A good tagline for both photos: “Poop is raining from the ceilings. Poop!”
A question to ponder: Did Monica have a Dwight in the DOJ?
PS: It was Karen that noticed this first, and our fantastic dotcom team that put together the photo.
UPDATE: A Swampland reader noticed it firster:
Just slightly down the food chain is an
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Joe’s right that, for all the anger and frustration we are hearing today from the Democratic base, there was never much chance that their leaders were going to hold to setting deadlines for withdrawal from Iraq. Despite the leadership’s public statements, the guidance that reporters were getting on background from generally reliable …
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This was inevitable. And, for the moment, it’s the right thing to do.
I’m not so sure that rants like the one Ana describes below are what we need right now, however satisfying and entertaining Keith’s passion might be. Since the Republicans have chosen to be the party of Iraq irrationality, there is a need for Democrats to be measured …
We have it on good authority that, barring the miraculous, tonight’s “Countdown” will feature a “Special Comment” from Olbermann on the Iraq funding deal negotiated yesterday and we’ve obtained a rough draft of it. Mr. Olbermann is not pleased. As you might, he unloads on Bush:
How shameful it would be to watch an **adult** hold his
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How much will we learn tomorrow when Monica Goodling, the Justice Department’s former White House liaison, testifies in front of the House Judiciary Committee under a grant of immunity from prosecution? A spokeswoman for the Committee says it has been given “every indication” that she will be forthcoming.
We have a few indications of …
I’m told by a senior Congressional official involved in the negotiations that House Democratic leaders plan to handle their Iraq war funding dilemma by attaching two amendments to a bill sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray. The first amendment will include most of the popular domestic spending (or pork, as critics call it) that was included …
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A really good eyewitness piece from Baghdad by Spencer Ackerman in the Nation.
Hillary Clinton is already raising the question of whether we should keep training the Iraqis on the campaign trail. But, as David Ignatius reports, the Bush Administration sees this a different way.
I’m closer to the Ackerman-Clinton position–with a …
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Here’s David Yepsen–who has covered more caucuses than (even) me–on the meaning of the polls.
And here’s the most important thing you should know about Iowa:
Finally, the polls show 69 percent of the Democrats and 77 percent of the Republicans say they could be persuaded to change their minds.
That will be true, I would guess, until …
TPMMuckraker has an advance copy of a new book about the Dukester, authored by Copley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning team, which tells us what we were missing at all those parties aboard his yacht.
Democrats trying to figure out Iraq funding legislation they can get Bush to sign are working on a bill without timelines and without much of the unrelated domestic spending that fattened up previous versions. But they may attach a minimum wage hike to the bill. Will anti-war members bolt? Should they?
I never liked the idea of buying …
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Juan Cole plays his usual valuable role in sifting through the news from hell. Despite his disclaimers–and he’s entirely correct to disclaim–I found his speculation about some sort of political shakeup imminent in Baghdad to be interesting:
So of the central club, al-Hakim is now absent [taking lung cancer treatment in Iran]. And,
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On a blogger conference call just now, McCain fired the first shot in what is sure to be a series of ongoing frontal assaults on Mitt Romney. According to someone on the call, in response to a question about Romney’s immigration position, McCain said he’d “wait a couple of weeks and see if the winds change and Mitt comes back around” to …
We’re all in New York, meeting with our colleagues to determine the very future of the Republic. Feel free to leave suggestions here for how you’d like to see the 2008 campaign covered — either by us or by the media in general or by yourselves.
Keep it relatively clean, if you can. Easier to forward to the boss that way.
