Some disturbing video on how not to manage a relationship with the citizens police “serve and protect.”
So what do you think should happen to the officer who touches his gun and says, “One more step forward, and you’ll see what happens. Take one more step forward,” or the officer that threatens to give the citizen a ticket? Personally, I think they should lose their jobs. Period. There’s a follow-up in Part II which results in a whole lotta, “no comment.”
[Via Boing Boing]

So, John Kerry is calling for a filibuster of Alito. I don’t speak for the whole Democratic party, but I have a feeling there are a lot of liberal Democrats (sometimes) out there like me. So I’d just like to say for the record:

John, we barely supported you then, and we sure wish you would just go away. We need new, fresh leadership with genuine ideas to turn around a party in crisis, not rabble rousing suicide missions that won’t accomplish anything of value. You’re wasting political capital. Challenge Bush on breaking Federal Law, find an issue that will stick and that won’t be at best a waste of time and energy and at worst a galvanizing event for the Republicans. Seriously: please, shut up.

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Tom “The Hammer” Delay is gonna face the hammer of justice.

I’m not normally a fan of Keith Olbermann, but in his latest commentary, he has some real gems, like:

[M]ost chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection –or at least amelioration–  against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological. It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.

And should you need further evidence that our leader is, well, isn’t a leader, compare just about anything he’s ever said to this quote from Winston Churchill:

The responsibility of government for the public safety is absolute and requires no mandate. It is in fact, the prime object for which governments come into existence.

There’s also a full transcript of Olbermann’s commentary at MSNBC.
[Via Boing Boing]

Landrieu Implores President to ‘Relieve Unmitigated Suffering;’ End FEMA’s ‘Abject Failures’.

This certainly underscores the notion that the President is completely botching this disasster, that we need an effective leader, and that FEMA is woefully unprepared to deal with anything.

However, two days prior to this press release, Landrieu was telling Anderson Cooper that the President “knows those details” and “knows that people are suffering” and “I want to thank the President”.