Daily Dish

The usual suspects dominated the debate over Condie Rice's confirmation for Secretary of State. For nine hours Senators Kennedy, Boxer, Byrd, and Dayton among others made speeches appealing to their base on the Conservative Left but also heard by our enemies and the countries with which the new Secretary of State must deal. Sen Boxer also took this as an opportunity to do some fundraising. During the Foreign Relation hearings, Ms Boxer took off the gloves and called Ms Rice a liar for misleading the Senate about the existence of WMDs in Iraq. Yesterday, It was Sen Dayton's turn: "I don't like to impugn anyone's integrity," he said before impugning Condie's integrity, "but I really don't like being lied to, repeatedly, flagrantly, intentionally." Call me Pollyanna, but I thought it was a Senator's job to read the legislation under consideration before they vote on it. Here's the legislation authorizing war in Iraq, and I defy anyone to point to the line that says Iraq has WMDs. I defy anyone to point to the line that says Iraq has or will have nuclear weapons. The reasons for taking action against Iraq listed in the Joint Resolution were true then and remain true now. Sen Dayton went on to say regarding lying to the American people that "It's wrong. It's undemocratic. It's un-American, and it's dangerous." It's what I've been saying all along, that the Conservative Left, and their spokes-folks like Sens Dayton, Boxer and Kennedy are undemocratic.....and dangerous for precisely the reasons Sen Dayton enumerated..

Confirming information I presented here, yet another survey shows that Iraqi support for Democracy his quite high. Anti-Democratic forces, however, keep up the propaganda war against elections. I suppose in this respect, Iraq is like Vietnam. And before members of Congress ask, it's the results, not the timetable that matters in Iraq. The plan for disrupting elections in Iraq was laid down long ago by the al Qaeda affiliate operating there. And it appears that this plan is being executed accordingly.

Israel agrees to halt assassinating Hamas killers to give Abbas some credibility so that he can deal. The danger for Israel is that they lose the initiative again. The danger for Palestine is that if Abbas can not control the terrorists, no peace will be forthcoming until someone else is in charge. Meanwhile, Iran scoffs at Israel's claims that Iran is close to being a nuclear power. Poo poo. scoff scoff. "We just want to keep the lights on."

Well Britain got their citizens back from Gitmo. And they promptly arrested them. However, they may release them into the population if more evidence isn't forthcoming. I wonder what will happen if they subsequently perpetrate an attack?

Russia writes off almost $10 billion of Syrian debt. Gee, I don't remember them writing off Iraqi debt, but maybe I missed it. Syria (or is it Russia) seems to be making a play to balance US power in the region. Oh good. But thankfully, there is no arms deal between the nations. That's me, living in my fantasy world again. Meanwhile, there's a movement afoot in Russia to ban all Jewish organizations.

China commutes a Tibetan monk's death sentence to life in prison. Well, that's better then death I 'spose. The monk was also "deprived of his political rights for life". He was heard to mutter "what political rights?"

"Indonesia to hold talks with rebels in Finland" Indonesia has Finnish rebels?

Annan was interrogated by an American. heh heh heh. I couldn't resist.

Arizona becomes the first state to require proof of citizenship in order to vote. Seems strange doesn't it that in every other state non-citizens can vote? Meanwhile, in California, the Stars come out to promote allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses.

The official Cool Blue Martial Arts instructor tells us why personal protection is an important consideration.

Serial killing by proxy? I mean, real serial killers keep souveniers too.

Vodka saves a mans life.

Forget Bush, Fox News is Hitler. Does that even make sense? Hey, it's Ted, it doesn't have to make sense. (no, not Kennedy, though he doesn't make sense either.)

In an Intellectual Property dispute, rappers argue about who came up with the phrase "Back that ass up" in the US 5th Circuit. "Intellectual Property"...get it? heh heh heh