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The Daily Show: Even More Growing Anger at AIG

What? Hiatuses happen. Anyway, we're back and with a vengeance.

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InstaSnark: All Sorts

Hey!  Go easy on them, dude; they're not used to it.  Fact-esque: Squealing Like Stuck Pigs: Bushies Respond to a Modicum of Truth

We knew there had to be a reason....  Bats Left, Throws Right: Oh, So That's Why The Times Hired Kristol

The war on the War on Christmas..... Brilliant at Breakfast: Ah, yer all a buncha pagans... :.  Heh.  Indeed.  Hehindeed.  Heh indeedie deedie do....

Right-wing male theocrats:  indistinguishable the world over, especially as regards their views on women and teh gays......Betty Cracker:  Mullah Warren;  Alas, a Blog;Rick Warren Blatantly Lies; Katha Pollitt on Warren’s Misogyny;  Chicken, er um Turkey Yoghurt: Benedict XVI: making a list, checking it twice

Sean Mullen ain't surprised.    GOP:  They Don't Get It.  They Never Will. We ain't surprised either.

Ride the Wayback Pony: A Southpark Christmas (Santa versus Jesus)

Dave Neiwart at C&L reminded us of the first episode evah:

(Not for the sensitive or pious).

Department of Valedictions: Meanwhile, Kristol Waves a Fond Farewell to Cheney....

Cheney is a douchebag wrapped in an enigma and dipped in a mystery, but Bill Kristol is still just a douchebag.  Amazingly, Fox News viewers and others still listen to him, proving that what we suspected about them all along is TRUE.

From Think Progress, this delightful wingnuttery on the half-shell:

Dennis Prager Wants Minorities to Apologize for The Sins of Fellow Minorities

Apparently, in Prager's universe white Christians, especially white Christian males, are always apologizing.  Who knew? 

Prager thinks it's about time for minorities to "express shame."  Prager himself, as you can see, has none.  

Clif at Sadly, No! sees this one off in Town Hall of Shame.

Basically it appears that Prager thinks that individual members of minority groups should apologize for the bad things that other members of that group did which forced the majority to enact discriminatory laws against the entire minority group and then feel vaguely guilty years later for doing so....

Dept of Valedictions: It's Herbert Hoover Time! or, Even Dick Cheney is Sometimes Right

Via HuffPost:

Senate Republicans' dramatic revolt against a White House-backed auto industry rescue plan is fraught with political risk.

InstaSnark: The Media & the Wingnuts Play: Connect! the!! Blago-Obama Dots!!!...

...which are, of course, in completely different coloring books. Meanwhile, the Left just laughs the bitter laughter of adults who have seen it all before because OF COURSE everyone knew it was coming, even though it is all so stupid, so stupid and transparent, so stupid and transparent and bogus, and yet full of wingnutty media-fuelled portentousness and pomposity.

Whiskey Fire: BREAKING: The Untold Story of the Blagojevich Corruption Scandal! (Did Anyone Say... WILLIAM AYERS!?)

Edroso: Times Pretends to Believe Blago is Trouble for Obama

Sadly, No!: They’ll Get To That Part Later

Sadly, No!: Blago Bung¹ [another shorter Michelle Malkin]

The Poor Man: Blagwater

Attackerman:  Oh, My.  He's So Gangster

Lawyers, Guns, & Money:  Gangster - The Rod Blagojevich Story

Rising Hegemon:  Lincoln Isn't Spinning, He's Snickering

Balloon Juice: Make It Stop

Balloon Juice: Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Pays Off

The Rude Pundit:  Note to Republicans and the Media: We Don't Care About Obama and Blagojevich

The Heretik:  I Swear

The Daily Show: Blagojevich--What Isn't He Being Charged With?

Jon Stewart:  "Rod Blagojevich is quickly going from being a sleazy politician to something out of a 19th century German children's fable."  

Corruption:  an Illinois tradition!

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Blago-gate!

Obama's first "scandal"---and he's not even in office!  Things move faster than they used to and not always in a good way.

 Marc Ambinder points out that Obama has long considered Blagojevich a tumor on the Democratic party's behind (Ambinder put it a bit differently).  UPDATE:  This article suggests that maybe he hasn't thought so for that long.   And a Chicago reporter thinks Rahm Emanuel might have tipped off the feds to Blago's "Pay to Play" gambit. 

But the fall of the Illinois Democrat---while pleasing to those of us who like our government corruption free--does its part to wilt the petals in our winner's bouquet and we haven't even had the inaugural ball yet.

InstaSnark: Jeb Bush for Senator?

He did not actually get Florida involved in an illegal war.  But when you have said that, you have said it all.

The Department of Valedictions Daily Show Threefer (Jan 2006): This is Wire Tap

If someone from al-Qaeda was calling you, Bush wanted to know why.  And he was going to protect our civil liberties, with or without a warrant!

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Snark O' the Day: Neocons Want Barry O. to Fix Everything Bush Broke

Suddenly, it's our problem and only our problem.  They'll just stand on the sidelines and jeer.  If they had any constructive ideas, or anything like a solution, we'd have heard them back when it mattered.

From Father Tyme at  BlondeSense:

Ain’t it just curious now with the NeoCon and Republican roaches braving the light of day, that all of a sudden they profess concern about, oh, food quality, health items, housing, jobs...ethics...etc.?

The Economic Crisis: A Tragedy for Those Who Feel

At The Left Coaster, Paradox has put up a post arguing that it's time for a little less detachment about the impending Depression [see The Agonist] and a little more thought about the damage that's already been done, and being done, and the suffering that's already started.

Why Do the Wingnuts Rage?

Roy Edroso has a theory:

As they're big on displacement, whenever some atrocity occurs wingers accuse liberals of showing insufficient outrage. It's not so much a policy prescription as an accusation of psychological unfitness because, though we agree that we would rather kill terrorists than let them kill us, we don't express it in blood-curdling howls...

Snark O' the Day: The Supremes to Consider the Obama Birth Certificate "Controversy

Bark Bark Woof Woof woofs about this glorious waste of taxpayer dollars in the interests of settling once and for all a "worrying" "issue":

The United States Supreme Court is going to decide whether or not to hear a case claiming that Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen and therefore ineligible to serve as President of the United States...

This Just In: The RNC Spent More on Palin than You Made in the Three Years Before the Lay Off

They didn't exactly put it that way, but that's what it comes down to. 

It's getting kind of hard to keep track of all the numbers, but Politico seems to have done the math:

Dept of Valedictions (Sep. 2005): Jon Stewart Looks at the Bush Administration at the Time of Katrina

Come; let us ride the Wayback Pony & consider together this EPIC FAIL.

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Colbert: A Man Called Plaxico

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Dept of Valedictions: Bloggers on Bush on Bush

As DaveNoon says,  "I suppose everyone has a punch-the-wall-with-your-face moment in this interview."    The transcript is here.

The Rude Pundit nailed perfectly its most remarkable aspect.

Dept of Valedictions: Bush Rocks Out ("It's the End of the World As We Know It')

And he feels FINE! 

Follow-up to Bush classic "Sunday, Bloody Sunday."

Ride the Wayback Pony: More Nixon Tapes! (Snark O' the Day)

Remember back in the day when we only got to hear the tapes with the expletives deleted? 

But we always knew there would be more and now they're here!  For the best round-up of Nixonian quotables for the aspiring Republican pol, see Amygdala. The thing about Nixon you have to like---if, that is, you subsequently lived through Reagan and Bush---is that he didn't bother to conceal his ruthlessness or cynicism under a genial mask or a crimp-browed chimp-like smirk of good-natured puzzlement. 

Ride the Wayback Pony: Bush Being Briefed on the Potential Collapse of the New Orleans Levee (Daily Show 4-7-2006)

Remembering W as he was when it was his world and we just lived in it. 

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Dept of Valedictions: Bush is Still in Office for 50 Days, So Let's Watch His Cover of "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" Again

The Rude Pundit Ponders Bush's Place in History

In his interview with his sister, Bush discussed how he wishes to be remembered.   If he were someone else, I'd find the hopes he confides  rather touching.  But he's Bush and I find the whole thing disturbing and embarrassing and distressing in light of the, you know, FACTS.

Give the man this.  At least he didn't say he wants to be remembered as a man who left the world a little better than he found it.  (He might have implied it, but he didn't actually say it.)

Dept of "Gee, Ya Think?": Welcome to the Recession

They---i.e., those in charge of declarations---have at last declared a recession!  It's official!  Huzzah!  And to celebrate, and to ensure that there's plenty of shredded ticker-tape for the parade, the Dow plunged 680 points. 

(There had better be a parade, after they made us wait all this time.)

As The Heretik deadpans---click for satisfyingly mordant artwork---"it always feels better when official types feel what we have been feeling for awhile."

Further Unsettling Thoughts on the Black Friday Trampling Death at Wal-Mart

Jon Swift and our co-bloggers have already weighed in.

At Barking Rabbits, Zeppo considers the incident.

The mob mentality is a really funny thing. You see it at political rallies and old Universal horror films where the townsfolk are whipped up into a frenzy and storm the castle with pitchforks and torches. But shopping? This is especially indefensible when you stop to think that the same items are going to be available for the next month. Yes, you might save a few bucks, but is that really worth all this?....

Oh, Zeppo.  Can you say "$600 plasma screen TV's"?  How about "Doorbuster Specials"?

Wingnuts in a Nutshell: Bill Kristol Solves Global Jihadism

Jihad's True Face

Nutshell version:  "Only patriotism, endless global warfare, racial profiling, and punishing the innocent along with the guilty, can save us from global jihad."

Though probably you will prefer TBogg's "shorter":

Snark O' the Day: GM Constructs a Memory Hole (Agitprop)

If you hadn't just lived through 8 years of Bush and Cheney, you wouldn't believe this could be possible.

Since you just have, your outrage and incredulity meters shorted out a long time ago and there's nothing left of them but a few busted springs going boingy-boingy-boingy 24/7.   You'll probably just say, "Huh."   So I'm noting this for later, when we've all had our sense of moral outrage restored at least to pre-Katrina levels.

Walk Him Out in the Morning Dew: Bill O'Reilly's Valuable Opinion on Homeless Vets

From Scott at World O' Crap:

Bill O’Reilly, as you may recall, doesn’t believe that any homeless veterans exist in this country as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Now this may seem to contradict observable reality, but you have to remember, this is Bill’s opinion, which is worth millions of dollars a year to FoxNews, thus making it one of the finest opinions that money can buy. 

Walk Her Out in the Morning Dew This Morning: Peggy Noonan Looks for Signs of the Depression

The reason we started this blog is that when we read something like this ourselves, we can't think of anything to say. As Roy Edroso says:

It's like that scene in Post Office where Bukowski's finally had enough of that co-worker who's always muttering insults, and wheels on him only to realize that the guy is lost in a private fog and has no awareness of him or anything else around him. It takes a lot of the fight out of you.