Be your own judge of what this says about The Decider.

Ariel Sharon asked George Bush what he would do to Osama bin Laden if he caught him. His reponse:

"I will screw him in the ass!"

That from Sharon's biographer. No word on what Bush's evangelical supporters think about this. They're probably relieved that W didn't say he would marry Osama.

No word from Laura, either.

Hat tip Political Wire.

On the same day that Britney was shaving her head, a guy I know who works in the office of Senator Bernie Sanders sent me an email. He was trying very hard to get news organizations interested in some research his office had done about George Bush's proposed 2008 budget, which was unveiled two weeks ago and received relatively little press...

Sanders's office came up with some interesting numbers here. If the Estate Tax were to be repealed completely, the estimated savings to just one family -- the Walton family, the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune -- would be about $32.7 billion dollars over the next ten years.

The proposed reductions to Medicaid over the same time frame? $28 billion.

 

Mother Jones has released an article today that is the first statistical demonstration I've seen of how much the Iraq war has helped fight the war on terror. Apparently this business of "fighting them over there" hasn't worked out very well.

Our study yields one resounding finding: The rate of terrorist attacks around the world by jihadist groups and the rate of fatalities in those attacks increased dramatically after the invasion of Iraq. Globally there was a 607 percent rise in the average yearly incidence of attacks (28.3 attacks per year before and 199.8 after) and a 237 percent rise in the average fatality rate (from 501 to 1,689 deaths per year). A large part of this rise occurred in Iraq, which accounts for fully half of the global total of jihadist terrorist attacks in the post-Iraq War period. But even excluding Iraq, the average yearly number of jihadist terrorist attacks and resulting fatalities still rose sharply around the world by 265 percent and 58 percent respectively.

I've decided to back Obama in the primary. Go here to help if you're of a like mind:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/Russ