This blog was built on hypocrisy.  Mind-boggling, in your face hypocrisy.  Vitterian hypocrisy.  Spitzerian hypocrisy. The hypocrisy of a Larry Craig.

But we’re in trouble. The shortage of GOP assfucking scandals is now a full blown crisis.

Let’s leave Gary Aldridge aside.  He was a once-in-a-lifetime thing.  How often does a Jerry Falwell acolyte off himself while trying to get off while clad in 2 wetsuits, bound, with a dildo up his ass?  It’s like Scarlett Johansson getting her cherry popped – a beautiful thing that will only happen once.

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We’ll admit we’re cutting Barry some slack right now. He’s following the most destructive Administration in American history, he’s reasonably cautious, and frankly the wingnuts are far more amusing at the moment.

But just for practice, we thought we’d take a nibble at Friday afternoon’s announcement that the term “enemy combatant” has been dropped from the official lexicon. Hurrah, we’re supposed to think, one of the Bush abuses has been tossed aside:

Rather than relying on the president’s authority as commander-in-chief, the department explained, the new standard “draws on the international laws of war to inform the statutory authority conferred by Congress.”

Thus TPM, whose judgment we usually trust, celebrates the announcement as a “historic gesture”. But note that “statutory authority” — it’s the September 2001 “Authorization for the Use of Military Force” (AUMF), which was ostensibly directed towards the perpetrators of 9/11. That’s the legislation that politicized a crime, that created a “war” when an FBI manhunt would have been more effective. If you want to date the birth of the Bush Tyranny, that’s as good a place as any.

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Let’s start with the science. The bone in boner happens when the spongy tissue in Mr. Happy fills with blood. Under the hood, nitric oxide is relaxing the walls of the arteries that engorge your old feller, allowing more blood to flow in. But John Thomas goes limp in the presence of an evil enzyme or Ann Coulter, either of which seize up your arteries by destroying the heroic nitric oxide.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNnhL78ASWM

To me, this sounds like that zOMG! George Soros Jewish bankers Bilderberg teh Jewz and the Illuminati schtick. To you?

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The complete unedited Daily Show interview: Part I (5:47)

We don’t produce a comedy show at night, so we don’t bother watching cable news during the day. Neither do most Americans — we’re a generation beyond the era when three broadcast networks controlled the national conversation.

We’re also a generation beyond the era when television news took itself seriously, when Network was over-the-top satire, when Doonesbury mocked Roone Arledge for turning ABC into “Wide World of News”. How silly we all were, thinking news could be about something other than ratings and advertising.

Which is part of what makes Jon Stewart interesting. Where we’ve long since given up caring, he still holds television news to standards long since abandoned, back when Beethoven’s Ninth introduced The Huntley-Brinkley Report, and not Countdown.

What’s more, he’s effective. Or at the very least, an early sign of change on the horizon.

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The RNC is hiring, and this guy wants a job:

We can only hope he’s hired immediately.

Well that didn’t take long.

Yesterday:

GQ: Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion?

STEELE: Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice.

Today:

I am pro-life, always have been, always will be.… In my view Roe vs. Wade was wrongly decided and should be repealed.

First Rush, then Joe the Plumber, now this.  Guy must be bleeding from the asshole.

Steele Bends Under Far-Right Pressure [Think Progress]