Karl Rove getting pardoned: twice as annoying as Paris Hilton continuing to exist


What would be even more aggravating than a multi-millionaire U.S. Senator winning the lottery?
Karl Rove gets a full pardon from George W. Bush

446
  57%
 
Paris Hilton… just, y’know, keeps existing like that

222
  28.4%
 
Donald Trump starts farting solid gold coins

71
  9.1%
 
O.J. Simpson takes a divot and strikes oil

44
  5.6%
 

Man, you guys really don’t like Paris Hilton: aparently she’s more than five times more aggravating just by being alive than a widely-believed-to-be double-knife-killer suddenly going all Beverly Hillbillies.

Fair enough.

OK, next question: how would Scottie McClellan and the right-wing noise machine spin things if some White House bigshot had been caught on camera holding up a liquor store with a machine gun?

New poll at upper left.

GOP Senator courageously standing on unprinciple

Missed this a couple of days ago… faced with the prospect that the
U.S. Congress might just decide that New Orleans (and America) needs
Interstate 10 just a teensy bit more than this town —

— needs a bridge comparable to the Golden Gate, Alaska’s brilliant
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Pork), actually announced that if Ketchikan
doesn’t get the bridge a lot of people there don’t even want, he would stamp his feetsies and resign in a huff.

So, um, that would be a two-fer.

Original post on the subject, with more details and a diagram of the proposed bridge here.

And for a look at the relative porkiness of various senators on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, go here and scroll down.  Stevens wins!

Upsidedownland part trois

For those who’ve been following this weirdness, here’s
the White House statement on Federal Disaster Assistance due to Wilma. 
Note that it’s surprisingly rational, covering the parts of Florida a
sane person would expect.

Compare and contrast with initially declaring only the non-coastal areas of Louisiana during Katrina, and then even more weirdly, the entire state of Texas
for Rita.  (Note, incidentally, that the rest of Louisiana was
included, days later.  Please don’t point to that and pretend it
explains the earlier weirdness.)

When my back’s not killing me, I still really do intend to post a full
review, complete with FEMA’s non-explanation.  This is just a
place-holder for those interested in comparing Wilma.

One more post and I’m horizontal again.