Montana?
Strategists running the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign probably aren’t going to tally Big Sky Country in the safe category, but this does show that people running with the (D) can win where “liberals” aren’t cool. The DNC should be taking notes.

Cool. South Knox Bubba has assembled a page with Rocky Top Brigade RSS feeds. Your central command center to monitor the ever-moving brigade.

President Bush on Saturday:

Christmastime reminds each of us that we have a duty to our fellow citizens, that we are called to love our neighbor just as we would like to be loved ourselves. By volunteering our time and talents where they are needed most, we help heal the sick, comfort those who suffer, and bring hope to those who despair, one heart and one soul at a time.

Initial Bush administration aid package for suffering tsunami victims: $15 million.
Amount spent each day in occupation of Iraq/Afghanistan: $140-$280 million.

Somehow I missed this morsel last weekend.
Rumsfeld speaking to the troops (emphasis added):

And I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples’ heads on television to intimidate, to frighten — indeed the word “terrorized” is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be.

This would make for a pretty good tin foil hat moment, but it’s unlikely terrorists would shot down a plane they had already hijacked. I think Rummy is just losing it.

A bad combination.