Shrillary the "moderate" to attend nutroots convention

Spurning the "centrist" (in name, anyway) Democratic Leadership Council that her hubby was a part of, Her Highness is aligning herself with the Kos kooks by going to their annual tinfoil fest. From Michelle Malkin:

Hillary is worried about her left flank. How worried? She has made a decision to allow her communications director to go on The O’Reilly Factor tonight to defend Hillary’s upcoming appearance at the Yearly Kos convention.
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Live by the nutroots, die by the nutroots. Hillary has proved a dumb investor before. Cattle futures, anyone?

It’s only a matter of time before she discovers how unwise her netroots investment is. Tinfoil, anyone?

From the '06 Kostards konvention. You just can't make this up!

Quote of the day, with some perspective

From Globe Gazette:

Mason City VFW members are refusing to march in the Clear Lake Fourth of July parade Wednesday because they are not being allowed to fire their rifles.

The Secret Service, in Clear Lake to provide protection for former president Bill Clinton and his wife, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, will not allow firearms in the parade, said Jim Kantaris, quartermaster of VFW Post 733 in Mason City.

“There’s too much political stuff. They’re making us change 50 years of tradition because of two people,” said Kantaris. “And one of them is a draft dodger who turned the White House into a whorehouse.”

While I certainly love the "White House into a whorehouse" comment, I have to disagree with Kantaris' view on the gun thing for one reason: it is a security issue with a former president and his partner in crime "wife" there.

Obviously, I'm no fan of Bubba or Shrillary, Duh. But I have enough respect for the office of the president to know that former presidents should be entitled to maximum protection, and while the guns may fire blanks, it's still a security risk. Yes, it sucks to deviate from tradition, but them's the breaks.

Quote of the day

Her Highness on Bush's pardoning of Scooter Libby:

"...in this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice." - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y."

Geez, since when did Shrillary get so mad at her husband for cronyism and ideology trumping competence? Oh, wait...she wasn't talking about Bubba, was she? It was a Republican she was referencing. Well, that's different!

Pots and kettles are coming to mind right now. Not sure why.

"Bernstein: Clintons Would Operate Joint Presidency"

From the NY Sun:

If Americans elect Senator Clinton as president next year, they will also be re-electing her husband, according to the author of a new biography of the former first lady.

Carl Bernstein, one of the reporters who broke the Watergate scandal which brought down President Nixon, told the Daily Telegraph that the couple would operate a joint presidency in which President Clinton would advise on policy and tactics as well as act as troubleshooter.

"There is no question in my mind it would be a co-presidency because he has better judgment than she does on most political matters. He would be a constant presence," Mr. Bernstein said.

And exactly how would this differ from the Bubba presidency? This confirms what the rest of us have already known: (1) the Clintons don't have a "marriage" as much as they have a "power-sharing partnership"; (2) Her Highness is NOT going to "be her own woman" in this campaign or in her (God in Heaven forbid) presidency, should we have the misfortune of experiencing it.

Let the boo-birds eat cake!

How dare those miscreants boo Her Highness? From NRO:

Sen. Hillary Clinton was booed again this morning at the Take Back America conference, sponsored by the lefty activist group Campaign for America's Future here in Washington. At this same conference last year, Sen. Clinton was booed for her position on the war in Iraq. This morning, she was enthusiastically received as she bashed the Bush administration — "a stunning record of secrecy and corruption" — but the crowd became less friendly when, at the end of her speech, she turned to Iraq.

"We're going to end the war in Iraq and finally bring home the troops," she said as a number of Code Pink protesters stood up in the audience. When she declared, "The American military has done its job," boos began to be heard around the room. As the boos increased, Sen. Clinton raised her voice. "The American military has succeeded," she said, to more boos. "It is the Iraqi government that has failed to make the tough decisions." Still more boos.

At that point, there was a round of cheers. "I love coming here every year," Clinton said. "I see the signs, 'Get Us Out of Iraq Now.' That's what we're trying to do."

So the moonbats got their red meat with the "corruption" and "secrecy", but then she had to piss them off by giving props (however disingenuous) to the soldiers. But hey...they "support the troops", right?

Photo of the day

As the cliché says, a picture is worth a thousand words. No surprise that a Che-loving commie pinko supports Her Highness, considering how Che and Hill are two peas in a pod:

Hilldawg posing with one of her commie supporters.

Shrillary calls on another corrupt Dem to run her campaign

Looking to one-up her decision to use an impeached federal judge to help her ascension in power, Her Highness has enlisted the help of another corrupt Democrat, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ). From the AP:

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Tuesday that New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez (news, bio, voting record) will serve as co-chair of her presidential campaign, providing her with a strong link to the Hispanic community.

In a joint news conference, the New York senator said she appreciates Menendez' support and called him "the embodiment of the American dream."

If, by "the American dream", she means profiting from a business arrangement with a publicly funded non-profit organization, then Menendez is indeed such an "embodiment". It's like the Clintons just can't help themselves when it comes to associating with corruption.

Shrillary's got game?

From NewsMax:

Hillary Clinton: I Play Pickup Basketball

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton loves to tell whoppers.

Her latest: she has played "pickup basketball.”

It’s the latest in tall-tale fibs she has been spinning to make herself more likeable to voters.

The New York Times revealed Hillary’s problem in a feature article this weekend headlined "Hillary Clinton Searches for Her Inner Jock.”

Noting that Americans like their president to be active in sports, Hillary, at first blush, doesn’t seem to pass the grade.

"Voters expect their presidents to throw out the first pitch; they are used to George W. Bush clearing brush, Bill Clinton playing golf, George H.W. Bush racing speedboats, and Ronald Reagan riding horseback.”

Hillary’s MySpace page claims she is a "speedwalker” also with using her leisure time to do "crossword puzzles, Scrabble and gardening.”

This spells B-O-R-I-N-G.

The Times quotes one Hillary donor explaining the dilemma: "How does 59-year-old Mama run against sexy [Barack] Obama?”

One way may be to play "make believe.”

Last week, Hillary joined tennis pro Billie Jean King for a Women for Hillary event.

"I played softball, I played pickup basketball, I played tennis,” Hillary claimed at the event.

Hillary remembered she even had won a trophy once in an Arkansas mixed-doubles tournament.

But her "pickup basketball” story appears to be a feeble effort to play catch up with Obama’s athleticism. He does play basketball, along with vigorous and frequent workouts at the gym.

For sure, Hillary has a propensity to make things up when she gets into a political bind.

Among Hillary’s more hilarious claims:

She was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. who climbed Mount Everest.

She was a Yankees fan when she lived in Chicago.

She told upstate New Yorkers she had been a "duck hunter.”

She claimed on Sept. 11 daughter Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center.

More whoppers omitted from the story:

Believed Bill was not a womanizer and was thus surprised by the Lewinsky thing.

Didn't know how those Rose Law Firm billing records appeared in plain sight in an area that had been searched numerous times.

Was going to join the Marine Corps because she loves them so, but was told she was too old, too blind, and too female (the latter of which is highly doubtful).

Shrillary hires impeached judge to chair her prez campaign

From The American Princess:

Remember Alcee Hastings?
You know, put his girlfriend (disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court) on to the public payroll, investigated for ethics violations, disgraced former judge currently being investigated by both the Florida and Federal Elections Commissions, so guilty of exhorting a ($150,000) bribe that even John Conyers voted to convict and impeach him, stripping him of his spot on the Federal bench (though, to be fair, he was acquitted at his criminal trial, though he did commit perjury and manufacture evidence), Alcee Hastings?

Yeah, that guy.

Well, he's just been appointed Co-Chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 Presidential Campaign.

The Clinton Campaign today announced that Florida Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Congressman Alcee Hastings have been named national Campaign Co-Chairs...

"I am delighted that Debbie and Alcee will take on leadership roles in my campaign," Clinton said. "With their help, we will bring our message of change throughout Florida and across the country."

If that does not bespeak volumes of the class of the Clinton campaign and color a vision of the future should their be a Clinton presidency, we're not sure what would, short of us beating you over the head, personally, with a copy of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Its a bit like stating the obvious--that you know, say, that Clay Aiken is hiding out in the closet--but yet still being continually amazed that no one cares, and that, despite the smack-you-head-on-the-desk obviousness of it all, there can still be news reports and album sales that make you go..."wow. What's next? Making Cynthia McKinnon (sic) the potential new head of the Capitol Police?"

And even that might not be so unexpected.

When it comes to Clintons and criminality/corruption, some things never change.

"KILL THIS BOOK: NYT REVIEW TRASHES HILLARY BIO -- WRITTEN BY LEGENDARY NYT REPORTERS"

That's the Drudge headline. Details:

Editors of the NEW YORK TIMES are set to publish a highly-critical review of a book written by famed NEW YORK TIMES reporters, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

In 'HER WAY', Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. have written what will become mandatory reading for Clinton's opponents.

"The book is almost uniformly negative and overly focused on what they consider the Clintons' scandalous past and the darker aspects of Hillary Clinton's personality... The evidence of such a pact -- interviews that have already been challenged in the press -- is less than convincing," writes Robert Dallek in a review set for the paper.

"Carl Bernstein, the veteran journalist of Woodward-and-Bernstein Watergate fame, presents a more balanced and convincing picture of Clinton in his competing biography."

Dallek slams: "Gerth and Van Natta seem to detect no angels in Clinton's nature whatsoever, much less better ones, and the result is a one-sided figure who never quite springs to life or feels truly authentic."

[Gerth worked at the NYT for over 25 years.]

Pardon me while I laugh my posterior off over the NYT's feigned outrage at a lack of "balance". Seriously, that's darned funny.

The MSM, specifically the Old Gray Hag fishwrap, is going to abandon all pretense of objectivity (though apparently they'll trash anyone else if they perceive them doing the same) and do its level best to get the Hildebeast elected. If they have to trash some of their own for seeing this woman as being the evil power-hungry heavy-handed ruthless bitch that she is, then they will do so without hesitation. But no...no liberal media bias!

Photo of the day

Her Highness might want to get a corporate spellchecker, because Dan Quayle may have had his dirty little fingerprints all over this one:

Who is Tom Morrow?

Shrillary touts message of socialism

But she's not a socialist, mind you, even if she sounds one. From the AP:

Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad economic vision Tuesday, saying it's time to replace an "on your own" society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.

The Democratic senator said what the Bush administration touts as an "ownership society" really is an "on your own" society that has widened the gap between rich and poor.

"I prefer a 'we're all in it together' society," she said. "I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none."

That means pairing growth with fairness, she said, to ensure that the middle-class succeeds in the global economy, not just corporate CEOs.

"There is no greater force for economic growth than free markets. But markets work best with rules that promote our values, protect our workers and give all people a chance to succeed," she said. "Fairness doesn't just happen. It requires the right government policies."
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"We have sent a message to our young people that if you don't go to college ... that you're thought less of in America." (Actually, John Kerry sent that message with the "stuck in Iraq" thingy. - Ed.)

I'm wondering: By "special privileges for none", does she mean "being above the law"? She and her hubby wouldn't know anything about that, now would they? And by "fairness", she means "as determined by the imperial federal government", so you just know it's truly "fair", right?

Her assault on and contempt for the rights of the individual are well documented. Yikes. Marx would be proud.

Porn star endorses Shrillary

Color me with the "unsurprised" crayon. From JustHillary:

PR.com: "Do you find that the climate of the adult industry changes when there is a Republican administration versus Democratic?"

Jenna Jameson: "Absolutely. The Clinton administration was the best years for the adult industry and I wish that Clinton would run again. I would love to have him back in office.

I bet you would, Jenna. I bet you would.

Hillary: I'm not a socialist chick like that French loser!

The Hildebeast is in damage control mode. From the Washington comPost:

There was a time when advisers to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) looked abroad for proof that women can get elected to a top leadership role in the modern world: Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister; Angela Merkel, the German chancellor; and Michelle Bachelet, the president of Chile.

But as presidential candidate Ségolène Royal was defeated by a conservative man who had been France's chief law enforcement officer, the Clinton campaign was quick to dismiss comparisons between their candidate and her Socialist counterpart across the Atlantic. "Other than the fact that they are both women, they don't have much in common," said Howard Wolfson, Clinton's communications director.

Yeah, aside from that whole recurring "taking your stuff for the common good" thing, they're totally different, huh? Continuing:

Clinton advisers said that, if anything, Royal proved that a woman must run with a focus on her credentials. Clinton allies saw the race as evidence that the New York senator is running the right kind of campaign, a substantive one -- even if it means she is sometimes accused of lacking charisma.

"Sometimes"? She's about as charismatic as a bullfrog with gonorrhea.

Exit question: Do you think Shrillary's handlers would be downplaying similarities if Segolene had won, crowing that Segolene's win is good news for Her Highness as proof that voters aren't afraid to support a "strong" woman as leader?

Hillary no longer invincible

This is not to suggest that she is done. However, she once had this aura of invincibility, and that aura is gone. From Donald Lambro:

Hillary Clinton's negatives keep climbing, raising new questions about her electability and improving the prospects of her chief rivals for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

The New York senator's favorability ratings took a nosedive in mid-April, dropping from 58 percent in February to 45 percent, according to latest Gallup Poll. It was her lowest favorability score since 1993.

A 52 percent majority of the voters now say they have a negative view of her candidacy. That compares to her closest rival, Sen. Barack Obama, who was rated favorably by 52 to 27 percent.

Clinton still held on to her front-runner status in most polls last week, but pollsters and political analysts tell me she is losing the support of strategic blocs in her party's base, including women, liberals and independents, who feel she has waffled on withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.

"The recent decline in her image appears to be broad based" among most key voter subgroups, Gallup said.

Even more troubling for her campaign, the Gallup poll of registered voters (taken April 13 to April 15) also showed Clinton losing her double-digit lead over Obama, who now trails her by a slim 5 percentage points in the survey (31 percent to 26 percent). In other polls, the two are virtually tied.

Veteran campaign pollsters, and many Democratic strategists, shocked by her weak numbers, no longer consider her the unbeatable front-runner.

"It's still early in the campaign and it's hard to bet against a Clinton, they're winners. However, the inevitability factor (in her candidacy) is no longer there," independent (sic) pollster John Zogby told me.
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"Hillary isn't wearing well. It seems as if the more people see her, the less they like her," former Bill Clinton campaign adviser Dick Morris wrote at the Townhall Web site. (Maybe because she's a cold, calculating, phony, aloof, Marxist bitch? - Ed.)

"Now for the first time, her low likeability levels are costing her votes, as Democratic-party voters are abandoning her to support Barack Obama," Morris said. "She is losing her base."

Obviously, polls at this stage are meaningless. Kerry (who is rumored to have served in Vietnam) wasn't the frontrunner in any polls until the weekend before the Iowa caucus in 2004, while Dean was virtually considered a lock. Didn't happen that way. So while I wouldn't read this as a sign that Hillary's going to lose, it certainly shows that she's not a shoo-in at this juncture.

Shrillary breaks out drawl again

Having learned nothing from the ridicule she endured the first time she tried her faux Southern charm (since she has the charm of a rattlesnake with herpes), Her Highness decided to give it another whirl. Video clip here.

BEVERAGE WARNING! Put down your Coke, coffee, water, adult beverage, or whatever. You're not gonna believe this shizit:

“We have to reform our government,” she said. “The abuses that have gone on in the last six years — I don’t think we know the half of it yet. You know, when I walk into the Oval Office in January of 2009, I’m afraid I’m going to lift up the rug and I’m going to see so much stuff under there.”

..."You know, what is it about us always having to clean up after people?" she asked. "But this is not just going to be picking up socks off the floor. ...

Presumably, it won't involve a stained blue dress or shredded billing records, either. And she wants to talk about cleaning things up? As Ian observes: "If you’re actually coming back to the White House, it might be best if you brought back all that stuff you stole when you left last time.
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MEMO TO HILLARY: When your name is "Clinton", and you attack the ethics of the Bush administration...DO NOT MENTION THE OVAL OFFICE CARPET. Cripes. No wonder Gore’s thinking about getting in on this action."

Stones and glass houses are coming to mind, as are pots and kettles.

"The left blackballs the Black Caucus"

From Opinion Journal:

In the battle for control of the Democratic Party, the George Soros-MoveOn.org crowd is used to getting its way. So it's revealing to watch the consternation in those precincts to the Congressional Black Caucus decision to co-sponsor a pair of Presidential primary debates this year with Fox News.

Liberal activists are livid, to say the least, with one anti-Fox pressure group condemning the Black Caucus for "dancing with the devil." Color of Change, a coalition of black online activists, says the collaboration promulgates "bigoted, hate-filled worldviews." Markos Moulitsas, the DailyKos front man, calls the CBC "corrupt and compromised" for "doing Fox's bidding." His implication is that Black Caucus Members have somehow been bought off, though there is no evidence to support the slur. This is to say nothing of some of the more vicious blog chatter, much of it carrying racial connotations.

All of this induced Howard Dean's Democratic National Committee to announce last week that it won't "sanction" the CBC debates. John Edwards also repeated his profiles-in-courage act by announcing that he won't participate in the CBC-Fox debate. This follows last month's pander when he, the Nevada Democratic Party and Nevada Senator Harry Reid knelt before MoveOn.org demands that another scheduled primary debate co-hosted by Fox be called off. And yesterday Barack Obama bowed to the mob by declaring he also won't attend; so much for the Senator's promise to change the tenor of our politics.

The Internet vigilantes would like to drum Fox News out of polite society, but it's clear from the Black Caucus episode that this isn't really about Fox. This is about who runs the Democratic Party. Ever since they came close to nominating Howard Dean for President in 2004, left-wing Web activists have tried to punish any Democrat who dares to step out of line. They tried to run Joe Lieberman out of the Party for his views on Iraq, and they want to banish California Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher because she's voted for free trade agreements.

The pitchfork carriers now want to tell elected Democratic officials which journalists they can appear in public with. Messrs. Edwards and Obama are bowing to those orders because they've decided they can only defeat Hillary Clinton by running to her left. Of course if by some miracle one of them wins the nomination, he'll be known as the candidate from MoveOn.org in the general election too. Republicans will have fun with that one.

Yes, but as incompetent as the GOP is these days, I don't have any faith in their ability to parlay that alliance between the Dem nominee and their moonbat masters into electoral victory. Continuing:

The Black Caucus has a different agenda, which is to win elections and hold the Democratic majority in Congress. A spokesman for the CBC Institute, which organizes these educational functions, says the goal is to reach the "broadest audience possible." This seems sensible enough, especially because Fox's market research shows that more than half its audience is Democrats and independents.

So much for that "it's a Republican network" myth. Continuing:

In fact, the caucus went out of its way to be, well, fair and balanced. It is co-sponsoring two primary debates on Fox, one Democratic and one Republican, and is doing the same on CNN. In 2003, the CBC also joined with Fox News on two Democratic debates that came off successfully. (This page has its own weekend show on Fox.)

The CBC deserves credit for not capitulating to ideological intimidation--and for refusing to take orders from affluent and angry liberals who've never run for office. Too bad the candidates have weaker knees.

Too bad for the CBC that they're still seen as chattle by the moonbat plantation owners.

Bush vs. Congress on pork-laden Iraq spending bill

From Dick Morris:

Democrats in Congress are heading into a game of chicken with the Bush White House akin to the Gingrich-Clinton government shutdown battle of 1995-96. The roles are reversed this time - so the Republicans are likely to prevail.

The consequences will be lasting. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will find their party shattered. Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be forced to choose sides in their party's schism.

The game will unfold predictably. The House and the Senate will compromise on the differences in their legislation funding the Iraq War; the end product, carrying poison-pill language that sets a deadline for troop withdrawal, will go to the White House to face an inevitable presidential veto. The Democrats' override attempt will fail - and a deadlock will ensue.

Then the Democrats will threaten to withhold funding for the war in Iraq unless the White House agrees to some form of deadline. The Bush administration will reply that it will never agree to a schedule for troop withdrawal - and both sides will glare at the other across an abyss.

But Bush will, inevitably, win the game of chicken. Pelosi and Reid have too much sense to be caught denying funding to troops in combat. Bush will make the price of obstinacy too great for the Democrats to bear.

Nobody will want to be in the position of cutting off funding and appearing to undermine the troops during a war.

But the consequences for Pelosi of a retreat will be serious: She'll leave behind her the party's left - who will never vote for funding without also mandating withdrawal. Pelosi will have to scramble and craft a majority with a combination of Republican votes and support from the center of her own party.

The speaker will probably wind up having to vote against the majority of her Democratic members. That spectacle won't be healthy for her future authority or control.

If the Republicans are smart, they will let Pelosi hang by her own rope and will force her to break her party apart by twisting arms for every last vote to pass a funding bill.
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The left will not forgive a vote to fund the war without requiring a withdrawal date - but the general electorate will not look kindly on pulling back funds during a war.

For his part, President Bush needs to stand firm as this process unfolds. The split the funding resolution will catalyze in the Democratic Party may be his party's only hope of hanging onto the White House in 2008. He should resist calls for compromise, since any halfway solution or diplomatic wording that could appeal to both sides will rescue the Democrats from the horns of their dilemma - and run most or all of the risks for the troops and the mission in Iraq as the current bills present.

Bush should demand a clean appropriations bill or guarantee a veto. If he doesn't flinch and congressional Republicans don't defect, it will be bad news for the Democrats.

This is a rather rosy assessment by Morris that makes what I believe to be a very faulty assumption. The assumption is that if the Dem Congress sends Bush a pork-laden Iraq appropriations bill and Bush vetoes it, the Dems in Congress would look bad. With the MSM on the Dems' side? Pfffft! Puh-leeeeze!

I recall the government shutdown of 1995-96 quite well. Bubba's approval ratings were quite low before the shutdown, as evidenced by his party's monumental and wholesale electoral #sskicking in November '94. The new GOP Congress sent Bubba a budget that slashed federal spending on a plethora of wasteful (and unconstitutional) programs. The GOP banked on Bubba signing the bill to avoid risking the government shutdown, and since his approval ratings were already low, surely he'd sign it. They bet on the wrong horse.

Bubba got in front of his sycophants in the media and blamed the mean ol' GOP for wanting to shut down the government because he wouldn't let them starve kids and kick old people in the streets. Only a boob would believe that was the GOP's desires, but fortunately for Bubba, many a leftist boob work in the MSM. Bubba and the MSM successfully demonized the GOP Congress for shutting down the government, Bubba's approval ratings rebounded, and he went on to win a decisive re-election effort.

Shoe's on the other foot now. We have a Republican president and a Democrat Congress threatening a train wreck. Who would the MSM demonize? Morris seems to think it will be the Dems who get demonized. I'd like to think he's right on this, but I don't. The MSM is just too freakin' slanted to allow Mistress Nancy and Harry "Land Shark" Reid, not to mention Shrillary and Osamabama, to take a big hit on this. The headlines would read "Bush denies Iraq soldiers funds, food, weapons".

Miss dhimmi in Syria, but Mistress Chicken in D.C.!

Begging for a caption

Yowsers.

News bytes

Sirius Satellite Radio is planning on putting a TV service in 2008 automobiles. Thank goodness! It's not nearly distracting enough to talk on a cell phone while driving, so let's go ahead and watch TV while we're driving, too.

Trying to bolster her anti-war credentials (which are shaky, considering she supported the war), Her Highness has procured the endorsement of George "One State" McGovern. What a feather in her cap, huh? Now if she can only work on other huge presidential election losers like Jimmy "the Dhimmi" Carter (6 states), Walter "One State" Mondale (hey, unlike Gore, he DID win his own state), Michael "Tank" Dukakis (6 states), she'll be a lock for the Dems' nominee.

Club Gitmo's jihadis love Harry Potter. Personally, I thought being subjected to it would be considered torture, but apparently Mohammed is a big fan.

The Congressional Black Caucus is teaming with Fox News for two 2008 primary debates. The nutroots are getting their patchouli in a lather. To add insult to injury, the CBC explains their partnership with the scourge of the left because they are "committed to presenting the presidential candidates to the broadest audience possible." Ouch.

Bush is a fan of the blogosphere. The MSM objects, and describes blogs thusly: "Most operate without editors and give instant reaction to the news. Their freewheeling, open nature makes them popular but also ripe for unverified statements." The MSM is accusing blogs of "unverified statements"? Pots and kettles are coming to mind right now.

Imus accuses David Gregory of largely contributing to the downward spiral of NBC News. Gregory squirms. Hilarity ensues. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Did John McCain almost bolt the GOP before Jumpin' Jim Jeffords did in 2001? Dems say yes. Johnny Mac says no. Read into it what you will.