This shows me exactly what should happen to GOP hacks when they try to crash my democracy. But a story about the sentencing for a GOP consultant who pleaded guilty to jamming phone lines at the Dem HQ to slow the GOTV program in 2002 is about more than one state and one election.

"James Tobin, 44, regional chairman of Bush's campaign last year, was indicted in December and pleaded innocent. Tobin, of Bangor, Maine, had stepped down from Bush's New England campaign in October after the allegations against him became public. In 2002, he was northeast political director of the party committee working to elect Republican senators."

What I can't understand is why I never saw word one about a regional chair stepping down for these reasons?

Audacity, Marquette College Republicans is thy name.

The College Republicans decided to have a fundraiser for a group of police and sharpshooters here in the U.S. who raises money and sends equipment to U.S. military snipers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Suffice it to say that I found it tragically ironic to read the following from the College GOPsters at Marquette:

"What really touched us and was one of the big deciding factors on choosing them was the fact that they give (the snipers) the very body armor that enables them to stay safe."

Listen kids, wouldn't it be more appropriate for Marquette students to save a few bucks and reduce their massive debt and for your President to give the snipers the body armor they need in his budget?

Well, it seems others are having more fun than I did with Margaret Spellings.

Susan Ohanian, winner of the 2003 NCTE Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, has posted a satire piece by Michael Berube on the torid Bunnylovegate.

Here's a tease of the satire...

Washington, January 31- Following on her protest last week against a PBS cartoon character's visit to Vermont, where he encounters a lesbian couple, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced at a press conference today that her department was not engaged in a "trivial" or "merely symbolic" campaign against a children's television program.

"Buster Bunny is not the problem," said Spellings. "Though I note with some dismay that Buster travels the country accompanied only by his father because his parents are divorced, and I do not see why our children should be subjected to yet another glamorization of the divorce lifestyle. No, the problem is Vermont itself. It is Vermont to which I object. Christians everywhere should be outraged that it was represented in this children's program."

I am shocked and amazed daily. This one kind of makes me sad. I grew up on PBS. I don't remember the family structure of the characters. I remember fun with Oscar and Big Bird and no one being able to see Snuffy. I counted with the count and spelled out words with the large man and the marquee.

Now the AP wire (full story in extended entry) is telling me that the very first thing Margaret Spellings did as Secretary of the Dept. of Education was send a letter to PBS telling them that use of taxpayer dollars to talk about people in Vermont and Maple Syrup by including in any way, shape, or form a gay person, is anti-American. The witch (and I really do mean that) had the audacity to ask for some grant money back so the US DOE wouldn't be linked to funding the Gay Agenda.

I wonder if her second act as Secretary was to ask Armstrong W. for his money back?