But it seems Bob Novak's Corvette was stopped by a cyclist in downtown DC and detained until police cited Novak for a hit ‘n run.

Bob says he didn’t even know he’d struck anyone. There’s some video at the link to Politico.

I post this in the interest of keeping BL Rag visitors fully apprised of the up-to-the-minute news in Our Nation's Capitol.

Free barbeque, free donuts with sprinkles, and a free pass from his base.

It's good to be John McCain and to have powerful friends. He commits yet another ghastly gaffe in a public broadcast, so CBS edits it out.

"To say that Barack Obama wants to "lose" in Iraq is completely beyond acceptable standards of political discourse. For Senator McCain to impugn the loyalty and patriotism of a sitting United States Senator while he is overseas to gain some short-term political leverage is beneath the dignity of the office which he holds. This is an act of political desperation and moral cowardice. John McCain should be ashamed of himself and immediately apologize."

Terence O’Rourke, Portsmouth, NH, Iraq veteran Army 2006-07

"The UK can no longer rely on US assurances that it does not use torture, and we recommend that the Government does not rely on such assurances in the future." [PDF file]

Remember that guy caught on videotape offering Presidential access in return for large checks to the Bush Library foundation? Well, he runs a company that peddles political influence at landing oil and gas leases in “politically uncomplicated”, “often misunderstood” and “turbulent” countries. And they’re advertising to potential customers that one of their fattest and most attractive assets is . . . one of McCain’s most senior advisors.

Like a pandering pretzel.

Geez, by the time it's all said and done the term is guaranteed to be a can't-miss, surefire punch line.

"It's time for you to hear some Straight Talk, my friends." (Audience dissolves in peals of helpless laughter, tears streaming down their cheeks.)

The guy who votes to defeat the bills he cosponsors is slayin' 'em in Detroit.

My sense is that Tom Cronin has pretty well got down John McCain’s shtick of supposedly not having a shtick, as well as how the national press continues to shrug off McCain’s painfully obvious panderings and inconsistencies because they won’t press him on his twin strategems of either playing dumb and saying “I’ll get back to you on that complicated subject” or blowing his stack in bully-boy pushback mode. (”How dare you say that to a former POW, something I really don’t like to talk about !”)

I’m very curious as to whether McCain can continue working this fairly transparent routine all the way till Election Day, or whether someone—maybe even a private citizen or some journalist quite a bit lower down the food chain, or maybe a European reporter less enamored of him than the US press—will call him on it and McCain will then make an ugly mess of it. I’m guessing probably the former.

For all McCain's vaunted press availability, this has to be making his staff nervous.

. . . and back to the playbook.

Obama is socialist.

Medicare is socialist.

Social Security is socialist.

Sixty-six per cent of Americans . . . socialists !

Who knew?

Too delicious.

Landed gentry and titled royalty Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, “mistress” of the Ascott House, that is, the Rothschilds’ 3,200-acre family estate in Buckinghamshire, speaking on CNN of Barack Obama:

“I feel like he IS an elitist.”

You ask why I say satirizing the Extreme Right is un-possible? This is why.

Another bizarre, novel, utterly unprecedented executive-privilege claim.

Ho.

Hum.

Your mission, Mr. Phelps—should you choose to accept it—is to identify the speaker of the following words.

"X warned yesterday against the risk of a “creeping militarization” of U.S. foreign policy, saying the State Department should lead U.S. engagement with other countries, with the military playing a supporting role.

“We cannot kill or capture our way to victory” in the long-term campaign against terrorism, X said, arguing that military action should be subordinate to political and economic efforts to undermine extremism."

Clicking is peeking. Take a guess before you do.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

McCain Endorses/Opposes/Supports/Attacks/Defends DREAM Act on Earned Citizenship.

All at once.

I'm sure Straight-Talkin' Maverick'll just decline to discuss the matter. Just as I'm sure the press will find his refusal perfectly acceptable.

Oh, puh-leeze. If ever there were a party of “fancy lads,” can we stipulate it’s the GOP?

“ [McCain] said, ruefully, that he had not mastered how to use the Internet and relied on his wife and aides . . . to get him online [sic] . . . “They go on for me,” he said. “I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.”

Um. How hard is that? The Republicans seem to have thought it a good idea to nominate a guy who has ten houses, but (apparently) no computers.

"Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes."