If only I had the time,

I worked 50 some hours this week mix in beer, sitcom finale's (yes I am that lame) and mowing my lawn. Here is some random thoughts over the week I didn't write about.

This is a good post over at DailyKos. It sounds like Kos is wrapping up his book tour so he should start posting more. Which I am looking forward to. I like his post's more than the "irregulars".

Rep. William Jefferson a Democrat form Louisiana sounds like he is having legal problems. The republicans are trying to use this to fight the "culture of corruption" label that Pelosi has successfully placed on them. The difference was when Delay was in trouble they changed rules, called the attack partisan, claimed business as usual and on and on. Howard Dean was on "This Week" a few weeks ago and

Dean He also said Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., who is accused of improperly using his influence to direct business toward a favored company, should resign immediately that if indicted.

I wish I could find the transcript because George Stephanopoulos asked the question and Dean just said yes. George was taken back by the straight forwadness with the answer that rarely happens on Sunday talk shows. You can watch the clip of the whole interview on this page, but I think it comes in the middle of the interview.

I have to laugh at the church making such a big deal about "The Da Vinci Code" it was reported on the news all week and got tons of free press. If only I could be lucky enough to have a book get banned by the church. Supposedly the movie is horrible to the point were people are laughing at parts that aren't suppose to be funny, but I will wait to see some reviews from people I trust before I decide if I want to throw down some of my sweat soaked dollars to see it in the theater.

Al Gore on SNL,

Here is the clip. Pretty awesome.

Did Colbert change the media?

Ever since Colbert did his bit for the White House Correspondents' dinner articles have been popping up all over the place about the event. Last week I saw a news report where they actually acknowledged the significance of Blogs. But today took the cake. On NBC's nightly news they showed how Bush said word for word exactly the same thing about Gen. Michael Hayden at his nomination that he did about Poter Goss. Then the part that I couldn't believe was Brian Williams actually credited this Daily Show clip. That is right the fake news scooped the (supposed) real news.

I am starting to wonder if the correspondents' dinner exposed to the media how they are being openly mocked and considered out of touch. Could Colbert have woken up the media? Probably not, but here is hoping.

The new CIA,

Bush's nominee to run the CIA seems like another Harriet Meir's pick. I think he is going to retire from the military and most of the republican's will fall back in line. Or maybe not, this seems to have a touch of a inside fight between the Porter Goss supporters and the John Negroponte republicans. This seems to be really interesting. I must admit I am not fully read up on this after working 60 hours last week I didn't have a lot of time to follow this as closely as I would of liked to. Anyways this should play right into Feingold's hand as he has another stage to go after the domestic spying.

Bush's approval rating is now down to 31 percent. Will it go into the twenties?

This is great. I guess fishing stories are suppose to be exaggerated. But in all seriousness this guy is the President of the United States of America and his fondest memory is catching a fucking fish! He just doesn't care or even try to pretend.