Here Comes the Flood, Pt. 4

• As long as I'm blaming Howard Dean for things, why doesn't the DNC have any money? The smaller party organizations have money. The candidates have LOTS of money. But the national party itself is broke. Isn't fundraising part of his job?
  
  
• The House of Representatives charged Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten with Contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the investigation into the firing of the U.S. Attorneys. The Attorney General, being a loyal hack, is refusing to do a damn thing about it. So instead of conceding, House Democrats are actually suing the Attorney General's office. It's about damn time.
  
  
• Please keep reminding all of your Republican friends that John McCain used to want to be a Democrat. Remember? Remember how John McCain used to want to be a Democrat? He gets kind of testy when you bring up how John McCain was going to play second fiddle to John Kerry on a Democratic Presidential Ticket. (Yes, I am spiteful and petty sometimes).
  
  
• He also appears to be a flagrant narcissist, and quite possibly a paranoid. Ah, the party of Nixon . . .
  
  
• Brad at Sadly, No, on the President: "It was only two weeks ago that Bush told us he didn’t think the economy was headed toward recession. The guy’s ability to be a weathervane for wrongness never ceases to amaze." (Note: that article is now a week old). He also reminds us what the current president has inflicted on a national and global level, while the last one was impeached for marital infidelity.
  
  
• Clif at Sadly, No, gives a full explanation of why David Mamet's newfound conservatism is founded on pure idiocy. For the record (and I'm pretty sure I'm alone on this), I think Glengarry Glen Ross was monotonous, abrasive, unenlightening, uninspiring and monumentally unpleasant. I will take Mamet's new declaration to be a strike in my column.
  
  
• Republican Representative Steve King has declared that if Obama were to become president, Al Qaeda would be "dancing in the streets." Lest I remind you what happened last time the Republicans promised us that someone would be "out in the streets . . . singing and flying kites".