Via this NYT puff piece this morning, we read that the Democrats are feeling pretty good these days about their chances for finally winning a post-Bush’s-election-as-President election, thanks to low polling numbers for the President as well as a general sense of frustration Republicans feel with their party’s elected officials:
By now you’re all probably familiar with the video released by the US military that shows terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi fumbling with an American weapon known as a Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW). The guy looks like an incompetent fool – obviously, not a side he’d want those doing his bidding, as well as potential new terrorist recruits to see.
You bet they hold such a double standard (along with others which I have outlined in the past here, here, and here). Slate magazine founding editor Michael Kinsley writes this piece in response to recent mainstream articles that have asserted that the President has reserved the right to ‘ignore’ certain laws:
If you’re familiar with the game “6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon” you’ll know what I mean with the above post title.
