At a fundraiser for Gov. Ted Strickland in Ohio, Biden linked the GOP to the Tea Party, suggesting Democrats will run against the conservative activists. "Don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative," he said, according the pool report. "The Republican Tea Party is the alternative."

The appellate case was based on the trial judge Cindy Lederman's earlier decision that included Florida Attorney General Bill McCullom's (who lost the Republican primary for governor to a savvy business who was fired as CEO of HCA for Medicare fraud and paid $l.7 Billion in fines) generously paid for expert testimony to uphold the ban by two professors: one an ordained Baptist minister, the other, one who used the bible to guide his thinking.

Of course, the Dem Establishment wants us to overlook logic compelling the conclusion that if one chooses the lesser of two evils, one is still choosing evil.

And "they suck worse" is perhaps the least compelling argument I have ever heard.

The fact is, there are only three logical conclusions which can be drawn from the Administration's conduct.  The first is that they want the Republicans to either win one or both houses of Congress.  The second is that they will be satisfied with narrow Democratic majorities in one or both houses.  Either one maximizes the power of the Blue Dog factions in the House and Senate, much like Lieberman had maximal power in the Senate when the Dems had 60 votes.  As the 60th vote, he controlled whether a bill would move forward or not, by extorting something for someone he wanted to benefit.  

The third logical conclusion is that the Administration does not want a large Democratic majority because that would mean they would actually have to effect the "change" they sold themselves as bringing and, if there's one thing sure to infuriate their corporate masters, it's change.  Corporate America likes things just the way they are, thank you very much.

So, don't get bent out of shape over that which you cannot change.  Just stay home.

If the Administration wanted their base of Real Democrats to be motiviated, get out and vote (and GOTV for them, i.e., "get in gear", to quote VP Biden), they would have supported their Real Democratic base.  The Administration didn't - they continually mocked, belittled, abused and ignored their Real Democratic base.  Instead, the Adminstration listened to and coddled and cosseted Corpoate America and the banksters and warmongers.

this time tomorrow I will be getting a coaxial cable inserted into my nether regions for photo recon.

Two eye opening snippets:

Mr. Obama's struggle with the decision comes through in a conversation with Senator Lindsey Graham  of South Carolina, who asked if his deadline to begin withdrawal in July 2011 was firm. "I have to say that," Mr. Obama replied. "I can't let this be a war without end, and I can't lose the whole Democratic Party."

and

"Pushing to get the right strategy": "The President repeated that he wanted the graph moved to the left. Get the forces in faster and out faster, `You tell me that the biggest problem we have now is that the momentum is with the Taliban and the reason for this resource request is that the momentum is with the Taliban. But you're not getting these troops into Afghanistan' for more than a year. `I'm not going to make a commitment that leaves my successor with more troops than I inherited in Afghanistan.'"

Buried is an upcoming horror film about a man who wakes up to find himself buried alive in a coffin. Alamo Drafthouse is holding a contest in which four winners will be kidnapped and buried in coffins underground where they will be able to watch the film on small screens inside their coffins:

   Four lucky (or not so lucky, depending on how you look at it) people were picked to be blindfolded, have a burlap sack put over their head, then silently driven 30 miles outside of the city. There, they were put in coffins and only then were they allowed to remove the blindfolds, where they'd see an LCD screen that would show Buried.

The only film more secretive than J.J. Abrams' Super 8 may be the so-called Cobalt Neural 9, which we've been more expansively calling the `Wachowski Siblings Gay Iraq War  Romance.' We've known only the barest details about the film, but a big new report has come to light, claiming to offer a lot more details. Given what we're being told about the movie now, it is a lot more extreme than I previously suspected. Extreme enough that I'll be surprised to see it get made.

So, as we've heard in the past, the film begins roughly 100 years into the future, and then flashes back to the now (or a few years back) to tell the story, assembled from various shaky and low-key bits of footage, of a US soldier who falls for an Iraqi soldier turned militant. The US solider is reportedly named Butch and "just wants to fu*k and kill everything" until meeting his Iraqi paramour.

There's the possibility of semi-graphic sex between the two, with them dressed in burqas in one scene, and there's quite a bit of drama as their lives start to intertwine. But then "disaster strikes" the Iraqi's family's ancestral home, and the two men decide they have to rid the world of militant evil. To do this, they decide they have to assassinate George W. Bush.