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The Rude Pundit Ponders Bush's Place in History

In his interview with his sister, Bush discussed how he wishes to be remembered.   If he were someone else, I'd find the hopes he confides  rather touching.  But he's Bush and I find the whole thing disturbing and embarrassing and distressing in light of the, you know, FACTS.

Give the man this.  At least he didn't say he wants to be remembered as a man who left the world a little better than he found it.  (He might have implied it, but he didn't actually say it.)

Dept of Hollow Laughter: Bush Receives "International Medal of PEACE" for His Tireless Efforts & Unprecedented Contribution in the Fight Against AIDS

Yes, that's what I said:  "Bush Receives "International Medal of PEACE" for His Tireless Efforts & Unprecedented Contribution in the Fight Against AIDS."

What?  It's true, I tell you.

Snark O' the Day: GM Constructs a Memory Hole (Agitprop)

If you hadn't just lived through 8 years of Bush and Cheney, you wouldn't believe this could be possible.

Since you just have, your outrage and incredulity meters shorted out a long time ago and there's nothing left of them but a few busted springs going boingy-boingy-boingy 24/7.   You'll probably just say, "Huh."   So I'm noting this for later, when we've all had our sense of moral outrage restored at least to pre-Katrina levels.

The Philosophy of Gestures: Econobloggers Weigh in on AIG's PR Sleight of Hand

Hey, AIG found out a way to carry out a stunning public relations ploy by giving up their bonuses, while totally paying themselves big bucks as "retention bonuses"!   Ad-mir-able!   Deb Cupples discusses it here.

At Angry Bear, rdan quotes self-serving statements of AIG execs made to FT, in which they explain how retention bonuses are way better. 

Chicago Tribune: Moderate White Supremacists Alarmed by Increase in Hate Crimes Since Obama's Election

Says so right in The Chicago Tribune: Hate Incidents in U.S. Surge.  Look:

"Even some white supremacist leaders who describe themselves as moderates say they are alarmed."

Walk Him Out in the Morning Dew: Bill O'Reilly's Valuable Opinion on Homeless Vets

From Scott at World O' Crap:

Bill O’Reilly, as you may recall, doesn’t believe that any homeless veterans exist in this country as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Now this may seem to contradict observable reality, but you have to remember, this is Bill’s opinion, which is worth millions of dollars a year to FoxNews, thus making it one of the finest opinions that money can buy. 

Walk Her Out in the Morning Dew This Morning: Peggy Noonan Looks for Signs of the Depression

The reason we started this blog is that when we read something like this ourselves, we can't think of anything to say. As Roy Edroso says:

It's like that scene in Post Office where Bukowski's finally had enough of that co-worker who's always muttering insults, and wheels on him only to realize that the guy is lost in a private fog and has no awareness of him or anything else around him. It takes a lot of the fight out of you.

SC Gov Laughs Merrily at the Idea of Palin as the GOP's Future

by Blue Stockings |  First, check out his opinion piece at Politico, where he mentions her along with other "quiet" GOP reformers busily enforcing those ends-in-themselves for the unreflecting "thinkers" of the GOP, small government and lower taxes. 

I am struck by how many of my colleagues around the country were quietly advancing the kinds of reforms and conservative principles that Washington politicians would do well to emulate.

Continue reading "SC Gov Laughs Merrily at the Idea of Palin as the GOP's Future" »

by Blue | Procrustean economics major and so-called "libertarian" Megan McArdle has attracted more than her usual heaping helping of well-deserved loathing and contumely.   I have collected a few of them here for posterity.

by Blue Stockings | I can't stand Sarah Palin, but the squeamishness over Turkeygate doesn't sit well with me.   I said why here, but IOZ says it better.  Thanksgiving Day seems like the right time to make this point.

by Blue Stockings |  I don't think so.  But it's a meme that's emerging since the Lieberman thing and the media are running it for all it's worth.  Here's a piece by James Kirchick in The New York Daily News to prove it, all "Obama isn't afraid of the raging, impotent netroots because Joe Lieberman blah blah netroots furious rah rah blah dee blah blee." Read it yourself. 

by Damozel  | ....wielding Jonah Goldberg's hilarious, oxymoronic diatribe as her personal weapon of choice.  As chronicled by Gavin M. of Sadly, No!, this tale is (partly, though only partly) the tale "of her New York rampage, baying through the streets with book awave."

by Teh Puppet Mistress | Myers:  The Wall Street Journal is a Very Silly Place

The United States has some serious problems: an ugly war, a shaky economy, a bad government (on the way out, at last). It's been a rough eight years. So of course it must be someone's fault, and Daniel Henninger has a simple explanation: blame the atheists. Especially blame the atheist's successful war on Christmas. He says, "A nation whose people can't say 'Merry Christmas' is a nation capable of ruining its own economy."

  by Teh Nutroots |   This time it's Jon Henke at Pajamas Media.  I wouldn't be bothering were it not for the awesomeness of Roy Edroso's response. 

At Pajamas Media, Jon Henke looks to rightwing history for guidance:...

...the Left did not retake the executive and legislative branches by being more liberal or more moderate, or by clever political jujitsu. Democrats became the majority because they changed the story.

So true. And what a story it was: "The Republican have fucked this country up so badly that you'll even vote for a black guy to get it unfucked."

The Republicans are welcome to top it if they can. I suspect their offer will be some variation of "we hate fags."  [Narrate This]

by Blue Stockings |  Res ipsa loquitur.

From Pam's House Blend:

So, I'm elated when I read this:

First Female Four-Star General Promoted

"Worst Dr Seuss book ever...."  And the media's lame puns just keep a-coming.

Because Obama is "incredibly similar to Hitler."  Hitler comparison analyst John Oliver explains:

by Teh Nutroots | Ha ha ha ha ha ha!  I love watching them clutching madly at straws, only to end up sticking them in their hair.  Via Sadly, No!, here's Powerline's latest air brick:

by Damozel |  Full version of article:  GOP Dog Days

Nutshell version:  While I shall stubbornly go on contending that it wasn't that much of a victory for Obama and the left, and that the public has not thoroughly repudiated me and my noxious brand of conservatism, I can no longer deny it:  Obama is as cute as cuddly puppy from the pound---if a puppy had a dry wit and charisma---and therefore formidable, and we conservatives can but trust that the worldbeating recession that we have willed to him may yet bring him down.

PS.  The country is still center right and Obama must govern accordingly.  That's the meme, and I'm sticking to it.

Blogger reactions at Memeorandum

by Teh Puppet Mistress | Wingnuts all over the blogosphere are busily whipping themselves up into pleasurable extremes of terror.  It's worrying---what do bloggers such as the one cited below intend to achieve, one asks?---but also, if  you can preserve your detachment, exceedingly funny in a horrifying kind of a way.

From Scott at World O'Crap:

I thought the news of Obama’s victory would strike wingnuts in one of two ways.  Either they’d sit, stinking and unwashed in a corner of their room, blinking rapidly and speaking in tongues to a headless Barbie doll — what we might call “the K-Lo Option” — or else they’d attach a hobby horse to their computer chairs, sort of like those Cowboy booster seats you used to sit on at the barber shop, and charge at full gallop into the World Wide Web on a suicidal crusade of blood and thunder, hacking at heretics and heathens and howling in rage and agony like a gutted Mel Gibson at the end of Braveheart.  It never dawned on me that they would arise the next day, scratch their cat under the chin, pour a nice cup of tea, sit down at the keyboard, and in a prim, dainty, ladylike fashion, go quietly batshit insane, as though we’d entered an alternate universe where Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote was the star of Dexter. But color me abashed, because RenewAmerica is proudly offering Mary Mostert’s latest:

As we’ve said before, this wasn’t an election, it was the world’s longest Usenet thread, and Godwin’s Law is no longer an observation on probability, it’s a regulation imposed by wingnuts, sort of like those Homeowner Association bylaws that require everyone to landscape solely from the pre-approved list of shrubs, and to paint all exterior trim a uniform beige.....[More]

by Blue Stockings |   This comes from Ken Ashford of The Seventh Sense and relates to the heart-breaking outcome of the various actions by states to ban gay marriage:

I have nothing against Mormons per se, but since it was the Church of Latter-Day Saints that funded Prop 8 in California, which isn't even their state, I think this call for a boycott of Utah might be a good idea....

It's fine if Mormons don't believe in gays having equal rights, but.... wait, that reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from Angels in America:

Harper: I'm a Mormon.

Prior: I'm a homosexual.

Harper: Oh. [pause] In my church we don't believe in homosexuals.

Prior: In my church we don't believe in Mormons.  (More)

And therefore....you make the logical leap. 

Nice.

 

I have nothing against Mormons per se, but since it was the Church of Latter-Day Saints that funded Prop 8 in California, which isn't even their state, I think this call for a boycott of Utah might be a good idea....

It's fine if Mormons don't believe in gays having equal rights, but.... wait, that reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from Angels in America:

Harper: I'm a Mormon.

Prior: I'm a homosexual.

Harper: Oh. [pause] In my church we don't believe in homosexuals.

Prior: In my church we don't believe in Mormons.  (More)

And therefore....you make the logical leap. 

Nice.

 

by The Puppet Mistress |  Blue Texan points out that the right wingers have suddenly raised the bar for what constitutes a mandate.  All things considered, Obama's historic win was...historic.

I think a "landslide" probably should be reserved for any EV count over 400. By that measure, it wasn't a landslide. But...

• Obama received the most votes of any presidential candidate in history -- over 63M, besting W's 62M in 2004.
• Obama received a higher percentage of votes (53%) than George W. Bush in '04 or '00, than Clinton in '96 or '92, and more than St. Reagan in 1980 (50%). He matches George HW Bush's mark in '88 -- and posted the highest percentage by a Democrat since LBJ's 61% in 1964.
• Obama received more electoral votes (364) than George W. Bush in '04 (286) and '00 (271), more than Carter in '76, and more than Nixon in '68, Kennedy in '60, and Truman in '48.
• Obama brought with him increased gains in the Democratic Senate and House -- the first time Democrats have extended their majorities in back-to-back elections since the 1930s.

Bottom line: the size of Obama's win crushes either of W's, who posted two anemic, 1-state wins, and lost the popular vote in 2000. And this is the guy who they chriped for years about having a "mandate" and was going to remake the country with permanent majorities for the GOP and Peggy Noonan was savoring.

He also links to this excellent nutshell summary of how McCain managed to lose it all.

BTW, the blogger formerly known as "Captain Ed" a/k/a "Special Ed" had a different interpretation of the data.  Or, as Whiskey Fire puts it, "Nation Apathetic about Obama, If You Look at Data Like a Moron."

by Damozel |  I normally wouldn't draw our daily dose of snark from the same blog two days running, but TBogg is a master, and this---like yesterday's---is masterly, both in its ruthless efficiency and accuracy in identifying and lancing the latest unattractive inflammatory groundswell and its peerless use of pop culture references as the instrument of choice.  Yesterday, it was Galaxy Quest.  Today:  one of my top five all-time films, Life of Brian.

Obama got elected three days ago and the wingers are all depressed, which they consider to be proof that they are also now, and destined in the future to be, oppressed.  They're always mad, but now they're even madder---as well as in a panicky tailspin---and so the leading lights of the right are busily organizing a Republican Resistance movement.   

Sadly, their defeat has forced them to confront how much they actually hate one another.  None of them can agree even on the fundamentals of how to build a better GOP.

TBogg considers the struggle of the emergent warring sects to find some common ground, and their ensuing abject failure:

Divided we stand"...no...wait...um... "united we flail" ...no, that's not it. Crap, I think I wrote it down on a Wendy's napkin. Look in the back seat of my car.... Oh, here we go....

He's got the list, the clip, and the final word. 

We missed this, so here it is now:  Shep Smith of Fox News gives Joe the Plumber the big eye roll.

by Teh Nutroots | You might have heard the horrific story of HuffPost blogger Carol Anne Burger's brutal murder of her lover.  What you probably need to top it off is a good round of sanctimony and hypocrisy from Teh Right, courtesy of Roy Edroso.   

The paradox of wingnuts:  Even when they're as wrong as they can be, they're always so Right-eous.

Attaturk:

We've learned repeatedly during this campaign that the ever tone-deaf McCain drops certain phrases like anvils. From "my friends" to "I'm a Maverick" to "Joe the Plumber" his ability to turn quaint into quackery has been a sight to behold.

But the oft turned phrase "Georgetown Cocktail Parties" that McCain claims to rebel against and set up as a qualification for Palin is amongst the dumbest.

Who has been a bigger fixture on "the hot-barbecued sauced weenie on a toothpick and crab dip circuit" than John Sidney McCain the Third?

Besides, one thing we've learned about Palin, if she showed up at a party thrown by Sally Quinn, you know she'd bring whatever random daughter who isn't pregnant to go with her and put the whole tab on the State of Alaska.

Gawker:

Remember those Budweiser "Whasssssssssupppppppppppp!!!" ads, that made you want to crush and kill everyone in your path? Yes, well someone has put the idea to use for the sake of good.

Are the Palin family "a bunch of grifters"?

Heee hee hee hee heee heee heee heee.  He makes Pfotenhauer watch the clip of Palin (once again failing to understand what the VP does) not once but twice!

Jezebel has a piece called  Dear Nancy Pfotenhauer: Please Wipe That Smile Right Off Of Your Face.  Tweety wipes it off for her. 

by Blue Stockings | DDay: "Sarah Palin, proving that even local interviewers can make her look bad."

Christ, couldn't someone have taken her gently aside and read the Constitution to her by this time?  Though I get the impression that with Palin, it wouldn't help much:  facts that aren't compatible with her preconceptions probably slip right out of her consciousness again...or such is my preconception.  As Senate majority leader Harry Reid told Think Progress, this is the second time she's said it.  "While the Vice President presides over the Senate, he or she is not in charge of it,"  he amplified.  (Think Progress)

Civics is hard!

Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“:

Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, “What does the Vice President do?”

PALIN: That’s something that Piper would ask me! … [T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom. (Think Progress; emphasis in original)

Hilarious.  Obviously, Palin didn't give Piper a chance to explain it. 

McArdle Watch: "Markets R Dumb" & "Let Them Eat Bubble Packs"

by Blue | Procrustean economics major and so-called "libertarian" Megan McArdle has attracted more than her usual heaping helping of well-deserved loathing and contumely.   I have collected a few of them here for posterity.

Turkeygate Part 2 (I Can't Believe I'm Defending Sarah Palin)

by Blue Stockings | I can't stand Sarah Palin, but the squeamishness over Turkeygate doesn't sit well with me.   I said why here, but IOZ says it better.  Thanksgiving Day seems like the right time to make this point.

Snark O' the Day: "Raging" "Impotent" Netroots, Eh?

by Blue Stockings |  I don't think so.  But it's a meme that's emerging since the Lieberman thing and the media are running it for all it's worth.  Here's a piece by James Kirchick in The New York Daily News to prove it, all "Obama isn't afraid of the raging, impotent netroots because Joe Lieberman blah blah netroots furious rah rah blah dee blah blee." Read it yourself. 

The "Spite Caucus": One Right Wing Woman's Personal Journey...

by Damozel  | ....wielding Jonah Goldberg's hilarious, oxymoronic diatribe as her personal weapon of choice.  As chronicled by Gavin M. of Sadly, No!, this tale is (partly, though only partly) the tale "of her New York rampage, baying through the streets with book awave."

Snark O' the Day: WSJ Blames Atheists for the Collapse of Wall Street

by Teh Puppet Mistress | Myers:  The Wall Street Journal is a Very Silly Place

The United States has some serious problems: an ugly war, a shaky economy, a bad government (on the way out, at last). It's been a rough eight years. So of course it must be someone's fault, and Daniel Henninger has a simple explanation: blame the atheists. Especially blame the atheist's successful war on Christmas. He says, "A nation whose people can't say 'Merry Christmas' is a nation capable of ruining its own economy."

Snark O' the Day: Conservatives Mull Over their Defeat Some More

  by Teh Nutroots |   This time it's Jon Henke at Pajamas Media.  I wouldn't be bothering were it not for the awesomeness of Roy Edroso's response. 

At Pajamas Media, Jon Henke looks to rightwing history for guidance:...

...the Left did not retake the executive and legislative branches by being more liberal or more moderate, or by clever political jujitsu. Democrats became the majority because they changed the story.

So true. And what a story it was: "The Republican have fucked this country up so badly that you'll even vote for a black guy to get it unfucked."

The Republicans are welcome to top it if they can. I suspect their offer will be some variation of "we hate fags."  [Narrate This]

Snark O' the Day: Women in the Military

by Blue Stockings |  Res ipsa loquitur.

From Pam's House Blend:

So, I'm elated when I read this:

First Female Four-Star General Promoted

The Daily Show: Baracknophobia! "Obama Won; A Wingnut Bought a Gun"

"Worst Dr Seuss book ever...."  And the media's lame puns just keep a-coming.

Because Obama is "incredibly similar to Hitler."  Hitler comparison analyst John Oliver explains:

Powerline: "Undisciplined" Speaker Obama Should Take Precise and Careful Speaker Bush as a Model

by Teh Nutroots | Ha ha ha ha ha ha!  I love watching them clutching madly at straws, only to end up sticking them in their hair.  Via Sadly, No!, here's Powerline's latest air brick:

Shorter Bill Kristol

by Damozel |  Full version of article:  GOP Dog Days

Nutshell version:  While I shall stubbornly go on contending that it wasn't that much of a victory for Obama and the left, and that the public has not thoroughly repudiated me and my noxious brand of conservatism, I can no longer deny it:  Obama is as cute as cuddly puppy from the pound---if a puppy had a dry wit and charisma---and therefore formidable, and we conservatives can but trust that the worldbeating recession that we have willed to him may yet bring him down.

PS.  The country is still center right and Obama must govern accordingly.  That's the meme, and I'm sticking to it.

Blogger reactions at Memeorandum

Snark O' the Day: Did Obama Crib His Acceptance Speech from Hitler?

by Teh Puppet Mistress | Wingnuts all over the blogosphere are busily whipping themselves up into pleasurable extremes of terror.  It's worrying---what do bloggers such as the one cited below intend to achieve, one asks?---but also, if  you can preserve your detachment, exceedingly funny in a horrifying kind of a way.

From Scott at World O'Crap:

I thought the news of Obama’s victory would strike wingnuts in one of two ways.  Either they’d sit, stinking and unwashed in a corner of their room, blinking rapidly and speaking in tongues to a headless Barbie doll — what we might call “the K-Lo Option” — or else they’d attach a hobby horse to their computer chairs, sort of like those Cowboy booster seats you used to sit on at the barber shop, and charge at full gallop into the World Wide Web on a suicidal crusade of blood and thunder, hacking at heretics and heathens and howling in rage and agony like a gutted Mel Gibson at the end of Braveheart.  It never dawned on me that they would arise the next day, scratch their cat under the chin, pour a nice cup of tea, sit down at the keyboard, and in a prim, dainty, ladylike fashion, go quietly batshit insane, as though we’d entered an alternate universe where Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote was the star of Dexter. But color me abashed, because RenewAmerica is proudly offering Mary Mostert’s latest:

As we’ve said before, this wasn’t an election, it was the world’s longest Usenet thread, and Godwin’s Law is no longer an observation on probability, it’s a regulation imposed by wingnuts, sort of like those Homeowner Association bylaws that require everyone to landscape solely from the pre-approved list of shrubs, and to paint all exterior trim a uniform beige.....[More]

Snark O' the Day: "Boycott Utah"

by Blue Stockings |   This comes from Ken Ashford of The Seventh Sense and relates to the heart-breaking outcome of the various actions by states to ban gay marriage:

I have nothing against Mormons per se, but since it was the Church of Latter-Day Saints that funded Prop 8 in California, which isn't even their state, I think this call for a boycott of Utah might be a good idea....

It's fine if Mormons don't believe in gays having equal rights, but.... wait, that reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from Angels in America:

Harper: I'm a Mormon.

Prior: I'm a homosexual.

Harper: Oh. [pause] In my church we don't believe in homosexuals.

Prior: In my church we don't believe in Mormons.  (More)

And therefore....you make the logical leap. 

Nice.

 

I have nothing against Mormons per se, but since it was the Church of Latter-Day Saints that funded Prop 8 in California, which isn't even their state, I think this call for a boycott of Utah might be a good idea....

It's fine if Mormons don't believe in gays having equal rights, but.... wait, that reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from Angels in America:

Harper: I'm a Mormon.

Prior: I'm a homosexual.

Harper: Oh. [pause] In my church we don't believe in homosexuals.

Prior: In my church we don't believe in Mormons.  (More)

And therefore....you make the logical leap. 

Nice.

 

"Landslide"/"Mandate" v. "Not a Landslide/Not a Mandate"

by The Puppet Mistress |  Blue Texan points out that the right wingers have suddenly raised the bar for what constitutes a mandate.  All things considered, Obama's historic win was...historic.

I think a "landslide" probably should be reserved for any EV count over 400. By that measure, it wasn't a landslide. But...

• Obama received the most votes of any presidential candidate in history -- over 63M, besting W's 62M in 2004.
• Obama received a higher percentage of votes (53%) than George W. Bush in '04 or '00, than Clinton in '96 or '92, and more than St. Reagan in 1980 (50%). He matches George HW Bush's mark in '88 -- and posted the highest percentage by a Democrat since LBJ's 61% in 1964.
• Obama received more electoral votes (364) than George W. Bush in '04 (286) and '00 (271), more than Carter in '76, and more than Nixon in '68, Kennedy in '60, and Truman in '48.
• Obama brought with him increased gains in the Democratic Senate and House -- the first time Democrats have extended their majorities in back-to-back elections since the 1930s.

Bottom line: the size of Obama's win crushes either of W's, who posted two anemic, 1-state wins, and lost the popular vote in 2000. And this is the guy who they chriped for years about having a "mandate" and was going to remake the country with permanent majorities for the GOP and Peggy Noonan was savoring.

He also links to this excellent nutshell summary of how McCain managed to lose it all.

BTW, the blogger formerly known as "Captain Ed" a/k/a "Special Ed" had a different interpretation of the data.  Or, as Whiskey Fire puts it, "Nation Apathetic about Obama, If You Look at Data Like a Moron."

Snark O' the Day: "Splitters!"

by Damozel |  I normally wouldn't draw our daily dose of snark from the same blog two days running, but TBogg is a master, and this---like yesterday's---is masterly, both in its ruthless efficiency and accuracy in identifying and lancing the latest unattractive inflammatory groundswell and its peerless use of pop culture references as the instrument of choice.  Yesterday, it was Galaxy Quest.  Today:  one of my top five all-time films, Life of Brian.

Obama got elected three days ago and the wingers are all depressed, which they consider to be proof that they are also now, and destined in the future to be, oppressed.  They're always mad, but now they're even madder---as well as in a panicky tailspin---and so the leading lights of the right are busily organizing a Republican Resistance movement.   

Sadly, their defeat has forced them to confront how much they actually hate one another.  None of them can agree even on the fundamentals of how to build a better GOP.

TBogg considers the struggle of the emergent warring sects to find some common ground, and their ensuing abject failure:

Divided we stand"...no...wait...um... "united we flail" ...no, that's not it. Crap, I think I wrote it down on a Wendy's napkin. Look in the back seat of my car.... Oh, here we go....

He's got the list, the clip, and the final word. 

Joe the Plumber: Too Far Right for Fox?

We missed this, so here it is now:  Shep Smith of Fox News gives Joe the Plumber the big eye roll.

Right-Wing Jabberers Gloat, Moralize Over Murder

by Teh Nutroots | You might have heard the horrific story of HuffPost blogger Carol Anne Burger's brutal murder of her lover.  What you probably need to top it off is a good round of sanctimony and hypocrisy from Teh Right, courtesy of Roy Edroso.   

The paradox of wingnuts:  Even when they're as wrong as they can be, they're always so Right-eous.

Snark O' the Day: John McCain, Cocktail Weenie

Attaturk:

We've learned repeatedly during this campaign that the ever tone-deaf McCain drops certain phrases like anvils. From "my friends" to "I'm a Maverick" to "Joe the Plumber" his ability to turn quaint into quackery has been a sight to behold.

But the oft turned phrase "Georgetown Cocktail Parties" that McCain claims to rebel against and set up as a qualification for Palin is amongst the dumbest.

Who has been a bigger fixture on "the hot-barbecued sauced weenie on a toothpick and crab dip circuit" than John Sidney McCain the Third?

Besides, one thing we've learned about Palin, if she showed up at a party thrown by Sally Quinn, you know she'd bring whatever random daughter who isn't pregnant to go with her and put the whole tab on the State of Alaska.

The Daily Show: How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth is an Ungrateful Rogue

Another Awesome Campaign Ad: "Whassup"

Gawker:

Remember those Budweiser "Whasssssssssupppppppppppp!!!" ads, that made you want to crush and kill everyone in your path? Yes, well someone has put the idea to use for the sake of good.

Daily Show: "Project Beltway"

Are the Palin family "a bunch of grifters"?

Chris Matthews Roughs Up McCain's Nancy Pfotenhauer

Heee hee hee hee heee heee heee heee.  He makes Pfotenhauer watch the clip of Palin (once again failing to understand what the VP does) not once but twice!

Jezebel has a piece called  Dear Nancy Pfotenhauer: Please Wipe That Smile Right Off Of Your Face.  Tweety wipes it off for her. 

Palin Still Thinks that the Vice President is in Charge of the Senate

by Blue Stockings | DDay: "Sarah Palin, proving that even local interviewers can make her look bad."

Christ, couldn't someone have taken her gently aside and read the Constitution to her by this time?  Though I get the impression that with Palin, it wouldn't help much:  facts that aren't compatible with her preconceptions probably slip right out of her consciousness again...or such is my preconception.  As Senate majority leader Harry Reid told Think Progress, this is the second time she's said it.  "While the Vice President presides over the Senate, he or she is not in charge of it,"  he amplified.  (Think Progress)

Civics is hard!

Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“:

Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, “What does the Vice President do?”

PALIN: That’s something that Piper would ask me! … [T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom. (Think Progress; emphasis in original)

Hilarious.  Obviously, Palin didn't give Piper a chance to explain it.