Doyle Bramhall II
“Too Many Ways to Fall”

Ann Coulter will campaign for Hillary Clinton if John McCain is the Republican nominee:

Hyperbole? Yes. A few salient points? Shockingly - yes.

(Cross-posted at Vagabond Scholar)

H/T TOB

From our friend Fade at the House of the Rising Sons blog. I feel your pain Fade, because I’m right there with you!

More kids die
More Women die
More Iraqis die
More of everyone dying

“Hillary is a fighter”
“Obama has a voice I can relate to”

Neither matters if they settle into office with all the faux tsunamic force of a Pelosi.

Damn it! Why in the flying fuck do today’s progressives choose style, sex and race over a candidate who is promising to get our troops out of there?? Do you people believe that Edwards is a liar? Because Hillary and Obama aren’t even TALKING about getting us out of Iraq.

Hillary with all of her AIPAC ties, and Obama “Everything’s on the table” with starting NEW wars in Iran. What part of “WAKE THE FUCK UP!” Do you not understand?

Fucking Hell! I just can’t understand it. Wake the Fuck up.
Please.

A vote for Hillary, a vote for Obama- is a vote for MORE DEATH in Iraq. There will 5000 dead troops and god knows how many civilians before Bush steps down from office. And after another 4 years of Hillary or Obama there will be 5,000 more.

Goddamnit, wake up.

UPDATE: MSNBC says Edwards is dropping out of the race…
My heart sinks-

Listening to NPR this morning, they had two soundbites of average joes talking about Obama. These voters in Florida explained their support for Obama as being tied to his ability to bring the country together. Well, pardon me, but the country is together, except for the insane 23% of the racist, sexist, Republican base who thinks that George Bush is the greatest person in the world.

They are wrong. And they have been wrong from the get-go. Most of those who supported Bush in the beginning now have seen the error of their way and have come to the light. This has been a dark time in American history and we have yet to see the full ramifications of the Bush presidency. The recession is just beginning and our foreign policy is in shambles. And guess what? I have NO Desire to move to the middle at this point!

We, the far left, have been right over and over. People want change from the ridiculousness of the present system. We were on the cusp of great change. Returning to the middle only serves the ignorance of the Republican base, who are completely happy with the system as is. As radical as real change might be, it is desperately needed. We don’t need to shake the hand of our dumb ass Uncle the racist over dinner and say “Agree to disagree.” We need to get in his face and say “You stupid fuck- how many soldiers died because you couldn’t open your damn eyes? How much will OUR Family suffer because of this recession? How many times have you called ME a traitor as you worshipped at the altar of corporate oil?”

These stupid fuckers don’t deserve to have us move closer to their ignorant mindset. Each and every one of them needs to be held down, choking, as we force feed them the truth, no matter how much they don’t want to take their medicine. The Right has NO accountability. They are a full blown minority at this point, EXCEPT in the halls of Congress. But that is changing. And Republicans will become less and less powerful in the coming years as a direct result of how wrong they have been on EVERYTHING.

I HOPE Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton do not back down as so many other Democrats have done in recent days. I HOPE that they understand that this country is in dire straits and needs to implement some real change. I HOPE that they will reverse their mealy mouthed stance on Iraq as soon as they are elected and get our troops out of there, post-haste.

The thing is, I didn’t HAVE to HOPE that Edwards understood these matters and would take action to correct them. I knew. It am glad he was able to move Hillary and Obama closer to the left on all these issues. I can only hope they ditch their pollsters and their popularity contests and show some real spine and perseverence. Hope, unfortunately, is what the American people are counting on. And now, with the best candidate out of the race, it’s all I have as well.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) President Bush says there are “serious signs” the economy is weakening.

Found these. Thought they were cute.

As I posted here, medical coverage isn’t the problem. It’s the associated runaway costs. We know it. They know it. So why isn’t anyone doing anything about it?

But Democrats said Bush’s budget targets the wrong health care providers for cuts. They said insurers subsidized to provide Medicare coverage are being overpaid.

“The president is proposing to once again slash health care coverage for seniors and low-income working Americans,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said. “The president’s cuts are exactly the wrong medicine when the cost of health care and the number of uninsured continue to rise and families are feeling economically insecure.”

Health care providers said the president’s recommendations would make it harder for them to meet expenses, which would continue to rise as a result of inflation, even as their reimbursement rates were frozen.

Greed: Mansions and summer homes. Multiple garages, expensive autos. Exotic vacations in far-off places. Memberships to the finest clubs. People laying dying on hospital sidewalks.

Greed: Keep feeding it.

I’m disappointed Edwards dropped out, but ANY democrat would be better than what we have now. Something else Georgie is leaving us with…….a wiped out military. How Republicans can claim they are stronger on security and terrorism is beyond me. The Republicans have done nothing but CREATE more terrorists and make the country by far a weaker nation than we were 8 years ago. And I have to say, the Democrats have aided and abetted the past two years. They better wake up and smell the coffee.

The United States military is not prepared for a catastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces do not have the equipment or training they need for the job, according to a new report.

The study of the military’s readiness to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear weapons attack found “an appalling gap that places the nation and its citizens at greater risk.”

The report was released Thursday by the Commission of the National Guard and Reserves, which is charged by Congress to recommend changes in law and policy concerning the those forces.

“Right now we don-t have the forces we need, we don-t have them trained, we don-t have the equipment,” the commission’s chairman, Arnold L. Punaro, a retired Marine Corps general, said in an interview. “Even though there is a lot going on in this area, we need to do a lot more.”

General Punaro added, “There’s a lot of things in the pipeline, but in the world we live in, you-re either ready or you-re not.”

More at the NYTimes

Comedians, artists and certainly political cartoonists tend to possess an anti-authoritarian, skeptical, irreverent streak. This makes the staunchly conservative cartoonist an especially odd bird.

Which cartoonists dare to criticize their own party? Who literally seems to illustrate GOP talking points? Who are their favorite targets? Who mocks liberals - and who seems to truly hate them? Who’s funny? Who’s independently minded and who’s a hack? Read, and decide, for yourself!

Welcome to the 28th installment of RWCW, covering six weeks, with the emphasis on the new year. It’s been a crazy political month, with tight races for the presidential nomination in both parties, pundits more blatantly wrong than usual, and scandals ranging from the overblown to the manufactured. Meanwhile, the greatest threat ever known to democracy conservatism - since the previous one, that is - spurred our right-wing cartoonists into action!

Who would be the focus of their ire? Who? Who? (I’m sure the suspense is just killing you.)

As always, pace yourself, and skip whatever you wish. Too many right-wing cartoons at one time can lead to a toxic overload!

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