George Soros has come out against Bush, big-time, effectively pledging as much cash as is required to defeat him. Soros has $7bn to play with.

An article by Soros attacking Bush’s foreign policy, published in the Atlantic, makes pretty interesting reading. As does a K5 MLP post, or, more specifically, the comments.

I’ve bumped into quite a lot of right-wing rhetoric recently. They throw a lot of mud at liberals. I guess the left wing throws a fair amount of mud back, but I find the right’s attacks personal and disingenuous. Mat linked to the talking Ann Coulter doll today, eugh, the hideousness. As far as I’m aware, Coulter has no role except to fling mud from the right-wing and she does so in a way which is often self-defeating.

However, such is the bitterness and unwavering power of right-wing comment, I find myself kind of lost at the moment politically. I have my basic beliefs, equality, freedom, but these words are practically hollow in the 21st century. Bush uses them more than anybody else. My problem is that I have no rhetoric, no verbal weapons to win an argument. If Ann Coulter turned up for a discussion tomorrow, she would kick my ass. I find this troubling.