The '08 Libertarian Nominee meets Borat

This is a pretty funny video I found on Fark today, and I got a bit of a laugh out of it. Bob Barr, the former Republican Congressman and current Libertarian candidate for president, could play a pretty big factor in the November election. The theory goes that he could siphon off votes from Republicans who are unhappy about some of McCain's more moderate political views. Gee, that would be too bad - it would be nice for the GOP to suffer from a third-party candidate for once.

Barr is a complex character, but I mostly dislike him. I'm over it, for sure, but I'll never forget the Clinton Impeachment and what those on the right are capable of if given control. Actually, it's too bad that Democrats don't have the backbone that the GOP-controlled Congress did in the late 1990s, because Congressional Democrats actually now have an extremely strong and compelling case for impeaching a president (for a laundry list of reasons). Sigh. Oh well, President Bush has about as much of a chance being impeached as I do of hitting the Powerball. It's like the last 16 years in presidential politics has been some sort of a bad dream. Here's hoping that November exorcises a bunch of demons.

Limbaugh's Chaos falls flat

I meant to post this a few nights ago, but it's certainly still worth a mention - Rush Limbaugh's supposed Operation Chaos - his urging of his followers, the self-described Dittoheads, to cross over and vote for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primaries, has more than backfired. Too bad, drug addict - looks like McSame is going to have to face Obama in the fall. Aside from the endless Rev. Jeremiah Wright commercials, the right's got no answer for Obama. As I've mentioned before - I can only hope and pray that McSame does something brilliant, like asking Condi Rice or Rudy 9iu1ian1 to be on the ticket.

Apropos of nothing, but I think Limbaugh's followers are a cult of sorts. They are so closed minded about just about anything politically substantial, and they believe anything that comes out of their favorite drug addict's mouth, so perhaps it's not wacky to at least consider the possibility. By the way, Dittohead has to be about the most unflattering thing I've ever heard followers of anyone call themselves. It certainly doesn't suggest any sort of independent thinking, or any sort of educated opinion on the part of the sheeple who follow him. I guess that's an indication of their collective intelligence level - they couldn't come up with a better name than that?

Bill Maher's crack about a McCain/Obama match-up is the best I've heard yet - it's gonna be Feeding Tube vs. YouTube. The juxtaposition of Obama and McCain is going to look downright hysterical.

Speaking of switching party affiliation, I know a great many Republicans here in Pennsylvania, a critical swing state, who are so unhappy with the state of affairs in our country, they've permanently (as permanent as a party registration is) changed their party affiliation and are enthusiastically voting for Obama in the fall.

Also not mentioned in the clip above is the 25 percent of Republicans who rejected McCain in the North Carolina primary this past Tuesday. That should tell you a lot about how unenthusiastic Republicans are about their nominee. I'm hoping a so-called "real conservative," like former Congressman Bob Barr, enters the race to siphon votes off of McCain. Maybe Democrats should even do what it was widely reported Republicans did in '00 and '04 with Ralph Nader when the party contributed to Nader's campaign and helped him get on the ballot in all 50 states. Perhaps Barr, if he enters the race, could use that kind of "help," too. After all, turnabout is fair play in the world of politics.

Bob Barr slams U.S. Attorney dismissals

This one has got to sting the Bush White House just a bit (insert sarcasm) - Republican Rep. Bob Barr, who would never be mistaken as a liberal, criticizing the Bush Administration's handling of the Alberto Gonzales/U.S. Attorney firing scandal. (And he's got cred - he once served as a U.S. Attorney in northern Georgia.)

A partial transcript:

BOB BARR: Well, it's probably some of both. But what's really unfortunate here, both from the White House standpoint, as well as from the more important standpoint of what's best for the country, is the integrity of the Department of Justice is being used as a political football by the administration to prove who's the toughest hombre in all this. It's very unfortunate. And I'm not really sure that the administration has chosen the best line in the sand to draw here, so to speak.

Congress clearly has a right to inquire into the running of the Department of Justice, to inquire into the integrity of the process of hiring and firing U.S. attorneys, notwithstanding the fact that that that is technically a prerogative of the president. And rather than fight this, the administration really ought to be going out of its way to do what prior administrations have done, such as the Bush I administration and Reagan administrations, and that is take whatever steps are necessary to assure the American people that the integrity of our justice system has not been compromised.

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Ouch. More of A-Gonz and the attorney scandal later tonight.