- All 170 House Republicans joined Democrats to unanimously pass legislation banning fundraising letters that look like official Census mailings, like mailers previously sent by the RNC and NRCC. Woah, actual bipartisanship! (AP)
- Doug Hoffman has a new tactic for his second run for Congress: he will actually live in New York’s 23rd district this time. (Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
- The Oklahoma Senate has passed a bill that would basically opt Oklahoma out of federal hate crimes laws because gays are icky and gross. (The Oklahoman)
- A Muslim imam gave the opening prayer in Virginia’s House of Delegates today, even though he is a Muslim! This, of course, was cause for protests outside the state Capitol. (WaPo)
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Shorter E.J. Dionne
What fuels the grass-roots rage
- The fact that the Tea Party convention proudly featured crowds of white people cheering for Tom Tancredo’s suggestion that we reinstate Jim Crow laws proves that this has nothing to do with race.
Shorter Wesley Pruden
PRUDEN: Obama bows, the nation cringes
- It’s not Obama’s fault that he’s a terrible, America-hating, half-breed Kenyan whose mother had a bad case of jungle fever.
Wooo post-racialism!
Update: Bonus almost-verbatim Pruden: Hawaii is not really a state.
- Remember Philly’s Valley Swim Club, which famously kicked a group of black kids out of its pool because of their race? It is filing for bankruptcy and closing because of the whole “overt racism” thing. (Philadelphia Daily News)
- In addition to abortion, the RNC’s health insurer also offers end-of-life counseling or, as Sarah Palin would call it, “death panels.” Why does Michael Steele want to kill all of his employees’ grandparents in a bureaucratically efficient manner? (ThinkProgress)
- Here is a look into the thought process behind Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators in a New York City civilian court. (Washington Post)
- President Obama urged members of Congress this morning not to politicize the trial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan for the November 5 Fort Hood shootings. Um, Mr. President, have you met these members of Congress? (CNN Political Ticker)
- Before last year’s vice presidential debate, Joe Lieberman advised Sarah Palin to be herself and not let the McCain campaign “tell you what to say or how to think.” Thanks, Joe! Maybe he really is a Democrat after all! (WSJ Washington Wire)
Here Is That Sentence with “Eliot Spitzer” and “Ethics” In It That You Thought You’d Never See
- Client #9, or “Eliot Spitzer” as he is sometimes known, is giving a lecture at Harvard’s Center for Ethics!…? However: “He’s not speaking about ethics. He’s here to talk about a research project we’re launching on institutional corruption.” So, you know, speaking from experience, then. (Boston Globe)
- What is the most offensive thing someone could say in 140 characters or less? Oh, how about equating Barack Obama with the Muslim terrorists who crashed planes full of Americans into things on 9/11? That should do it. (Denver Post)
- Lou Dobbs is quitting CNN, so probably he will just go on FOX to be appreciated for hating Mexicans. Who will CNN choose as their new token racist? (Politico)
- Haha, looks like birther lawyer Orly Taitz has suborned perjury–a.k.a. encouraged witnesses to go on the stand and lie under oath! But everyone knows that “facts” and “truth” (not to mention the entire American legal system) are all in on Obama’s conspiracy! (TPM Muckraker)
- There is only one way to get on Santa’s “nice” list this year, and that is to obtain these Sarah Palin Christmas ornaments and hang them from your Christmas tree! Of course, if Santa really wanted to help America, he’d quit delivering presents now and go on a book tour. (Wonkette)
Future Marathon Winners Must Submit Long-Form Birth Certificate Before Wearing Gold Medal
- Much like the Presidency, you cannot win the New York City Marathon unless you are born in ‘Merica, according to CNBC’ s Darren Rovell. (CNBC via ThinkProgress)
- That Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry an interracial couple has resigned for being obviously racist. (CNN)
- Today’s elections that are totally about Obama are actually not really about Obama at all. (MSNBC First Read)
- Olympia Snowe and Tim Pawlenty are in a big fight over who’s the bestest Republican in the whole wide world. Maybe they’ll start beating each other up, like in the Washington Post newsroom? (Politico)
Senate Democrats Win Important Baseball Debate. Also, Healthcare.
- Oh look, here is Harry Reid with your public option, for healthcare, even though Her Majesty Queen Olympia Snowe does not care for it! (CBS News)
- If the Democrats really cared about bipartisanship, they would have let the St. Louis Cardinals go to the World Series. (NYT The Caucus)
- Some of the RNC’s Facebook friends are terribly racist and do not care for our mixed-race president. (Raw Story)
- President Obama has more women in his Cabinet than any previous president. But does he invite them over for basketball enough? That is the real important question. (ABC News)
- Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) took his daughter to a public clinic to get the terrible socialist swine flu vaccine that he voted not to fund. What will Glenn Beck say? (Roll Call via Daily Kos)
Mark Sanford Will Have Lots of Free Time for Sexy Time Soon
Bad news for America’s most star-crossed governor, Mark Sanford of “flying to Argentina for sex” fame, whose impeachment will begin next week. (The Hill)- According to freshman Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), the purpose of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus is to hunt down Democrats, specifically by shooting them with guns. (Politico Click)
- Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) does not appreciate being called a penny-pinching Jew by two of his state’s GOP committeemen, even though they totally meant it as a compliment. (CNN Political Ticker)
- Apparently Democrats never realized that letting Republicans delay healthcare reform for as long as they felt like would make it more difficult to pass healthcare reform. (TPMDC)
- Refusing to let black men into a bar because of their baggy pants but then letting a white man who is wearing literally the same pair of pants in is pretty racist. (Student Life)
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