Wow. David Sirota too. That's Kos, Atrios, McJoan and Sirota today taking up arms. Feel my power...

All your Moose are belong to us.

Grrr. I do all the work and Kos gets all the press... life is so unfair...

We are very different, you and I.

You thirst for war; I thirst for peace.

You thirst for self-gratification; I thirst to see greed eliminated.

You thirst for revenge; I thirst for forgiveness.

You cherish your hate; I cherish my love.

You thirst for power; I thirst for justice.

You thirst to control others; I thirst to see them shed their chains.

You would mortgage our children's future; I would preserve it forever.

You want the downtrodden eliminated; I want them elevated.

You are a Republican; I am a Democrat.

We are very different, you and I.

Welcome to the party, Kos and other newbies. The Sundog's been leading the pack chewing The Moose's ankle for some time now. Once again we're ahead of the curve!

The Moose, or as his alternate title shall be here, Rent-A-Demagogue, has fouled our big tent long enough. Out with him.

Moose and other Lieberman people express outrage at excesses of Internet commenters. Can anyone here say newbie? Hello, Lieberman-world, it's rough out here. It is utterly unfair and naive to paint the entire left with the color of the unhinged set. If we want to compare rhetoric, compare the output of the official campaigns; think "bear cub", "phony Lamont sticker", polemics from highly-placed Democratic advisors like Wittmann, etc. compared to output from the Lamont campaign and the rough, but hardly unhinged, commentary from bloggers like Kos. (I include Kos for the sake of argument because he did an ad for Lamont, and Moose because of his DLC position.) There's just no question who the unhinged people are here.

Here's what Marshall Wittmann and the other Lieberman people don't get: Perhaps you have a point, Marhall. Perhaps Lieberman is being miscast. Perhaps, even, everything you say about Lieberman is absolutely factually correct and the lefties really are wrong to try to oust him. Perhaps it really WOULD send the wrong message about Democratic inclusiveness. (I am not alleging this or anything like it; just trying to make a point.) But you fatally hobble your arguments with your inconcealable, ravening, all-consuming hatred for anyone who disagrees with you. You show it in the great care you take picking your latest hate-words for the far left in each daily screed. One can viscerally feel your all-consuming rage at your fellow Democrats in every polemic you excrete. Why is it you never, never, never show anything like this level of rage with the far more dangerous loonies on the right? Don't you think we know why?

I cannot get past that. I'm a simple soul. I don't care what your argument is: convince me you're a Bad Person and I have no use for you, and begin to think you're simply defending someone else like yourself. Unlike your feelings towards the left, I have no hate at all for you; only disgust at your despicable, Rovian tactics.

Go home to your buddies on the right, Moose, your cover is blown.

I'm not going to post on the Lebanon situation but this one time: the one-sided outlook, bitter irony and downright insanity in this piece makes me very sad for the state of the world. One man's retaliation against terrorism so quickly becomes another man's terrorism.

OK, bloggers-far-more-important-than-me. Listen up.

This is why you've got to be careful about throwing allegations around! I knew yesterday that someone a lot more Lieberman-oriented than I would pick up on the unfairness of this tactic and use it to color any and all Lamont supporters. True to form, the Moose is on the rampage.

Our unshakable commitment as lefty bloggers has GOT to be to the truth, unvarnished and unspun. People on the left and center are so sick of spin that they will no longer settle for anything less.

The Moose is a slow-witted animal, utterly unable to see his own reflection. Thus he finds nothing contradictory about attacking bloggers for being overzealous on this one point when the official Lieberman camp has virtually drowned us in negativity. Incredibly, the Moose is absolutely, totally blind to the tactic when used by Lieberman's side, but let his archenemy Kos call attention to something he probably shouldn't have and THAT'S being "swiftboaters" or any other inappropriate ad hominem Moosie cares to use.

This is, of course, all the more maddening because now he or the Lieberman camp have called the primary voters in Connecticut almost everything in the book. Today the people who are tired of Joe's duplicity are "swiftboaters". What next?

Yes, it's stupid; yes, it's inappropriate; yes, it's raving drivel. But the right - and let's face it, Moosie is either still on the right or is addicted to their debating style - loves that stuff, eats it up. So we must do everything possible not to give the appearance of being overzealous. If the facts are truly on Lamont's side, he will need nothing else to win but to effectively present them.

I'm a little worried about the negative influence bloggers can have on a campaign. It isn't all a good thing when your PR isn't entirely in your own hands.

I wish it was hyperbole. It's not.

That's what Kos had to say about Lieberman considering running as a Republican. Turns out, hyperbole is exactly what it was.

Let's get real here, people. Some Republicans think it's a good idea to run Joe, someone demands that Lieberman disavow the idea WITHOUT any sign that he knows anything about it, and until he does, he's in a state of "mulling" a run as a Republican?

Sorry, Greg Sargent. Sorry, Kos. That's called letting wishful thinking do your journalism for you. Let's try to remember how fair play and straight thinking work.

Lest anyone forget what that awful smell is on the Moose's feet, Atrios reminds us who he is this morning with a flashback from 1993:

Now the Christian Coalition has moved onto the national scene. Earlier this year, the group opened a three-person lobbying office in a redbrick town house a few blocks from the US Capitol. "We're doing the Lord's work in the devil's city," cracks Marshall Wittmann, the coalition's director of legislative affairs.

Who HASN'T this guy pimped for?

Small fact check for the Huffington Post, which links here blaring "Al Jazeera Poll: 33% Blame Iran and Syria for Current Crisis".

Only problem is, the poll simply doesn't say that. It says 33% blame ISRAEL. 19% blame Iran and Syria. They read the poll wrong.

HuffPo has a problem with their headline writer; he or she often produces headlines that read like the National Enquirer, and in this case, it's simply factually wrong. I'd tell them so, but after my rants on Deepak Chopra my comments are banned over there. But I hate leaving phony facts lying out there unchallenged.

MY points us to a study comparing private and public schools.

The study shows that on average public and private school kids score about the same on 4th grade math and 4th and 8th grade reading.

Interestingly, conservative christian school kids did worse at 8th grade math than public school kids.

Do you think that has any connection to conservatives maligning of evolution? If you can't follow probabilities, then you can't see evolution resulting in this apparently well-ordered world...