Saharriet Quaylin

The mad geniuses at the Rovian Laboratories McCain Project have created a monster.

The creepy schoolmarmism of "not-ready-for-prime-time" Harriet Miers combined with the right-wing dunderheaded batshittery of "potato-with-an-E" Dan Quayle.

She pronounced the word, "NOO-Q-LER". Dear gods.

It is the Peter Principle made flesh.

Fear it.

UPDATE: Besides speaking skills, she needs to brush up on American history.

When asked if she supported removing the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, she replied:

"Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance."

[*ahem*] The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a Christian Socialist. It did not originally contain the phrase "under God", that was added in the 1950s to stick our thumb in the eye of those atheistic commie Russians. The last of the "Founding Fathers", i.e. anyone who signed the Declaration of Independence, was dead by the end of the 1820s.

Obama Chooses His LBJ

I'm just old enough to remember the Kennedy assassination. And a lot of recapping was done by the news media as Lyndon Johnson took the Oath of Office: why had young, dynamic, "New Era" politician John F. Kennedy picked the politician who was arguably the most powerful senator on Capital Hill to be his running mate. LBJ represented the Old Guard of the Democratic Party of his day, just as Biden represents the Old Guard of today.

But Kennedy needed Johnson's political muscle and congressional connections if he was going to advance an agenda in Congress, who viewed JFK as an upstart, a first-term junior senator, with a lot of charisma and ideas, but little experience in the corridors of power.

JFK needed an enforcer, and so does Obama. I'm sure that's at least one powerful rationale for the choice.

International Thank Fucking God Day

I want to declare a new international holiday for January 20th, 2009 - "International Thank Fucking God Day." It is the day when George W. Bush leaves office, and it can't come a moment too soon.

I suggest the celebration include several thousand people assembling on the National Mall to give the departing Marine One helicopter the Single Finger Salute.

Who's with me?

(Thanks to leftwingconspiracy.com for the image)