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So I was just reading an AP article that quoted Newt Gingrich as saying, "If we go into the election year as the explainers and managers of failure, we're going to get hammered." I couldn't agree more, and that's exactly what the Democratic Party leadership has to get their collective minds around right now. 'Where are the weapons of mass destruction?' Failure. 'Why did we send all those troops to Iraq so woefully under-equipped, as was the case with the "armored up" humvees, and having enough body armor so that soldiers themselves didn't have to buy their own?' Failure. 'Why weren't enough troops sent to do the job and secure the Iraqi borders?' Failure. 'Why, despite the deaths of over 1,900 Americans, and untold numbers of Iraqis, do we now have to "lower our expectations" of what is to become of Iraq because the Bush Administration's ideas of bringing an American style democracy to the Middle East wer...

Em was kind enough to post this in the comments section of my previous post. http://homepage.mac.com/onegoodmove2/movies/olbermann090505rant.mov Get this clip now, it's a beautiful thing.

What is there to say other than to state the fact that George W. Bush is going to go down as the single worst president in American history. For starters, he just can't stop lying to the Americn people. It's like he's been lying to us for so long, it's all he knows now. Since 2002, the Bush administration has been looting the Army Corps. of Engineers fund that was supposed to be used for improving the levees in New Orleans, and using that money to fund his war on Iraq. Then, after years of newspaper editorials explaining what would happen in the face of a storm, after years of the city of New Orleans complaining that the levee work wasn't being done, Bush has the brass balls to look right into the camera and tell us, "No one could have anticipated the levee would break." Jesus fucking christ on a crutch! It makes me so mad I can't breath. In Bush's mad world, a political cronie whose last position was judging horses seems a perfect choice to head F...