Warmonger and noted lobbyist fucker Senator John McCain (R-AZ) conceded the fall election yesterday to turban-wearing Barry Hussein Obama:

John McCain said Monday that to win the White House he must convince a war-weary country that U.S. policy in Iraq is succeeding. If he can’t, “then I lose. I lose,” the Republican said.

He quickly backed off that remark. 

Poor John.  To win he and his bloodthirsty geriatric supporters have to sell us the Iraq war (again), and that’s just not going to happen.  Most of the American people are sick and tired of the Dear Leader’s fake war.  Later, McCain was desperate enough to say that the war “will be over soon.”  John, you confused old fart, don’t you understand that the Boy King and the Dark Lord are planning to stay there forever?  They’re going to fake a terrorist attack (with luck it’ll be Houston) just before the election, declare martial law, and then … four more wars!
[Raw Story]

Hillary Clinton explains to reporters where it is that babies come from.

Most of you were probably busy yesterday preparing for your Oscar celebrations. Roasting red peppers for your goat cheese crostini. Finishing the hem on your Christian Soriano inspired bitch pants so that you could rip into every hideous starlet dress (Sarah Lawson’s - George Clooney’s “girlfriend” - ode to a 5 year old girls bed linens) and horrible haircut (courtesy phone for Renee Zellweger and her Flowbee). So you may have missed this little gem of a Frank Rich column in the New York Times comparing Hillary’s campaign to the war in Iraq and Swampsow to Hail to the Chimp. It is a bit long but worth a read.

At least we know that when she has her Mission Accomplished moment her ample nut sack will not require any extra padding in her flight suit. [New York Times]

This is a video of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in some receiving line in Paris. Not that my French doesn’t suck but, at the end there, it’s some lame ass motherfucker who stood in a receiving line just to call my Nicky a prick. Nicky’s all like, then, what the fuck are you waiting in line for, asshole? Right on, Nicky! Fuck that guy. [Fox News]

Apparently, one of the many reasons people are voting for Obama, besides his smile, his fancy stolen words, and his not being married to Bill Clinton, is that they see him as more likely to beat John McCain and his cabal of wrinkly old war heroes. This whole strategy voting for the candidate who you see as more likely to beat the Republicans has been a winner since it was used in 2004, so let’s do it again, eh?

Of course, chances are that Obama has a better chance than John Kerry did, since he can speak in sentences that people can understand. Also, instead of running against a crusading warmonger, he’s running against an elderly crusading warmonger. So, that’s why people vote for him, yes? Read the rest of this entry »

This would totally fucking rock:

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that “Josh Romney, one of former Gov. Mitt Romney’s five sons, says it’s ‘possible’ his father may rejoin the race for the White House.” Earlier this month, Romney “suspended” his campaign and endorsed Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) bid a week later. But Romney has yet to comment on the recent New York Times article on McCain’s close ties to lobbyists and “still retains control of the nearly 300 delegates he’s already won.”

I wonder how much more of Tagg’s inheritance Mittens would piss away? [Think Progress]

The GOP is wondering: how far is too far when it comes to saying racially disparaging things? Because here’s the thing: getting ready for the general election they’ve thought of so many things to say that are just killer, but you don’t want to give voters the wrong impression and be be sent the way of the Macaca. So, not trusting their own instincts, (and you have to give them credit for that) the GOP is doing some serious soul-searching, engaging in meaningful dialog about racial politics in America. Ha ha ha, just kidding! They’re doing polls to find out just how racist is too racist! Great start, gents! And politically speaking, that’s a way smarter move than just letting the race thing go altogether. Because, you know. Barack Obama is black for goodness sake. [Politico]

Mr. Shane Lavalette and I redesigned the site. I can’t even tell you what a relief this is. I made a mock up of this redesign literally the day we launched and as soon as the model was done I immediately began hating the old layout, a hatred that has grown and grown and grown. I am so pleased that the new layout is finally here. I’m looking at it live on the internet and not as a decidedly not-real screen-sized jpeg.

Note the log in form toward the bottom of the left sidebar. you can log in and out from right there, which is sort of handy. Also, your comments are now posted directly to the front page, under the ads on the right hand side when you write them. And thanks to the new tag cloud, we learn that Hunter tags every single post he writes with his own name. Nice!

I’d love to know what you think of things: likes, dislikes, suggestions. (Though, I’ll tell you right now, if you say something like “fewer ads” you have the wrong idea altogether.) So leave your thoughts in the comments, I’ll make the appropriate tweaks and then hastily go back to ignoring your opinions again. No, just kidding. You guys are the reason I get up in the morning – on the mornings I get up, that is.

So, back when I was a lobbyist, most of the people in my family didn’t really get what I did and, when they did get it, they weren’t exactly fans. These pictures of me at a Bush event on affordable health care that I attended as part of my job not only didn’t give my family anything to crow about, my grandmother almost disinherited me over them.

I think, frankly, that the whole Vicki Iseman thing is an illustration that most people have no idea what the fuck lobbyists do. You know how I got to this event? I lobbied for, like, almost 5 years to try to get Congress to pass this legislation called association health plans which was always of minor importance to everyone I worked for. And someone at the White House worked with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to get Bush to do this short panel discussion with some real people that wanted the law to pass and I got a ticket and because I was young and a woman, they put me in the front row. I tried not to yawn. And the bill still hasn’t passed.

Anyway, as I’ve said before, lobbyists do exactly what Vicki is accused of doing as a lobbyist (the rest is more what she’s accused ot doing as a woman), and it’s never as nefarious as it’s portrayed in the media and never as difficult to understand as it seems to be to people outside of D.C. But, when I first moved here (in 1999) my dad asked me not to take a job as a White House intern because he didn’t want to have to tell his friends or our family that I was a White House intern, and he’s probably glad this week that he doesn’t have to tell people that I’m a lobbyist anymore, either.

But, after 9 years of living in D.C., I finally have a picture that my grandparents and parents may actually crow about to their friends. Read the rest of this entry »

Barry Hussein Obama, the Islamunofascist candidate for the Democrat nomination for the presidency of these here Yew-nited States (even the red ones) has won 10 primaries in a row (11 if you count that expatriate beauty contest). Hillary has to do something. Apparently, that something is to act completely fucking unhinged:

“Shame on you, Barack Obama,” Clinton said angrily when talking to reporters after a rally in a technical college gym here. “It is time you ran a campaign consistent with your messages in public. That’s what I expect from you,” she said, calling on Obama to repudiate and stop the mailings, which she waved demonstratively.

“Meet me in Ohio. Let’s have a debate about your tactics,” she said, calling the mailings “tactics that are right out of Karl Rove’s playbook.”

Hillary Hillary Hillary … this is not a good look for you. Look - I like you - I even voted for you in the NY primary because Rob Reiner told me to. But this foot stomping frothing-at-the-mouth shit is not going to work. What will? I haven’t a clue, but you’ve got to get a grip.

HRC: ‘Shame on you Barack Obama’ [The Politico].

Having already written once about how everything Vicki Iseman and McCain are openly accused of doing (as opposed to rumored to have done IN BED) is really just business-as-usual in Washington, I don’t really feel like repeating it. Actually, if they were boning that would be pretty common in Washington, too, but whatevs. Yawn. People cheat on their spouses! News at 11!

Anyway, having already said it’s business as usual, it turns out McCain totally agreed with me… and not just when he was defending himself this week. When he was deposed as part of Senator Mitch McConnell’s lawsuit against the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, he agreed that meeting with Lowell Paxson and flying on his corporate jet with or without Vicki Iseman and taking his campaign contributions and writing the letter asking the FCC to vote on the station acquisition was business as usual… and that it looked kind of shady. Oh, um, oops. I mean, not that any of that stuff was actually eliminated under McCain-Feingold, or even under the more recent lobbying reform bill (though, they are supposed to pay something closer to the actual value of the corporate jet ticket), but, you know, it looks shady, which is why most Congress Members and Senators don’t like it out there that they do it ALL THE TIME.

Oh, and they might’ve boned. Which is the only reason the story got written in the first place.

A Hole in McCain’s Defense? [Newsweek]