Back from vacation...

So, I went on vacation (basically to be in a wedding) and I caught a few things that I thought needed to be posted here. First there's Keith Olbermann who, thank God, still is the lone liberal voice in the mainstream media. His take on the new, new, new, new, new Rove/Bush/Rumsfeld line is priceless.

Then there's ABC's shameless 9-11 movie, The Path to 9/11, which has scenes in it that have been completely refuted by the 9-11 Commision report- a report which the filmmakers and ABC claim it is based. Actually the movie was written by a staunch conservative activist and friend of Rush Limbaugh. Think Progress has all the details and spend a minute to tell ABC what you think.

And while the GOP are out there proclaiming how they're the party of "super Christians," I found this article on the state of the poor striking.

E.J. Dionne:

After a week of remembering the horrors of Hurricane Katrina, the most depressing realization is how easily our leaders forgot their fervent promises to lift up our nation's poorest citizens.

All manner of politicians and columnists said in Katrina's wake that this was the time to revisit the problems of the destitute. The anguish of the people of New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward would have at least some redemptive power if the country took poverty seriously again.

It didn't happen. The innovative ideas that came from all sides were swept off the table. The poor became unfashionable once more. Congressional conservatives changed the conversation. A concern for the struggling gave way to debate over how to offset spending on Katrina with budget cuts -- directed in large part at programs for the needy.

Perhaps the release of the Census Bureau's annual report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage in this particular week is a sign that God and statisticians have a sense of humor. The report reinforces what we knew at the time of Katrina -- that the poor are still with us and that the middle class keeps losing ground.

Read the rest for some staggering statistics.