I’m trying to follow the logic behind statements like this:

It was a bad beginning because it wasn’t what we promised the American people — what President Obama promised the American people, that we would sit down together.

That’s Sarah Palin’s failed-VP choice, John McCain, on the stimulus bill and the state of the failed Obama presidency. It’s one of the many attacks Republicans have made against Obama because his bill failed to deliver on his bipartisan promise, because even though the bill was cut to please Republicans, and included a whole bunch of completely useless taxcuts, none of them voted for the package. Barry even invited those fuckers over to his house for beer, but apparently that didn’t count as sitting down together.  So, let’s impeach him, cut some taxes, and move the fuck on.  Read more »

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. He appears frequently on TV as a talking head. He is known to throw tantrums and has been caught copying the work of others without attribution. I once met him and found him to be short and rather annoying.

More troubling is Professor Dershowitz’s support for torture.

After the events of Sept. 11, with many al Qaida members in custody, Dershowitz says he wants to bring the debate to the forefront. He gave the “ticking bomb” scenario – a person refusing to tell when and where a bomb will go off – as an example of the type of case warranting torture.

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As we know, George W. Bush prefers to await the Verdict of History on his presidency, instead of fleeting matters like popularity polls or just about every objective statistic you can cite.

And if the first round of voting is any indication, there’s room for hope: Shrub is only the seventh worst president in two centuries, following James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and four other trivia questions.

Give the dude credit: We were sure he’d place in the bottom five.

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My pal and favorite N’awlins blogger oyster fills us in on the latest Stormy happenings:

In a telephone interview Thursday from Tampa, Fla., Daniels said that while [Larry] Flynt had nothing to do with the “Draft Stormy” boomlet that has drawn her into contemplating the 2010 Louisiana Senate race, “I have reached out to him in the last couple of days that I want to discuss if he wants to be my campaign manager.”

Can you imagine the possibilities? Can you imagine the embarrassment? Vitter.  I want his head on a PIKE!

Latest video from Draft Stormy after the jump.

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Title: New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America

Author: Burton Folsom, Jr.

Rank: 23

Blurb: “In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton W. Folsom exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions. With questionable moral character and a vendetta against the business elite, Roosevelt created New Deal programs marked by inconsistent planning, wasteful spending, and opportunity for political gain — ultimately elevating public opinion of his administration but falling flat in achieving the economic revitalization that America so desperately needed from the Great Depression.”

Review: “A must read for anyone who wants to understand how America came to revere socialism over a free market.”

Customers Also Bought: “Atlas Shrugged”, by Ayn Rand

Footnote: Unemployment, 1933: 24.9%; 1937: 14.3%; 1981: 7.5%; 1993: 7.3%; 2001: 4.2%; 2009: 7.6%.

New Deal or Raw Deal? [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Neonazi Nuke Laboratory in Belfast, Maine

James Cummings, a conservative-values voter and trust fund neonazi was wasted by his wife on December 9, apparently before he assembled a dirty nuke to begin his personal campaign to take back America from the communist takeover in November, disappointing but not dissuading the psychoconservative right that is bent on either restoring the theocratic dystopia the founding fathers intended or laying the nation to waste.

Cummings, apparently an abusive Hitler-loving conservative enjoyed tearing into his cowering wife, Amber, often while wearing a cowboy hat and a nifty, goth trench coat. Amber, not so keen on Republican politics and homelife conventions, got the fucking gun and blew Cummings the fuck away before she and her 9-year old daughter would have to spend enough Christmas with him. When the local cops got into the building, they found this conservative hero had stored enough radioactive materials to build a dirty bomb [Pg 11].

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Little Johnny Boehner, age 6, throws a tantrum: