E Pluribus Unum

by Mark Adams

Via Hotline:

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ): "We passed up an opportunity after September 11th. I think we should have said, we're going to double the size of the Peace Corps, triple the size of Americorps, we're going to set up volunteer organizations all over America to ensure our security. ... The country was united. We should have called them to serve, not just tell them to take a trip or go shopping" ("Hardball," MSNBC, 9/11). 

Got to hand it to two-faced John.  He knows exactly what useless F#$%^s Bush and his gang of theives are.

Political Wire, in reaction to the same speech on the fifth anniversary of what has become a wholly owned GOP day of symbolic empty gestures: 

If the war on terror is really a "struggle for civilization" itself, as President Bush claimed last night, why do we have just 130,000 troops in Iraq?

You would think that if America were really engaged in such an epic battle -- "for all the marbles," as one friend paraphrased it -- we would put up a bigger fight.