I meant to post this last night, but I forgot:

posted by The Vidiot @ 9:24 AM Permalink

Oh, "how the mighty have fallen" to use on oft-used phrase. Tom DeLay's defense is costing him a lot of money, more than he can raise. I guess with his cash cow heading to the clinker, a large portion of his funding has dried up. Can't say I feel all that bad for him. I mean, if you commit the crime, you have to expect to spend the dime. (Hey. It rhymed.) Is it any wonder people don't want to donate to the republicans anymore?

Excerpt: The major Senate Democratic fundraising committee has pulled millions of dollars ahead of its Republican counterpart despite the solid GOP Senate majority and the fundraising advantages of incumbency.

Hopefully, Bush will be raising money for his own defense fund soon. The WaPo actually went through last night's speech and picked it apart a bit. I just wish they'd use the word "lie" instead of "claims have been subject of intense debate." Call it what it is people: Lies!

Unfortunately, even when these guys get caught with their hands in the cookie jar, they STILL get off scott free. In this article about Libby and his defense, this gem of a paragraph was waaaaaay at the bottom of the story.

Excerpt: Fitzgerald, who is fighting Libby's request, said in a letter to Libby's lawyers that many e-mails from Cheney's office at the time of the Plame leak in 2003 have been deleted contrary to White House policy.

Read that last line again: the emails were "deleted contrary to White House policy." Isn't that, like, AGAINST THE LAW?!

I guess I just have to accept that these bastards are coated with teflon or oil or something and there will always be people like these who practically worship them.

Excerpt: In Randolph, though -- where Bush received 95.6 percent of the vote and support for him continues to be nearly unanimous -- the mind-set is even more specific to a place that seems less a part of the modern United States than insulated from it. It isn't just mustard, but everything.

Who ARE those people? Read that article. You'll just have to wonder how dull they are. Sure, they're probablly nice and respectful good solid people. But man, the seem dull dull dull. But perhaps they "got" all of the coded messages in the SOTUA that I just received via email:

In a system of two parties, two chambers and two elected branches, there  will always be differences and debate. Means: This is why Gay Marriage doesn’t work.

In a complex and challenging time, the road of isolationism and  protectionism may seem broad and inviting, yet it ends in danger and  decline. Means: You have my permission to kill abortion doctors.

At the start of 2006, more than half the people of our world live in  democratic nations. And we do not forget the other half — in places like Syria  and Burma, Zimbabwe, North Korea and Iran — because the demands of justice and  the peace of this world require their freedom as well. Means: I am not sure how to pronounce “Myanmar.”

So we’re seeing some old temptations return. Protectionists want to  escape competition, pretending that we can keep our high standard of living  while walling off our economy. Means: Protectionism = birth control. Our economy = our nation’s supply of fertile teenage wombs.

Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious  abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms; creating or  implanting embryos for experiments; creating human-animal hybrids. Means: Even now, I am keeping you, the true believers, safe from a vast army of Mole People living deep beneath the surface of the Earth.