While most of the auto-mo-tans in the US were busy frothing at the mouth over a botched joke (not much mention of the botched war), there were a slew of new GOP scandals brewing.

• George Allen allowed his “thugs” to physically assault a US marine attempting to ask a question. At a campaign rally. About matters of public record. And lest the Allen camp try to play it off as over-sensationalized, the entire thing was caught on camera. Allen could have stopped this fascist, anti-American brutality with a word, but instead just watched it happen without a moment’s restraint. Mike Stark, the marine and Law student at the University of Virginia, has issued a statement on the assault and will be filing charges against Allen later today.
• Jim Gibbons, the Republican Senator from Nevada, is now adding bribery to his growing list of scandals, including sexual assault and illegal employment practices.
• On Iraqi orders, George Bush abandons a U.S. soldier behind enemy lines, in complete defiance of military tradition and necessity. On the orders of a government incapable of conducting their own military affairs. A soldier has likely been tortured and killed so Bush and Maliki could pretend that Iraq is a sovereign nation before election day. A country that now claims to need an additional $100 billion in aid in order to rebuild its infrastructure. That Bush destroyed. That never got rebuilt with the various congressional aid packages already marked for reconstruction. Billions of which is missing.

Glad the mainstream media is focusing priorities on parroting the really important GOP talking points on Kerry instead of anything of actual import.