Watertiger:

Remember the good old days?

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The Las Vegas Sun had a report Sunday that fleshed out the story of John Ensign’s philandering:

When Sen. John Ensign hired Doug Hampton to be his senior aide in November 2006, Nevada Republicans were baffled.

Hampton was an unknown, without a policy profile or political experience.

According to eight Nevada and Washington Republicans, Hampton’s chief qualification: He and Ensign were best friends, as were their wives.

“It was a hire based on a relationship,” said a prominent Republican who was granted anonymity to speak freely.

“Best pals,” said another Republican. “It was ridiculous.”

Yesterday, TPM linked to the piece and asked if perhaps Ensign hired fellow Promisekeeper Hampton to help him keep his little soldier in his pants:

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Jesus Christ:

STOCKTON (CBS13) A Stockton family says the image of Michael Jackson appeared on his tree stump the day the King of Pop died.

Like the “Virgin Grilled Mary” or “Cheesus,” the family thinks they’ve got an unusual spiritual image staring right at them from their own front yard. Felix Garcia has lived in the house for 22 years, and has never noticed the apparent image in his birch tree stump.

He might wind up bigger than Jesus.

TBogg offers the best summation I’ve seen so far:

But somewhere along the line (I’m guessing when her Alaska Trust Fund only pulled in about $125,000 of the $500,000 that they were seeking  for her mounting legal bills) she decided to cut bait and make a dash for the cash sooner rather than later. As we move farther away from the election and more little tidbits come trickling out of the McCain campaign, time is not going to be her friend.

Sarah Palin isn’t smart in what we might call conventional ways, but she has grifter smarts and knows that she can make a better living working the wingnut welfare circuit preaching to the already converted than she can in politics. She’ll never be President; you know it and she knows it. Everyone should know it. But there are a lot of rubes out there who think she’s got a shot and they’re just dumb enough to pay good money thinking it will happen. That is what she’s counting on.

And the following video is one of the most sphincter-tightening I’ve ever seen (watch AC’s face, for one thing):

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It’s all they have left …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t89Cw_r0LVk

Remember Professor William Jacobson (cradled above)?  He won Stinque’s Bad Law Professor of the Week Award. He flipped out over Barack Obama’s choice of mustard.  And now, he reveals that only he knows why The Left has problems with Sarah Palin.

It’s our hatred of one thing, and one thing only.

Trig.

A Douchebag of the Day award might be in this guy’s future.