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Finally! U.S. UN Ambassador John Bolton has resigned. I heard the good news on tonight's The Daily Show.

Apparently, Bush is not happy:

An unhappy President Bush said Monday he regretfully accepted John Bolton's decision to leave his temporary job as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Senate opposition, led mostly by Democrats, doomed Bolton' ( Read more... )

Continuing on from my post yesterday: Our favorite pill-popping facist asshat repeated his claims that Michael J Fox is faking his Parkinson's symptoms today.
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh today attacked actor Michael J. Fox for inserting his halting voice into the U.S. Senate campaign in Missouri, suggesting Fox was "acting" in ( Read more... )

From ThinkProgress:
Harvard professor and conservative author Harvey Mansfield recently published a book called “Manliness.” Some gems from Mansfield, collected by Reason.com:
As the weaker sex…women are “not in a position to ask for something directly. They’re either obliged to smile a lot and persuade, or make a scene ( Read more... )

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Oh Lord.
Is U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, who believes that manmade global warming is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," losing the public relations battle on that issue ( Read more... )

From CNN:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican-controlled Senate refused Wednesday to raise the minimum wage, rejecting an election-year proposal from Democrats for the first increase in nearly a decade ( Read more... )

Sen James Inhofe (R-OK) stood on the Senate floor and made this proclamation:
INHOFE: As you see here, and I think this is maybe the most important prop we’ll have during the entire debate, my wife and I have been married 47 years. We have 20 kids and grandkids. I’m really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we’ve never had a ( Read more... )