New sign on the Highways!

Dispatch from a Hotel in Normal, IL - 12:15A CST

Karl Rove and the gang are at it again, this time it is to destroy the Democratic Governor of Kansas. Her mortal sin was to tell the truth about the Kansas National Guard equipment.

Tony Snow, living up to his name, started the snowball rolling by stating "Governor Sebelius never requested anything from the Federal Government." Today that ball was picked up by none other than Sean Hannity. He interviewed two idiots from Pittsburgh, PA, who have a morning show on 104.7 FM (a Clearchannel station) and XM Radio named Quinn and Rose, and accused Howard Dean of orchestrating the Governor's statement for political gain.

The story goes like this:

Gen. Pace Equivocates, Tony SnowJob Reamed in WH Press Conference...

Pace Questions Whether Iran Arming Iraq JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - The top U.S. military officer said Tuesday the discovery that roadside bombs in Iraq contained material made in Iran does not necessarily mean the Iranian government was involved in supplying insurgents.... (more w/video)

The real story ain't Granny Pelosi's travel arrangements, cause it ain't a story. The real story is the Repugnant smear and the corporate mediawhores falling for Reich-wing penis envy. Ya see, Nancy's (jet) is bigger than Denny's... btw, even though internally confined, Granny Nancy's have have always been larger than the shriveled raisins masquerading as gonads on Denny Hastert...

via ThinkProgress... Tony Snow, House Sergeant At Arms Rebut Right-Wing Attacks On Pelosi - You know the right wing has gone off the ledge when even Tony Snow can’t stand by their attacks. (more)

If it's Friday, it's time to take a look at what's been floating around the political world this week and that I haven't commented on, might have slipped under your radar or has just flat-out been too silly for you to notice…

Nancy's Got Guts - House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi’s choice of John Murtha to be the new House Majority Leader, her steadfast support of his candidacy and Murtha's loss to Steny Hoyer, hardly spell an initial political defeat for the most powerful person in the new House of Representatives. If anything, it bodes well for the kind of true leadership we can expect from Pelosi, who had to know Hoyer would win and, accepting the political consequences, stuck by Murtha right up until the vote yesterday.

My young son and I were talking last week about the definition of a lie. As a nine-year-old, he's expanding his boundaries and testing the waters on how little he can get away with telling my wife and me without crossing the line into being a liar. This seems to me like a perfectly normal part of childhood development so, as we talked, I used an example from last winter, when we had a misunderstanding about whether or not his school had been closed in advance of a monster snowstorm.

He told me the night before that he heard from one of the teachers that, because of the magnitude of the expected storm, classes had been called off in advance for the next day. We found out later that night that this information was incorrect, that a preemptive snow-day had not been called and my little boy promptly apologized for "lying."

I often miss former White House Press Secretary Scott "The Lyin' King" McClellan. When there was a slow news day -- not that there have been many of those in the last few years -- you could always count on McClellan, who left his post earlier this year, to be a weasel in such an over-the-top way that, if nothing else, it was good for some humor.

I mean, McClellan was a weasel's weasel… Helen Thomas could ask Scott if Sunday would follow Saturday this weekend and he would say something like "Well, as you know, Helen, I can't comment on a hypothetical like that. I think the president has made clear that he's focused on the business of the American people and not whether Sunday will or will not follow Saturday."

White House Press Secretary Tony "Snowjob" Snow said today that Mr. Bush first learned of killing of two dozen Iraqi civilians at Haditha from the press"when a Time reporter first made the call." "Snowjob" resisted answering directly when asked what Bush's "personal involvement" has been, saying "I'm not going to get into his personal involvement." Excuse me? A mass murder by US military personnel may have occurred, and your "values" guide you to duck and dodge questions without so much as "Let me look into it and follow-up?"

So some of the questions are: Why wasn't Bush briefed by the military? Why was he kept in the dark? Where did the reporting responsibility for Haditha stop, and why?

In tapping Henry "Hank" M. Paulson, Jr. for his new Secretary of the Treasury, George Bush has literally taken a play from Richard Nixon's playbook. Paulson worked in the Nixon administration as assistant to John Ehrlichman, mastermind of the Watergate "Plumbers," from 1972-1973. Nixon asked for Ehrlichman's resignation in April, 1973. He was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury in 1975. He served 18 months in prison and was not pardoned.

The goal of Watergate was to undermine the Democratic Party and the opposition to the Vietnam war. Today, the unpopularity of the Iraqi invasion is a glaring parallel, as is Nixon's penchant for covert operations.

Tony Snow, former FOX News commentator and new Bush media meister, debuted Friday in 23 chaotic minutes riddled with gaffes and apologies. Asked to critique his first Q&A session, the administration's new press secretary remarked, "It obviously at this point is just a mess."

Clearly enamored of his new digs and eager to impress his old colleagues by showing them off, "Snowjob" impulsively moved the informal morning "gaggle" to his new office. It quickly overflowed so that some old hands were barely able to hear or ask questions.