I'm amused by this article I found linked at the Huffington Post from the Washington Post called Bush's Base Betrayal where in direct market mail guru Richard Viguerie complains about corrupt Republicans who aren't real conservatives. There are indeed some complaints that the right has that are the same as ours: incompetent handling of Katrina disaster, the Dubai ports deal, the bowing to corporate masters, the legal and illegal bribery (Bush buying congress's support by never vetoing a spending bill; aka the Bridge to Nowhere) as well as the illegal bribes (Randy "Duke" Cunningham).

Yesterday Kos front paged a piece called Progress in Iraq which included a link to a WaPo article of a horrific battle last Sunday/Monday near the Syrian border between Marines and insurgents:

So I was very sad to see another WaPo article about the same unit called Demise of a Hard-fighting squad. The same squad that suffered dead and wounded in the previous engagement yesterday drove their Amtrac over an IED:

I had posted this in the Florida front page story, but I think it's important enough to warrant a diary.

Last week I posted in an open thread about an attempt to sue my county clerk to demand her to require newly registered voters to show id at the polls.

The case was dismissed due to the fact that the New Mexico Supreme Court will be hearing a similar case today (never mind that the Repugs already knew this when the filed the case, but they hadn't expected local opposition).