Video- Bunning Objects To Unemployment Bill Again, Despite GOP Support

What. A. HUGE. Ass. Via TPM.

McCain Gets Angrier

You really have to give these people a medal for cluelessness, McCain was never a "happy warrior", he was always a dick with a barely hidden shitty temper, as Cliff can attest.

The New York Times runs a fascinating piece on Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on how "has cut back his dealings with many of the people who were at his side while he was running for president" and is escalating his attacks on the White House.

"If Mr. McCain has had a history of being a happy warrior, that is not the phrase used by many of his friends to describe his demeanor these days. There are few glimpses of the winks, wry smiles and one-liners that were once an integral part of his character. More typically, his remarks are tinged with sarcasm or anger, delivered with a wave of the arm or both hands chopping through the air..."

Said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): "His presidential aspirations are over -- he knows he's never going to be president. Most people in that position have a hard time re-engaging, but he's really engaged. I've never seen him like this before. He's really going down there, he's really making it tough for them."

Video- Fox Guest Claims Obama Providing Aid & Comfort To Terrorists

This guy Scheuer is really campaigning for dickhead of the year.

CIA withheld secret counterterrorism program on direct orders from Cheney

By GottaLaff

It's like someone uncorked the Bottle of Bad. First this, then this, this, a lot of this... and now this:

The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy.

Mr. Panetta, who ended the program when he first learned of its existence from subordinates on June 23, briefed the two intelligence committees about it in separate closed sessions the next day.[...]

In the eight years of his vice presidency, Mr. Cheney was the Bush administration’s most vehement defender of the secrecy of government activities, particularly in the intelligence arena. He went to the Supreme Court to keep secret the advisers to his task force on energy, and won.

A report released on Friday by the inspectors general of five agencies about the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program makes clear that Mr. Cheney’s legal adviser, David S. Addington, had to personally approve every government official who was told about the program. The report said “the exceptionally compartmented nature of the program” frustrated F.B.I. agents who were assigned to follow up on tips it turned up.

High-level N.S.A. officials who were responsible for ensuring that the surveillance program was legal, including the agency’s inspector general and general counsel, were not permitted by Mr. Cheney’s office to read the Justice Department opinion that found the eavesdropping legal, several officials said.

The Nation of Dick is experiencing severe shrinkage. It's about time.

By the way, another person who really needs to be targeted, Limp Little Dick's personal Trojan, is David Addington. Let's get his name out there more, starting now. He deserves all the exposure we can muster up, pun intended.

Iraq Watch: DickFail

By GottaLaff

The Failed Nation of Dick fails again. How can one person be so wrong so often? I suppose if we really wanted an answer to that, we could go to Miss Personality Disorder... or BushCo en masse. Now DickFail is showing what a giant burlap bag of hindquarters he is on the subject of Iraq... again:

Cheney argued the Obama administration's policy may produce a new round of violence and squander recent gains. What Cheney neglected to mention is that the Obama administration is simply following through on the SOFA deal negotiated by the Bush/Cheney administration.

As Fred Kaplan explained the other day, "[T]he withdrawal is not the doing of President Barack Obama. Rather, it was negotiated during the Bush administration, at -- more to the point -- the Iraqi government's insistence. The Iraqis are the ones who wanted, and ordered, us out. Even if John McCain had won the 2008 election, we'd still be pulling out of Iraq's cities."

If Cheney doesn't like the Status of Forces Agreement, signed in November 2008, he should take it up with Bush.

Take it up with Bush? He never did that while in office, why start now?

VIDEOS: Bill O’Reilly censors photo of American Idol's Adam kissing a guy

By GottaLaff

Bile O'Homophobe's despicable double standards are in stark contrast to today's wonderful good news items that celebrate the freedom to love whomever one chooses. Check out Bile's squirming and judging and sliming his way through these few seconds of video:



Here is the photo in question, via Gawker:

Gasp! Omg, gay tongues! Mutual attraction! Expressions of passion! Gaaaa!

Now take a look at Bile reveling in the opportunity to expose (no pun) us and himself to a giant, steamy-hot helping of writhing, gyrating bevy of barely-clad, pixelated teen girls gone wild:

That was from Spring Break 2007 in South Padre Island.

Think Progress:

[W]hile O’Reilly found the image of two men kissing “so revoltingly gross and icky and offensive” that he had to crop it, he has in the past had no qualms about airing video “that included gyrating, bikini-clad drunk girls humping people during Spring Break.”

Oh, that silly cad, he can't fool us. One can almost hear him warbling "Skip to My Loofah" as the video clips are played. Um, Bile? If anybody's revoltingly gross and icky and offensive, it's you.

UPDATE-- Some excellent instant analysis of my post by BuzzFlash's Mark Karlin via an email:

Bill's fascination with barely clothed women while condemning them is the wink-wink of the church going white male who patronizes the strip during lunch hour.

My theory is that the right wing whacko stuff is the last attempt of the white male to restore white patriarchal authority. This is consistent with the plantation structure.

Remember plantation owners were church going fundies while shtuping their slaves. O'Reilly and the Dittoheads are the heirs to that tradition.

Newt Gingrich Considers White House Bid

By GottaLaff

I'm sure the fact that Newtie cheated on/left his wife while she was dealing with cancer wouldn't be a factor at all in 2012:

Former House speaker and potential presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has confessed, telling conservative Christian leader James Dobson that he was cheating on his wife at around the same time the House was impeaching President Bill Clinton over his White House affair with Monica Lewinsky. [...]

Gingrich's first marriage ended after he discussed the details of the divorce with his wife while she was recovering from cancer surgery. He married again in 1981 and was divorced in 2000, when he married the young congressional aide with whom he had the affair.

Oh, I forgot. He asked god for forgiveness. He has been 100% redeemed. Moving on:

According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Newt Gingrich is considering a run for president in 2012.

Said Gingrich: "Callista and I will look seriously and we'll probably get our family totally engaged, including our two grandchildren, probably in January, 2011, Gingrich told reporters during a sit-down interview before last night's speech.

"We'll look seriously at whether or not we think its necessary to do it. And if we think it's necessary we'll probably do it. And if it isn't necessary we probably won't do it."

The anticipation is palpable. Everyone is hanging on what you'll do, Newtie, especially your former paramour/third wife Callista. Nobody can save the Rushpublic party the way you can.

Judge reinstates Cheney subpoena in lawsuit

By GottaLaff

Once upon a time, when I first started writing for what was then Cliff Schecter's blog, I got an enormous response to this post. Really enormous. I'd nearly forgotten about it, but I noticed it was getting a few hits earlier today. Now I know why:

A federal judge has reinstated a subpoena seeking testimony from former Vice President Dick Cheney in a lawsuit filed by a Colorado man. [...]

Steven Howards was arrested in June 2006. [See my old post]

Agents called the incident an assault and a harassment charge was later dropped. Howards filed suit, alleging the arrest was in retaliation for disagreeing with Cheney and a violation of his constitutional rights to free speech and protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

Oh, to get the Nation of Dick in front of a judge! One of these days, something's going to stick. And who better to stick it to than Old Flaccid Dick himself?

Fly fishers to Cheney: Go jump in a lake-- "It's as if the Holocaust museum held a dinner to honor [Nazi war criminal] Klaus Barbie."

By GottaLaff

The Nation of Dick is none too popular with the fly fishers. One might even say they want him gone, hook line and sinker:

When the American Museum of Fly Fishing hooked Dick Cheney for a fund-raising dinner, critics howled that they should throw him back.

Cheney - whose Secret Service code name was "Angler" - spearheaded energy policy at the White House and bears blame, detractors say, for the Bush administration's poor environmental record.

"The entire fly fishing community is appalled and disgusted," said Ted Williams, conservation editor at Fly Rod & Reel magazine.

So is the entire nation, but I digress.

"We all need money, but to apply green lipstick to this Darth Vader of fish and wildlife is whoring - it's grotesque," Williams said. "It's as if the Holocaust museum held a dinner to honor [Nazi war criminal] Klaus Barbie."

Whoring, huh? Seems ol' Dickface has waded in to familiar waters. (pun intended) I was going to include a quip about a "wet fly", but thought the better of it.

Steve Wright, a former commissioner of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, blasted the invitation, calling Cheney "one of the great enemies of healthy fish and wildlife conservation in the U.S. over the last eight years."

Wright could have easily left out the words "of healthy fish and wildlife conservation" and still remained accurate.

Cathi Comar, executive director of the Vermont-based museum, said some of the critics "sent me nasty e-mails, calling me names, pretty inappropriate names, I have to say."

One board member also resigned in protest.

The former Veep gets invited to a fundraiser and members are so aghast, so furious, that they compare him to a Nazi, and one even resigns. Wowzers. Cheney better keep an eye on his fly rod.

Still, Comar said, the museum's board supports the invitation for the fall dinner.

"Why?" you might be asking. "Why would The Big Dick still be invited?" Because he's "one of the most enthusiastic fly fishermen in the country." Still, if the Nation of Dick is smart, he'll watch his anal fin.