Plunderbund

Three years ago, the GOP was threatening to “nuke” the filibuster. Trent Lott had this to say:
[Filibustering] is wrong. It’s not supportable under the Constitution. And if they insist on persisting with these filibusters, I’m perfectly prepared to blow the place up.
Mitch McConnell’s spokesman said this:
Senator McConnell always has and continues to fully support […]

Well, not directly anyway. Speaking about the uprisings in Burma in a White House press briefing:
Q And the protests, themselves, seem to have been stilled. What do you make of that?
MS. PERINO: Well, unfortunately, intimidation and force can chill peaceful demonstrations. And reports about very innocent […]

The Senate was unable to muster enough votes to overcome a filibuster. A sham “non-binding” GOP bill was also shot down.

The threat posed by terrorists is so unprecedented, that we must resort to torture (except not call it that) in order to win, right?
Wrong.

George W. Bush, 2006:
In this new kind of war, we must be willing to question the enemy when we pick them up on the battlefield. (Applause.) We have captured people like Khalid […]

Pots calling kettles black. Glass house boys tossing stones. Call it what you will, me old boss Brian over at Progress Ohio blasts Bob Bennett and the rest of the shameful GOP fuckers for their use of Frankie Coleman’s drinking problem for political gain.
Earning the asshat of the week award is […]

I guess since Bizzy takes a shot at me (ostensibly for something I didn’t write), and shuts down comments - I’ll comment here. First off, I asked Brian to blog here and I’m not in the habit of trying to police that. I don’t have to agree with him always or with Joe […]

On Clinton’s Kosovo:
(June 4, 1999) “I would strongly urge that if there are U.S. troops involved, they be under U.S. command or NATO command. I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn. If there needs to […]