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  • Well, this is a pretty good week not to be in London anymore, what with nearly the entire London Underground system shut down. Somehow, this is Barack Obama’s fault. (The Times)
  • Carrie Prejean has had her title of Miss California taken away by The Gays. Actually, she had it taken away by Donald Trump and her bosses at Miss California USA for failing to fulfill all of her contractual obligations. But still. (CNN)
  • Sen. Mel Martinez, the Senate’s only Latino Republican, says he understands what Sonia Sotomayor means when she talks about the importance of her heritage. Or in other words, Mel Martinez is a racist! (Real Clear Politics)
  • Before Tuesday’s election, nobody could have predicted that Terry McAuliffe, who is not actually from Virginia but is BFF with Bill and Hillary Clinton, would not win an election in a state which has never voted for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Now that McAuliffe has lost decisively, though, everything is suddenly clear. (Washington Post)

6/11/09 6:49 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , ,

You Will Never Escape from Sarah Palin

  • 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.

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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.

1/27/09 12:51 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Sunday Update

  • It’s one thing for the senior Senator from Pennsylvania facing a tough reelection battle to get up at a fancy dinner and tell Polish jokes, but it’s a whole other thing for the same Senator to ask if anyone in the room is Polish and then tell Polish jokes. Nice job, Arlen Specter. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
  • Senate Republicans have no problem letting the Big 3 collapse if it allows them to take a swipe at unions for supporting Democrats. Nice way to rebuild the party. (Los Angeles Times)
  • Welcome to Virginia, where every year is an election year! In 2009, we’ve got the big race for governor, and it’s gonna be a close one. All three Democratic candidates–Brian Moran, Creigh Deeds, and Terry McAuliffe–poll within five points of Republican Bob McDonnell. (Rasmussen Reports)
  • Apparently we should not be surprised by Rod Blagojevich because it is just assumed that Illinois politicians are corrupt. Or, as Jon Stewart points out, you have a better chance of going to jail by being the Governor of Illinois than you do if you kill someone. (New York Times/The Daily Show)

12/14/08 10:55 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Capital Crime Scene

 

  • Obama transition spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter says no Cabinet nominations will be named this week. If anyone says otherwise, Rahm Emanuel will beat them with a dead fish.* Too bad. We could use a new Treasury Secretary–see below. (Reuters)
  • So while we were all focused on the $700 billion bailout package, the Treasury Department slipped the banks a secret windfall of $140 billion in tax breaks. Like most of what the Bush Administration has done in the past eight years, this was porbably illegal. Meanwhile, the Fed has loaned almost $2 trillion of your money and refuses to say where the money went. Man, I can’t wait to kick these crooks out of Washington on January 20. (Washington Post/Bloomberg)
  • Howard Dean is upholding his one-term pledge and will step down as DNC chairman. Hopefully this isn’t the end of 50-state strategy because, y’know, it worked. Claire McCaskill’s name is being floated around as a possible replacement, which I’ll support as long as she can keep her Senate seat at the same time. (Huffington Post)
  • Speaking of DNC chairs, former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe has filed papers to run for Governor of Virginia in 2009. (Tim Kaine is limited to one term.) There are already two declared Democratic candidates, so this is going to get interesting. (CNN)
* See here for the reason behind the increasing frequency of dead fish jokes.
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