Doing their imitation of conservative Republicans

Spineless creatures washing up on the beach. San Diego, or DC?

Teabag a friend tomorrow

Most of you have heard about the Tea Parties scheduled for tomorrow which have been organized by conservative groups to protest the alleged tax increases by Barack Obama.

Not only is the "grass roots" movement a charade, as Paul Krugman explained this weekend, the use of the term "teabagging" by the group's organizers turns out to be a very funny miscalculation.

According to the web's UrbanDictionary the definition of "teabag" is: Dipping your testicles into the open mouth of another person. Kind of like dipping a tea bag in and out of a cup of water.

Ooops.

Locally, the biggest teabagging advocate is WTIC-AM radio host Jim Vicevich. Open wide Jim.

Surprise. Senate republicans to welcome Creepy Joe™ with open arms

Let's see. He's spent six months bashing Barack Obama. He's spoken at their convention. He's embraced a novice vice-presidential candidate as if she were legitimate. He's pummeled his Democratic colleagues. He's led cheers for unending war.

So is it really news when the Senate Republicans declare that they'd love Lieberman to caucus with them?

It's easy to see Lieberman playing out the remainder of his Senate career (certainly no one can imagine that he'd be able to run in Connecticut in 2012), following his most base and comfortable instincts as a conservative, divisive, war hawk in the Republican nest.

The flames of ignorance themselves

Oh my. It's true, as PT Barnum said, "No one ever got rich overestimating the intelligence of the American public."

Just when you thought he couldn't get any creepier

Creepy Joe™ Lieberman is crossing the aisle again.

This time, Mr. Non-partisan is offering up a non-binding Senate resolution to declare the surge, a success.

Less excitable men would wait to be sure the success of the surge sticks. Not Lieberman. He's out ahead of the wave. Look at his support for John McCain, when others had written McCain off. Of course, when you're surfing ahead of the wave, it often crashes down upon you.

Why would Lieberman propose such a resolution. A resolution which Republicans would clamor to embrace. A resolution which would stick in the craw of spineless Democrats who will vote "yes" knowing that a positive or negative vote will call down the harpies of conservatism upon their heads, but a "yes" vote will allow them to say they support the troops.

Lieberman isn't finished punishing the Democrats who he perceives as treating him so badly. You know, the Democrats who have allowed him to keep his chairmanship and seniority even after he works with every ounce of energy to denigrate them. Those Democrats. The ones who aren't like the Democrats that married dear old dad.

Olbermann on the Republicans and 9/11™

Republicans wish upon a star

Middletown Republicans are hoping to end the decades-long Democratic control of the Common Council.

Democrats don't seem to be taking the threat seriously, not even offering a mayoral candidate to run against the popular Sebastian Giuliano.

Hard to imagine that most Democrats won't just vote the ticket, but the Republicans are offering some well-known and well-liked candidates, and the Democrats are losing two of it's popular council members (the only women currently on the council).

The cheese stands alone

Okay, Creepy Joe Lieberman isn't standing alone, exactly, he's standing with a bunch of cheesy Republicans.

If I hear, "the surge is working" one more time, I'm sure to puke. Haven't we learned the lesson - the more the administration, and its henchmen, repeat a phrase, the more likely it is to be untrue. Remember "weapons of mass destruction?" Remember "being greeted as liberators?" Remember "as they stand up we'll stand down?" Remember "they're the people who attacked us on 9/11?"

So, if you believe "the surge is working" then you're likely to believe that troops need to stay in Iraq, oh, another 10-15 years.

Creepy Joe Lieberman suggests that opponents of the war take their blinders off. I would suggest that the blind are now leading the blind, and that, to borrow Lieberman's analogy, he has no need to take blinders off, because at that end of the horse, there are no eyes.

By the way, Creepy Joe Lieberman is "independent?" Is that independent of reason?