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Imagine if, upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that the Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace was ILLEGALLY sworn in as President rather than Vice President Harry Truman simply because Roosevelt had designated Wallace as his successor. Of course, such an action would have been universally protested because it was clearly UNCONSTITUTIONAL. However, that is pretty much what just happened in Venezuela. The Venezuelan constitution states that upon the death or the exit from office of the President that the Speaker of the National Assembly, NOT the Vice President, becomes president. However, because Hugo Chavez designated his big, lumbering,...

Being anti-Western trumps all for the Left. You can be a narrow-minded fascistic political organization like the Muslim Brotherhood that treats women and religions other than fanatic Muslims like dirt but that is all okay with the Left as long they proclaim themselves to be against Western Civilization. Thus we have a situation in which American liberals consider Pat Robertson to be much more dangerous to freedom than Mohammed Morsi who now rules Egypt under their new Sharia Law constitution. The DUmmies and the KOmmies have yet to react to Sharia Law Egypt but we have a HUffie THREAD...

On Thursday NBC's Andrea Mitchell asked Obama campaign spokesperson Ben LaBolt: "When is he going to be accessible for questions other than to People magazine and Entertainment Tonight?" LaBolt replied: "I wouldn't assume that, if he's in a local market, that the reporters' questions will be any less serious." Well, on Friday, President Obama had an interview on a local radio station in New Mexico. As you can hear on this VIDEO, these are some of those "serious questions," along with a couple of the president's answers: "Our big question is, red or green?" (i.e., chile peppers). The president's...

So what do you think has been the inevitable result of all the "hate crimes" reported ever since the Kerri DUnn(ce) "hate crime" of 8 years ago? You would think that the left, including DUmmies and HUffies, would finally learn to curb their outrage until the final results are in. Even a DUmb dog would learn that trick after so much practice but nooooooo the HUffington Post HUffies went straight to extreme gullible OUTRAGE mode the moment they read this STORY, "Joseph Baken, Montana Gay Man, Allegedly Beaten Outside Club On His Birthday." Now watch the outrage UNTIL the...

It can't be! It can't be! The feds are now cracking down bigtime on medical marijuana dispensaries despite a promise from the Obama Regime that it would leave them alone if they were in compliance with state laws. That is why the HUffington Post HUffies are so upset over the news that the feds are cracking down on the Harborside Health Center of Oakland, CA, the biggest medical marijuana dispensary in the world. You might remember Harborside and its owner, Steve DeAngelo, from the discovery channel's "Weed Wars" last year. Your humble correspondent, despite never having partaken of the...

Because the leftwing requirements for posting at the HUffington Post are much less stringent than at DUmmieland, the HUffies are much more skeptical of Anthony Weiner's weiner story than the DUmmies who have SWALLOWED it whole. You can see HUffie skepticism about Weiner in this THREAD, "Anthony Weiner Says He Was #Hacked, After Briefs Shot Tweeted From His Account." So let us now watch most of the HUffies who have kept their hands off Weiner comment skeptically on the story in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, posting yet another story on this topic because he...

The Looney Left's bête noire, Chimpy McHitler, has recently emerged from the Führerbunker and awakened the latent BDS always boiling just beneath the surface. A softball interview on the Orca Windbag Show only served to rehabilitate the Evil One. What's next, a turn on Brush-Clearing With the Stars? Well, if that were not enough, now comes President Obama morphing INTO Barack W. McSame! HuffPo has broken a story--perhaps just a trial baloney at this point--"White House Gives In On Bush Tax Cuts," and even this whiff of a RUMOR is enough to set off a FIRESTORM across the Lands...

Some county official out in Nebraska was having a little FUn with a picture of Dear Leader puffing a cigarette, and now the HUffies are in a HUff about it! Mad over a pic of Obama lightin' up? Lighten up! Read about it here in this THREAD, "Obama Cigarette Portrait To Be Replaced With Official Portrait At Nebraska's Adams County Courthouse." It's the HUffies vs. the HUskers in the Tobacco Bowl! The HUffie smoke rings are in Bolshevik Red, while the commentary of your humble guest correspondent, Charles Henrickson, a native of the city of Chicago who lived for...

All we heard last week was that the "Teabaggers" were guilty of "inciting violence." For instance, by her use of traditional political metaphorical language like "reload" and "targeted," Sarah Palin, the right-wing Moosiah, was sending clear signals to her rabid followers to literally hunt down progressives. And there were those stories about protesters shouting the "N"-word against Reps. Lewis and Cleaver--although audio of the alleged incident could detect no such shouts. Even so, all you heard last week was how the right wing had become dangerously unhinged and was turning violent. Well, now today, lo and behold, there is...

Peter Daou of the HUffington Post has had the jobs that political player wannabee William Rivers Pitt could only dream about. Daou has been an integral part of both the Hillary Clinton and John Kerry campaigns among many other things. Therefore, when Daou warns the Democrats that they are making a big mistake by focusing on and attacking Rush Limbaugh, smart folks should pay attention to the warning he posted in this HUffington Post THREAD, "Why on Earth Are Democrats Legitimizing and Empowering Rush Limbaugh?" Yeah, by focusing on Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats are making...

The HUffies are worried that the Cabbage Patch Doll known as Rod Blagojevich might drag their Obamassiah down as you can see in this HUffington POst THREAD titled, "Blagojevich Scandal: Governor's Lawyer Wants Obama Staff Subpoenaed." However, unfortunately for Team Obama, the Cabbage Patch Doll is NOT going gently into the night. He absolutely intends to drag his fellow Chicago Machine Democrats, including the Obamassiah and Rahmbo, down with him. And the best thing of all is that the Cabbage Patch Doll has plenty of audiotape evidence care of federal wiretaps, to make his case that the rest of...

This STORY is HUGE over at the HUffington POst. How huge? At least 29 pages of comments worth, many of which I shall be DUFUing. Apparently Hillary Clinton suckered Barack Obama into "offering" her the post of Secretary of State. What she did is take Obama's rather vague suggestion that Hillary could help out in a number of areas, including in foreign relations and turned that into a solid "offer" to become Secretary of State. The details follow in the story below so let us follow the HUffies ranting on it in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your...

The Dems are getting nervous. The polls are tightening, knuckles are whitening, and the prospects are frightening! Witness this HUffPo THREAD by Sherman Yellen, "My Coming November Crackup." In spite of some polls giving Obama a sizeable lead, this old HUffie fears Rovian Republican chicanery come Election Day. Hee! Hee! So before we get to his thread, let's reinforce Sherman's fears with a song. Click and sing along! CRY (If you see polls)By Johnnie Ray-of-Sunshine Tune: "Cry" (If your sweetheart) Original If you see polls that turn out to be too high It's just Diebold, you'll feel better if...

So just how upset is the leftwing blogosphere over Barack Obama's switch on his "rock solid" opposition to offshore oil drilling? Try over 4700 angry post (as of this writing) at the HUffington POst THREAD, "Obama Shifts, Says He May Back Offshore Drilling," announcing this latest 180 by the Obamassiah. Perhaps the left was reconciled that the switch on FISA by Obama would be his last major switch but this change on position on offshore oil drilling is just too much for them. Likewise the DUmmies and KOmmies are beyond upset with Obama on this switch as well as...

Lee Stranahan has posted what is currently the most popular story at the HUffington POst questioning why liberals have been avoiding the John Edwards scandal story. Although a liberal himself, Stranahan has gone off the leftwing reservation to post this THREAD titled, "Say It Ain't So, John -- Why Progressives Need To Get Out In Front Of The John Edwards Affair Rumors." Stranahan has made a long but very fascinating post on this topic. I'll post only an excerpt of it but I recommend that everybody read the entire post. What is interesting is the HUffie reaction to Stranahan's...

The mainstream media might try like hell to avoid mentioning the OBVIOUS effect of Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos on prolonging the Democrat primary but the HUffington Post HUffies sure know who to blame. Come to think of it, both John Kerry and the Obama campaign have credited Operation Chaos with giving Hillary her slim win in Indiana. Of course, some people like Pied Piper Pitt think an extended and bloody Democrat primary is a BLESSING but that observation can be chalked up to both grandstanding and an excess of Bukowski's brew. The HUffies themselves are somewhat more rational than...

I was originally going to DUFU Erica Jong's HUffington POst BLOG titled, "Inspiration Versus Degradation," on Monday but now I'm glad I didn't. Much better to let Jong go out on the limb with her paean to Rev. Jeremiah Wright and then watch it being sawed off behind her as even Barack Obama disavowed his former pastor and mentor. This should serve as a reminder that Wright, who is now being disparaged by many in the left and the media for betraying their beloved Obama, was just a few days ago highly praised by these same folks. Their defense...

Whomever the Democratics nominate this time, it will be a first: It will NOT be a white male (unless you count Barry as half-white or Hillary as ha--uh, let's not go there). Identity Politics has driven the Democrat race. Guilt-wracked whites, wanting to appear enlightened, have supported the clean and articulate Magic Negro. They were joined finally by blacks, when Bill's dismissive South Carolina comments made them decide Barack was black enough. Meanwhile, old feminist teacher-union types have been supporting Hillary!. But Identity Politics will not be enough to win in November. In order to succeed, the Dem candidate...

Thanx in large part to Rush Limbaugh who urged his listeners to cross party lines to vote for Hillary in Texas, we now have the BEST of all outcomes in the Democrat nomination process: a long bloody fight to the bitter end this summer. Out the window is a dull, scripted, happy face Democrat convention this summer (and possibly beyond). Instead we will be treated to the spectacle of anger, hate, and above all extreme bitterness as reflected in this HUffington POst THREAD accurately titled, "The Race Goes On -- And Gets Uglier." Among the great entertainment to be...

The big news made last night at the State of the Union address wasn't what was said by President Bush at the podium. No, as you can see in the news story below, the big news was made in the audience when Barack Obama snubbed Hillary Clinton when he turned his back on her as she shook Ted Kennedy's hand next to him. Of course, the snub is quite mutual since Hillary has also been avoiding personal contact with Obama like he had the plague. This is yet more evidence of their mutual detestation which is going to make...

Joe Lieberman was never a favorite of the Looney Left: Barking Moonbat Division. Little Joe was a little too "centrist," a little too "traditional values-ish," a little too . . . well, let's say it . . . a little too JOOOOO-ISH for them. Even though Lieberman voted pretty much down the Democrat line in the Senate, even though he ran with Algore in the 2000 Selection, and even though partisan politics is SUPPOSED to stop at our nation's shores--in spite of all that, because Senator Lieberman DARED to stand with President Bush (hiss! boo!) in matters of national...

I chose this HUffington Post THREAD to DUFU today for two reasons. First of all the title, "Derek Shearer's Lips Meet Hillary's Bottom," absolutely cracks me up. I mean the authors, Jerry and Joe Long aren't a couple of anonymous posters. They are official bloggers at the HUffington Post which makes it even FUnnier. The other reason why I am DUFUing this thread is that I want everybody to get up to speed on the fraud known as Derek Shearer. As pointed out in a terrific NewsBusters STORY yesterday, far from being a mainstream establishment type that Shearer makes...

I KNEW this was going to happen and it is going to be FUn to watch. She Who Is Not To Be Denied the Presidency is now getting desperate due to the fact that Barack Obama has surged past her in the polls. As a result, the Hillary War Room is going into overdrive in an attempt to smear Obama. They haven't pulled out the big guns quite yet but the dirt they did hurl was quite amusing. This dirt came in the form of the fact that young Barack (or Barry as he was known then) was overheard...

The Mighty Goracle has materialized briefly in the White House after many years in exile. What thoughts went through the mind of the Mighty Goracle? If I had only spent an extra day in Florida? If I hadn't taken my home state of Tennessee for granted? If I tried just a little harder in New Hampshire? If Hillary hadn't sucked up so much showbiz money that would have gone to my campaign? If Holy Joe had broken his ancient vows and actually campaigned on Saturdays? If...if...IF!!!! Such might have been the maddening thought that must have gone through Al...

It's not often that I agree with a HUffinton Post blogger (although it has happened a few times in the case of John Ridley) but I find myself almost completely in accord with this Craig Stoltz BLOG titled, "NY Times to Readers: Drop Dead." One of the great things about the Web is that it allows us to see the Inner Loon in most liberals. Before the web, we got a sanitized version of concerned "progressive" liberals carefully filtered for our public view by the MSM. However, the Web has allowed us to see the liberals for what they...

Adding injury to the embarrassment the Democrats suffered over Dennis Kucinich's resolution to impeach Dick Cheney as chronicled here in yesterday's EDITION of the DUmmie FUnnies, comes now the Moonbat screechings of a HUffington Post blogger on this topic. If you think that it is just the anonymous wack jobs posting on the HUffPo who are the biggest Moonbats, you would be wrong in the case of Bob Cesca who outdoes the NUttiness of those unknown ranters as you can see in his HuffPo BLOG titled, "The Impeachment Of Dick Cheney." So let us now watch Bob Cesca and...

Anybody else out there BUGGED by all the IDIOTS wearing Che Guevara T-Shirts? Some of the morons are too clueless to even know who Che Guevara was but I suspect the vast majority are admirers of Che precisely because he was a hard core communist thug. Yeah, we live in an era where the likes of Barack Obama and Katie Couric consider the wearing of an American flag lapel pin to be offensive while they defend their right to wear Che Guevara T-Shirts. Folks like Robert Redford who made a movie about Che portraying him as a wonderful warmhearted...

Barack Obama has proudly proclaimed that he will meet with any dictator in the world, no matter how tyranical they are. Yet this same Obama REFUSES to appear on FOX News. Does anybody else see the irony in this? Obama is following in the footsteps of John Edwards who was the first of the Democrat presidential aspirants to publicly announce his refusal to appear on any debate sponsored by FOX News. Both Edwards and Obama are publicly pandering to the attempt by the Left to boycott FOX news by insisting that no Democrat ever appear on FOX in order...

I'm growing sort of fond of the Potted Plant, aka Mike Gravel. Perhaps it is because, despite disagreeing with him on almost everything political, I find his bizarre eccentricity refreshing in this era of manufactured candidates. And should you doubt that Gravel is eccentric, then I invite you to take a look at his campaign VIDEO where he stares wordlessly into the camera for several minutes followed by him tossing a large rock into the water and then just walking silently off into the distance. Gravel subsequently informed us that the "metaphors" in his video were obvious. Me, I'm...

It looks like the Breck Girl who amazingingly has declared that there is NO global war on terror has now stooped so low that he wants to politicize Memorial Day. Edwards has linked up with the Code Pink mindset and has now CALLED for demonstrations against the Iraq war on Memorial Day weekend. Even liberal Joe Conason has SLAMMED the Breck Girl for his blatant politicization of Memorial Day Weekend: "... it is neither kind nor smart to wave protest signs on Memorial Day." You can read Edwards' blatant self-promotion of his campaign by politicizing the Memorial Weekend in...

What can be more pathetic than someone in public life being rebuked by BOTH the Right and the Left? When it was announced that former CIA Director, George Tenet, would be speaking out against the Bush Administration, I figured he would be immediately embraced by the Leftwing types who always hail those who attack the EVIL Bush Regime. However, I completely underestimated how pathetic and whining Tenet would be. On top of that he has ZERO credibility in whatever he says. An example was Tenet's account of a supposed conversation he had with Richard Perle on the day after...

Okay, lets give Karl Rove an "A" for Effort and an "F" for execution in his role as "MC Rove" rapping at the recent Radio and Television Correspondents dinner in Washington, D.C.. As a result, his performance is absolutely (if unintentionally) HILARIOUS. I just can't get enough of watching Rove trying to be the ultra cool MC Rove. However, much as it cracks me up and others, the Left is almost predictably ENRANGED by Rove's "MC Rove" performance as you can see in the HUffington Post THREAD titled, "'MC Rove' Raps At DC Dinner." So let us now watch the...

This marks a DUmmie FUnnies first. I am actually agreeing with the basic premise of a leftwing loon. And make no mistake about it, Bob Cesca of the HUffington Post is a flatout loon. He was even mentioned in the DUmmie FUnnies a few months ago over his wacky conspiratorial theories about how the Republicans were going trying to steal the elections. Well, Bob, if the Republicans were going to steal the elections, they sure did a miserable job of it. However, I now have to agree with the loony Cesca in his assessment of the new Fox News...

Lost in all the hoopla about John Edwards refusing to bow to "rightwing" pressure by keeping his NUttie leftwing bloggers is the fact that Edwards actually did bow to pressure by FIRING them only to be forced to rehire them due to leftwing pressure from the nutroots. At least that is the report according to this Salon.Com ARTICLE which states: "After personal phone calls to the bloggers from the candidate, the Edwards campaign has rehired the bloggers who were fired yesterday, according to sources inside and close to the campaign." If this Salon article is correct, this shows just...

This HUffington Post headline, Catcalls Drowned Out Hillary Fans At DNC Meeting, is yet another example of how unpopular Hillary Clinton is with the Leftwingers who make up the core of today's Democrat party. Unfortunately for them, all their objections to Hillary won't mean a thing when it comes to primary time because Hillary has a bankroll of several hundred million dollars to buy the nomination. The fact that the primaries next year are frontloaded early in the season only works to her advantage. Besides money, Hillary also has a War Room which is sure to dig up some...

So Hillary finally made her long expected announcement about running for president over the weekend and the response from the Left is less than enthusiastic. They might be yawning now over Hillary but about a year from now they will be going BERSERK when it finally dawns on the Left that Hillary's money, smear machine, and backroom deals will make her the leading contender for the nomination. Already, we are seeing Barack Obama getting the smear routine. Of course, many are blaming the EVIL Republicans for "swift boating" Obama but the TRUE source of the attacks are from the...

What do you call it when a woman features two days in a row a photo in her blog of a barechested man in a bathing suit emerging from the water? I call it obsessed. And Arianna Huffington is absolutely obsessed with that photo of Barack Obama emerging from the water at the beach. Since Arianna featured two stories in two days this week at the HUffington Post about that story, we can now claim that Arianna is definitely stalking Obama. Mrs. Obama better watch out since Arianna has a record of going after prominent men as she is...

Speculation among the Left about Al Gore running in 2008 has been common almost from the moment that Kerry lost in 2004. However, I have ignored such speculation for the most part...until now. Why? Because SOON Al Gore is going to have to make his move one way or the other. And it now looks like Gore will be choosing to run. One big indicator of this is this Washington Post article titled, Gore Leaves Door Ajar for 2008. This article grabbed my attention for two reasons. The first reason is the article stated that when Gore was asked...

Take a good look at the photo above, guys. Okay, when you are finally done drooling uncontrollably, try to guess which one was Miss America 2001, Angela Perez Baraquio from Hawaii. It's impossible to pick out who was Miss America because all seven of the Baraquio sisters are STUNNING. Yes, you read that right. I wrote "sisters." Amazingly, those Baraquio sisters are all so hot looking that ANY one of them could have been crowned as Miss America. For this reason I am not going to pick out which of those stunnees was the actual Miss America. Does it...

Obama Orgasma is sweeping the Democrats! It is an uncritical love that conveniently overlooks the fact that Senator Barack Obama has almost no experience. However that doesn't matter. Obama love continues unabated and is heated up by the fact that the senator seems expert as pouring out feel-good platitudes that are almost meaningless when you analyze them. For this reason, Barack Obama has now become the Warren G. Harding of the Democrat party. Of course, when you look beyond the feel-good platitudes, one will notice that Obama has an almost perfect LIBERAL voting record. On top of that, he...

This past month has seen the political destruction of the Kerry/Edwards team of 2004. First John Kerry told a stupid Halloween "joke" about how if you don't get educated you end up "stuck" in Iraq. As a result of the uproar over this backfired joke, Kerry's chances of being nominated in 2008 now range somewhere between nil and none. And just this week, his VP pick, John Edwards, administered a lethal injection to his political career in a way astonishing in its utter hypocrisy. Just the day after Edwards gave a speech denouncing Wal-Mart to an group opposed to...

Imagine the utter embarrassment and humiliation of Jack Murtha. On November 15, speaking about his bid to become House Majority Leader, he boasted to Chris Matthews on Hardball that "We’re going to win. We got the votes." The very next day that blowhard LOST by a large margin to his rival, Steny Hoyer, in that race. All Murtha got was a spot standing behind Nancy Pelosi and Hoyer as the latter's win was announced. The sour look on Blowhard Murtha's face was priceless since his expression did not hide the fact that he was ENRAGED over his loss. So...

John Kerry is really REALLY angry as you can see in his HUffington Blog POST titled, "Will You Fight With Them?" Basically he blames the Swift Boat Vets For Truth for causing his 2004 defeat. Many folks, including Democrats, wondered why Kerry simply didn't counter their charges back in 2004. It could have been done very simply by sending in his Form 180 to the Defense Department to release his Navy records. He didn't do it at the time nor did he do it later when he promised Tim Russert that he would sign his Form 180. Yes, he...

In case you think the only ones with extreme BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) and uncontrollable hatred of Republicans are the anonymous moonbats posting on the Web, think again. I now present the case of Alec Baldwin whose full moon howlings match anything posted in DUmmieland or any of the other far left sites as you can see in his Huffingtonton Post BLOG titled, "The Embarrassed Republicans." Actually it is the Democrats who should be embarrassed to be represented by this foaming at the mouth celeb. However, I will give Baldwin credit for not even attempting to pretend to be...

Allow me to introduce to you a new word---"De-Foley-ating." De-Foley-ating, inspired by the Mark Foley page scandal, is what happens when the Democrats, worried that the scandal is waning, decided to coarsen the political discourse even more by outing gay Republicans. This dirty politics technique of of outing Republicans is what can be call de-Foley-ating. Of course, if the Repbublicans had attempted such a dirty trick, there would be a tidal wave of OUTRAGE in the media but since it is the Democracrats performing the de-Foley-ation, only the chirping of crickets can be heard from the MSM. One of...

The racial slur charges against Virginia Senator George Allen have gotten so riduculous that they have reached the point of high comedy and will probably now HELP him. It turns out that the Democrats have overplayed their hand. Not content to let the obscure M-Word charge (who knew before that "Macaca" is a slur?), the MULTIPLE allegations of George Allen using the N-word have suddenly come tumbling out of the closet with such a roar you would almost think that every other word that Allen said during the 1970s was the N-word. Of course, even though Allen has been...

Do you want to know the name of the person most responsible for Bush's victory in the last election? Surprise! It wasn't Karl Rove. The person who enabled the Bush victory is virtually unknown outside of South Florida---Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Show on WNN radio in Broward County. And I was present at the creation of the Bush victory. It happened early one summer morning in 2004 when I flicked on the radio at 6:00 AM to listen to the Steve Kane Show. The show's opening featured the voice of John Edwards saying, "If you have...

The good news for Randi Rhodes is that Air America recently agreed to her exhorbitant contract demands. The bad news for Randi Rhodes is that contract appears to be WORTHLESS since Air America will be filing for bankruptcy this Friday. This announcement about Air America's bankruptcy was made earlier today on the leftwing THINK PROGRESS site. So, despite the widespread media acclaim which greeted its birth a couple of years ago, Air America is now slinking away into the night burdened by lousy ratings and less revenue. Of course, the DUmmies are already mourning the passing of Air America...

The Left-Wing blogosphere is now in an UPROAR over the fact that part 1 of The Path To 9/11 aired last night. Although there were a couple of disclaimers in the movie that it was fictionalized as well as some minor editing changes (primarily the removal of the scene where Sandy Berger hangs up the phone on the team trying to capture Osama bin Laden) the main thrust of the movie is quite clear: the Clintonistas were not serious in their attempts to stop terrorism. As could be be expected, the loony left is OUTRAGED that this movie has...

Earlier this year, the Left was playing the impeachement drumbeat loud and clear. Then they suddenly got the memo that their calls for "chimpeachment" were counterproductive to the Democrat effort to win back the House and Senate. So for a few months hardly anything was heard again about impeaching Bush. However, now that the election is nearing, the Left simply can't contain themselves. Suddenly the word "impeachment" is sounding loud and clear in the Leftist Blogosphere again. And now adding his two cents to the impeachment drumbeat is Bill Maher as you can see in his Huffington Post BLOG...