Tom Daschle’s old Pontiac lasted more than 238,000 miles, and spewed god knows how much crap into the air.

Before He Got Senatized, Tom Daschle Used to Be Just Like Us [FamousDC, via Sully]

Can you imagine the desperation of these assclowns? 

The ubiquitous Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber” and “Joe the War Correspondent,” will soon add a new moniker to his profile — “Joe the Economist.” Politico reports that House GOP congressional aides decided to invite Wurzelbacher to a meeting on the stimulus in hopes that it will attract some media attention.

Yes, I know, he managed not to get himself killed or kidnapped when he was in Gaza.

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One of our favorite West Wing moments — besides Martin Sheen chewing up the scenery in Latin — involves a series of live remote interviews that President Bartlet gives to local TV morning shows.

The setup is simple: The camera light turns green, the feed is live. The light turns red, it’s safe to say what you really think about Rob Lowe’s acting.

Red, green, red, green, the segments continue. Only Bartlet misses a cue and tells a local anchor something he shouldn’t, leaving his staff to put out fires the rest of the episode.

The twist is that the “slip” is intentional. By pretending to be off-guard, Bartlet scores an important point that a conventional delivery wouldn’t achieve.

Which brings us to Rush Limbaugh.

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Bank of America SuperBowl Orgy & Festival of Wanton Greed & Entitlement Makes Taxpayers Vomit Blood and Puss and Shriek for the Skulls of Bank of America Execs.

Bank of America is one of those institutions that can only exist in a fascist dystopia ruled by savagedly fuckwitted gangsters, a bank so criminally incompetent that its very size and raging degeneracy now threatens the larger national economy.

It entered the naughts a huge, mostly West-coast bank, known for the cackling imbecility of its employees and the rapaciousness of its fee schemes that force its banking customers to pay horrific charges for services that were free 20 years ago. In short, Bank of America was the equivalent of a really stupid biker gang of a bank, dangerous if you got near it but mostly easy to avoid.

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Senator David Vitter (R-LA) pays for fucking.  Stormy Daniels gets paid to fuck. On camera.  She’s a stripper and a porn star.

And she just might run for Vitter’s senate seat.

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Wonderful news:

A new Rasmussen poll further demonstrates that the GOP could be in for a long stretch in the wilderness: A majority of GOP voters now say that the party should be more like Sarah Palin.

The numbers: 55% of Republicans say the party should be like Palin, compared to 24% who say they should be like John McCain.

More cowbell.  They need lots more cowbell.

Poll: Republicans Want Party to be Like Palin [TPMDC]

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