Scarecrow

It’s time for the White House strategist who convinced Obama that giving up is a great political plan months before a seminal election to come out and take a bow. It’s working . . . for the Republicans.

The nation’s stupidest woman to ever be a national party’s VP candidate tried to explain why it was that Massachusetts’ Republican Senator Scott Brown would use the leverage Senate Democrats give to the 60th vote to water down and corrupt otherwise useful legislation.

Times columnist Tom Friedman watched the movie Invictus and writes that he wishes Iraq’s leaders would emulate Nelson Mandela’s “we have to surprise them,” by displaying religious/ethnic tolerance and magnanimous statesmanship in Iraq, because, I guess, Suck. On. This diplomacy is, uh, not helpful.

Franklin Graham, son of the Reverend Billy Graham, tells us how to evaluate Barack Obama’s claims of being a Christian. Although Barack was, according to Graham, born a Muslim, because he got that “seed” from Dad, we can’t question when Barack says he’s a Christian. Phew!

Yet another foolish Democrat, this time Missouri Senate candidate, Robin Carnahan, thinks we should extend the Bush tax cuts for the richest Americans, because “now is not a good time for raising taxes.” Are they truly that clueless about what the choices are?

Every morning, Politico’s Mike Allen calls the White House to see if the usual White House Coward or one of his lackeys will feed him some nice tidbit from the daily White House Spin. Today’s is about Social Security.

Howard Dean, who once stood for some decent principles, tells us that those who want to build a Muslim center in New York City should be looking for a “compromise” that would place the center somewhere that didn’t cause a controversy. So long, Howard.

MSNBC host Cenk Uygur gave Chris Van Hollen, the Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), multiple opportunities to say Democrats would not support any cuts in Social Security, including in the form of delaying the retirement age. Van Hollen carefully failed every test.

TPM’s David Kurtz reports that a spokesperson for Harry Reid has issued a statement in which he courageously calls on Muslims not to build a worship center anywhere that he might find inconvenient for his election

For some unknown reason, the NYT prints on its front page a confusing column by Floyd Norris, who seems surprised, shocked that interest rates are at record low levels when everyone the Times normally cites/quotes predicted just the opposite.