Row, row, row the swiftboat

Vindictive. Underhanded. Nasty. Deceitful. Exploitative.

Nah, he'll always be Creepy Joe™ to me.

But suddenly it's clear where Creepy Joe™ Lieberman found inspiration for his overtly political, totally useless, waste-of-time Senate resolution praising the "success" of the surge. It's a campaign ploy by ultra-conservative warhawk group Vets for Freedom. They just so happened to release a TV commercial asking the public to call their representative to support the resolution.

Strangely, the commercial makes me like Obama even more, even as I laugh at the deification of General Petreus.



On the website of these bloodlusting idealogues, you can find Lieberman's co-sponsors of the bill (yes, John McCain, yes, Lindsay Graham, yes, Mr. Crapo!??) and the entire text of the pitifully partisan bill which is designed to attempt to embarass those easily cowed and embarassed Democratic lawmakers.

This is Lieberman's idea of reaching across the aisle...and slapping a colleague in the face.

You can put slime between covers and it's still slime

The Swiftboaters are at it again, and despite the fact that their word and their work against John Kerry has been discredited time and again, Jerome Corsi, one of the prime slimers, is out with an anti-Obama book. The book, filled with inaccuracies and innuendo, is at the top of the New York Times best seller list, but as Media Matters points out, sales are spurred by bulk sales to right wing organizations and mailing lists. To make the number one spot on the list, only 5000 hardcover copies need to be sold, then it can be trumpeted as NY Times bestseller, and pushed to the unsophisticated masses. One can imagine many unread copies on otherwise empty bookshelves, with most right-wingers getting their quotations from Fox News. MediaMatters tears the book apart.

My bet, Pickens welshes on his

A major funder of the Swiftboaters has publicly waged $1 million that no one could find any falsehoods in the ads that group produced.

John Kerry has taken him up on the offer.