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I'm tellin' ya, Seymour, somebody better post guards at the ICU* door or these same ghouls will be in there with a pillow over the senator's face. These guys make the mafia look mild.

*I do assume the Democratic leadership has Senator Johnson under constant medical supervision and intensive care. Just need to add armed security.

"mummified zombie Strom Thurmond"

Robert Byrd anyone?

These people are just Evil. But part of me wants them to keep putting their crap out there for all the world to see. Maybe, just maybe, it'll be a long time before we have to live through another disastrous immoral war. (But then I thought Vietnam was so horrific and the lessons so indelible that we wouldn't see another like it in a long, long time...and here we are again)

Byrd recently spoke on public radio in an interview and the words "zombie" or "mummy" definitely don't apply in his case.
I think a little ageism has crept into the issue. Idiots and morons are repersented quite heavily in the younger groups, in my opinion, and nothing in the Constitution keeps them from running for office.

UPDATE (5 p.m.) - Johnson's office has released the following statement: "Admiral John Eisold, Attending Physician of the United States Capitol said, 'Senator Tim Johnson has continued to have an uncomplicated post-operative course. Specifically, he has been appropriately responsive to both word and touch. No further surgical intervention has been required.'"

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I believe most Republicans hope for the best for Senator Tim Johnson and wish him a speedy recovery.

I think some Democrats were thinking about what they would have done if the party affiliations were reversed, and they were launching a preemptive strike in case the Republicans thought like they do.

If I understand your last paragraph correctly, Severus, when the shoe is on the other hand then one should be careful when applauding if your sock has a hole in it.
A Moebius strip has a similar kind of logic.
Your first paragraph, however, shows you're still one of the kinder and more respectful souls to sit with the loyal opposition.

Dammit, Butts, her name was Terri, and if you're going to throw it around you ought to have the respect to spell it correctly.

Actually, it's easy to understand the affinity that Frist and his ilk felt for the husk that had previously been Terri Schiavo, since half of her cerebral cortex had turned to cottage cheese.

"Great piece today by NPR's Juan Williams"

I hope all you folks in Congressional Districts 1, 2, 4 let your Representatives regularly know that they should restore ALL funding to NPR and PBS (Corp for Public Broadcasting) AND give them a raise. Hopefully it will be on the First 100 Hours agenda. The Republicans sought to turn CPB into another Fox News but due to the stupidity of Bush hatchet Ken Tomlinson, it failed. Please contact your Congressman.

Trying to get our 3rd District Boozman to help is useless.

Click on handle for one artilcle.
Herehttp://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18446 for the other

The bigest mistake we could ever make is belieiving that the 2006 elections changed the Bush Administration or the Republican party one whit.

EVEN AWAITING TRIAL, THE DIRT DAUBER PREPARES THE MUD FOR '08

". . . Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, awaiting trial in Travis County on felony money laundering and conspiracy counts from allegedly illegal use of funds for state legislative races, is launching a new Web site to promote conservative interests. . .

. . . He (DeLay) also implored conservatives to start digging into Obama's past. He said Obama's record in the Illinois Senate was on par with a "Marxist leftist." Citing defeated U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford of Tennessee, DeLay said Obama was attempting to disguise his liberal views. (Read Amanda Carpenter's report on Obama and his conflicting rhetoric.)

DeLay named Clinton loyalists Harold Ickes, Sidney Blumenthal, James Carville, Paul Begala and Joe Lockhart as the masterminds behind the left-wing coalition. He said that these groups, more than anything else, contributed to the GOP's fall this November. 'I have never seen a more powerful coalition,' he said."

He must have forgotten to look in the mirror, at Faux News, Instapundit.com, Townhall.com, Richard Perle, Pat Buchanan, Fred Barnes, John McLaughlin, David Gergen, Robert Novak, William F. Buckley, Jr., George Will, William Safire, Rush Limbaugh, Cal Thomas, Jonathon Alter, Joe Klein, Robert J. Samuelson, James Kilpatrick and Anne Coulter.

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Tom DeLay: Blame Americans First

Here's another major Republican name who blames Americans first for the problems in Iraq - and will explain why. Tom DeLay, appearing on Hannity and Colmes last night to promote his new on-and-off blog, took square aim at the real culprits for problems in the war in Iraq. "It's the fault of the liberals and the media and the Democrats, that from the very beginning have tried to undermine the will of the American people to fight this," DeLay said.

After Alan Colmes, in a moment of bravery, reminded DeLay that Democrats were out of power during the course of this war, DeLay nevertheless set out to explain in detail just how the problems in Iraq are the fault of liberals and other war critics. "It has nothing to do with power," DeLay said. "It has everything to do with perception, Alan, and you know it as well as I do."

The new slogan for Fox News and the Bush Administration: "It has everything to do with perception."

AND

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-12-13T231453Z_01_N13170850_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-FUNDING.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1

TWO HOUSE COMMITTEES REVEAL BUSH"S NEW STRATEGY - STALL AND SPEND

President George W. Bush will soon seek about $100 billion in additional emergency funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report on Wednesday by Democratic staffers for two key panels in the U.S. House of Representatives. . . .

. . . In a broad report criticizing Republicans' fiscal decisions, Democratic staffers on the House Appropriations Committee and House Budget Committee also noted that Congress already had appropriated about $379 billion for the war in Iraq. 'The administration is expected to submit an additional request early next year that will total roughly $100 billion. At least three-quarters of this request will support operations in Iraq,' according to the report. . . .

. . . The emergency funds, which likely would be submitted by Bush to Congress in early February, would be in addition to $70 billion already approved for the two wars in the current fiscal year, which began on October 1. . . .

. . . The $100 billion, if submitted and approved by Congress next year, would be in addition to the record $447 billion the Pentagon is receiving this fiscal year for all military operations. The House Democrats' report, titled 'The Republican Legacy: Bad Budgeting Creates Burdens For Years To Come,' said that despite significant increases in the Pentagon's budget, 'The war in Iraq has left the U.S. Army's readiness at its lowest level in decades.' . . ."