Cheney tells Senator "Go Fuck Yourself"

In case any of you missed this, Vice President Cheney told a Democratic Senator, on the floor of the US Senate, "go fuck yourself."

This is the man in line to run our country (ha! I even made myself laugh on that one, everyone knows he's already running the country), using cuss words, and pretty bad ones at that, in the august halls of Congress.

This is the man who thinks we need to amend the US Constitution to make his own daughter a second class citizen so that we can restore family values in America.

And he goes around telling people he has disagreements with to "go fuck yourself."

Funny that when the polish wears off you see what the Bush-Cheney really are. A bunch of foul-mouthed petty angry jerks. Read the rest of this post...

Buh-bye: Ryan is OUT

Don't let the cage door hit you in the ass on the way out. Read the rest of this post...

IL Republican Sen. Fitzgerald has no problem with public cage sex

Another family values Republican, Illinois Senator Peter Fitzgerald, is backing Jack "Off" Ryan, blaming others for Ryan's own alleged sins. This is pretty disgusting stuff. It's one thing for the family values crowd to try to jam their doctrine down our throat. It's another thing for them to make exceptions to the rule for themselves and their friends.

'I told him that it troubled me greatly that so many party leaders who had no trouble stomaching years and years of corruption and insider deals and scandals under George Ryan were now lining up to throw stones at Jack (no relation to George Ryan),' Fitzgerald said.

'I think the public stoning of Jack Ryan is one of the most grotesque things I've seen in politics,' he said. He said he talked to Ryan on Thursday but hadn't spoken with him since then.

Yeah, well, the public stoning of gays and lesbians by you and your colleagues - and your insouciance to why coercing women into sex is a bit of a problem, makes me sick, you Bible-thumping hypocrite. Read the rest of this post...

FYI - There won't be a lot of posts from 11 to 6 today

Michael and I are at a journalists conference in NYC, and Chris is at the beach in the south of France (bitch). So, after 11 or so, expect a slowdown when AMERICAblog takes a bit of a breather...

UPDATE: Ok, so I lied. Too many clients called, had to blow off the conference, now going to meet with a book agent (yes, a book agent - no book yet, but getting there). So, there will be a few posts today :-) Read the rest of this post...

Perfect

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Gays: We'll out 2-faced Bushies

NY Daily News has the outing story - now is when it gets fun. Read the rest of this post...

Is this a rising economy?

Maybe there's a reason why Bush isn't talking too much about the booming economy. Unemployment numbers up again. Read the rest of this post...

Bush again talking about coalitions...yawn

"America has never been at a lower point in the minds of citizens around the world," says Thomas Mann, a political analyst at Brookings Institution, a liberal-leaning think tank. "Our relations with other countries, including natural allies, have seldom been as strained. To be associated with President Bush and current American policy is a political liability around the world right now."

"This is about the spread of freedom and liberty," Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), said Thursday in explaining the message Bush will carry to Europe. "That's what NATO has stood up for from the very beginning. ... Many of the members of NATO would not be free and at liberty themselves had it not been for the sacrifices of others, including sacrifices of the United States." (Comment by Chris: Oh please, the guilt pitch again)

Madeleine Albright, who was former President Clinton's secretary of state, says Bush would attract more international support if he simply acknowledged that his administration has taken some wrong turns in Iraq.

"It would not hurt if President Bush admitted that there have been mistakes," Albright said. "That is different from apologizing. One way to help persuade allies that they need to help is to say `OK, we made some mistakes here. We now need your help.' I don't think that's beyond the capability of a great nation to do."

Go Madeleine! Read the rest of this post...

54% of Americans now say Iraq war was a mistake

Talk about a fast rise, only 41% believed it was a mistake earlier in the month. Read the rest of this post...