While I was stuck in traffic on the way to UStream's Mountain View offices for the From the Frontlines web-a-thon yesterday, I tuned into the Gitmo interrogation hearing by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Serving as human voo-doo dolls: Berkeley law professor John Yoo, who served in the... Read More

Update 6:00pm Eastern. DJN: "Lawmakers in the Senate defeated an initial attempt Thursday to strip immunity for telecommunications companies out of a bill reauthorizing the federal government's warrantless wiretapping program. Senators approved a motion to table an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that would have removed the immunity provision in the bill. The... Read More

Just thought you should be reminded of what the do-nothing Dems are up to:

Update 10:58pm Eastern: Yeah, I'm watching C-SPAN. The motion to concur in the House amendments to HR2764, the omnibus spending bill, just passed...76-17, with 1 present. Here's the wire dispatch. The Senate on Tuesday night passed a spending bill combining funding for 14 Cabinet departments with $70 billion for U.S. military operations in Iraq and... Read More

The Democrat meltdown continues--and finally, a Senate defense bill will get to the president's desk. With no timetable strings attached. Code Pinkos will be seeing red (hat tip - Jim Hoft): Next stop...appropriations: Reax: "I was pleased to see ... no policy changes to the Petraeus plan," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky... Read More

The NRCC blows the whistle on San Fran Nan's latest unhinged remarks: More from

Update 12/11 10:52am Eastern. Boehner on Dems: "They need to get their act together, now." Update 12/11 8:00am Eastern. Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH), Republican Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO), Conference Chairman Adam Putnam (R-FL) and other GOP leaders will hold a press conference to discuss the Democrats’ massive “Omnibus” spending bill Tomorrow today at 10:30am.... Read More

The Democrats need to replace their donkey emblem with a photo of Gilda Radner's SNL character, Emily "Neeever mind" Latella: After inveighing stubbornly for months about their non-negotiable demand for an Iraq withdrawal timetable, the Dems are pulling a Latella. The nutroots will not be happy. Via Politico:

Time to bring it out again... Just about an hour ago, the Dems passed their Iraq withdrawal bill, tying $50 billion in war funding to a demand that President Bush start bringing troops home in coming weeks (never mind that it's already starting) with a mandated timetable of ending combat by December 2008: Translation of... Read More

Reprinted by permission of Chip Bok and Creators Syndicate Code Pink is getting to "Madame Glam" Nancy Pelosi. She announced today that the House will debate Iraq troop withdrawals again: Democrats controlling the House of Representatives will try again to bring American combat in Iraq to an end when it debates legislation this week tying... Read More

This is high-larious. The Hill reports on an internal Democrat strategy memo complaining that the Democrat Party is too hyper-rational and lacks emotional appeal. For real. They think "SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILLLLLDREN!" is too bland and accountant-like: Democrats are losing the battle for voters’ hearts because the party’s message lacks emotional appeal, according to a... Read More

Brilliant: Ways and Means ranking GOP member Jim McCrery shoots it down: Ways and Means Ranking Member Jim McCrery (R-La.) issued the following statement today in response to a Democratic proposal to impose a new surtax of up to 15 percent to pay for the costs of the War on Terror. “This proposal would be... Read More

Reprinted by permission of Chip Bok and Creators Syndicate The Code Pinkos and nutroots will have foaming mouthfuls to say about this: The enormity of the military conflict in Iraq was spelled out in the simplest of all admissions tonight: Among all of the leading Democratic candidates for president, none was willing to commit to... Read More

***bumped and update: Senate approves the bill..."The Senate vote to send the legislation to the president was 80-14."*** Oh, the nutroots are as unhappy with the White Flag Dems right now as grass-roots conservatives are with the Amnesty Republicans: Keep it up and Cindy Sheehan's bound to follow through on her threat and run for... Read More

Looks that way to me.

Announcement reportedly coming at 6:10pm Eastern tonight.

85 days and counting. From the office of Sen. John Cornyn: *In case you missed it, according to Congressional Quarterly today, even though the conference report on the supplemental bill for our troops was adopted by the House and cleared by the Senate last week, House Speaker Pelosi “wanted time to personally read it and... Read More

Print and mail. Previous: Send 'em a white feather

Clowns to the left of us, clowns to the left... The Dem presidential candidates are "debating" in South Carolina. Hillary's Harlem voice has yet to surface. Joe Biden's foot has not entered his mouth...yet. Live-blogging over at The Hillary Spot and Sister Toldjah. And...spotlighting Gravel-mania.

Reader and Vietnam Vet Jack Haley e-mails: You can buy 'em online here individually or in bulk. Laura Lee Donoho was on the same wavelength in January: I think in addition to the pledge, we need to start a white feather campaign because it’s becoming quite apparent that we have a multitude of Cut and... Read More

Get out the veto pen, President Bush. *** The Tank publishes Joe Lieberman's floor statement. Here's a tidbit: I have great respect for my friend from Nevada. I believe he has offered this proposal in good faith, and therefore want to take it up in good faith, and examine its arguments and ideas carefully and... Read More

Read it.

Reprinted by permission of Chip Bok and Creators Syndicate *** Related: Don't believe the war reporting of the McClatchy News Service. Milblogger COBDanny gives Reid both barrels: Dear Senator Reid, Thank you for finally putting this whole Iraq War mess to bed. The timing couldn’t be better for my family. You see, my son is... Read More

***Updated with lots of emails for Harry*** Active-duty military readers and military bloggers: If you'd like to send a message to the treacherous Harry Reid--who just declared the war in Iraq lost today--e-mail me or leave a trackback. I'll reprint/link them here as they come in. Here is Reid's contact form. He really needs to... Read More

The Party of Cut and Run cuts and runs again: The nutroots are not happy. Look like they may be issuing an "IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT" soon.