Ken Mehlman is Gay? DUH

Get a clue. Like we didn't know that Ken Mehlman is gay.

Turns out the GOP is FULL of closet gays....Ken is just one of them.

Most Americans could care less about the "gay" part. It's the smarmy hypocrisy that gets them. How dare these guys get out there and use anti-gay rhetoric to win votes....meanwhile being gay themselves. Talk about self-loathing!

So, Bill Maher (who we're not that crazy about, btw), outs KM on LK and CNN cuts it. Yoo Hoo - CNN! The GOP is out of power! You don't need to be so paranoid. Jeez!

Ken Mehlman takes (gay) porn money for the RNC

Who may be gay and takes porn producer money from porn distributors?

That would be Ken Mehlman. Is Ken gay? Some think so.

Did he put the "accepts money from porn producers" line into the Ford "bimbo sex" ad? Yes.

And does the RNC accept money from a GAY PORN distributor who's films include "Fire in the Hole", "Flesh and Boners", even a "Velvet Mafia" series? The correct answer is apparently - YES.

TMP:
It turns out that the Republican National Committee is a regular recipient of political contributions from Nicholas T. Boyias, the owner and CEO of Marina Pacific Distributors, one of the largest producers and distributors of gay porn in the United States. This recent article on Marina Pacific's new marketing campaign form XBiz, a porn industry trade sheet, notes that, in addition to producing its own material, the "company acts as a distribution house to hundreds of lines, mostly gay, 40 of which can be purchased only through MPD."

Fortress US in Baghdad

It's the OIL, Stupid.

What is Fortress US? The code name for the mega embassy structure apparently being built in Baghdad by First Kuwaiti (a Lebanese-run company) to give the US diplomats a bird's eye view of the billion dollar oil flow will eventlually go online. (Don't worry, GWB, Cheney, Rice, et al are very patient). Say what?

As we debate mundane things like the pesky civil war underway, which the US is probablly delighted about, because it assures that NO ONE will be looking at things like the US Embassy and it's future...the building forges ahead. Add this to the permanent mega military bases being constructed and you can see why Bush needs to stay the course, of course.

AT: Now, with a highly secretive contract awarded by the US State Department, First Kuwaiti is in the midst of building the most expensive and heavily fortified embassy in the world. Scheduled to open next year, the sprawling complex near the Tigris River will equal Vatican City in size....But scratching the surface is the only view yet available of what may be the most lasting monument to the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. As of now, only a handful of authorized State Department managers and contractors, along with First Kuwaiti workers and contractors, are officially allowed inside the project's walls. No journalist has ever been allowed access to the sprawling 42-hectare site with towering construction cranes raising their necks along the skyline.

Altogether, now: We went into Iraq for the oil. Ask Ken Mehlman, the former RNC chair, who said on Meet the Press (May 2006), "...Imagine a failed state on the second largest oil reserves in the world." Transcript here

Getting fired by a Lobbyist?

Ken Mehlman, on the request of Jack Abramoff, had this guy fired. It's never ending with these guys.

LAT: October 16, 2006WASHINGTON — For five years, Allen Stayman wondered who ordered his removal from a State Department job negotiating agreements with tiny Pacific island nations — even when his own bosses wanted him to stay.

Now he knows. Newly disclosed e-mails suggest that the ax fell after intervention by one of the highest officials at the White House: Ken Mehlman, on behalf of one of the most influential lobbyists in town, Jack Abramoff...."Mehlman said he would get him fired," an Abramoff associate wrote after meeting with Mehlman, who was then White House political director.

Ken Mehlman: Abramoff is our rock star!

Who's scrambling now?

The GOP is scrambling over Jack Abramoff's unprecedented access to the White House. And smarmy Ken Mehlman just outright says what others may have felt:

In an email exchange from November 2001 (you can see it here), Abramoff associate Tony Rudy writes Abramoff, "Mehlman said he would 'take care of this.' He was a rock star." Abramoff replies: "He's great." (Thanks, TMP)