Hominid Views

It’s true. Bush’s support among young evangelicals has fallen to below 45% according to a recent Pew Research poll:

An analysis of Pew Research Center surveys conducted between 2001 and 2007 suggests that younger white evangelicals have become increasingly dissatisfied with Bush and are moving away from the GOP. [...]
Bush’s approval rating has fallen [...]

Newt is out:

Rick Tyler, Mr. Gingrich’s spokesman, confirmed today that the former Republican House speaker has decided against a presidential run in 2008.
Mr. Gingrich was “presented with legal advice this morning,” said Mr. Tyler in a quick phone interview. “There was a choice presented.”
The choice was to remain chairman of his political action committee, American [...]

Olbermann: The damnedest thing he has heard in a long time.
Headzup: The Republican Party is Powerfully White:

Rush Limbaugh earns the title Worst Person in the World!
Young Turks discuss Dick Cheney in 1992.
Headzup: The ‘08 election is a steal!
Olbermann and Maddow: exploiting 9-11.
BushFailure.
Goldy has a regular Saturday and Sunday night “On-air Blog” called The David Goldstein [...]

The so-called “Patriot” Act took another hit from the courts yesterday:

An Oregon judge on Wednesday ruled that two provisions of the Patriot Act violated the U.S. Constitution’s protection against unlawful searches and seizures.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled in favor of Brandon Mayfield, a lawyer wrongly arrested by the FBI in 2004 for possible ties [...]

“It is my intent to resign,” said Larry Craig some weeks ago. He’s now changed his intent. (He also told us at one time his only intent in the stall at the Minneapolis Airport was “to go to the bathroom.” No word on any changes in this intent.)
Today Craig says [...]

It’s Seattle’s original lefty blogger (if a rather reluctant blogger now) N in Seattle’s birthday today.
Happy Birthday, N.
Hope you can make it to Drinking Liberally tonight.

The toe-tappin’ fun may just be getting started, as the ruling on Sen. Larry Craig’s partition…er, I mean, petition to have his guilty plea withdrawn is about to happen:

Craig, R-Idaho, has asked to withdraw his guilty plea, saying he was panicked into admitting to a crime he did not commit. A judge is set to [...]

Scott Adams (you know, of Dilbert fame), takes a hatchet to Ahmadinejad. A couple of excerpts….

Ahmadinejad believes his role is to pave the way for the coming of the Twelfth Imam. That’s a primitive apocalyptic belief! I thank Jesus I do not live in a country led by a man who believes [...]

Of course Rudy answered his cell phone in the middle of a talk before the NRA:

Hold on, it’s Judi.
That’s the stunning line Rudy Giuliani told an already-skeptical crowd of gun enthusiasts yesterday when he abruptly interrupted his speech – to take a call from his wife.
The interruption drew awkward laughs and some outrage from the [...]

Headzup: Tucker talks torture with Tancredo.
Olbermann with a Special Comment about Bush about MoveOn.org:

Blackwater under fire (via Crooks and Liars).
The Young Turks: Fred Thompson really is lazy.
Jon interviews Alan Greenspan (via OneGoodMove).
Fighting the Wingnut California electoral college change initiative (via FireDogLake).
The Situation Room: Bill Maher on Bush and Petraeus.
Countdown: The Blackwater probe.
Josh Marshall on [...]

Or maybe it’s that he doesn’t like healthy children?

President Bush, bracing for a series of battles with Congress over spending, threatened on Thursday to veto a bill expanding a popular children’s health insurance program, calling it “a step toward federalization of health care.”
The program expires Sept. 30, and Congress is on the [...]

This time it is Rep. Peter King (R-NY):

New York Rep. Peter King, a prominent House Republican, said there are “too many mosques in this country” in a recent interview with Politico.
“There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam,” King said. “We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can [...]

Mirror, mirror in the Hall
Who are the most corrupt of all?
Today CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) released the names of members of their own version of the “Corrupt Bastard’s” club—the 22 most corrupt members of Congress (plus two dis-honorable mentions).
It should come as no surprise that 20 of the 24 names [...]

No, not “the Slut.” The SLUT! The South Lake Union Trolley. Rides are scheduled to begin sometime in December. Be sure to pick up an “I rode the SLUT” souvenir tee-shirt afterward.
Speaking of edgy acronyms…This morning I had a tour of a lab in an undisclosed [...]

This is how bad it has gotten for the Republican Party:

Lincoln D. Chafee, who lost his Senate seat in the wave of anti-Republican sentiment in last November’s election, said yesterday that he has left the party.
Chafee said he disaffiliated with the party he had helped lead, and his father had led before him, because the [...]