Bush's MLK Celebration

CrawlingWestward was where I saw the first post, although my sister emailed me with the bad news re: Charles Pickering. Asshole David Brooks praised the nomination on PBS this evening, while Mark Shields (who I described in comments over at Timshel as the Alan Colmes of The News Hour, could only offer a lame milquetoast comment about Bush shoring up the more regressive components of his "coalition."

TalkLeft has a good article in the archives--don't forget to check the comments--and here's today's post regarding the same. While you're there, click on the link to the main page, or link here, and note that CBS WILL air anti-drug advocacy messages, but has refused to air the winner of the MoveOn ad contest because it's an "advocacy" ad. Alas, if only CBS was more like a computer in an old sci-fi movie, you know, of the variety that begins to spew smoke and pop springs when the hero exposes it to its logical contradictions...

A Bush loss in November will bring an end to Pickering's temporary appointment. Because he made it to the Fifth Circuit during a Congressional recess, he'll be out when the next Congress convenes in 2005. Hell, even if Crawford's village idiot manages to dupe the public into an extra four years of corporate corruption, the Democrats might be able to dump him if they play their parliamentary manuevers right. One can always hope.