Torture is Us: First of all, I’m wondering if any of those good liberals who condemned the people of Brattleboro for voting to indict Bush & Cheney for crimes against the Constitution are having any second thoughts now that the chimp-in-chief has vetoed the anti-waterboarding legislation? I doubt it. Because it’s becoming more apparent that the two-party monopolizers are too addicted to one another to come up for a fresh breath of logic. They love having Bush in office just so they can spend several years doing little more than complaining about him, raising gobs of money, blogging themselves to exhaustion and then wheeling in a Trojan Horse candidate that they really, truly – well — almost believe is going to do something liberal when elected. But – shhh – don’t make him/her commit to anything now because those big, dumb voters wouldn’t understand strong opinions during the election season. And on and on it goes.
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Republicans Aren’t Scared of Impeachment: Oh boy, there’s nothing like a good Democractic sex scandal to get the Republicans going. Never mind the hypocrisy of it all, the Republicans are now wetting themselves with excitement over the gonadal noose New York’s Governor Eliot Spitzer is in. And now it appears they’re going to do what they always do when a Democratic pol puts his penis where he shouldn’t: They’re threatening impeachment. Yep, the Republican leaders of the New York legislature have announced that if Spitzer doesn’t step aside on his own they’re going to file impeachment papers and move forward with a forced withdrawal.

While it’s comforting to know that the Democrats don’t rush toward impeachment on such personal matters, it would be nice if they would move on impeachment when the stakes are higher than a $5,000 an hour good time. You know, something like the president lying to the nation, putting nearly 200,000 soldiers in harms way for no good reason, condoning torture and circumventing the Constitution with more recklessness than Eliot Spitzer could dream of in an hour in room 871.

The Dems should look at it this way: Every time the Republicans move to impeach based on the inappropriate placement of a penis, they should move to impeach based on the inappropriate placement of troops.

Ready, set, go…

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Dems for Pollina Update: Well, it looks like the little Democrats for Pollina campaign is being run as shoddy as about every other campaign initiative Pollina has led. A quick look at some of the names on the list certainly makes the whole thing look rather suspect. I noticed, for example, that Grace Gershuny is listed as a “Dem for Pollina.” But Gershuny is also listed as the Groton town chair for the Progressive Party at the party’s website. Oops. And it’s also more than a bit fishy that they list Brian Tokar as a Democrat. Brian, as most of us know, is a self-described “anarchist” and was on the national committee for the Green Party. Oops again.

I did some calling around yesterday and spoke to several of the charter members of the “Democrats for Pollina.” One person on the list who asked that I not identify him/her had this to say:

Dave Zuckerman was going around with a petition. I said I really didn’t think it was appropriate for me to sign, and he gave a bunch of reasons why it was OK. I suspect many of the signers have never been associated in any way w/ the Democrats…

Indeed. While this kind of thing is par for the course in mainstream politics, the purveyors of such nonsense usually aren’t so sloppy. Didn’t they think people would check the names?

This campaign certainly doesn’t feel like it’s ready for primetime. But, then again, which Pollina campaign ever was?

Subprime Link Fun: Check this out for a fun little explanation of the subprime mess.

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Obama Must-Read: If there’s anyone else out there who still thinks it’s important to consider the issues when contemplating the presidential race, go here and read this. It’s an incredible essay by Nader’s running mate, Matt Gonzalez. Please, read it and tell me what you think. I wish the progressive Dems out there would stop ignoring these very significant issue flaws in Obama. I was particularly interested to learn that Obama campaigned for Joe Lieberman in ’06 when he ran against the netroots’ darling, Ned Lamont. How can these things be ignored?

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Quote of the Day

There has never been a romantic movement among mathematicians.

— Todd Colby