The ‘rats continue to infest Mrs. Pelosi’s swamp. Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D-HI 1st) wants to spend eight million dollars of the taxpayer’s money because he is too cheap to buy a membership in a healthclub for himself. Emily Belz and
Kathryn Jean Lopez, Natonal Review, posts:
Bill Bennett asked this at the top of his show this morning: If Jeri Thompson’s old boyfriend is front-page news, will we get prominent treatment of Hillary Clinton’s husband’s extracurricular activities? Investigative
The Volunteer Opinion Journal:
Did global warming impact the YearlyKos?
It’s as good an excuse as any, I suppose. The article goes on to quote The American Prospect, which I’ll nest, here:
As the Military and Progressives panel came
Continue reading about Global Warming As a Cause for the Kos Meltdown?
So, the big draw on the blogs this morning, is the Defeatist wing of the Democratic party, and their blogging mouthpieces complaining about the passage of the updated FISA law.
Reaction from the New York Times and the Washington Post
It is hard to find precedent for a supposed major presidential canidate as inept as Barack Obama, who is causing such international embarrassment. Consider this Assocxated Press item:
Pakistani tribal protesters gather to condemn the U.S. presidential hopeful candidate Barack

“He’s gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week,”
Mitt Romney on Barack Obama (video).
Hat tip: Allah Pundit, Hot Air
I agree with Allah, that Mitt’s remark was scripted. However, Obama did leave himself wide
Charles Johnson on the topic of Kos:
Imagine, if you will, the reaction among LGF’s admirers on the left if I started deleting topics and comments wholesale.
And that, in my view, cuts to the heart of the matter .
Just 24% give the president favorable ratings of his performance in handling the war in Iraq, but confidence in Congress is significantly worse – only 3% give Congress positive marks for how it has handled the war. This lack of
Wonkette calls Alan Mollohan (salty language) corrupt, which he is. In so far as she went, Wonkette did well. She’d have done much better if she had remembered to refer to Mollohan as a democrat, which he is.
Personally
The democrats did not figuratively steal a vote in the House of Representatives. They literally did. Editor, Influence Peddler, has the story of a stolen vote.
The vote was a motion to recommit which would prevented benefits to
Left wing apologist and all around idiot, Ezra Klein:
AN ODD CLOSE. As the Military and Progressives panel came to an end, a young man in uniform stood up to argue that the surge was working, and cutting down on
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Um…. Oops…. The Breck Girl does it again… so reports the only NEWSpaper in NY:
August 3, 2007 -NY POST- WASHINGTON – John Edwards, who yesterday demanded Democratic candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp.,
Continue reading about John Edwards; Typical Democrat Hypocrite.
I said the other day that that bridge collapse in Minneapolis, would end up being a political tool. I pointed up one leftie blogger yesterday, and have noted several more in my travels. (The one I mentioned, by the way,
Thomas Lifton,in the American Thinker, indulges in some speculation. Alas, it is delicious.
Many on the left regard Rupert Murdoch, architect of the rise of Fox News Channel, as the anti-Christ. More accurately, Murdoch deserves the title of

Good news for Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign. He just secured the all important moonbat vote. Mrc. Sheehan has