite douchebags, what can we do? This time, Olbermann...

June 8, 2006

Peeping Tom - Daschle Weighs His Options In NH

Because Democrats can't crowd the field enough this year, we have yet another possible candidate for the 2008 Presidential nomination. He's a guy you know and love from the heady days of 2004, let's give a warm welcome to...

Zarqawi Dead, Insurgency Not

The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is certainly reason for celebration for those who were disgusted and horrified by his relentless bloodlust. This is the man who masterminded some of the most atrocious bombing attacks in Iraq of the...

June 7, 2006

A Portrait of the Secretary in Repose

A painting of Rummy by Iraqi artist Muayad Muhsin is expected to be the main attraction in an exhibition opening in Baghdad on Monday. The painting, which shows Rummy kicked back in a lounger with his army boots on...

Busby Loses, But So Does the RNC

Everyone's talking about the 50th district race out in California. It might sound like a bombastic musical number, but the Busby-Bilbray race was the most watched in this mid-term primary season. Anticipation was high for the mostly unknown Democratic candidate...

June 6, 2006

Save Fair Use: Oppose the Section 115 Reform Act

Urgent: 24 Hours to Save Internet Fair Use The entertainment industry has sneaked language into an obscure copyright bill that could smash Internet fair use. The law implies that licenses from copyright holders are needed for every digital copy made...

June 5, 2006

Stephen Colbert's Commencement Address

Stephen Colbert gave the commencement address at Knox College on Saturday. He wasn't totally "in character" for this speech, but it's still pretty great: First of all, I'm facing a little bit of a conundrum here. My name is Stephen...

GOP Runs the Only Horse They Have Left: Gay Marriage

Facing an angry base who KNOWS they've been sold out on everything Conservatism used to stand for—fiscal responsibility, military isolationism, border security, limited federal government, etc.—Bush and some Senate Republicans are trotting out the only horse they can still run:...

June 2, 2006

Friday Video - Olbermann Smacks Down O'Reilly

For a while now, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has been in a mostly hilarious and harmless feud with Fox's chief blowhard Bill O'Reilly. It's usually Keith showing a clip in which O'Reilly mistates or misrepresents "facts" to support his asinine arguments....

June 1, 2006

Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

Rolling Stone: Was the 2004 Election Stolen? Sources and Commentary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and ROLLING STONE spent four months investigating the 2004 election in Ohio. To assemble a conservative estimate of the number of voters in the state who...
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