Sen. Vitter Still Won’t Condemn LA Official Who Won’t Officiate Mixed-Race Marriages
Who are these turrible librul bloggers asking Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) such absurd questions, like “do you think it’s okay for a state official to refuse to marry an interracial couple?” (The Plum Line)
All the other TV networks are jealous that the White House is paying so much attention to FOX News, so now they are also parroting Republican talking points verbatim. (ABC News)
All of America’s insurance companies are fatty-fat fatsos, while the public option is beautiful Heather Graham. (CNN Political Ticker)
Newsweek presents a children’s treasury of all the silly things Joe Biden has done in the past nine months. (Newsweek)
Obama Wants to Take Your Guns Back to Indonesia With Him
Even though he already told everyone he wouldn’t, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) will run for Senate to replace America’s Senator™ Roland Burris, whose seat was once held by some other black guy with a funny name. We forget who, though. (CNN Political Ticker)
Buy a truck from Kansas City car dealer Mark Muller, and he will give you a free AK-47 for, ummm, hunting? Self-defense? Obama’s a Muslin? Gotta be one of those… (Telegraph)
Hey, here’s something else that George W. Bush fucked up (no pun intended): teen STD infection and pregancy rates rose under the abstinence-only sex education policies of the Bush years because, surprise!, kids are having sex anyway. Somehow, this will be all Bill Clinton’s fault. (Guardian)
Your President Obama is planning a trip to Indonesia, one of his several alleged countries-of-birth. (Ben Smith)
And speaking of the birthers, Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE), who is thinking of running for Joe Biden’s old Senate seat, pissed off a crowd of Republicans for having the audacity to say that Barack Obama is American, even though he doesn’t carry his birth certificate around in a plastic baggie like the crazy lady in this video. (Washington Independent)
Oh no, looks like another time-out for Vice President Joe Biden as President Obama has to call home, all the way from Russia, and say, “No, Joe, it is not okay if Israel just bombs Iran whenever.” (CNN)
Apparently Russians don’t really care about our Michelle Obama so much. For some odd reason (sexism???), they’re all much more interested in her husband. Huh. And why doesn’t the Russian media care about “the coral-hued coat and Narciso Rodriguez dress that Obama had on as she stepped off Air Force One into an unseasonably cold July afternoon,” like your American press? (Washington Post)
New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte is resigning in order to run for the Senate, something which she explicitly said she would not do when she was reappointed in March. Oh well! (Manchester Union Leader)
Your American Bar Association strongly recommends that Sonia Sotomayor be appointed to the Supreme Court. Why is the American Bar Association so “reverse racist” towards white people? (CBS News)
Alberto Gonzales, do you recall who he is? Beginning this fall, Gonzales will be teaching at Texas Tech University. Course topics include selective memory, the finer points of waterboarding, and how to harass your predecessor when he’s in the hospital. (Austin American-Statesman)
Remember that time the Minnesota National Guard stormed Capitol Hill and forcibly removed Norm Coleman from office, replacing him with Al Franken? So does Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). (P.S.: What is wrong with you, South Carolina voters?) (TPMDC)
George Bush Will Always Treasure the Time He Personally Arrested Saddam Hussein
The centerpiece of the George W. Bush Presidential Library will be Saddam Hussein’s gun which Bush kept in the Oval Office so he could pull it out and shout, “See! Mission Accomplished!” whenever someone mentioned that we were kinda still fighting in Iraq after 2003. (New York Times)
Woohoo! A federal judge ruled that GM can go ahead with its restructuring plan by selling off everything to the government. Camaros for everyone! (New York Times again, because the Washington Post can no longer be trusted)
Vice President Biden will swear in Al Franken tomorrow as America’s 100th Senator. Who has to pick up the pieces of Bill O’Reilly’s head after it explodes? (MSNBC)
So it’s another work day for America’s Governor™ Mark Sanford, now back from his family’s Independence Day vacation. Making up for missing Father’s Day, I guess. Anyway, state Republicans are keeping busy deciding whether to impeach Sanford now or later. (CNN)
Uh oh, Texas teabaggers do not care for Republicans Sen. John Cornyn and Gov. Rick “The Hair” Perry. Cornyn was booed for not letting the U.S. economy sink into oblivion while Perry earned boos for, um, toll roads? (Austin American-Statesman)
Meet SarahPAC, the Palin counterpart to Hillary Clinton’s HillPAC. Because as we all learned this election, women will vote for any female candidate regardless of her political ideology! That’s why Vice President Palin needs all your hard-earned cash right now please! (MSNBC)
Terry McAuliffe was in New York City last week throwing a party with Bill Clinton and some investment bankers (aka the only people in this country who still have money and haven’t donated it to SarahPAC) to raise money for his campaign for Governor of, um… Virginia. Which is not in New York. Hm. (Washington Post)
President Obama remains the most popular man in America, which is impressive considering that his real supporters are still hungover from inauguration parties. (CNN)
Back when Dick Cheney was in charge, the location of his Evil Doom Lair was blurred out on Google Maps, but Vice President Biden has opened up his residence for all to zoom-in on! Google says they have nothing to do with the blurring or unblurring of the Vice Presidential mansion. I suspect Cheney has Google CEO Eric Schmidt in his Jedi force choke. (Wired/Los Angeles Times/YouTube)
For lack of any better way to say it, I’m just going to quote this directly: “The nation’s current recession is likely to be the longest since World War II, and by some measures could be the worst since the Great Depression, a new Congressional Budget Office forecast said Tuesday.” (McClatchy)
Update: For the lulz, take a look at the SarahPAC logo.
Basically her plan for America is to cut a huge Alaska-shaped hole out of it because Country First amirite? What’s really funny is that she’ll be taking out a good portion of “Real America,” which is defined as all the states that voted for her and that old guy who kept staring at her ass.
Ben Smith has an email from a “senior Democratic operative” suggesting that Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner appoint Obama campaign manager and native Wilmingtonian David Plouffe to fill the Senate seat that Joe Biden will vacate when he is sworn in as Vice President in January. Hmmm…
In one of the odd quirks of the night, Joe Biden was re-elected to the U.S. Senate. Obviously, the Governor of Delaware will appoint someone to replace him, but still, a very excellent night for Vice President-Elect Biden.
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