A LHC Exclusive!!!!!

Many who saw this live on CSPAN or saw it later on Olbermann felt the same disquieting feeling in their stomachs. There lurking in the woods, for no apparent reason, was Cheney. Was he working the remote? Practicing to be an extra in the Sopranos, for the stalker sub-plot? Did he have a senior moment and just randomly walk out onto the lawn? Did he remember to wear pants?

No friends their was a darker more sinister motive at hand. We here at Left Handed Compliment are now able to reveal that dark purpose.

When we zoomed in on the picture and hovered over where Cheney was hiding, amongst the shrubbery, here is what we found!

Disturbing? Yes. Somehow we should have known all along.

Wrong Hole George, Please Let This Be A Joke

When I first read this article I thought, well actually hoped it was some sort of belated April Fool's gag. Maybe this was a piece from the Onion that the Detroit News accidentally picked up. I still don't know and I still hold out hope that the POTUS isn't this big of an idiot. That being said I still tremble at the stories that came out of Shrub's trip to the Catepillar plant.

With George's rather colorful past, one wonders how he didn't learn that you don't just shove it into any hole that is available. We may now have an explanation for that uncomfortable smile Laura wears.

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Plug it in, fire it up, Mr. President
The Detroit News
Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation.

Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford's hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week. Ford wanted to give the Commander-in-Chief an actual demonstration of the innovative vehicle, so the automaker arranged for an electrical outlet to be installed on the South Lawn and ran a charging cord to the hybrid. However, as Mulally followed Bush out to the car, he noticed someone had left the cord lying at the rear of the vehicle, near the fuel tank.

"I just thought, 'Oh my goodness!' So, I started walking faster, and the President walked faster and he got to the cord before I did. I violated all the protocols. I touched the President. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front," Mulally said. "I wanted the president to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen This is all off the record, right?"

Why is This Important?

The answer is: Its NOT! NOT! NOT!

Romney defends lack of hunting license
By Glen Johnson, Associated Press Writer | April 7, 2007

BOSTON --Officials in the four states where Mitt Romney has lived say the Republican presidential contender, who calls himself a lifelong hunter, never took out a license.

Romney says that's because he has seldom hunted where he needed one.

Questions about his hunting activities trailed Romney this week after he remarked at a campaign stop that he has been a hunter nearly all his life. The next day, his campaign said Romney had been hunting only twice, once as a teenager in Idaho and again last year with GOP donors in Georgia.

Mitt, outside of his name, has bigger problems than this. His flip-flopping, defenders would say evolving, positions on social issues far out way whether it is Wabbit Season or Duck Season.

This non-issue is just more fuel for the Wicker Man type bonfire that the 2008 Republican presidential campaign is collapsing into. They have reached the through any shit you can find, see if it sticks, because "Big Love" has almost out raised "Il Duce" and "St. John" by double.

Next scandal Huckabee wears white past Labor Day.

Did He Actually Say This?

Usually Biden's presidential runs or exploratory committees last a few months and then crawl back to the credit card lined walls of their cage. He may have just set a new record for dumbest thing said AND shortest campaign in U.S. history:

Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

But—and the “but” was clearly inevitable—he doubts whether American voters are going to elect “a one-term, a guy who has served for four years in the Senate,” and added: “I don’t recall hearing a word from Barack about a plan or a tactic.”

So dum, it doesn't deserve the dignity of a "b" at the end of the word.

TPM Cafe provides further commentary on this NY Observer article

In Memorium

Generally regarded as honest, a good father, and congressman. I will put aside the two major gaffes of his presidency aside, for a few days, and just let him rest in peace.

Gerald Rudolph Ford
(July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006)
38th President (1974–1977) and 40th Vice President (1973–1974)