Friday Link Vomit

Digby [1] considers the implications of California’s 50^th district election while Truthout [2] says the victory is actually a GOP loss. Meanwhile, BradBlog [3] is hot on the trail of voter fraud casting doubt [4] on the outcome and a GAO inquiry [5] finds fault with the 2004 election.

Reports have emerged indicating that George Bush the First was behind a secret attempt to oust Donald Rumsfeld [6] while Countdown suggests that Zarqawi’s death may be just what the doctor ordered [7].

First Lt. Ehren Watada says “Hell no, I won’t go [8]” and would rather go to jail [9] than go back to Iraq. “It's not that I disagree with this war. It's that this war is unlawful." Meanwhile, the Pentagon is fighting the war one terror by data mining [10] your MySpace and Friendster profiles [11].

Vanity Fair publishes perhaps the most complete story to date [12] on Bush’s Yellowcake, “The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed.”

PBS explored whether the auto and oil industries conspired to kill [13] the electric car. Maybe that explains Republicans renewed attempts to cut PBS [14] off at the knees.

Yet another [15] GOP congressman is implicated [16] in a corruption probe.

Specter and Cheney are on the outs. This is what happened when bad guys form an alliance of evil; eventually they will turn [17] on one another.

And finally, far be it to admit that the economy is in the toilet for most Americans, Bush tries to suppress [18] a regular survey of poverty and income.