• Mary Cheney must be mainlining the Kool Aid through an IV drip. This week, the whining GOP lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on the David Letterman show and opined, "Twenty-five million — 25 million people are free today who were not free three years ago in Iraq." Yes, little Mary sunshine, 25 million Iraqis are free, except for gay Iraqis, who are being rounded up and murdered on a daily basis by the Iraq police. It's a good thing this stupid woman is the heir to a multi-million dollar fortune otherwise she would be working the night shift at Wal Mart sweeping the floors.
• Al Gore: the Democratic sleeper in 2008? Conventional political wisdom says the current Democratic frontrunner for president is Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). Despite the fact that much of her base is furious at Clinton over her on-going support of the Iraq war and her refusal to back gay marriage equity. But in recent months, former Vice President Al Gore has resurfaced and he's looking and sounding very attractive to Democratics who are desperate for a viable candidate to support in 2008. Is Gore going to pull a Richard Nixon? Remember, Nixon served as VP, later ran for president and was defeated by John F. Kennedy. He then came back to successfully run for president. The rest, as they say, is history.
• Chris Matthews' Hardball program on Friday had a trio of talkingheads: Tucker Carlson, Nora O'Donnell and Ron Reagan. When Ron Reagan remarked how Bush's base needs to hear more about the GOP's stand against such issues as gay marriage, I was more than a little troubled to see Ms. O'Donnell struggling to hold back gaffaws of laughter. Too bad Matthews didn't ask her what she found so funny about the Republicans scapegoating gay and lesbian Americans.
• Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) assuaged the fears of Republicans this week, stating Democrats wouldn't seek to impeach President Bush if Democrats regain control of the U.S. House in November. Pelosi is either the smartest strategist since General Patton, or an idiot of epic proportions. After all, impeaching Bush is the prize at the bottom of the box of Crackerjacks for most of us on the left.
• Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), fresh off his embarrassing suck-up stop at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, received a less than friendly reception Friday at the New School's commencement in Manhattan. Dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs. One student speaker mocked McCain as he sat silently on stage, looking ancient and irrelevant.