Florida and Michigan Delegates Are Seated: Hillary Loses

After hearing arguments from both sides (including that a-hole Howard Dean who used his opportunity to speak to bash the Supreme Court) the DNC committee made the right move by making sure the states that actually followed their rules were treated fairly while the ones who didn't got penalized:

A first vote, which would have seated all of Florida's delegation with full voting privileges, failed.

After the results were announced, spectators started to boo and his and some started chanting, "Denver! Denver!" the site of the party's convention in August.

Democrats fear that a protracted battle over the issue all the way to the convention could split the party and weaken it's chances of winning the White House in November.

The Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee is hearing the two states' appeals on its decision to strip all of their delegates because they moved their primary contests earlier on the calendar.

Members of a Democratic rules committee voted on Saturday to seat all of Florida's and Michigan's delegation to the party's national convention and give their delegates a half vote each.

Lawyers for the committee advised in a memo CNN obtained this week that the committee's rules call for 50 percent of the delegations to be seated.

Of course, we all know that this is not over yet esp. what with Billary supporters outside booing today, shouting "Denver! Denver!" and Hillary's sole goal being to wreck Barack's chances of winning the presidency so she can position herself for 2012. But at least the DNC had the good sense to stand up to Billary and make sure she doesn't get to steal this thing.

Angelina Jolie Is Not Having Twins....Yet

You'll be happy to know that the lunatic wing's version of Mother Theresa has not given birth just yet:

The Brangelina clan began settling into a villa in the south of France as a report that the couple's twins had been born was denied by other celebrity news outlets.

"Entertainment Tonight" reported on its Web site Friday that actress Angelina Jolie had given birth in France. Then, People magazine posted a story online saying that Jolie had not given birth, and E! and US Weekly followed with their own stories saying the babies remained unborn. All of the reports cited anonymous sources.

Representatives for Jolie and her companion, actor Brad Pitt, did not respond to phone and e-mail requests from The Associated Press.

"Entertainment Tonight" did not return a call for comment. On Friday night, the TV show stood by its story, with host Mary Hart saying that "just this morning, a source who says she was inside the delivery room tells us, yes, the babies were born and, yes, mother and babies are fine."

Once they're born, I wonder how much her and Brad will exploit...er, sell photos of these babies for.

Bob Dole Quote of the Day!

"There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don't have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues. No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.

In my nearly 36 years of public service I've known of a few like you. No doubt you will "clean up" as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm.When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, 'Biting The Hand That Fed Me.' Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years."

- five-term senator Bob Dole on former White House spokesman and traitor Scott McClellan

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi To Step Into Democrat Primary Mess

Yahoo.com:

WASHINGTON - Top Democratic leaders intend to push for a quick end to the battle for the presidential nomination when primaries are over next week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday, adding that he, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and party chairman Howard Dean will urge uncommitted delegates to choose sides.

"By this time next week, it will all be over give or take a day," Reid said of the marathon race between the front-running Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Obama is within 44 delegates of clinching the nomination, according to The Associated Press tally, and leads Clinton by roughly 200 delegates.

Democratic officials said Pelosi already has begun contacting uncommitted House members urging them to weigh in soon after the primary season ends. Numerous Democrats have expressed concern that a protracted nominating campaign could harm the party's chances of winning the White House in the fall. John McCain effectively wrapped up the Republican nomination in March.

Tantalizingly close to the nomination, Obama stands to gain a minimum of roughly 20 delegates in remaining primaries in Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota under party rules that distribute them proportional to the popular vote — even if he loses all three. He would need to enlist the support of uncommitted superdelegates to amass the rest.

Normally I detest Harry Reid, but he's on point for stepping in here. Hillary Clinton never gave a damn about "counting all the votes" when she was ahead in the polls. But now that she's about to lose the Democratic nomination for president, she's every bit the sore loser, so much so that her only goal now is to antagonize her white, liberal base and take away Barack Obama's chance at winning the presidency so she'll be the presumptive pick to run again (and win) in 2012. So at the end of the day Black liberals, who once worshipped the ground the Clintons walked on, but are only now seeing Billary for the lying, scheming, ruthless scum that they truly are, will only have themselves to blame when Barack Obama loses the presidency to John McCain. After all, they are the ones who helped create the Clinton monster.

Scott McClellan: Disgruntled Ex-Employee

Listen, like night follows day, you knew that the liberal press and their minions were going to jump all over former press secretary Scott McClellan blasting President Bush and his administration in his new book. Yet when we look take a look at this dust-up thru a prism we refer to as common sense we can see that McClellan has all the makeup of a disgruntled employee: nepotism got him the job in the first place, he wasn't nearly as good at the job as his predecessor, spokesman aren't involved in policy-making and despite all the supposed horrible deeds McClellan claims Bush made concerning Iraq, he stayed on the job for 3 years and now he's promoting a book that just so happens to come out right before Bush leaves office:

In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and a host of other controversial issues produced a memoir damning of his old boss on nearly every level — from too much secrecy to a less-than-honest selling of the war to a lack of personal candor and an unwillingness to admit mistakes.

In the first major insider account of the Bush White House, one-time spokesman Scott McClellan calls the operation "insular, secretive and combative" and says it veered irretrievably off course as a result.

The White House responded angrily Wednesday to McClellan's confessional memoir, calling it self-serving sour grapes.

"Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House," said current White House press secretary Dana Perino, a former deputy to McClellan. "We are puzzled. It is sad. This is not the Scott we knew."

McClellan was the White House press secretary from May 2003 to April 2006, the second of four so far in Bush's presidency.

If you're a liberal you believe everything that's in Scott McClellan's book. But then liberals are idiots.

Will Barack Pick Jim Webb For VP?

The more I think about it, the more it just makes sense to me. Jim Webb has the foreign affairs/military experience that Senator Obama so sorely lacks (and badly needs against McCain). Webb's a moderate Democrat who supports gun-owners' rights, yet he'd still appeal to the lunatic wing since he's had his own bout of Bush Derangement Syndrome. And I suspect that he'd even appeal to most white, racist Hillary supporters because, well...he's white (not that Barack has much of a choice there since Barack is the only black guy in the Senate, but you get the drift). Reihan Salam of The Atlantic agrees:

As Barack Obama considers his vice presidential options, he would be very wise to take Jim Webb seriously. By now the idea that Webb could help Obama connect with the Scots-Irish voters of Greater Appalachia is familiar to most of those who follow the presidential horse race. And Webb's military experience, together with his years in Ronald Reagan's Pentagon, give him national security expertise that few leading Democrats can match. Yet there is another reason the Virginia Senator would make an excellent vice presidential nominee. As he's demonstrated this week, Webb can be a masterful legislative tactician.

Though no one will ever mistake Webb for a gladhanding backslapper, he has mobilized an extraordinary coalition of Democrats and Republicans behind a dramatic expansion of veterans' educational benefits. After passing by an overwhelming margin in the House, Webb's Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act won 75 votes in the Senate. Because the measure was attached to the Democrats' Iraq War spending bill, which included a number of other spending proposals favored by Democrats and opposed by the Bush White House, there is good reason to believe that the entire package will be vetoed. But there is also good reason to believe that something like Webb's proposal will eventually be made law, thanks in no small part to the measure's overwhelming popularity among veterans and military families.

Bob Geiger Has Bush Derangement Syndrome

Our troops volunteered to serve their country. Long before George W. Bush, Bill Clinton also said that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, the same Saddam Hussein who was responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people during his long and evil reign. Iraq, a country that has long suffered from tyranny, is with our help trying to build a democracy. But when you're an idiot liberal hellbent with hatred for the President, the facts mean nothing:

When the national political conversation turns to excessive nastiness, will the media remember The Huffington Post? On Bush's last Memorial Day as Commander-in-Chief, Democratic activist Bob Geiger posted an article titled "Dead Troops Remembered by President Who Had Them Killed." Bush is a murderer? Geiger says yes: "Make no mistake about it, George W. Bush is as responsible for the deaths of those men and women as if he himself had fired the bullet or set the IEDs that ended their lives."

What's interesting is that your usual Huffington Post blogger doesn't have anywhere near the same amount of hatred for the people actually shooting our troops and setting the IEDs. Geiger kicks it up a notch to suggest that your usual murderer has more class than the President: "Even a garden-variety murderer would be unlikely to make an appearance when the victim's family is observing the anniversary of a loved one's death."

Geiger began:

Yes, that's a harsh headline for this piece.

But I'll ask you to forgive me because, as a Veteran, there isn't a day on the calendar that causes my hatred -- and I do indeed mean hatred -- of George W. Bush to bubble over the top more than Memorial Day.

While I know that you just can't take liberals seriously, the Secret Service might still wanna look into this asshole.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 5/27/08

John McCain Says He And Barack Should Visit Iraq Together

Did FOX Analyst Suggest Assassinating Obama?

European Court To Hear Chimp's Plea For Human Rights

Courtney Love Resisted Coerced Abortion, Report Memoir

Poll: 11% Believe That Barack Obama Is Muslim

McCain Defends Opposition To GI Bill In Memorial Day Speech

Libertarian Party Picks Bob Barr To Be Its Presidential Candidate

U.S. Vehicle Miles vs. Real Gasoline Price

If Only We Could Talk To The Animals

Former ABC News Capitol Hill correspondent Linda Douglass Joins Obama's Campaign

Check Out HBO's "Recount"

Going in I was a little skeptical about watching HBO's "Recount", a flick that takes a look back at the mess that was the Al Gore-created Florida recount at the end 2000 Presidential election. I figured there'd be a huge liberal bent to the movie since we all know that there are plenty of left-wing lunatics in and out of Hollywood who still can't get over Bush beating Gore. Yet, to my surprise, for the most part I was wrong. "Recount" is not only a good film for anyone whose into politics, but it actually presents a pretty fair representation of both sides fight to win Florida. I won't give anything away here, but Kevin Spacey, Denis Leary and Tom Wilkinson (who plays James Baker), in particular, give top-notch performances. My only complaints? They made a complete caricature of one significant player in that whole mess (you'll know who that is right away) and they could've done a much better job with the Supreme Court sequences near the end. But I'd still recommend seeing "Recount" when you get a chance, esp. if you've been following the Democratic primaries of late.

Jessica Lange Should Stick To Acting

Surprise, surprise. Another rich, Hollywood actor is out and about bashing President Bush and the war in Iraq, at one of the most liberal, prestigious and costliest schools in America no less, yunno, a place most of us common folk can't afford:

Oscar-winner Jessica Lange bashed the Bush administration and denounced the war in Iraq during a commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College.

The star of "Tootsie" and "Blue Sky" was applauded by students Friday at the small liberal arts college after comparing the conflict with the Vietnam War. She said the graduates have "a heavy burden" to chart a new path for the country.

"We are living in an America that, in the last seven and a half years, has waged an unnecessary war, established prison camps, condoned torture, employed corporate armies, eliminated the right of habeas corpus, practiced extraordinary rendition, and believe me, this is only a partial list," Lange said.

Lange asked the graduates, including her 22-year-old daughter Hannah Shepard, to commit themselves to the "pursuit of peace."

Yawn.