Breakfast Scramble (Thursday)

Special Sgt. Schultz edition.

Stuff it Ed, from Mark Finkelstein, News Busters:

ED SCHULTZ: Republicans are attacking the Commander-in-Chief during a time of war! . . . There should be no debate: we ought to be kicking [Gaddafi’s]

‘Rats question Pubs’ Patriotism, then inside the Beltway, respect is a one way street, from John Stanton, Roll Call:

Following several hours of floor speeches hammering the GOP, a handful of Democrats including Sens. Bob Menendez (N.J.), Charles

Lawrence Taylor charged with statutory rape, from Jammie Wearing Fool, and Ace

Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was arrested in a Rockland hotel overnight and charged with raping a 15-year-old girl, police said.

The 51-year-old former linebacker

“We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.”

John “French” Kerry, 2004, via

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.

This is the “Still in the truck stop” edition

•  Minority Broadcasters, again: Limbaugh touched on this yesterday:  I lived through the

Melissa Clouthier makes an argument at Pajamas Media that I’ve been making,…. both here and there… for quite some time, now:

I’m tired of Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Tom Ridge, and the rest of them. I’m tired of

I tossed this out at Q&O, almost as a throwaway. But the more I consider things, I wonder if I’ve not hit on something central. I’ve cleaned it up here a bit, since it was originally composed and posted

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… The Bitsblog Nightly Ramble.

 This is the “Hey Cabbie” edition. As in, get me the bleep off this picture.

• Democrat infighting: The Washington Post today notes

From the New York Slimes:

Mr. Obama called Ms. Collins and Mr. Specter, as well as Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, another Republican expected to support the deal, to acknowledge they were acting against pressure from their party

“Chambliss’s victory assures the GOP of at least 41 Senate seats. It also lays to rest one of the nastiest McCarthyite smears of recent times: the repeated assertion by Democrats and the

Friday, end of the week. Fall is here, with a bang… 43 degrees this morning and even colder in some of the hills south of I90, and up in the Adirondacks. Leaves are changing the birds are flocking. Let’s see

Fox News:

John McCain’s campaign prepared to accuse Democrats on Saturday of leaving behind 12,000 miniature American flags after Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday in Denver.

Boy Scouts have arrived with 84 trash bags full of bundles of

Lots of ground to cover, today, but too little time to do it in..

• Interesting news; apparently that brilliant speech from Palin last night was genuine… the teleprompter for at least part of the speech was broken…. as David has

• My office at work is getting moved, so I spent half the day without connectivity. The ramble, as a result will be a bit shorter than it would have been otherwise.
• Well, we know one guy who won’t be the

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama plans to deliver what his campaign is calling a “major speech” Monday, centering around an issue he’s been trying to highlight for months now: his patriotism.

The remarks come in Harry