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Clyburn: Positive Report by Petraeus Could Split House Democrats on War

No acknowledgment that a positive report on Iraq might indicate that things are going well for Iraqis. It's just that it might be bad for his party.

Clyburn noted that Petraeus carries significant weight among the 47 members of the Blue Dog caucus in the House, a group of moderate to conservative Democrats. Without their support, he said, Democratic leaders would find it virtually impossible to pass legislation setting a timetable for withdrawal.

"I think there would be enough support in that group to want to stay the course and if the Republicans were to stay united as they have been, then it would be a problem for us," Clyburn said. "We, by and large, would be wise to wait on the report."

Many Democrats have anticipated that, at best, Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker would present a mixed analysis of the success of the current troop surge strategy, given continued violence in Baghdad. But of late there have been signs that the commander of U.S. forces might be preparing something more generally positive. Clyburn said that would be "a real big problem for us."

What a fucking putz, but very helpful in being Exhibit A of what's wrong with his party.

Be on the lookout

Woman sought in New York castration death

Police were seeking a woman for questioning in the castration and death of a 55-year-old man in the Rockaways section of Queens...

Hmmm...has anyone seen Hillary today?

Commie propaganda 'art'

On the (extremely) rare occasions when I visited the Daily Kos web site, there was always something that bugged me about the banner at the top of the page. I could never quite put my finger on it, until this morning.

I came across this image of an old Czech communist party propaganda poster, and that's when it hit me. The dKos banner is startlingly similar in style, no?

Father of "Reaganomics" is a truther

I was all set to post a blast against Novosti Russian News and Information Agency about this article, until I looked into the guy quoted in the article as the source. According to the article:

A former Reagan official has issued a public warning that the Bush administration is preparing to orchestrate a staged terrorist attack in the United States, transform the country into a dictatorship and launch a war with Iran within a year.

Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, blasted Thursday a new Executive Order, released July 17, allowing the White House to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies and giving the government expanded police powers to exercise control in the country.

Roberts, who spoke on the Thom Hartmann radio program, said: "When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order], there's no check to it. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule."

I fully expected this to be 100% fabricated, neo-Soviet Russian propaganda. But, not wanting to go off half-cocked, I figured it wouldn't hurt to first check into Mr. Paul Craig Roberts. As it turns out, Roberts is a dyed-in-the-wool, BDS-afflicted truther. It was still neo-Soviet Russian propaganda, but not at all fabricated.

Here's a guy, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Freakin' Reagan, who's a truther. I can't stand it any more.

Update: Oh, and if you were wondering who Thom Hartmann is, he's the guy who replaced Al Franken on Air America Radio. Go figure.

Bob Hope on politics

Venezuela's transition to commie state continues apace

Religion being the opiate of the masses and all that, one of the major tasks on any aspiring evil commie overlord's to-do list is to marginalize key religious figures. Venezuela's commie cartoon character in chief, Hugo Chavez, is well on his way to doing just that.

The Honduran Congress has demanded an apology from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for calling a Honduran cardinal an "imperialist clown."

Chavez was responding to criticism from Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, who said in a recent interview cited by Venezuela's Bolivarian News Agency that Chavez "thinks he's God and can trample upon other people."

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Chavez has repeatedly clashed with Catholic leaders in Venezuela, calling them "liars" and "perverts," though he rarely targets high-ranking priests abroad.

Hizballah threatens, UN yawns

What is the UN doing in Lebanon if not keeping Hizballah from rearming and threating Israel again? Might as well send all the UN troops home for all the good they're doing.

Hezbollah's leader said Saturday that the militant Islamic group's war last summer with Israel has left the U.S. vision of a "new Middle East" in shambles and claimed the guerrilla group was ready to strike Israel again at any time.

During the 34-day war in southern Lebanon, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called for a new era of democracy and peace in the region, "a new Middle East."

But Hezbollah, backed by Syria and Iran, said the U.S. vision aimed at reinforcing Israel.

"There is no new Middle East," Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah told a mass rally in the southern town of Bint Jbeil, one of the towns hardest hit by the war. "It's gone with the wind."

Nasrallah did not personally attend the rally to mark the first anniversary of the war which Hezbollah calls "a divine victory. His speech was relayed to the crowd on a giant screen set up in the main square of Bint Jbeil. [Tough guy, that Nasrallah. --ed.]

Nasrallah said the guerrilla group would never be at peace with Israel.

"We will not wait for anyone to defend us. We will defend ourselves and our country," he said. "We possess and we will continue to possess rockets that can hit any area in occupied Palestine if Israel attacks Lebanon," he added.

So what are all those blue beanies doing in Lebanon? Oh, that's right...picking flowers.

Radical left-wing thugs threaten mom and pop businesses

Left-wing extremists from groups like moveon.org and the Daily Kos are campaigning against Fox News Channel's advertisers. In addition to large advertisers like Home Depot, they're specifically targeting small businesses:

At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.

"It's a lot more effective for Sam's Diner to get calls from 10 people in his town than going to the consumer complaint department of some pharmaceutical company," Gilliam said.

Kristallnacht, anyone?

Vatican warns of 'Islamisation of Europe'

This one's sure to spark some, uh, spirited debate. The Pope's private secretary was recently interviewed by a German magazine, and had a few words of warning for the citizens of Europe:

"Attempts to Islamise the West cannot be denied," Monsignor Georg Gaenswein was quoted as saying in an advance copy of the weekly Sueddeutsche Magazin to be published today.

"The danger for the identity of Europe that is connected with [Christianity] should not be ignored out of a wrongly understood respectfulness," the magazine quoted him as saying.

Cue the street protests, Ahmed.

Ward Churchill hits the bricks

It took the University of Colorado long enough, but at long last the board of regents has voted to kick Ward "Little Eichmanns" Churchill to the curb.

Predictably, the reaction to his dismissal is divided along ideological lines, with the lefties in hysterics over this egregious violation of a university professor's free speech. Of course, anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty knows Churchill was shown the door due to his own lack of intellectual honesty.

Churchill, of course, is suing.

Moonbat film producer busted for desertion

Sweet. One of the shitbuckets responsible for the 9/11 paranoid fantasy Loose Change has been busted for deserting from the Army.

Hat tip: Hot Air

Democrats in Congress say...

Shamelessly lifted from Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna. Hope you don't mind, Baron. This one's too good not to pass around.

Why do Democrats hate John Doe?

The most burning question this weekend, besides "does Harry Potter die?", has to be what the hell the Democrats have against John Doe. John Doe, by the way, is you and me.

While not a single Republican voted against the amendment which would have protected from lawsuits those reporting suspicious activity, enough Democrats voted against it to defeat the amendment.

I've come to loathe the party to which I once belonged...their track record on this issue has been positively criminal.