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And they say Democrats are divided?

By Paddy

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Whoo dogs, we’re having a stress day here at the Carnival, but it seems the Republicans aren’t doing much better. Add in Bob Barr refusing not to run as a Libertatian and you have an even worse year coming up for the R’s. Bummer.

McCain Will Face Rebellion at GOP Convention

Quietly and “largely under the radar of most people,” allies of of Rep. Ron Paul “have been organizing across the country to stage an embarrassing public revolt against Sen. John McCain when Republicans gather for their national convention in Minnesota at the beginning of September,” according to the Los Angeles Times.”They hope to demonstrate their disagreements with McCain vocally at the convention through platform fights and an attempt to get Paul a prominent speaking slot. Paul, who’s running unopposed in his home Texas district for an 11th House term, still has some $5 million in war funds and has instructed his followers that their struggle is not about a single election, but a long-term revolution for control of the Republican Party.”

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Quote of the Day

Via Political Wire

“Wouldn’t taking his advice be a little like getting health tips from a funeral home director?”

– Obama spokesman Bill Burton, quoted by the New York Times, on Karl Rove offering advice to the Obama campaign in his role as a Fox News pundit.

Monday Linkage

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I’m heading out to the store this am, so expect a flood of supers!!!

Texas could lead nuclear power surge

Why Israel is the world’s happiest country

What Booman Said.

Blair insisted on revealing wife’s miscarriage to protect his Iraq strategy, reveals Cherie

Clinton Faces Mounting Campaign Debts   U.S. News and World Report, in an article titled, “Why Clinton Stands To Lose Millions,” reports Sen. Hillary Clinton “doled out $6.4 million of her own money to her campaign since April. … That brings her total cash outlay to more than $11 million since January. And she’s not ruling out spending more as she plans to compete in the six remaining contests.”

Army Corps says Condition of many levees a mystery

Reagan’s influence lives on in U.S. courts

Bucky Bon Bons, Clancy Candy

Swimmer injured by diving pelican

9/11 Suspects To Make First Appearances   The Miami Herald reports military security teams at Guantanamo Bay are now “rehearsing how to handle some of the most reviled men on earth, in a courtroom with the eyes of the world on them.”

Domestic spying far outpaces terrorism prosecutions

Media: China quake buries 900, kills 107

Astronauts say there must be life in space

Wrinkles could be key to buying cigarettes in Japan

Washington Times: Clinton’s Records Vanished After Warning
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Rose Law Firm billing records, found in the White House residence in January 1996 two years after they had been subpoenaed by government regulators, disappeared shortly after the first lady was warned that the firm’s billing problems were “very serious” and the then-ongoing Whitewater investigation could result in criminal charges, newly obtained records show.

Kentucky’s lieutenant governor endorses Obama

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Not a super, but close. Every bit helps.

Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo is backing U.S. Sen. Barack Obama in Kentucky’s May 20 Democratic primary, the Obama campaign announced on Sunday.

While Mongiardo is not a superdelegate, he is the second key adviser to Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear to announce his support for Obama. Beshear is a superdelegate, but has not yet announced who he favors. Beshear’s chief of staff, Jim Cauley, ran Obama’s successful 2004 run for U.S. Senate in Illinois.

Mongiardo is a former state senator from Hazard, and his endosement could help Obama in a state where he is not expected to do well against Hillary Clinton.

Your Morning Zen

Hehehehe via Oliver Willis and DKos. NSFW.

This Did Not Have To Happen

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11-May-2008
  US NAME NOT RELEASED YET

10-May-2008
  US NAME NOT RELEASED YET

09-May-2008
  US Specialist Mary J. Jaenichen

06-May-2008
  US Private 1st Class Aaron J. Ward
  US Specialist Alex D. Gonzalez

Statistics Via ICasualties.

Comic (strip) relief: Madonna

By GottaLaff

We need a break, and for whatever reason, some of you want to see more of my comic strips. For those of you who didn’t see the first ones, I’ve posted them all here, in honor of Madonna’s Mother’s Day. Plus one you haven’t seen:

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(click on all images, to enlarge)

Here are the ones I’ve previously posted. Slow night, so I’m taking liberties.

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Backstory: In the ’90s, I drew/wrote my own strip, and a few papers around the country picked it up.

It was about the lonely life of a Beverly Hills latchkey kid named Madonna. She only speaks to her peers, leaving adults to wonder what she’s thinking. Her friends include a drooly, annoying toddler named Floyd, an egocentric tot named Dazzle, Dazzle’s dog Brie, and her own dog, a Shar Pei named Noodles.

I originally created it for a very popular paper out here called “L.A. Parent” with a sizable circulation, and from that, it went to others for about 2 years. Because the target audience was young families, I had to keep it soft and gentle. No edgy snark allowed.

Hope you like it.

Minority whip Blunt confirms that John Sidney McSame is Bush III

By GottaLaff

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Here is part of the Wolf Blitzer CNNapalooza that I didn’t liveblog, but found in CNN transcripts. I give you the minority whip, Roy Blunt confirming that John Sidney McSame is, indeed, Bush III:

BLITZER: When it comes to domestic economic issues, what is the major difference between President Bush’s policies, what he wants to do, and what John McCain would do if he were president?

BLUNT: Well, I think what John McCain wants to do is continue these pro-growth tax policies that our friends on the other side have been talking…

(CROSSTALK)

BLITZER: But that’s what President Bush wants to do too.

BLUNT: And there is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with that.

BLITZER: So it would be in effect a third Bush term when it came to pro-growth tax policies?

BLUNT: It would be. I think it would be. And I think that’s a good thing.

Can’t get Blunter than that.