It's like watching a trainwreck.

Hey, hot shit Ace, drop the pose, man. Admit it-- you were waaay more excited about Knievel's Snake River jump than *that*.

Hell, I'm STILL excited about it, and it was, like, 125 years ago, or something.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

The poor left. All their plans going down the tubes.
"If it wasn't for you meddling kids..."
I'll have my Scooby Snack now, thank you.
Merry Fitzmas!!

Yeah, that was sorta my thinking on it. The Dems had a nice little run there. Katrina, Delay, the Miers idiocy, topped off by the long slow build up toward indictments. Like Bush couldn't get outta his own way there for awhile.

Then, it all seemed to turn on them. The indictments, a week later, seem like a dodged bullet for Bush. Some guy named Libby? and the thing doesn't seem touch on Bush's personal credibility despite spin attempts.

All of a sudden, Bush is announcing to a reinvigorated party Alito's name - a guy Dem's a goona be hard pressed to paint as an arrogant radical and, well, things seemed to be headed in the opp directin for the first time in a while. Repub's seemed on the move.

The Sen. stunt was just a way of concentrating attention on 'Iraq is bad' for a moment, a quick Time Out to stall the other side's rally. Can't see as it achieved much.

Their next move is to push Alito's hearings until 2006, when NARAL and People for the American way will have had time to convert their 10's of millions warchests into weeks of advertisements against the guy.

Reid got the Repubs to promise to follow through on their promise. But it will be hard for them to back down on this one. Phase II, bitches!

The good guys won.

I think increasingly the Democrats have more or less given up on actually "achieving" anything politically, the way that's conventionally defined.

It's all about pleasing their MoveOn.org/Hollywood owners and financiers now, which have become the Democrats' only reliable revenue stream, especially now that many of the unions seem to realize that existing to funnel money into the DNC isn't doing a whole heck of a lot to help the working man.

So I think we can expect a lot more stunts like this in the future - they are "successful" in their own way, in that they'll get the DU/MoveOn crowd all fired up, and a lot of them will write checks.

But the politics of the real, grown-up world are increasingly irrelevant to their analysis.

Is phase II the new Fitzmas? Man, the crazy just keeps getting better.

Tubino, you did not read my application to the cosplay democrats club of DC:

""No, Spongeworthy, you are the retard rethuglican who is too dumb to get the point. She did too get a star. Like Dumbledore in HBP, she was already dead when Joe Wilson went to Africa to conclusively prove that Iraq had never approached that country or any other country in Africa to buy Uranium, because we all know that Iraq never had WMDs and furthermore they bought WMDs from Ronald Reagan. We should have never let the Jews convince us to invade Iraq.

Joe Wilson went on that trip, knowing his wife was already dead, but that it was important for him to expose the truth about Bush before it was too late. Plame was killed trying to get her husband that mission to Niger, but had forced Joe to make an unbreakable promise to expose Bush, thus keeping her alive until the time a magical Vanity Fair magazine unstoppered her death. Wilson could not let people know who got him that job. Get it?

Is it any wonder, then, why Bush (or rather Bush's true brains like Rove or Gannon) had to crush Wilson by punishing him by leaking that his wife was a NOC under protection by the CIA? Is it any wonder that Bush blackmailed Fitzmas into lying to protect his failed administration?

But that is why Valerie Plame's star was added to teh CIA wall (I saw the Recruit, ya know) because Bush killed her as she was trying to prove Iraq was peaceful and definately, for-sure, non WMD having.

The end"

Is it crazy enough for you?

Maybe they could paint their man parts blue...check that the mental image just made me throw up in my mouth.

I used to have the whole Evel Kinevel action figure set -- complete with jump-ramp and a motorcycle you used a little crank handle to wind up. I used to pit Evel against Col. Steve Austin in 70's hero death-matches. The Bionic Man always won, but that's because he was bionic.

Harry Reid's blog has gone absolutely ape-poopy with fawning fans saying their faith in Democracy has been restored, and their happy someone will fight for them, etc.

And as I read it, I ask myself over and over, What, really did Reid et al accomplish? Stopped Congress for part of a day? Great, so they couldn't spend my money for a few hours. Got a promise that Republicans would finish up an investigation? Great, more grandstanding over what will inevitably be an ambiguous document that both sides will assert is a "victory" and which will change no one's minds.

But I have seen a lot of people encouraging Reid to run for President, and frankly, I couldn't agree more with that idea. Oh, baby.

Judging by the pre-fitzmas batting average of some poster, I can't wait to learn more about Phase II and how its really a diaper rash ointment.

It's all about pleasing their MoveOn.org/Hollywood owners and financiers now

No doubt this is a lot of it. The war is political poison to these loons but they keep trying to latch onto it because their base is obsessed with it.

I think it may also be an attempt to start adding "really important items" to the Senate agenda so they can better delay the confirmation hearings. More time for the base to rally, for the usual suspects to gear up the Bork-O-Matic (TM), and maybe to get some red meat fund raising issues out to fools looking to be parted from their money.

Or maybe they just like looking like ineffectual losers to the rest of the country.

It doesn't surprise me all of the lefties have a hard on over this Senate stunt. It was a purely adolescent event, no different than toilet papering your neighbor's yard. The fact Democrats think this equates to a victory in any fashion just further demonstrates how far out of touch they have become.

Wait a second. This quote is very important. It needs to be second sourced and fully attributed to the Democrats. Here you have a Democrat admitting to playing politics with WMD intelligence and not taking the issue seriously. If this was a stunt, then it needs to be blog blasted that they don't take the war seriously, or the lives of the military seriously (I know no news there). But this quote can be used to demonstrate the fact that the Democrats are willing to treat such a serious issue as merely a political stunt.

Reid got the Repubs to promise to follow through on their promise.

That right there has gotta be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

I admit to being frustrated with Bush and the Republican party over the last few weeks. The Meirs nomination infuriated me, and the lack of commitment to cutting pork from the transportation bill had me wondering why I bother to vote for Republicans at all.

The Alito nomination settled my anger, but this stunt by the Democrats has finally gotten me back into the fighting spirit.

I'm not that thrilled with today's Republican party, but I'll be goddamned if I ever let the Democrats get away with this type of unserious behavior on the most important issue of our time.

This country needs leaders, not circus clowns. We simply cannot afford to lose this fight against Islamofascism. Until the Democratic party reforms or is rebuilt into a loyal opposition party instead of the group of opportunistic traitors they currently are, the GOP has my vote. Straight R's all the way down, local, state, and national.

All Howard Reid did for this libertarian leaning voter is drive me back to the GOP.

Wicked awesome Monty! I had that stunt motorcycle too. Got it for Christmas when I was 6 or 7. I don't recall it working especially well, probably why I melted it with lighter fluid the next summer. Ah, childhood. More OT, this is a typical Lib M.O.; act like douchebags, then when reasonable people question your tactics, howl about your "oppressors" or whatever (I haven't had my after dinner crack pipe so I don't have the moonbat lingo down). Carry on.

There seems an awful long history of Democrats handing the Republicans a loaded gun, and the Republicans immediately shooting themselves in the foot. I am hopeful, but will not be surprised if it fails.

Move along ... it's just another tantrum because the Libby counter measure put the conspira-seeking fitzle on the fitz, er fritz. Anyway the fitzle was a fizzle.

That right there has gotta be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

I don't know. Maybe they made all those untrustworthy Republicans "pinky promise" this time. Cause, you know, that would do it.

Frist: "Sure, I promise." Leans over to Lott and whispers, "This is a closed door secret session isn't it?" Lott nods.

The Black Knight comes to mind.

Yeah, the Democrats sure seem desperate. Not like the Republicans, who always announce a Supreme Court nomination at 8 a.m. on the Monday after the Friday when one of their top guys gets indicted. No desperation there at all, no sir.

one of their top guys

At least you didn't get Gannon ... (what's that? Oh, SHIT!) Uh, never mind. I guess we'd better sue for peace before you guys take down the Assistant Postmaster General, too. Cuz then we'd really be screwed.

Always? Except for the one who wasn't, I guess. Roberts was a prime time debut, fucker.