Run For President, Everyone Else Is
* Bush is going to keep everyone's mouth shut about everything until he's safely retired in Paraguay. [ NYT ]
* Nobody wants to join the Army because that means getting blown the fuck up in Iraq. [ NYT ]
* The Pentagon is ready to use felons and drug addicts as fodder now that all the good people are all limbless and tied to radiators at Walter Reed. [ The Hill ]
* We're not leaving Iraq, per se. We're merely keeping a massive military footprint there for, say, the next fifty years. [ WP ]
* Oh, look. The Attorney General lied about something. [ WP ]
* Democrats are talking about healthcare for everybody, but not in the kind of way that would jeopardize those PAC contributions. [ WP ]
* Senator Vitter pays women to have sex with him, not that anybody cares. [ WP , Politico ]
* Terrified, Nancy Pelosi caves to Cindy Sheehan's demands. [ The Hill ]
* Iowans hate Democrats. [ WT ]
* Iraqi minister says that US pullout would lead to civil war and a collapse of the government. We assume that that's worse than right now, but we're not sure how. [ LAT ]
* Obama's never really done this whole running for president thing before. [ LAT ]
* There are front runners emerging and shockingly, John McCain isn't one of them. [ LAT ]