This is what some call “Edwards going for Hillary’s jugular”:

The choice for our party could not be more clear. We cannot replace a group of corporate Republicans with a group of corporate Democrats, just swapping the Washington insiders of one party for the Washington insiders of the other.

The American people deserve to know that their presidency is not for sale, the Lincoln Bedroom is not for rent, and lobbyist money can no longer influence policy in the House or the Senate.

J-Ger predicts that Opie will be ridiculed from his own ranks as so “desperate” he’s resorting to joining the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.  A rather odd (or “non-linear”) bit of, well, “non-reasoning” since Edwards has spent the entire campaign so far trying to get to Hillary’s left (a place it’s allegedly not difficult for a Democrat to get to).  Though the “desperate” part certainly seems a good fit.

I look at Opie’s comment and the first thing to come to my mind is that this is the same guy who has made “fighting poverty” his supposed life’s work with an aircraft hanger-sized home as his base of operations, fueled by the fortune he’s raked in from working for hedge funds, poor-American-loan-foreclosing mortgage banks, and fifty-grand-a-pop speaking gigs.  Does anybody who’s ever heard of Druff, The Follicle Boy Wonder seriously belief that he wouldn’t install a freaking turnstile, complete with credit card terminal, in front of the Lincoln bedroom and put a cot or futon in every other nook and cranny of that iconic barn?  C’mon, Opie’d make Tom Bodet his White House Chief of Staff, for heaven’s sake.

There’s no such thing as a public utterance from a Democrat that is without guile or calculation.  Plus a whole lotta chutzpah.  Here’s another case in point:

[Rudy] Giuliani’s record on managing [New York C]ity’s emergency responders is more telling—and shows a more complicated leadership style than Americans saw on 9/11.

“When we reflected on his tenure, we saw qualities that were not helpful,” says Jamie Gorelick, a member of the 9/11 commission and former Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration. “[For President], I think you want someone who is not polarizing. Someone who brings people together by the power of persuasion rather than the power of dictate. Someone who is considering of other points of view and ultimately decisive. And on all three scores, I have serious doubts about the mayor.”

This from the same woman that is supporting Hillary Clinton, and is probably on Medusa’s short list for Attorney-General.

But leave that aside.  It redefines hypocrisy for the woman who constructed “the wall” that prevented intelligence-sharing between the FBI and CIA, and consequently made it all but impossible to prevent the 9/11 attacks, to criticize ANY Republican on ANY aspect of counter-terrorism, much less the man whose city was ground zero for those attacks.

That is a good summation of the difference between Mrs. Clinton and the rest of the Donk field.  The latter’s hypocrisy is comedy fodder; the former’s, and that of her assembled minions, is deadly serious.

Don’t think so?  Remember who her chief advisor is.

Radio Equalizer has the details of Harry Reid telling Liberal talk show host Bill Press how it’s all Bush’s fault once again…

PRESS: Senator, I’m sure you were disheartened to see yesterday the Gallup organization came out with a new poll that showed that currently today the Congress holds an approval rating among the American people of an all-time low of 18%. Uh, how do you deal with that?

REID: Of course I’m disappointed in that, but if you go back to before they started doing polling, Will Rogers made a living criticizing Congress. Congress has always been criticized and as well it should be; the American people express their frustration through how Congress is doing. But if you go back historically, you’ll always find that when you have a president that is so terribly unpopular, it also affects Congress.

Mr. Reid, when the people of Nevada decide to oust your ass from the senate, it won’t be George Bush’s fault, the blame will fall squarely on you. Your pandering to the hard loony ‘Left’ has had you talking out of that hole that comes out behind the back of your pants. Do you think it was wise to declare “This war is lost” while young American soldiers are still in harms way? Do you think it was appropriate to use the drowned corpses of those who perished in the Minneapolis bridge collapse as a bloody stick to bash the President with? Do you think it was the wisest decision to call the President of the United States a loser in front of an audience of school children? Combine that with the fact that your short reign as Senate Majority Leader is to what many are calling a ‘do nothing Congress,’ I would say that you’ve earned every one of those 82 points against you. For a senator who presides in a moderately red state, I’ve got a name for you to remember: Tom Daschle.

Cross-posted at Political Vindication

Don’t worry, I haven’t disappeared.  I’ve just been “Bloggerized” for the past few days, but my main page is now once again showing the most recent offerings, so I can now promote the ones I left off with.

Vlad Putin wants to take Russia back to the “good ol’ days” of the Evil Empire.  But all he’s accomplishing ultimately is to put the “hooks” in his countries jaws that will drag it southward to its doom.

Here is an RNC ad I’d pay to see.  Or just a YouTube clip if that’s the best that can be done.  I don’t care which, really, just so somebody eventually puts it together in the next fourteen months.

I’d say that I know Carl Levin as well as I know every square inch of my glorious naked body, except that the connotation, not to mention the aesthetics, would make me gag along with everybody else.  Plus, you know, the matter of infringing on somebody’s gimmick.

And last, but not least, Louisiana Donks try to bring Baghdad to the Bayou.  Methinks that million bucks they’re trying to raise for the anti-Jindal ad buy would be better spent educating themselves as to what century this is.