From the AP:

Eight years later, after serving a term as President George H.W. Bush’s housing secretary, he made it onto the national ticket as Bob Dole’s running-mate.

With that loss, the Republican bowed out of political office, but not out of politics. In speaking engagements and a syndicated column, he continued to advocate for the tax reform and supply-side policies — the idea that the more taxes are cut the more the economy will grow — that he pioneered.

Not to speak ill of the dead, but I will.  Benjamin Disraeli said it best:

“He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”

Discuss.

The leader of the right’s most prominent online community, RedState, is losing his shit.  From Twitter:

ewerickson LMRM. The nation loses the only goat fucking child molester to ever serve on the Supreme Court in losing David Souter. #TCOT #RS

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Apparently, she has a pair of ears too:

What seemed like temporary clouds only months ago has transformed into a tropical storm approaching category one hurricane status. When DraftStormy launched its efforts to draft Baton Rouge native Stormy Daniels to run for United States Senate late last January, we were labeled a “cheap political stunt.” The old Louisiana status quo that has been in power for decades could not comprehend the tsunami of grassroots support Stormy Daniels generated among the working men and women of Louisiana.

I expect Vitter’s testicles are shriveling as I write this.

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This is Wendy Long.  She runs something called the Judicial Confirmation Network.  She used to clerk for everyone’s favorite judicial sociopath, Clarence Thomas.  And now that Obama gets to put someone on the Supreme Court, she’s having a tantrum.

The current Supreme Court is a liberal, judicial activist court. Obama could make it even more of a far-left judicial activist court, for a long time to come, if he appoints radicals like Diane Wood, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. A new Justice in this mold would just entrench a bad majority for a long time.

I do not think that word means what Wendy thinks it means.

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RIP Chrysler.  Sure it’s just Chapter 11, but it will never be the same.

Now bring on the Fiat 500s!

Chrysler Officially Files for Bankruptcy, to Partner with Fiat [Jalopnik]

Bill Cunningham.  The money shot is about one minute in.

He manages to make Geraldo Rivera look thoughtful.  I thought that couldn’t be done.

Apparently Israel has its own Michele Bachmann:

JERUSALEM (AP) — The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed “Mexican” influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.

Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and “we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu,” he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.

The stupid. It’s everywhere.

Bonus kosher wankery here.

Israeli Official: Swine Flu Name Offensive [AP]