You make good coffee . . . You’re a slob, but you make good coffee. ~ Cher, in Moonstruck

Blogs for Bush (Mark Noonan) A Very Instructive Story From Iraq

Future generations will marvel that the United States, under the courageous leadership of President Bush, managed to prevail against both desperate enemies abroad, and desperate fools at home.

Right Wing News (John Hawkins) The Surge Is Starting To Settle Down Baghdad.

The conditions in Baghdad are rapidly improving because of the surge. In fact, things have gotten so much better, so quickly, that the mainstream is actually writing stories saying that the lack of violence may actually be a troubling sign — which brings us to a Time magazine story called, “Quiet in Baghdad. Too Quiet:”

RFTR (RFTR) F’ed Up Fridays – XII A weekly roundup of stories that make you go ???

Don Surber Anti-war Left jumps the Lieberman

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. ~ Alphonse Allais

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Kerry Couldn’t Find Mainstream With Both Hands And A Flashlight — “In case Kerry doesn’t recognize it, and there’s no particular reason why he would considering his own legislative track record, that’s the mainstream in Connecticut. And unless the state has suddenly turned into Texas, Connecticut voters see little resemblance between Lieberman and Cheney. Maybe Kerry needs to reconsider his own relationship to the mainstream instead.”

Blue Crab Boulevard Court Jester — “John “Magic Hat” Kerry continues to show that he deserved to lose in the 2004 election. Today, he began excavating an even lower position for himself. The man who voted for the war in Iraq, then voted against funding the troops used his moral low ground to attack Joe Lieberman.”

Wizbang (Jay Tea) Jay and the giant imPeachment — “You know, I could almost go along with this impeachment silliness. The thought of the left devoting all that time and effort into removing Bush, then realizing that they’ve just handed the Oval Office to Dick Cheney, warms the cockles of my heart.”

Danny Carlton — Alias “Jack Lewis” My (lay) analysis of the NSA ruling — “She takes seriously the plaintiffs obsessive worries that the government is listening to their calls. What about my “well founded belief” that idiot judges are delivering us to violent terrorists like a well wrapped Christmas gift?”

Ankle Biting Pundits (Bull Dog Pundit) Hey Kofi-Shut Up About Israeli Raid Until UN Does Its Job — “If we pointed out every stupid thing Kofi Annan ever said, we’d have time to write about nothing else. But when he makes such galling statements, it deserves mention.”

Well, let’s have some coffee and then take a swim. ~ Johnny Weissmuller

Blue Crab Boulevard Kos And Effect — “So, after much uproar, after all the storm and fury after all the money, time and talent spent the Kos Kids have their very first scalp.

And the scalp belonged to a Democrat.”

GOP Bloggers (Mark Noonan) The Divided Democrats — “In order to win, Democrats will have to come up with a unified message – the vote in Connecticut today indicates that this is an impossible task. The Democrats disagree on the future of their Party, and with the left of the Party taking ever more extreme positions, no agreement on such a future is possible.”

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Lieberman Vows To Run In November — “An outright Lieberman victory or a real butt-kicking by Lamont would have settled Connecticut, allowing the party and the media to focus on other, more important races. No one seriously thinks that Alan Schlesinger will win Lieberman’s seat for the GOP in November, after all, and Democratic energy will get wasted in a three-way race. Yet that’s exactly what Democrats face, and the media will be only too happy to follow this race and the split it will generate in the ranks of party leadership and big-money donors.”

The Jawa Report (Dr. Rusty Shackleford) Reuters Apologizes, But Still In Denial [From his first Town Hall column] — “Without the two forgeries it would be tempting to characterize the reporters at these staged events as victims of Hezbollah censorship. With the forgeries, it is now clear that many of these reporters are participants in a Hezbollah propaganda campaign against Israel.”

My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (Beth) “Fauxtography” — “Don’t forget, it is not just about photoshopping, but CONTEXT. Staging and false captions/stories are crucial. There’s far more contextual issues at play then there are instances of photoshopped photos, and most photoshoppers won’t be as clumsy as Adnan Hajj was.”

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

TMH’s Bacon Bits (DL) Competition: A Deadly Thing? — “Make no mistake: with liberals, true competition is evil, not the efficient teacher that it is. This clearly explains why liberals don’t trust the marketplace and try to control it and punish those who are most successful.”

Blogs for Bush (Mark Noonan) President Bush’s Successful Deficit Reduction — “Uh, liberals, the tax cuts work – its really quite simple, and we on the right really don’t understand why you don’t get this: When you leave more money in the private economy, it gets used more efficiently and thus increases the size of the economy, thus allowing higher tax revenues even at a lower tax rate. This isn’t rocket science – and this has worked every time it has been tried.”

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Truman The Unilateralist — “The truth of American foreign policy under George Bush is not that is unilateral, but rather that it no longer relies on unanimity of international opinion before taking action in defense of the US. Like Truman, Bush has tried to build that consensus where possible, but when unanimity cannot be achieved, he acts in the interest of American security and builds alliances outside of the UN as broadly as possible.”

Iowa Voice (Brian) Eric Fettmann Realizes What We’ve Known All Along — “Eric Fettman at the New York Post has an article up today asking if the nutroots….er, NETroots (led by the likes of Kos) will unseat Lieberman. He eventually comes to the same conclusion that we conservative bloggers have known for a long time: that the only thing driving the liberal wing of the blogosphere is pure hatred for George W. Bush and Republicans in general:”

California Yankee Flag Day 2006 [Great Pics, and the President's official Flag Day proclamation. Jim]