Thursday: Around the political blogosphere

It looks like Nancy Pelosi could be correct in saying the CIA misled her on torture after all.

WASHINGTON — The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, has told the House Intelligence Committee in closed-door testimony that the C.I.A. concealed “significant actions” from Congress from 2001 until late last month, seven Democratic committee members said.

In a June 26 letter to Mr. Panetta discussing his testimony, Democrats said that the agency had “misled members” of Congress for eight years about the classified matters, which the letter did not disclose. “This is similar to other deceptions of which we are aware from other recent periods,” said the letter, made public late Wednesday by Representative Rush D. Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, one of the signers."

Yet another line of wingnut BS cut down.

How will we ever know what causes climate changes if we don't research it?

Is Jim DeMint the craziest GOP member of the Senate? Consider what he said last night:

Part of what we're trying to do in Saving Freedom is just show that where we are, we're about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy. You still had votes but the votes were just power grabs like you see in Iran, and other places in South America, like Chavez is running down in Venezuela. People become more dependent on the government so that they're easy to manipulate. And they keep voting for more government because that's where their security is. When our immigrants get here, they're worried, because they see it happening here.

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So, when you have a majority of the votes, according to the unDistinguished Gentleman from SC, it is a "power grab."

This is getting tough. Which "family values" Republican is worse?

Today, it looks like Ensign is going ahead of Sanford for stupidity. Ensign's lawyer issued the following statement:

In April 2008, Senator John Ensign's parents each made gifts to Doug Hampton, Cindy Hampton, and two of their children in the form of a check totaling $96,000. Each gift was limited to $12,000. The payments were made as gifts, accepted as gifts and complied with tax rules governing gifts.

After the Senator told his parents about the affair, his parents decided to make the gifts out of concern for the well-being of long-time family friends during a difficult time. The gifts are consistent with a pattern of generosity by the Ensign family to the Hamptons and others.

None of the gifts came from campaign or official funds nor were they related to any campaign or official duties. Senator Ensign has complied with all applicable laws and Senate ethics rules.

Paul Coggins
Fish & Richardson P.C.

Counsel for Senator John Ensign

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It sure is nice that his parents still support him.

John Ensign has the best of both worlds.

It probably isn't possible to have an affair with one of your staffer's spouses while living in your parents' basement.

And you shouldn't look at Ensign's parents doling out hush money as "support." You should look at it as an example of their love for Ensign, no matter how badly he screws up his and other people's lives.

It's called "family values." The GOP has a monopoly on it, remember?

Make me warm fuzzy all over and repost that one where you thought DeMint was slamming Franken.

I liked that one. That'll get you pulled over by JoCo cops. (smile)

Over at 538.com, is an interesting set of graphs plotting age, ethinicity, and education and the percentage of people in that group voting for McCain.

It appears that Obama did well about the least educated and the most educated across almost all groups.

So, as one of the comments on the post noted: Because Republicans sell half-truths, their message is most receptive among those who are half educated.

Now, we know who the Republican apologists and Obama-haters are here: they are only half-educated.

There is a report that the Governor of Texas, Rick "Texas may secede" Perry is considering naming Cynthia Dunbar, a wingnut's wingnut, and someone that Jeetz will surely fall in love with, as chair of the Texas State Board of Education.

Here is the key description of her beliefs:

In a book published last year, Dunbar argued the country’s founding fathers created “an emphatically Christian government” and that government should be guided by a “biblical litmus test.” She endorses a belief system that requires “any person desiring to govern have a sincere knowledge and appreciation for the Word of God in order to rightly govern.”

Also in the book, she calls public education a “subtly deceptive tool of perversion.”

The establishment of public schools is unconstitutional and even “tyrannical,” she wrote, because it threatens the authority of families, granted by God through Scripture, to direct the instruction of their children.

Dunbar home-schooled her own children.
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Wow! Jeetz, are you going to stay in Texas now (I can get it right) when someone so close to your beliefs might be the head of public education?

Submitted by jeetzwillager on July 9, 2009 - 4:26pm.

"Make me warm fuzzy all over...."
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We have enough pedophiles that are priests, no one needs to support your sick, pedophile, homophobic, racist, desires.

Pescado on the other hand is a POS. Hey Taco Boy, your wife is on her way back. I kicked her her Taco butt out.

She said public education is a "subtly deceptive tool of perversion?"

Sign me up! Texas -- A state you don't mess with. You couldn't handle Texas, Old Drum.

It's too American down here. Absolutely freakin' love it!

Pescado on the other hand is a POS. Hey Taco Boy, your wife is on her way back. I kicked her her Taco butt out.
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I don't recall my 34 year old wife ever mentioning an affinity for old, dirty, unaccomplished, racist, dirt-bags.

As a single, celibate, filthy, duplicitous dirt-bag...i'm sure you have some really old porn to turn to.

congrats, a-hole

Some day you'll learn that women need two men. One to talk to and one to enjoy.

She does does like talking to you. (smile)

Some day you'll learn that women need two men. One to talk to and one to enjoy.

She does does like talking to you. (smile)
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"she does does"?
Drinking much pig farmer?

Lets face facts Jeetz.

1. You are the consummate loser
2. You will die before you ever experience a woman again (to bad medicare doesn't pay huh?)
3. You love to insult but you do so because you feel like a failure and think that you can make other people feel bad. (no, doesn't work)
4. You are a failure. The only reason why you do not take too many of your prescribed meds is because even though you are a huge failure in life, you are more of a coward.
5. Nite, D-bag

Is that really the best you've got? Seriously? (too much!)

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