Update: Reader Merlin created this wonderful Waffler-in-Chief seal to commemorate Obama’s flip flops! Welcome readers from Lucianne.com Update: LJStrata reminded me I predicted this morning Obama would get this kind of radioactive fallout once he finalized his FISA flip – end update I have never seen the likes of this before. Since when have you […]

12:15 PM Eastern:  OK, they are now voting on the first of 3 Amendments to attempt to remove the telecom immunity from the new FISA bill.  My understanding is this requires a simple majority to pass.  Results soon. 12:18 PM Eastern:  Ayes 32, Nays 66! – Dodd’s telecom immunity amendment crashes and burns.  The FISA […]

I am really, really disappointed in how fevered the rightward swamps have become. After the purity wars and intolerance from the far right to differences of opinion from members of what was a governing conservative coalition, I did not think it could get much worse. But the lunacy over the Obama BC images is just […]

This is a must see for the day – H/T RCP.

Updates Below! A couple of weeks ago I realized Obama probably cannot win in November because the gulf between is radical base and the rest of America is too big to bridge. My premise was this: The calculus required for Obama to win enough votes against John McCain appears to be based on fantasy math. […]

Reader Snapple referred us to some truly fascinating information regarding terrorists we have captured in Iraq and elsewhere – they were drawn out of America to fight our forces overseas! In the 6 ½ years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, […]