CA Elects Governor Groper, Life Goes On

Well, the Gropenator is now Governor of California. Ugh.

Still, this doesn't mean that Bush can take California. It does mean that, barring a successful Total Recall of the Running Man that Terminates his Predatory candidacy, Californian progressives will have to spend more time ensuring that California remains true blue and less time working to help other states burn the Bush.

And the previous sentence uses up my entire allotment of punning Schwarzenegger references, so you can read on in safety. ;^)

Meanwhile, the rest of the world moves on. Alas, there's not much good news:

The Iraqi Governing Council has failed to reach agreement with the US-led coalition that controls the country over Turkey's decision to send troops to Iraq.

Opposition to the Turkish deployment threatens to bring about the most serious public split so far between the governing council and the American authorities, correspondents say.

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Although it is in charge, the coalition wants to be seen as sympathetic to Iraqi views.

The council knows its credibility will be badly damaged if it expressed strong opposition to Turkish troops and they were deployed anyway.

That's right, the Colonial Provincial Authority (sic) can't even keep its own puppet council on message. I suppose that's what you get for clinging to ignorance in the face of the facts.

And oh yeah, we're still losing people in Iraq:

In the first attack on Monday night, two soldiers and their Iraqi translator died and several were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded south of Baghdad, a statement from US Central Command said.

An hour earlier, one US soldier was killed and another wounded in a separate bomb attack west of the Iraqi capital.

But it's all Saddam loyalists. Really.

At least the Bush administration is finally admitting the truth, even if its defensive pundits can't -- it's an occupation, and it's going badly.

No one expected Iraq's post-war reconstruction to be easy or even straightforward.

However, the US administration's problems in Iraq have continued to mount in the five months since President George W Bush declared an end to the war.

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The creation of an Iraq Stabilisation Group, run by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, is designed to ensure better White House co-ordination.

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White House officials deny that the authority of the Pentagon is being diminished, but some observers see Ms Rice's new powers as an implicit acknowledgement that US policy in Iraq has not been working.

Well, Bush said that he doesn't read the news, but who'd imagine that he would have lumped the right wing of the blogosphere in with such liberal bastions as Fox News and the Wall Street Journal?

Let's just hope that Condi can remember some of the minor details, like not to use the word "crusade," and that there is in fact nuclear material in Iraq -- that used to be under IAEA seal. Talk about your "dirty bomb" security risks. Klono's Tungsten Teeth, woman, buy a PDA. Or at least some post-em notes.

You know, all things considered, the Governator doesn't look so bad, comparatively speaking. At least California hasn't been occupied by Rumsfeld's Rough Riders.

Yet.

(/) Roland X
I could actually gloat about bad news for NuCons, if it were good news for anyone else...