MARY LANDRIEU GOES AFTER THE "BONEHEADED LEADERSHIP" OF BUSH, BOEHNER AND ENSIGN

Most of the time when I have something to say about Louisiana's senior senator, Mary Landrieu, it's about what a dismal voting record she has, about how she's supporting this Republican agenda item or that one or voting to confirm another absolutely hideous Bush appointment or showing us why she's one of the worst non-Republican corporate whores in Washington. But not every single time. Every now and then, Mary Landrieu redeems herself a little. Today was one of those days.

I don't know if she's been listening to "Have You Had Enough?" on Stacey Tallitisch's website or if she's just a big Crooks and Liars fan, but today, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Mary Landrieu made it abundantly clear that she, like most Americans, have indeed had enough. After listening to the partisan echoes of John Boehner's vicious, slanderous attacks against the patriotism of Democrats from Nevada's pathetic Bush rubber stamp hack, John Ensign, Landrieu asked for the floor.

"In light of the rantings that went on for 30 minutes by two colleagues from the other side, I'd like to state for the record that America is not tired of fighting terrorism; America is tired of the wrongheaded and boneheaded leadership of the Republican party that has sent six and a half billion a month to Iraq while the front line was Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. That led this country to attack Saddam Hussein, when we were attacked by Osama bin Laden. Who captured a man who did not attack the country and let loose a man that did. Americans are tired of boneheaded Republican leadership that alienates our allies when we need them the most. Americans are most certainly tired of leadership that despite documenting mistake after mistake after mistake, even of their own party admitting mistakes, never admit they do anything wrong. That's the kind of leadership Americans are tired of... I'm not going to sit here as a Democrat and let the Republican leadership come to the floor and talk about Democrats not making us safe. They're the ones in charge and Osama bin Laden is still at loose."

Being a gentlewoman, Landrieu didn't point out that Bush is a lying sack of shit and an incompetent imbecile unfit for any office, let alone the presidency, and that he isn't even trying to capture bin-Laden. But no one ever accused right wing journalist Fred Barnes of being too gentlemanly for anything. The Weekly Standard editor was on GOP propaganda TV today explaining how Bush told him catching bin-Laden is "low priority."