Poor Rep. Tom Tancredo – he’s another Republican Chickenhawk who beats the drums of war, but when the time came for him to actually fight, chickened out.

On the other hand, progressive blogger and activist, Markos Moulitsas, of DailyKos fame, is an actual veteran who has more credibility, speaking out against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This clip demonstrates that Tancredo is still a coward. Instead of fighting back and discussing the issues, he tucks his tail between his legs and runs away. Again.

This is yet another reason why Republicans are not to be listened to on foreign policy issues. They talk a mess of shit but can’t back it up. And when they try to back it up, they make a worse mess that they can’t clean up.

The GOP doesn’t have much sense of humor – they can dish it out, but they can’t take it. So the false outrage of the Republicans over Representative Alan Grayson’s (D-FL) recent floor speech where he said “The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick … This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!”

Meanwhile, although the public option amendment was voted down in the Senate Finance Committee, momentum is still building for it outside the beltway, as people realize more and more how important this fight is for universal health care.

Call and write your Congressional Representatives in the House and Senate today and urge them to support the public option!

Mark Sanford, the disgraced Republican Governor of South Carolina.

This man is one of the most vile and disgusting pieces of human flesh to walk the earth.  He crusaded as a Defender of Marriage, all the while he was philandering with a woman for the past several years.  He forced his wife to put up an all-quiet-on-the-home front for the past several months while they were separated, and he made his staff actively lie for him to cover up a trip to Argentina in order to continue to carry on this affair.

But, he’s just the latest in a long line of hypocritical Republican politicians:

Senator David “impulse control” Vitter, Republican from Louisiana, yet another marriage and family values champion who was caught up in the “D.C. Madam” sting, who apparently likes to dress in diapers.  Nice legs, dude.

Smell My Finger, Dude!

Senator John Ensign (R-NV), another champion of marriage and family values, had a long time affair with one of his staffers, who’s salary was doubled and who’s teenaged son was put on the Republican Party’s payrool as a “research policy expert.”

Larry "Wide Stance" Craig

And who could forget Senator Larry Craig, Republican from Idaho, who’s “I’m not gay” stance in the Minnesota airport’s bathroom stall nabbed him in a public sex sting.

And the list goes on and on and on.

Why anyone at all takes the Republican Party seriously in relation to morality or family values is beyond me.  I would feel sorry for them, but their shameless hypocrisy takes them beyond compassion into schaudenfreude, and that’s a place they all richly deserve.

It s nice to see him let his hair down, as it were.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart mocks the big three cable news channels in this piece:

The sad thing is that people really do want in-depth journalism nowadays, but the big corporate owners of these organizations see these channels as profit making bodies vice public services and would rather keep the people distracted with sensationalism and trivial detritus. The flotsam and jetsam that is the subject of most television reporting these days only serves to keep us in bondage and restricts our freedoms.

Poor Bill O’Reilly. So much suffering, ignorance, and stupidity packed into that teensy, tiny little bit of tissue that passes for a brain in his thick skull. It’s a wonder that anyone listens to anything he says, like when he bullies one of his guests into accepting that Richard Nixon never met the late Chinese Communist dictator, Mao Zedong:

How wrong, and easily demonstrably wrong, does someone have to constantly be?  Sheesh!