Ladies and gentlemen, we might have a new low in GOP smear campaigns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3o8hHTAcPI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2DJpcIu5cY

At last – we have some news about our favorite Promisekeepers. Ensign not only won’t resign, he’s going to run again in 2012. Entitled, anyone?

As for our favorite governor, would it surprise you if discovered he got some help from the conservative media while he was “hiking the Appalachian trail”?  Not me:

In an email to Sanford press secretary Joel Sawyer, Brendan Miniter, an editor of the Wall Street Journal‘s OpinionJournal.com, called out his own paper’s first-day coverage (sub. req.) of the story, writing: “Someone at WSJ should be fired for today’s story. Ridiculous.”

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You Gullyvornians would have been better off with Spitzer the hooker-fucker. How is a one-minute, content-free video going to fix what’s wrong?

Every other lefty blog is posting this, so why should we be any different?  Stick with it until the end.

As if I wasn’t angry enough that snakehandlers like Ensign and Sanford have powerful positions, now I find that those C Street fuckers are associated with these shitbags:

According to the Washington Post, however, the Fellowship Foundation is itself linked to an even more secretive religious organization — Youth With a Mission (YWAM), whose Washington, DC branch owns the “C Street House” where Ensign has lived and where Sanford has participated in Bible study.

A diarist at Daily Kos points out that “YWAM founder leader Loren Cunningham has publicly outlined a vision for Christian world-control,” which involves establishing domination over government, education, business, the media, and other areas.

Here’s the really scary part:

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It’s not often that I bitch about my place of residence, the Upper West Side, but today is an exception.  Which is worse?

This?

After crying poverty for months, Mayor Bloomberg authorized fat raises Friday for 6,692 of his managers and nonunion employees, worth $69 million over two years.

The raises, which will cover virtually all his City Hall staffers, but not himself, will match those given to District Council 37, the city’s largest municipal union.

There will be a 4% raise retroactive to March 3 of last year, and a compounded 4% raise – or 4.16% – retroactive to March 3 of this year.

Or this?

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