More Hitch

The outrage about the nondisclosures in the Downing Street memos has led Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina to demand that we tell the al-Qaida forces in Iraq exactly when we intend to give up. Jones is the right-wing bigmouth who once wanted to rename French fries "freedom fries."

A Tale of Two Websites

I went to MSNBC.com & Foxnews.com at 5:50 central:

• MSNBC: no mention of the Durbin retraction, but mentions Frist "flip-flopping" on Bolton
• Fox: no mention of Frist, but enough on Durbin

Do the math

Biden says he'll run for president in 2008

Senior Democrat on Foreign Relations Committee ran in 1988
WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden said Sunday he intends to run for president in 2008, two decades after he dropped out of the race amid charges he plagiarized a British politician's speech.
If the Democrats wee playing Russian roulette, they now have three bullets in the revelover, Dean, Hillary & now Biden. I can hear Rove drooling.

John Kass, Chicago Trib sums up Durbin

"In World War II in Greece, my father was handed over to the Germans on the suspicion he aided downed British airmen. They beat him, day after day, making him dig his own grave. He played dumb to survive and it worked. An uncle was forced into a labor camp. The Nazis didn't use Christina Aguilera music on him, though luckily, he too survived.Sen. Durbin, in other places, suspected terrorists have their feet flayed with rods, their families raped; they're force-fed a quart of olive oil, then tied, seated, to a block of ice.
By your own words, Senator, Guantanamo isn't remotely like that.You don't have to apologize to the Republicans in the White House. But Senator, you should apologize to the nation.
And if you don't have the stomach for the work, please have the guts not to play partisan politics with what has to be done.
Seriously."

A Great Hitch quote

“Gore Vidal said you should never miss a chance to have sex or go on TV and my attempt to emulate this has meant quite a few late night cable appearances watched only by nutbags and political junkies. I think celebrity is not to be aimed for.”

Quality Senators

I would like to give mad props to Biden and Reid

1. Why is is everytime I read an op-ed by Biden I wonder if he wrote it or a member of the Labour Party did?
2. And let's give the class act award to Reid for referring to President Bush as a "loser" to some high school kids. That is the positive leadership I wantin the Senate. By the way, hey Kennedy, pull your pants up.

China and Joe Biden

1. China - as the new century is ready to be named the Chinese Century, their first test is putting the annoying little yip-yip dog called North Korea in place. If the DPR is kept in check, CHina will have street cred.
2. Joe Biden is a self servin jerk as well as Hillary