Totally Unimportant

Obscure GOP rivals challenge Bush

There are 13 Republicans challenging Bush in the New Hampshire primary. Not that any of them are likely to get more than a few hundred votes from some extremely bored voters who happen to see some new names on the ballot. Where have all the Buchanans gone?

Oh yes, here are their campaign sites:

Blake Ashby 2004
Ashby is a moderate Republican that wants to rescue his party from fiscal irresponsibility and the religious right.

Millie Howard for President USA 1992 and Beyond
Hello, my name is Millie Howard. I would like to be your president. Oh, not for any special recognition for myself but rather to challenge all of us to question every decision made by our government and to contemplate what America might be when we begin to recognize contributions of all Americans and join together today and put prudent policies in place that will sustain us throughout the next millennium and beyond.

Bill Wyatt
Some sort of "peace candidate" or something.

John Donald Rigazio
Rigazio doens't like the WTO.

Hmmm, this isn't as interesting as I hoped it would be. I guess I'll stop here and put up some more nonsense later.

The Quality of American Political Debate

Though many pundits of decried the increasing shrillness of American politics, they ignore an important point: it has (almost) always been this way. See shortly after the advent of universal white male suffrage and mass politics, campaigns have always had a nasty side and the rhetoric of public figures has been known to be intemperate. For example, during the presidential election of 1828, one anti-Jackson newspaper wrote that:

"General Jackson's mother was a Common Prostitute, brought to this country by the British soldier! She afterwards married a MULLATO man with whom she had several children, of which number GENERAL JACKSON (emphasis theirs in both cases) is one."

I'm sure this would throw the likes of the high minded Nicholas D. Kristoff into a fit about the incivility and nastiness of it all, but he and the elite press corps really ought to remember that politics has, is and will remain a contact sport. Rather than tut-tut partisans for bitter attacks on their opponents they ought to determine whether such claims or accurate or not, but then again that would require a level of work that most of commentators are unwilling to deal with.

A Return to Partisanship

It appears Bush was aware of Sen. Clinton's plans to visit Iraq and his trip might have been an attempt to avoid being shamed by Hillary. In that case he doesn't deserve all the Kudos he has been getting in the press, but overall, it was still a nice gesture to the toops.

Changes

I've changed the blog's template to "Herbert". I was never really satisfied with the format I had chosen after Blogger eliminated the "robot" from its list of templates and so have decided to experiment with some other ones. I'd also appreciate any reader feedback on these template changes.

Oh yes, instead of being a political opinion weblog, this site will now be devoted to latin pop culture.

La vida loca
Menudo started with five Puerto Rican teenagers in 1977. The band has had an ever-changing cast since the Seventies, including former Menudo member Ricky Martin.

Members of the blogging team that refuse to conform to the new changes in format will be executed as part of a barbaric Telemundo special.

Kind Words for Mr. Bush

It is very rare that the B of P has anything nice to say about the President, but his secret thanksgiving visit to Baghdad had a degree of class that is rarely present in any of George W. Bush's actions. The fact that he put himself in moderate danger to show his solidarity with American soldiers in Iraq speaks well of him. It was on balance, a good thing to do.

With that pro forma recognition of a very decent thing to do, the Blog will now return to return to its normal HATE HATE HATE towards the Bush administration.

More Heckling The Corner

On thanksgiving morning, this nonsense was posted on the Corner.

WONDER WHO JOE WILSON IS WORKING FOR? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Wonder no more: his advice to Saddam and co.

So, does this mean that Ambassador Wilson was working with Saddam Hussein and giving him secret counsel? No, Wilson was just speculating in US News on how Saddam Hussein might try to evade coalition forces. Treason, indeed.

Heh heh

Republicans Digitally Erase Bush's Flub
The Repuublicans have admitted to digitally altering footage in a new campaign commerical to smooth over parts where President Bush "stumbles" while giving his speech. I guess the next step is to airbrush all his other imperfections or perhaps ready a flawless Bush doppleganger that will mimic the President and eventually replace him without anyone noticing.

Stick a Fork in Him

I've made some lousy predicitions before which have failed to pan out, but that won't stop me from striking again. I think it really looks like its over for John Kerry. He started the race as the front runner with the backing of the entire Democratic establishment behind, but Dean has chewed him and spit him out. Now, not only is Kerry trailing Dean in New Hampshire (a state that is essential for his campaign), but might even lose his home state Massacheusets. The polls given Dean a 9 point lead. When your screwing up like this, its time to throw in the Towel. Kerry should ditch is presidential ambitions and be content with being a Senate lifer. Kerry ought to drop in order to make room for another anti-Dean candidate.

The Long View

I really don't like it when some professional pontificator in the paper tries to boost his B of P rating with one of those lame "big think pieces". Usually their big idea is a really really bad one, but hey, at least they are being bold and thinking outside the box. Its a true sign of intelligence to think the unthinkable, even though the unthinkable is has more often then not been thought of and rejected ages ago as foolish and the parties responsible punished for their crimes in brutal and humiliating ceremonies...but I digress. I'd like to take this opportunity to pen the sort of piece I hate so very much and put forward a far reaching reform that will revolutionize American politics, world history, human civilization and stuff.

A recent post by atrios got me thinking about lifer after 2004, after a Democratic victory. In his post, Atrios speculated that the United States wouldn't be able to get its fiscal house in order even if the Democrats one because the Republicans would still control congress. Not only that, but members of the Elite Republican Guard like Tom DeLay would be running the show. This is indeed, a serious problem. Though Clinton was able to manage a Republican controlled congress, his most important piece of legislation (the '93 budget deal, which raised taxes on wealthy Americans) was passed very narrowly by a Democratic Congress and would most likely not have made it had the Republicans been in power. While I'm not going to complain about obstructionism, because the views of the minorty party ought to be take into consideration, I think something should be done to moderate the congressional leadership. If the next President is a Democrat, not matter how large his margin of victory is, the legislative branch will be controlled by an ultra-conservative former exterminator who only has to answer to other pesticide huffing wingnuts in his home district. You don't have to be a Democratic Stalwart to see there could be a problem here. So, what is to be done? Well, I think we ought to have the congressional leadership elected nationally. Rather than having to appeal only to some backwater exteremists of the Right or Left, those responsible for running congress would need to win the support on a national level. Such a change in constinuencies could help but moderate the men and women who oversee the machinery of government. As a safeguard against the complete annexation of Congress by the executive branch, these elections (at least for the Senate) should take place during mid-terms, so one party doesn't come to control the entire government by some fluke. This plan is totally impractical, but at least I'll get credit for my vision or something.

10 seconds ago

Mom: The Lemon is not gay!
Patrick: Its got like those rocks in it. They get all over your hands and they get them shiny! I hate it. I hate. I won't talk about it anymore. Hey, here is the cat.

Great Moments In Public Relations

The Army has launched Operation Iron Hammer this week, Iron Hammer is a campaign to eliminate guerillas from the most dangerous parts of Bagdahd. Operation Iron Hammer or "Eisenhammer", was also a nazi plan for the arial bombardment of Russian power stations.

Spinning Straw into GOLD!

The Corner gets it wrong again:

Clark said the Bush administration has been correct to modernize old notions of collective security and deterrence, "but it is wrong to insist that the alternative must be unilateral preemption." This is an egregious strawman. I don't think the administration has ever "insisted" on unilateral preemption as the alternative.

Unilateralism is at the very heart of the Bush administration's foreign policy. The President and his advisors aim to achieve complete freedom of action for the United States, such a goal is naturally at odds with any concept of collective security or multilaterallism. And yes, Mr. Lowry, the boy-editor-in chief, the Administration has insisted on going it alone
in some instances. In the aftermath of 9-11 I remember NATO invoking its mutual defense clause and Bush declining. I'd tried to think of more instances, but I'm a lazy person and don't really think claims that the President's foreign policy is not plagued by knee-jerk unilateralism deserve to be taken seriously.

Oh yes, I almost forgot, the Republicans NEVER use straw men, ever. They take ideas way to seriously to do that, at least that's what I've learned from the Weekly Standard.

National Review Breaks Ranks

The National Review has shown that it has an ounce of principle and has come out against the Republicans' abomination of an energy bill. I wonder if any more honest conservatives will follow suit and if any at all will realize that their party is nothing more than a vehicle for social conservatives and business interests.

Satisfy Your Propaganda Needs

Thanks to the Poor Man, I've come across this online warehouse of Chinese propganda. Maybe Terry McAuliffe should check it out for ideas for the Democratic Convention.


Ed Note: Brian's thoughts were momentarily crossed with Andrew Sullivan's while writing this post

Idiots

The Corner (the national review's weblog, once again proves its commitment to "huh-huh conservatism"with this post:

GAY MARRIAGE [John Derbyshire]
1. If "gay marriage" is legalized, will prisoners be able to marry their cell mates? If not, why not?

2. In many jurisdictions, a marriage can be annulled if it has not been consummated. What, exactly, constitutes "consummation" of a gay marriage?

These are the same partisan scolds that always blast the Democrats for degrading the quality of political discourse, yet they are unable to address issues relating to homosexuality with even the maturity of an 8th grade boy.

Miller Is Once Again A Tool

"This African-American woman will not be given an up-or-down vote, because the Democrats in this chamber refuse to stand and let her do it," Zell Miller said. "They're standing in the doorway, and they've got a sign: conservative African-American women need not apply. And if you have the temerity to do so, your reputation will be shattered and your dignity will be shredded. Gal, you will be lynched."
-Miller's talk of 'lynching' is criticized


I guess it doesn't count as playing the race card when a dumb conservative bastard does it.

More Protectionism

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration, in a further escalation of trade tensions between the United States and China, announced Tuesday it had decided to impose quotas on three types of textile products in an effort to give the U.S. textile industry temporary breathing room from a flood of Chinese imports.
-From the Times

Isn't the US trying to get China to reign in North Korea and end that country's nuclear weapons program? It would seem barring some of their goods from the American market might be a bad idea given that fact. The again, what do I know? I always thought national security and high stakes dipolomacy came before shameless efforts to win the votes of textile workers and the backing of clothing makers, but if Karl Rove thinks this the right move, who am I to say it isn't.

Correct Views on the News.

Blanco Wins In Lousiana
YAY!

California GOP Wants Sen. Boxer Out
Booo.

Schwarzenegger Becomes Calif. Governor
HATE HATE HATE


GOP Adds Two Governors, Gain Supporters
HATE HATE HATE

Poll: View of Bush Performance Fading
YAY!

That is all.

Trouble A-Brewin'

Hey look! The administration is setting off a trade war with our closest ally in the whole wide world. As regular readers of this blog hopefully know, the President Bush enacted "emergency" steel tariffs last year to protect American steel industry from so-called unfair competition from foreign firms. This protectionist measure has hurt the British Steel industry and now that the WTO has declared that the sanctions were illegal, one of Tony Blair's political allies is striking back against Bush.

From the Guardian

On the eve of Mr Bush's state visit to Britain, Mr Byers, an arch-Blairite, will set out proposals to help Democrats in key swing states if the White House refuses to abandon punitive trade sanctions against the UK.

Acting with the tacit approval of Blair supporters, who were enraged when Mr Bush imposed tariffs on imports of British steel to shore up his vote, the former trade and industry secretary will call for sanctions to be imposed on four key marginal states which the president will need to win.

The states - and the exports to be targeted - are:

· Florida and its citrus products. The state was the scene of the "hanging chad" saga in the 2000 presidential election, after Mr Bush and Al Gore virtually tied there;
· Wisconsin and its apples and paper. Mr Gore won this state by a tiny margin;
· Tennessee and its chemicals. Mr Bush scored a narrow victory in Mr Gore's home state;
· Iowa and its agricultural equipment. This state will play a key role when the nominations battle starts in January.

Mr Byers also calls for tariffs to be imposed on exports of textiles, which would hit states across the American south.

I'm not sure if this will have any impact on American politics, but it shows just how truly stupid these tariffs are and how frustrated foreigners are becoming with the current Party in Power and its poll driven policies. The Bushies don't seem content with the damage the steel tariff has caused, either. Now its being alleged that the United States has also been encouraging multinationals to move their British operations to America.

Yep, alienating your must loyal strategic partner in the whole world for short-term domestic political game. These are on the ball,day and night with no breaks.

Yay!

AP: N.Y's Spitzer Would Like to Be Gov.
I'd be thrilled if Eliot Spitzer kicked our "moderate" Republican Governor, George Pataki out of the statehouse. I'm not sure Pataki would run for a fourth term (some speculate that his anti-tax crusade last year was aimed at making him a viable Republican candidate for national office), but it would be nice to seem him lose just once.

Get Out Of My Grill

There's also the matter of his own personal Moriarty, one Al Franken, whose "Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them)" is No. 3 on The Times' nonfiction bestseller list ("Who's Looking Out for You?" is in fourth place.) "I can't allow some of the stuff to go unchallenged . It's not in me to do that. In Levittown, when I was a kid and you were walking down the street and someone said, 'Hey, O'Reilly, you -- liar,' you punched him. It was like, WHAM!" - he smashes his fist into his hand - "I can't imagine someone calling my father a liar to his face. He would have killed him."

Yeah....O'reilly is one tough bastard. I know exactly what he's talking about too, growing up in the suburban school of hard knocks and all. In fact, Bill O'Reilly and I are almost twins. He grew up in a lame, whitebread 'burb (Levittown) where and so did I (Westchester), his father was an accountant (but a really bad ass one, who would totally beat someone savagely for dissing him) and mine is a bonds trader. Yes, indeed. So let me holl at at my boy Bill O, another tough as nails man forged in the blast furnace of the middle class ghetto.

Ubermensch of the Conservative Press

Last friday, Noemie Emery wrote an article on relishing the seething anger Bush is able to touch of in liberals. Rather than actually write a so-called "counter-argument", I'll continue the grand B of P tradition of just making fun of people and things I don't like.

Here is a quoute from the article in question:
Open the paper, and there they all are: the hard-faced women who refer to abortion as "choice," the soft-faced male writers who look a little too pampered, the actors, the artists, the faculty hotshots, the with-it, the urbane and the urban, the concerned, the refined, the sincere.

Look at the selection in bold again, now look at the picture of NY Times Columnist and Standard regular, David Brooks, below:

Yep, nothing soft or pampered about Mr. Brooks. He's a regular paragon of American mascuilinity, with his boyish face, frail physique, supernerd glasses and lips just slightly parted....He's the John Wayne of 2003, if John Wayne was a flaming metrosexual that sipped lattes while wearing the fruitiest goddamn sweatshirt ever and walking a fucking poodle.

HATE HATE HATE HATE

Greens & 2004

TThe Democrat-Green Death Struggle
by MICAH L. SIFRY

As much as I'd like to see Nader and his ilk stamped out without mercy, I think the Demcrats should be prepared to make some concessions to the Green in order to win the Presidential election in 2004, a goal which all else should be subordinate to. The Democrats should only make tactical, rather than policy compromises with Greens. Triangulation maybe necessary and we cannot afford to be hamstrung by the idealists of the Green Party and their rolling paper manifestos, such deals are unlikely to appease the Naderites anyway given their purism/fanaticism. So, what is to be done? The Democrats ought to agree to stop their efforts to eradicate the Green Party at levels of elected office in exchange for a promise from the Greens (and Ralph Nader) not to run a presidential candidate in 2004. Currently, the Democrats have been trying to deny the Greens a place on the ballot in some states and have also gerrymandered away Green districts on the local level. As part of my proposed compromise, such behavior should be stopped. Also, green friendly reforms such as instant-run off voting, which would make the Greens more viable, should get at least half-hearted support at the state and local level.

Unfortunately (or possibly fortunately), I don't think such a reasonable compromise is really in the cards. The Democrats probably do not want anything to do with the Greens and would be unwilling to make a deal with them or acknowledge their existence. The Greens for their part, are not exactly masters of rationality and would be opposed to making any compromises on principle with the "sell out" Democratic Party (or DemRep party, huh huh huh). I don't think the Greens are going to pose as serious a threat as they did in 2000, though, since now we have a Republican administration in office pursuing an ultra-conservative agenda. Hopefully this fact will lead more reasonable elements of the Green Party to vote Democratic in 2004 and decrease the threat on our left flank.

A Recent E-mail From Jon

Thanks for looking at my paper, your comments were very useful. I will close
with a quote from mickey's away message, you can apply it to one senior
from last year:
it takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn't take any
to just sit there with a dumb look on your face

Thats right, Dustin, not a fuckin muscle.
-Jon

Oh my god! Incivility! Vitiriol! Polarization!

It seems that the high minded Nicholas D. Kristoff has been heeding the pillow talk of equally high minded David Brooks.

Objective: Make Andrew Sullivan look like the fool he is. Mission Accomplished.

Today on his weblog, Andrew Sullivan wrote that:

Bush was dumb to have put that banner up (and dumber to say it had nothing to do with him). But if he was wrong, how wrong was Madeleine Albright, who trumpeted "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq in ... 1998!

He then added: huh, huh, huh. Well, not really, but that's besides the point entirely. There is a world of difference between what Albright said and Bush's top-gun hackwork. Albright was secretary of state, not the President and she was talking on a Sunday morning talk show, not on all the major networks (and cable news new stations) at once. Most importantly, Albright's claim was much more limited than Bush's. Here is what she said:

"Saddam Hussein is weaker because all the targets and things that he
cares about most have been destroyed....and the region is safer
because we have managed, I think to, degrade his ability to threaten
his neighbors,"

Madeline Albright probably was right about this or at the very least, not demonstratably wrong. Bush on the other hand, announced that major combat operations in Iraq were over, which is clearly not true. I wonder if Mr. Sullivan ever gets tired of being such a dumb bastard all the time. Huh, huh, huh.

Hell Has Frozen Over

The uber-libertarian Cato Institute and the Sierra Club have come together to oppose the Frankenstein energy bill making its way through congress. Actually, this isn't all that surprising, the Libertarians, specifically Cato, have become increasingly critical of the Bush administration. Cato is not pleased that President Bush has allowed discretionary spending to grow like it has. Oddly enough, Clinton was able to control spending more than either of the Bush's. Perhaps Cato might realize that the Democrats are the true pro-market party or at least, the party for anyone with a set of principles more high minded than afflicting the afflicted and comforting the comfortable.

Ratings War

Our blog is currect rated the 109th top site in the News and Media section of GoStats. We have some pretty stiff competition, take a look. The B of P is led by a muslim youth web site and a site comparing a wanted photo of Osama Bin Laden with a picture of the Shroud of Troin. On the upside we are beating the Stealth Ninja Dave website which attempts to exonerate a convicted murder in California.

He's not an outsider anymore!

Dean Holds Lead Among Democratic Insiders
This support of the insiders will cause Governor Dean's authentic straightalk rating to go down and will cause him the support of young alternative free thinking independents like myself.

Thunder Stolen!

I was considering hammering neocrackpot (huh huh huh) David Brooks for his latest column for the Times, where he comes out in favor of atrocities and reveals the neoconservative heart of darkness. Fortunately, the Slacktivist has already beaten me to the punch, stolen my thunder and other number of cliches. Go check out his post, its damning indeed.

Newsflash!

I just finished watching Josh Marshall argue with National Review Editor Richard Lowry and have a few observations. Marshall is not as an effective a debater as he is a blogger. Despite Marshall's less than stellar performance, I'd say that he still beat Lowry or was at least hold his own is a pretty big deal. Marshall is just a big time blogger and small time columnist/free lancer, while Lowry is in charge of the most important conservative weekly in the country. The fact that Marshall can basically hop of the turnip truck and give the a High Priest of American conservatism what for speaks volumes about the quality of the right's leadership in recent years.

Exclamation!

Recently I have been using exclamation points a good deal! I think that they make my writing much more lively! It really jumps out at you, eh! That's what I thought! Well, I'll keep up the good work!

Dean is Dead In the Water!

I'm sure Dean is going to get all those guys with the Confederate flags on their pick up trucks (hearts full of hate for all things "fruity") with his declaration that he is a metrosexual. I suspect the crab people are behind this all. They think if they can get a metro made leader of the most powerful nation on Earth, than the planet will be ripe for the plucking.

Pathetic!

Is new lunar mission pie in sky?

The Bush administration is considering the possibility of planting more in the lunar dust with a far-reaching plan that could return Americans to the moon.

I guess this nonsense is a response to Chinese Invasion of God's Realm with their latest rocket launch. In which case, it would be one of the saddest and most pathetic moves ever. It would show that the United States is really unsure of itself and finds that it has to respond to even the smallest, most indirect challenges to its greatness. The absurdity of it all would boggle the mind. Imagine a first world country (the richest in the history of the world, no less), wasting billions (which could be better spent on ANYTHING else) to send a few guys to the moon just because a third rate world power like China performed a lame feat of strength. As the Chin said, "We already did that. We sent our phallic symbol there 30 years ago. Its over."

The Horror!

Usually I don't like to do the whole "dissent is being stamped out" handwringing hurricane, but CBS has just pulled its Ronald Reagan mini-series after it took a lot of flack from the GOP for failing to adhere to the official history of St. Reagan as written by the Conservative Hack Guild. This is really disgusting. I can't believe the Republicans are so authoritarian as to try and stiffle any and all speech they find displeasing (but remember, Wesley Clark wrote a letter critical of Rush Limbaugh, so he is Adolf Hitler) and that CBS proved to be such a balless wonder and roll over and give it up as soon it was asked. Well, I guess this kills the whole Liberal Media myth stone dead, though its not like that will keep every buffoon from saying that from now untill doomsday. Goddamn everything.

Blog Bullying

The Washington Post talks about the most important issue of our times, kids saying nasty things to each other on the internet.

Putin the Czar

Just in from the Chin:

President Putin in Russia is no democrat. Since his rise to power, he has taken a series of steps to consolidate his reign, most significant of which is the destruction of free-press and targeted legal campaigns against his personal enemies.

Recently, he has put another one of the economic "oligarches", Khodorkovsky, a oil giant who financed the parliamentary opposition, out of business and into jail. According to both Center for Strategic and International Studies and The Economist, Putin’s move is not directed against private property. Instead, it is what Putin at his KGB days have been used to: political assassination thinly guised under the mantle of legality. The Economist mentioned that two other oligarches had been dispatched by Putin in the same way. CSIS says plainly: "What is at stake is the future direction of Russia and Putin’s presidency. What is clear is another blow has been dealt against the rule of law in Russia".

Other less obvious occurrences are equally unnerving, including the mysterious circumstances under which leading a leading parliamentarian against Putin has died last year. There were nothing actually mysterious about the death per se. He was shot to death by a professional assassin. What was mysterious is the fact that they have not been found, and prior to the murder, the court had prosecuted other leading parliamentarians opposed to Putin’s presidency with dubious charges of corruption and connections with the mafia. The old Soviet National Anthem had been resurrected from its death, alone with another law that penalizes those who failed to pay respect to the flag and anthem by not standing up at the music’s procession. All these have been closely followed by The New York Times last year.

Militarily Putin showed vigorous interest in the conquest of Chechenya. Furthermore, he has been shielding war criminals from jurisdiction, despite the outrage of international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International. The conduct of Russian army in Chechenya has degraded from strategically justified use of terror and brutality to wanton rape and pillage, so much so that Russian domestic groups had been rallied against those outrages. President Putin and his cabinet, however, have been indifferent. Recent polls have consistently demonstrate that average Russians have a high opinion of Lenin, Stalin, and Peter the Great; reputation of reformist such as Alexander II and Gorbachev, on the meanwhile, has sunk to obscurity. The Russian soil, so it seems, is ripe for another autocrat.

Sinning Boldly

Green River Killer Would Be Most Prolific
Gary Leon Ridgway is going to plead guilty to the murder of 48 people, giving him the distinction having the most murder convictions ever. He's made a deal to get life in prison without parole, but the death penalty may still be in play because he killed some people in Oregon as well, which has the death penalty.

More on Dean's Love Affair With Jefferson Davis

The other candidates are starting to pile on Dean for his comment about he's the candidate for "the guy with the Confederate Flag on his pickup truck." In addtion to Kerry and Gephardt, Edwards is now also crticizing Dean for his remark. Trying to appeal to southern white males might be a sound campaign strategy, but Dean is just a buffoon for saying what he said. In the first place, he probably will not get the bubbas behind him. It doesn't matter how much he likes guns or that he totally killed a charging bear with .50 caliber Desert Eagle, the South will not swoon for Howard Dean, because he's a New Englander and he signed civil unions into law. Dean's comment is also probably coutnerproductive to his southern strategy, since it might have been seen as condescending by many southerners, who basically took his words to mean "I'm the guy for all the dumb, banjo struming, cousing screwing white trash down in Dixie land. That means you, you stupid bastard." Finally, what Dean said was foolish because it will weaken his support among blacks, a key (and often underappreciated) constinuency for the Democrats.

Bad Album Cover

Rather than write an original post of my own (which would probably blow anyhow), I'm going to direct you to some of the worst album covers ever. Click here and here.