How funny is that?

When rallies go wrong:


Local MoveOn.org members had penciled in on today’s schedule a protest in front of Senator John Cornyn’s Spring Valley Road office, during which they had hoped to pressure the senator to support President Barack Obama’s public health care legislation. But when Paula Anderson, a MoveOn.org member and spokeswoman, showed up at 11:30 a.m., she found another contingent had beat her to the proverbial punch: A large number of Dallas Tea Party members were already set up, voicing their opposition to the proposal.

Anderson was stunned: “We really did not expect them to show up.” She estimated the crowd at about 130. “From our perspective we took names of everyone there, and we had about 30 people,” she told Unfair Park. “And I would assume they maybe had 100.” As it turned out, according to Jessica Sandlin, Cornyn’s Texas press secretary, Tea Party-hearties also showed up to health-care legislation rallies in Austin and in San Antonio.

What does it mean when grass-roots movements out-hustle the professional protesters?

Slaughterhouse '07

With any luck, that's what we can call Baquba soon. From Michael Yon in Iraq:

Our guys are tough. The enemy in Baqubah is as good as any in Iraq, and better than most. That’s saying a lot. But our guys have been systematically trapping them, and have foiled some big traps set for our guys. I don’t want to say much more about that, but our guys are seriously outsmarting them. Big fights are ahead and we will take serious losses probably, but al Qaeda, unless they find a way to escape, are about to be slaughtered.

Nice PR strategy

It can't be good for Democrats when Ayman Al-Zawahiri is repeating their rhetoric. Or can it?

In any reasonable world, this man's repeating of Democrats' ridiculous war rhetoric would go beyond politically embarassing.

The Securing Defeat in Iraq Act of 2007

It passed the House late yesterday and in the Senate early today. The President will veto it.

He has said he'll veto it and the Democrats have known that he'll veto it. Meanwhile, the very troops these same politicians go out of their way to say they support now face the risk of material shortages due to lack of funds.

And the posturing continues.

Despicable.

Party like it's 1996!

Everybody's favorite (OK, my least-favorite) Senator appeared again this week on FNS. In a discussion with host Chris Wallace and fellow guest, Senator Arlen Specter, Chuck Schumer had this to say on the subject of Iraq and Harry Reid's comment last week that the war there was a lost cause:

WALLACE: Senator Schumer, do you agree that the war in Iraq is lost? And is that the consensus of Senate Democrats?

SCHUMER: OK. Well, what Harry Reid is saying is this war is lost — in other words, a war where we mainly spend our time policing a civil war between Shiites and Sunnis.
We are not going to solve that problem. And we could stay three months or three years, and as soon as we leave, the Sunnis and Shiites, who have had 100-year enmity against one another, would continue shooting.

The war is not lost. And Harry Reid believes this — we Democrats believe it — if we change our mission and focus it more narrowly on counterterrorism, going after an Al Qaida camp that might arise in Iraq. That would take many fewer troops out of harm's way. That's what we're pushing the president to do.

So the bottom line is if the war continues on this path, if we continue to try to police and settle a civil war that's been going on for hundreds of years in Iraq, we can't win.

But on the other hand, if we change the mission and have that mission focus on the more narrow goal of counterterrorism, we sure can win.

That's a plan I could almost get behind if not for the fact that history doesn't look too kindly on that approach.

Anna Nicole Smith saga: Judge nailed for smoking Pot in public

That would explain some of the surreal jurisprudence we saw in court, I suppose:

Just when you thought the Anna Nicole Smith saga couldn’t get any weirder, the Florida judge who heard evidence on the DNA paternity test was busted for pot possession!

TMZ.com reported yesterday that Judge Lawrence Korda was caught by the cops allegedly smoking weed on a park bench in Hollywood, Fla., over the weekend.

The judge was given a notice to appear in court. The offense is punishable in the Sunshine State by a maximum of 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.