Being President is just no fun when you have no talent and no friends. It must be even less fun joined with Richard Trumka through an interference fit.

I’ve been wondering how long it will take for him to crack up, and I now think it may have already happened. Just putting a marker out there. His speeches are described as combative, erratic, divisive, tough, mean, petty, and so forth. I have an adjective for that stack: paranoid. Fund-raisers are reportedly not going well. Mass defections from his team. God knows the economy has not helped him, and that in fact he is the problem. And his friends are all enemies, and our enemies are his friends.

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That is the question facing the mainstream media in their approach to Michele Bachmann. They are at the cusp. George Stephanopolous just set the scene by making it Bachmann’s responsibility to prepare 28 kids and foster kids (most all grown by now) for the media nightmare which is about to descend upon them. Gee, nice family you got there. It would be a reeeal shame if something happened to them, you know?

CNN’s Kiran Chetry spent her whole session clearly wrestling with Bachmann for control of the narrative. Five of six questions asked by Chetry were distractions about gaffes, including one in which she asked if this was all too distracting. Have you EVER seen any of the lefty press ask Bachmann her position on tax policy? She … Continue reading →

Republicans are now fertilizing their own Astroturf with a mixture of the remains of the last pledge and some fresh manure for flavor.  The problem is that it would only make things worse, for reasons that are pretty obvious.

Here’s the pitch:

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THE PLEDGE

I pledge to urge my Senators and Member of the House of Representatives to oppose any debt limit increase unless all three of the following conditions have been met:

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If the headline grabbed you, the letter will probably be good reading for you. If not, no explanation of mine can make it so.
I just want to express my appreciation for another Hollywood guy taking a stand on his own integrity. Thank you, Lionel Chetwyn.

We, privileged to work in the entertainment industry and enjoy the bounty our chosen career bestows on success, should never imagine ourselves the arbiters of what is permissible in the public square.

via Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » BREAKING: Lionel Chetwynd’s Open Letter of Resignation to Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors.

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How many times do we have to slay this shuckster’s career? He’s been not f-f-fading away since 1998. We already lost him as a credible candidate for any office. We already lost him as an intellectual support asset. Now we cannot seem to get his bloated political corpse off our beach.

An ABC News story details his most recent career-ending debacle as a bit of money-shuffling between charities and for-profit companies, all of which seem to bear his name. And pay him. Why, the Gingrich charity buys books from the Gingrich company! Boxes of books. Presumably these will be given to Gingrich children on Christmas. Just sign the receipt, Johnny, and then Santa gets a nice tax deduction.

A reporter tried to question him about it:

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You may have heard that that one Lesbian blogger is really a man, baby:

LONDON (AP) — A 40-year-old American man living in Scotland said Monday he’s sorry for posing as a Syrian lesbian blogger who offered vivid accounts of life amid revolt and repression in Damascus, a hoax that has exposed the difficulty of sifting truth from fiction online.
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Paula Brooks of lesbian news website Lezgetreal.com, which encouraged Amina and republished her blog entries, said she feels like a “patsy.”

You may have heard that that one Lesbian blogger is really a man, baby:

Later Monday, The Washington Post reported that an editor of lesbian news website Lezgetreal.com — who encouraged Arraf and republished her blog entries — was a man … Continue reading →

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