The Truffle

The headline: "'America's mayor' praises Bush in state GOP speech" . Back in 2006, all the GOP candidates were trying to keep a safe distance from Dubya (fat lot of good that did). Not Rudy Giuliani. Not only is he proudly assuming the mantle of a loyal 30 percenter, he's trying to out-Bush Bush in the God soundbyte department. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, arguing that America is in desperate need of a Ronald Reagan-style optimistic vision, told California Republicans on Saturday that he wants to be a president who will "win the world for a set of ideas ... that I believe come from God." Oh, please! Rudy, everyone remembers you as mayor here in New York. You never talked about God in the entire 8 years you ran this city. The closest you came to that old-time religion talk was when you went bonkers over a portrait of the Virgin Mary covered with elephant poop. Since when did you start mentioning the "G" word as a way o...

Norbizness suggests that everyone's favorite bogus political party outsiders form their own party. The outsiders in question being John "I'm a team player, I really am! Vote for me!" McCain and Joe "The Dem it's okay for wingnuts to like" Lieberman. It's about high time that we had a viable third party to supplement the tired-ass binary system we've got going now. Thank God several prominent Senators are applying for this splinter from the Republican Party, if only they could settle on a name: Extremely Silly, Raving Loony, Church of the Most Exalted and Infallible President Bush. Alas, Raving Loony Party name was taken years ago by the late, great Screaming Lord Sutch. Actually, it is known as the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. Maybe Extremely Silly or Bush Sycophant Party would be good names. Mary Matalin could be a party secretary, as shilling for Bush seems to be the one thing she's exceptionally good at--that and trading on ...