Authors Golan and Origen have created a parody of the popular children’s book “Goodnight Moon” called “Goodnight Bush”:

On their website you can even look inside the book.
Authors Golan and Origen have created a parody of the popular children’s book “Goodnight Moon” called “Goodnight Bush”:

On their website you can even look inside the book.
The west coast is definitely not a good place to be a Republican right now. First, Oregon Republican Senator Gordon Smith ran a TV ad trying to attach himself Obama’s coattails. Then California’s Governator made comments distancing himself from Republican proposals. Now this — Fox News reports several Republican candidates in the state of Washington are taking advantage of a new election law to remove the designation “Republican” from their name on the ballot:
Some conservatives are even declaring they will leave the party after McCain gets the nomination.
Who says that CSPAN isn’t the new comedy channel? During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Steve Cohen tried to get Cheney’s chief of staff to clarify to which branch of the government the Vice President belongs:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/quote_of_the_day_vice_presiden.php
On a McCain campaign conference call Thursday morning, Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas accused Obama of being all talk and no action when it comes to working across the aisle:
John McCain’s a maverick. He’s fought for a bipartisan fashion. I think that the biggest thing I’ve seen from Barack Obama is a willingness, aggressiveness, to talk bipartisan and yet to vote the hard left — most liberal member of the United States Senate.
The Obama campaign rapid-response team quickly responded with an email listing the projects on which Obama worked with Brownback, including bills that Obama co-sponsored with Brownback.
As CQ Politics notes, there is a valuable lesson here: Before you say Barack Obama never worked across the aisle, make sure he never worked with, for example, you.
I also find Brownback’s quote interesting as a Republican framing exercise — the repeating of the tired and discredited notions that McCain is a maverick and Obama is the “most liberal” member of the Senate.
Conservative radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt got a wee bit carried away on his Wednesday show:
I’m still trying to find two tickets to the Ohio State-USC game. And none of the USC people will give up their tickets to me. I’d pay fair price. They — they know Ohio State’s gonna slaughter the Trojans. They know that they’re gonna slaughter the Trojans, and therefore they do not want me there at the bloodbath, since it’s probably the last football game we’ll ever get to see before the United States gets blown up by the Islamists under Obama.
The best part of this is that once you stop laughing over his cheap shot at Obama, you realize that he has just acknowledged that Obama is going to win the election.
McCain’s website now features a “cool” “new” video game called Pork Invaders (you can play it, below). Unfortunately, as Wonkette says, the game looks older than John himself. And the game was clearly “borrowed” from somewhere else, and somewhat sloppily — all the aliens use the same pig image, even though they have different point values.
And correct me if I’m wrong (it has been 30 years since it came out) but as I recall there was no way to win Space Invaders. No matter how many aliens you kill, they just keep on coming and coming until you (eventually) die. Is that the message we are supposed to get from this game: that no matter how many vetoes McCain uses, he will never be able to defeat pork spending?
McCain’s website does make one acknowledgement of the InnerTubes — you can add the game to your Facebook profile. Any takers?
A group calling themselves the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is trying to get an initiative on the November ballot to name a local sewage plant after President G. W. Bush. They call it “an appropriate honor for a truly unique president,” but please don’t ask me what kind of cheek in which they have their tongue firmly planted.
The idea was hatched in a bar, naturally. And just as apropos, the group wants to celebrate inauguration day — when Bush leaves office — by having people flush hundreds of thousands of San Francisco toilets at the same time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/25rename.html
UPDATE: A spokesman for the sewage plant says that while they understand the humorous intent of the endeavor, the award-winning facility has been efficient at keeping the streets and ocean clean, thus the plant should be “the last place” the group should use to make a negative statement about Bush.
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/89617/?type=blog
In what is simultaneously the height of irony and hypocrisy, Karl Rove is attacking the NY Times for an article in which it named a CIA agent who was involved in the interrogation of terrorist Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Recall that Karl Rove played a central role in the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame as punishment because during the run-up to the Iraq war her husband Joe Wilson pointed out that many of the administration’s claims about Iraq’s WMDs were false.
The NY Times defends their article by pointing out that the agent in question has never been a covert agent, and that CIA agent’s names involved in such interrogations have been mentioned in other articles and even books. Also interesting was the fact that the article was praising the agent, because he refused to use harsh techniques (like waterboarding) and instead developed a rapport with the terrorist which likely provided more and better information than harsh techniques.
But that didn’t stop Rove from going on the offensive for something for which he is far more guilty. It it hard to imagine why he isn’t in jail.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/25/karl-rove-lashes-out-at-nyt-for-identifying-cia-agent/
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/25/rove-nyt-cia-agent/
Bush says the surge in Iraq is working. McCain says the surge is working. The media parrots these sound bites. But a report released by the General Accounting Office says otherwise. What a concept: someone actually took the goals the Bush administration laid out in January 2007 for the “surge”, and one-by-one analyzed them to see if they had actually been accomplished, as claimed.
Not only is the surge not meeting its stated goals, but it is looking more and more like another rat hole, down which we will be pouring American and Iraqi lives and trillions of dollars for the next 100 years or more.
So what did the mainstream media do with this report? They buried it.
At the same time, McCain keeps talking about “winning” in Iraq, but unless he tells us what “winning” means, it is just a hollow word with no actual meaning.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-bard/the-surge-is-working-not_b_108976.html
Mike Erickson is a Republican running for congress in Oregon. He has sent out campaign materials stressing his pro-life beliefs. Except that in 2001, when a woman he was dating got pregnant, he gave her $300 and drove her to an abortion clinic, dumping her there.
It is especially delicious when the hypocrisy of a candidate running on a pro-life platform is revealed. This isn’t about whether abortion is right or wrong, this is about using a controversial issue for political gain — declaring that abortion is murder — except maybe that doesn’t apply when a messy thing called life gets in the way of your political ambitions.
Just to make matters worse, Erickson initially tried to deny he paid for the abortion, except that medical and other records and the accounts of two witnesses back up the charges. Erickson also claims he never saw the woman again, but there are documents and photos showing him on a trip to Mexico with her two months after the abortion, and witnesses say that they spent the night together.
If abortion is murder, then paying for a murder is still murder. Sending out pro-life campaign materials is hypocrisy, and lying about it is strike three.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OR_ERICKSON_ABORTION_OROL-
“John McCain and Barack Obama are bickering, and you know what they’re bickering about? What to do when they catch Osama bin Laden. That’s right. Obama wants to bring him to trial, but John McCain wants to shoot him. Both really good ideas. And I said to myself, guys, guys, how about somebody finding him first? Let’s do that.” -David Letterman
“Last night, President Bush held a celebration at the White House honoring jazz. … Yeah. It was an awkward moment when Bush said, ‘This is great. It’s just like being in an elevator.'” -Conan O’Brien
“According to a Pentagon report this week, more than 1,000 nuclear missile components in the U.S. arsenal are lost and cannot be located. We can’t even find our own weapons of mass destruction! Anyway, the Air Force, in their defense … said today, there’s a big difference between something being missing and just not being able to find it. Which would be okay if you’re talking about a pair of lost sunglasses.” -Jay Leno
Do you like good news? President Bush has ordered now — it’s official — has ordered his troops now to find Osama Bin Laden. Yep boy, he really jumped on that one, didn’t he?” -David Letterman
“Barack Obama’s wife Michelle, have you noticed she’s making the rounds now? You notice when you turn on the TV, she wasn’t as visible before, but now she’s everywhere. Yesterday on ‘The View,’ I don’t know if you saw that, Barack Obama’s wife Michelle did the fist-bump with all the co-hosts. She did that, yeah. And then she said that the fist-bump is the new high-five. That’s what she said. Yeah, after hearing this, John McCain asked, ‘What the hell is a high-five?'” -Conan O’Brien
“President Bush went to Iowa today. Really, what’s the hurry? Don’t want to make the Katrina people jealous. No, he wanted to show Iowans that disaster is difficult, but it can be overcome. Of course, people from Iowa were a little confused. They weren’t sure which disaster President Bush was talking about, the floods, or his presidency.” -Jay Leno
“President Bush spoke at a campaign rally in support of John McCain. They raised millions and millions of dollars, most of which will be used to repair the damage of President Bush supporting John McCain at a campaign rally. So it’s kind of a wash” -Jay Leno
“In a recent interview, President Bush said that he might not be the last President Bush if his brother, Jeb, decides to run. Yeah, when he heard this, Jeb said, ‘Please stop reminding everyone we’re related. Shut up!'” -Conan O’Brien
“Barack Obama says that he will visit Iraq, or as John McCain still calls it, Mesopotamia. … Barack Obama announced this week he’ll visit Iraq and Afghanistan before the election in November. He said he wants to see an area that’s been overrun by violent extremists. So, sounds like he already misses his old church.” -Jay Leno
“Well, a new poll shows that less than 1 out of 4 Americans now think President Bush is doing a good job. 1 in 4. So that means when President Bush is having dinner with his wife and two daughters, he’s the only one at the table that thinks he’s doing a good job.” -Jay Leno
“President Bush says he plans to publish a book once he leaves the White House. We have an advanced copy here. This won’t be out till January. It’s ‘Iraq on $100 Million a Day.’ It’s a travel book.” -Jay Leno