So, in this analogy, that'd make Carville... St. Peter?
-Headline of the day-
"Carville: Richardson 'properly branded' as Judas."
As I reported yesterday, James Carville compared Bill Richardson to Judas for backing Obama. No word yet on whether this will result in the crucifixion of Hillary Clinton.
But Carville seems to believe that the nailing of the nice lady to a chunk of timber is imminent and isn't backing down. "I don't regret it," Carville told CNN. "I was quoted accurately. ... I think when people look at him they'll remember the quote, and that's what it was intended to do. ... I wanted his act to be remembered for what it was."
You stay classy, Jimmy. (Raw Story)
-Oops!-
The good news is that Taiwan got the shipment from the Pentagon right on time. A-OK. The bad news is... well...
Funny thing. You're gonna laugh.
The shipment was supposed to be helicopter batteries. Turns out they weren't. They were fuses that "fit in the nose cone of a Minuteman missile and are used to ignite the trigger of a Mark-12 nuclear weapon," according to a Pentagon official.
This may seem like a pretty banal screw up -- I mean, Taiwan's the good guys. But they're also part of China, who've been a little freaked out by the democratic impulse in Taiwan. Relations are -- shall we say -- "strained."
China was notified of the mixup and the parts have been returned, but what if the Chinese had found out about it before we had? What if China thought we were sending nuke parts to Taiwan? That'd be what you call your basic international incident.
The Pentagon, folks; putting the AFU into SNAFU. (AFP)
-Bonus HotD-
"Cheney: staying in Iraq is like pardoning Nixon."
Yeah, they're both fucking brainless decisions.
Of course, I doubt Dick meant it that way. (Think Progress)
