Ceding the Stage.

Since leaving office former President George W. Bush has behaved in a way that brings honor to him, his family, his office, and his country. No, seriously.

Cullis to fellate Tea Baggers.

Whoa. There is just way too much innuendo in that title for even me. Cullis will be speaking to the 9/12 teabaggers tomorrow in Milton. Now, unless the GOP is just going to give up the House seat, there is little to no chance that Fred Cullis will be the Republican nominee. So he might as well become the fringe candidate by going to a fringe meeting. Hell, this may all be orchestrated anyway, so that when Charlie Copeland gets into the race he appears downright sane by comparison.

Set in Stone

Writes Reid: “After the briefing, Gibbs went to the president for clarification. Gibbs then called me to his office to relate what the president said. The president told him it IS locked in — there is no flexibility. Troops WILL start coming home in July 2011. Period. It’s etched in stone. Gibbs said he even had the chisel.”

There goes that LIBERAL media again.

Chris Matthews, the supposedly liberal blowhard host of Harball on the Fox News of the Left, MSNBC, thinks that a military school like West Point is "enemy" territory to a Democratic President. That is a lie straight from the right wing, created I suppose because Democratic Presidents are not as wild about war and death as their Republican counterparts. Or I suppose it is a left over idea that all Democrats are unpatriotic traitors and thus any military institution would be enemy territory.

Wednesday Open Thread

Can you believe it's Wednesday already? It seems like this week is flying by. It's open thread time and it's time to talk about whatever you feel like talking about.…

Why Did The News Journal Turn Down This Ad?

The SEIU has been working at organizing the janitors at Wilmington Trust HQ. The janitors are hired and managed by Optima Cleaning Systems -- but the SEIU filed unfair labor relations charges against this Optima this past spring with the NLRB. The NLRB and Optima settled at least part of the charges made, which resulted in some monetary restitution by Optima to 7 individuals and required Optima to post where employees could see it a formal notice listing the ways that Optima was not to interfere with organizing activities.