We were just talking about this at work. Y'know how none of the Republican presidential candidates are very appealing right now (c.f., the recent poll where "none of the above" got a higher percentage than any of the Republican candidates)?

I'm just waiting for Bush to look at that and then, as a first step, abolish term limits and run again.

Yep, kinda' makes sense, in a paranoid, "they would never do that - oh wait, these guys might" kind of way.

From the article:

Roberts said that because of Bush's unpopularity, the Republicans face a total wipeout in 2008, and this may be why "the Democrats have not brought a halt to Bush's follies or the war, because they expect his unpopular policies to provide them with a landslide victory in next year's election."

However, Roberts emphasized, "the problem with this reasoning is that it assumes that Cheney and Rove and the Republicans are ignorant of these facts, or it assumes that they are content for the Republican Party to be destroyed after Bush has his fling." Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party. "Something's in the works," he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place.

How does the expression go again? Don't try to beat a pig at mud wrestling--you'll only get dirty, plus the pig enjoys it.

"Don't try to teach a pig to sing - it accomplishes nothing and it annoys the pig."

Wait, that's probably a completely different expression involving pigs....

Well, I think it's important that Allyson realise she can't make silk out of a sow's ear.

Have people heard this? Asking questions about the war aids the enemy. Even if the person asking the questions is a Senator, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and presidential candidate.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon told Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton that her questions about how the U.S. plans to eventually withdraw from Iraq boosts enemy propaganda.

In a stinging rebuke to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman responded to questions Clinton raised in May in which she urged the Pentagon to start planning now for the withdrawal of American forces.

A copy of Edelman's response, dated July 16, was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

"Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia," Edelman wrote.

He added that "such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks."

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Well, I think it's important that Allyson realise she can't make silk out of a sow's ear.

Yes, but if you evicerate the pig, you can make a football out of its skin after you make tasty bacon.

Probably easier to just go get a BLT somewhere, though.

Yes, but if you evicerate the pig, you can make a football out of its skin after you make tasty bacon.

Does that work with long pig?

Does that work with long pig?

Those you make into furniture.

Does that work with long pig?

Only if you want Soylent Green.

Dudes! Stop making me think about bacon!

A vegetarian friend of mine once bought mock-bacon. Do you suppose you could make mock-bacon out of Soylent Green?