Having claimed to pull off their "First 100 Hours" promise "[w]ith more than 57 hours to spare", Democrats prove they can't do math.

Congress convened January 4.

They "accomplished" their goal on January 18.

Taking out weekends, that's 11 work days.  At 8 hours per day, that's 88 hours.

And, even if they did pull it off, is our nation any more secure now that we have a phased-in higher minimum wage, federally-funded embryonic stem cell research, government-negotiated Medicare drug prices, lower interest rates on student loans, and a more heavily taxed oil industry?

Oh, wait--they did pass into law the remaining provisions of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations.  Whoodeedoo!!!

Seems the insurgents in Sadr City could use the services of a good PR flak:

"The evil powers of the American occupation forces have targeted innocents in Sadr city this morning. They fired bombs at houses that killed innocent women and children," Falah Hassan Shanshal, a lawmaker with the al-Sadr bloc that controls 30 seats in the 275-seat parliament, said in an interview with the government's al-Iraqiya television station.

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Those claims could not be verified and footage of bodies taken to a local morgue were exclusively of men.

What else could explain this statement by John Spencer, the Republican running against The Queen of Queers Queens:

"I would never call Hillary Clinton ugly."

It's enough to make you want to vote for...well...um...nobody.

Seriously, is anyone surprised by this?  Anyone?

Via FoxNew.com:

Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Ill., a committee member, said that an unidentified staffer requested the document from National Intelligence Director John Negroponte three days before the Sept. 23 story about its conclusions.

The staffer received the National Intelligence Estimate on global terror trends on Sept. 21.

NY Times columnist Bob Herbert's piece behind the "Times Select" riff-raff filter, is titled "Young, Cold and for Sale".  The tag line shown is "Atlanta has become a hub of child prostitution and other forms of commercial sexual exploitation of children."

From Dave Leip's on-line election data base:

2004 Presidential Election Results -- Fulton County, GA

John Kerry/John Edwards: 199,436 (59.28%)
George W. Bush/Richard Cheney: 134,372 (39.94%).

Coincidence?  Wouldn't you expect better in a stronghold of the party that is attempting to convince us "red staters" of their commitment to "values"?

From FoxNews.com:

Report: NBC Universal Aims to Save $750M With Massive Restructuring; 700 Jobs to Be Cut

NBC Universal plans to cut $750 million in operating expenses by the end of 2007 by eliminating employees, cutting back on scripted shows, and slashing its news budget, according to a report Thursday in The Wall Street Journal.

First, who knew NBC had a news budget?  Sure doesn't show, based on the product they turn out.

Second, this little gem:

The moves come as more and more viewers and advertisers gravitate toward new media, NBC Universal Chairman Bob Wright told the newspaper. He said the moves would restore the company to double-digit growth next year.

"As we reprioritize ourselves toward digital, we've got to be as efficient in our current businesses as possible," said Wright, who was expected to make an official announcement Friday.

So, one of the major purveyors of the goom-and-doom that leads to economic hypochondria, and thus hates the "Bush tax cuts" (which have--not ironically--led to significantly increased tax revenue), now is saying that by spending less, they'll make more.

Things that would make a less intelligent person go "hmmm..."

Miller, in acknowledging his support for HR 3006 (a bill to ammend immigration laws to substitute "committed, intimate relationship" and "partner" for "marriage" and "spouse", thus allowing non-married persons the same rights as married persons in immigration considerations), said this:

"It is a limited, modest, legal recognition of a long-term relationship so we aren't forcing gays to be in temporary, casual relationships."

WHAT?!?!  By simply acknowleding the millenia-old societal respect for committed marriage, as opposed to shackin' up or livin' in sin, we are somehow "forcing" homosexuals into casual relationships?

Where's the gun to their head?  Where's the coersion?  Where's the whips-and-chains (not that they'd object...)?  What happened to the concept of personal responsibility?

This sort of "it's never the 'victim's' fault" mentality just makes me want to puke.

From the NY Times:

"Lynne F. Stewart, the firebrand lawyer who was charged as a terrorist for helping a client in prison on terrorism charges to communicate with his followers, was sentenced today to 28 months in federal prison, far less than the 30 years the government had sought."

The truth:

Lynne Stewart, a lawyer found guilty of aiding and abetting terrorist enemies of the United States of America by using her "attorney-client privilege" as a cover for acting as a go-between from prison to outside organizations and accomplices, was given a relative slap on the wrist today.  She will serve a mere 2 years and 4 months for her crimes, rather than the 30 years sought by federal prosecutors.

Why do we still use the term "progressive" to describe leftist ideologues and ideology?

They want to return to the past where taxes were crippling the economy.

They want to return to the past where murderous Islamo-Nazi thugs had not yet managed to topple the Twin Towers, attack the Pentagon, and cause the crash of another plane in a field in Pennsylvania.

They want to return to the past where racism was rampant and required laws and punishment to stamp out.

In short, they want to regress, not progress.

So from now on, in my vocabulary, they're Regressives.

"I think in America, Americans give people a second chance. And if you learn something and prove you've learned something, maybe even more so. Now, I don't know what I'm going to do yet. We'll make that decision down the road."

-- Sen. John F. Kerry (Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, October 15, 2006)

"As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."

"Even a lightweight like Kerry must understand the futility, under these circumstances, of sending to North Korea 'a top-level negotiating team with a mandate to stop this test from going forward.' Mandates don't stop anything. A team with tens of millions in U.S. dollars plus a few prostitutes would be more like it, but even that would, at best, only postpone the inevitable."

-- "North Korea's Perennial Helpers": Paul Mirengoff, Power Line

...keeps popping up in the most unusual places.

Guess he'll be sitting next to Jimmy Carter at the '08 Dem convention.

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