Political Bloviation

Occupying Iraq Is Just Like Occupying … Alabama? | OurFuture.org
Redstate believes that a permanent troop presence in Iraq is just like troops in Japan, Germany and the American South? People that stupid should really should be kept away from sharp objects like Ruprecht here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nqMc9B7uDV8

Steve Benen on the reaction to studies showing lower pregnancy ‘rates for girls receiving comprehensive sex education and another showing one in four teenage girls has an STD:
Crooks and Liars » Putting abstinence-only funding on the chopping block
House Republicans and Bush administration officials are prepared to fight to keep the funding for ineffective programs in [...]

Iraq: Worth the Price - washingtonpost.com
Where to begin? How about Hitchens adding up the comparative costs of the containment policy that was demonstrably working? They’ve yet to find the mythical WMDs that were supposed to have made Saddam a worldwide threat. The policy pursued  by Bush Sr. and Clinton worked, plain and simple, at a [...]

An idiot speaks:
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - GOP congressman says terrorists would celebrate Obama win « - Blogs from CNN.com
An Iowa Republican congressman said Friday that terrorists would be “dancing in the streets” if Democratic candidate Barack Obama were to win the presidency.
Rep. Steve King based his prediction on [...]

Lawmaker’s solution to U.S. campus shootings: More guns - International Herald Tribune
More guns on campus will fix everything. It will prevent senseless murders by mentally ill students who don’t receive needed treatment. Perfect.

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 03/03/2008 | Fur flies over plan to allow loaded guns in national parks
Some years ago I was hiking through the Smokey Mountains National Park. I came across an elderly couple coming down the trail from the opposite direction. The man was carrying a double barrel 12 gauge shotgun with the breech [...]

After his remark last week about staying in Iraq 100 years, McCain lays this one on us:
McCain Warns: “There Will Be Other Wars” - Politics on The Huffington Post
Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters on Sunday, “It’s a tough war we’re in. It’s not going to be over right away. There’s going [...]