So we were working up a post on the latest adventures of Political Pestorkers John Ensign and David Vitter, and we were going to call it “Remembrance of Creeps Past”, and not having a clue where to go with the illustration, we entered “creep” in Google Image Search, and this turned up, and we decided it was a lot more interesting than whatever we were writing about.

Megahouse Kellogg’s 10 Collection: Tony The Tiger & Boy [PidgeonBlog]

“Roll Call reports that [Steve] King is now demanding a ‘blood oath’ from House Minority Leader John Boehner to include a repeal of health care reform in every appropriations bill next year, even if a government shutdown results.” [ThinkProgress]

Todd Henderson, a law professor at the University of Chicago, is mad as hell, and he’s not gonna take Obama’s Clinton-level tax proposal anymore:

The rhetoric in Washington about taxes is about millionaires and the super rich, but the relevant dividing line between millionaires and the middle class is pegged at family income of $250,000. (I’m not a math professor, but last time I checked $250,000 is less than $1 million.) That makes me super rich and subject to a big tax hike if the president has his way.

Without getting deep into numbers, let’s just note that Obama advocates letting the top marginal Bush tax cuts expire. This means that all your income up to $250,000 will benefit from the same extended tax breaks as everyone else. It’s only the income above $250,000 that will be taxed at the confiscatory Clinton rates. Say your income is $300,000: Instead of paying $16,500 on that last $50k, you’ll be paying $1,500 more.

Or — hold on a sec — $4.11 a day.

Hey, that’s coffee and a croissant, pal, and that’s enough to get the good professor heading for the window:

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Christine O’Donnell canceled appearances on Face the Nation and Fox News Sunday because of “commitments to church events and [an] afternoon picnic with Republicans in a key county where she has solid backing” after Friday night’s Shocking! revelation that she “dabbled into witchcraft.”

Senate hopeful O’Donnell cancels national TV spots [AP/Google]

Title: “Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama”

Author: Bill O’Reilly

Rank: 18

Blurb: “As always, O’Reilly is fair, balanced, and uncompromisingly tough when guarding the American way.”

Review: “I come from the Right, but I am more objective than most from the Left. What I personally like about O’Reilly is that even though he is from the Right, he makes every attempt to be impartial unlike his most of his competitors, who are very angry people, and show it in their commentary.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Roots of Obama’s Rage”, by Dinesh D’Souza.

Footnote: No, Bill, we haven’t forgotten.

Pinheads and Patriots [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Sarah Palin to Bill O’Reilly, Wednesday:

“I grant you that she’s going to have to learn very quickly to dismiss what some of her handlers want,” Palin said. “Go with her gut, get out there, speak to the American people, speak through Fox News, and let the independents who are tuning into you let them know what it is that she stands for.”

Well, now we know why she writes notes on her hands. They’re easier than tattoos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xheEgW3oocA

Via Rachel herself, please enjoy one of Your Fellow Americans demonstrating how an educated populace is the cornerstone of Democracy.

What? That Tom Waits riff and suspiciously slick homespun production set off your bullshit alarm? Infidel! You probably think Is-Your-Husband-Gay ChristWire is fake, too.

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