Let the games begin

It's going to be a long twenty months, folks.

First we had the right-wing lies about Barack Obama's school in Indonesia being a Wahabbi madrassa.

Then we had a papist nutball who has appeared on news shows talking about how Hollywood Jews love anal sex and other similarly loving, Christian things decide that a sentence a blogger wrote well before going to work for a Democratic candidate somehow reflect badly on the candidate.

Now the wingnuts are all up in arms because they think only a Speaker of the House who's a Republican and (arguably) has a penis should be entitled to military transport home -- when THEY decided after 9/11 that the person second in line to the presidency ought to have that protection.

And of cours, there's the Most Important Story in the Nation tonight: Anna Nicole Smith is still dead. This means we should watch the Friday News Dump very carefully, because the MSM is going to be all Anna Nicole, all the time -- which means something someone doesn't want anyone paying attention to will be released tomorrow. No, Barry N. Johnson, I'm not accusing the Bush Administration of murdering Anna Nicole Smith. (I am, however, suspicious of whoever that guy was who wanted the paternity test.)

But if this is what the wingnuts are doing this early in the game, imagine what it's going to be like a year from now. Digby has a good post about the return of the Mean Grrls and their "Clinton Rules".