The uppity negro  also examines the Burris situation, albeit without Vitter's crushing lack of self-awareness.

Here's a weird one. Obama agreed to host a "fiscal responsibility summit" because Jim Cooper was pushing for one in December, and it was a way to get Blue Dogs to support the stimulus bill

I listened to Cathy Horyn's review of fashion week for the NYT and I was reminded of Alan Greenspan telling us that housing prices could only go up or Abby Joseph Cohen predicting Dow 1600, or maybe more aptly some speed freak frantically taping tin foil to the windows as sunrise draws near.

I guess Mike Pence as Hugh Jackman for the thinking conservative or PJTV as "a conservative answer to The View" doesn't get it done for everyone.  There's still the small problem that the country thinks your party dragged it into a ditch and mugged it for the past 8 years to deal with. Since all of the big names bagged on CPAC and potentially rendered it a loserfest, the Post offered up a free

Freshly liberated from the job of slavishly defended George Bush's every action at the behest of those who fund them, conservatives are trying a variety of ways to start organizing online. So far all have failed. As someone with experience in these things, I thought I'd use Michelle Malkin's latest attempt to start a nationwide Boston Tea Party around Rick Santelli's Angry White Male 2.0 tirade as an example

LA Times: To Ted Costa, an anti-tax advocate and leader of the drive to recall Davis, the historic ouster of a California governor has proved to be a waste. "There's a village back there in Austria right now that could sure have their idiot back any time they want," he said.Is there ever a point where your mistakes should force you to rethink dabbling in politics?

David Shuster has been having bloggers on his show regularly and whether it was the intent or not, these conversations have been consistently diverging from the traditional right/left divide that dominates most of cable TV. Today's discussion between Baratunde Thurston and Cenk Unger about the New York Post "monkey" cartoon was case in point, probably because both participants come from the progressive blogosphere which isn't simply an extension of the

And so we have a class of prisoners, some of whom may have done nothing at all and don't deserve to be held under any law that an American court would recognize. But the chance that one of them might be righteously pissed off about having been held captive and tortured for years despite their innocence, and go on to do the things that you might well imagine someone would do as a result of those circumstances, presents too much political risk for our legal system to responsibly handle.

I don't recall anyone mentioning this fragility of our legal system in junior high civics.

I'm a bit conflicted about this.  The Senate has opened an ethics probe into Roland Burris's conflicting testimony about his relationship with Rod Blagojevich -- as it should.  But the moral authority of the Senate to cast judgment in the situation is seriously compromised by their lack of action with regard to Ted Stevens, who was actually convicted on federal corruption charges.

I think we're safely in "the best and the brightest" territory, in the true sense that Halberstrom meant it.