Florida GOP mob capo Jim Greer was stuffed in the bag this morning by Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents on a charge he looted the state party organization of more than $100,000.

Greer was forced out his gig as party chairman in January amid outrage that he was using party revenues to fund a non-stop bacchanalia that was too Caligulan even for the party of oligarchic excess, complaints that attracted the attention of state law enforcement officials.

The Fort Laudersale Sun-Sentinel reported on the subsequent indictment that hopefully will put this piece of shit away for decades:

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“Friends of John McCain” release a campaign video that touches on today’s emerging theme of Man-Horse Relations. If you’re going to bury Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment, why not send it off in style?

[via Political Wire]

Fox asks: “Do you think the vice president’s use of foul language to describe the [healthcare] bill was offensive, or not?” 57 percent of Americans answer: No big fucking whoop. [Plum Line, via Political Wire]

“J.D. Shapiro, the dude who wrote Battlefield Earth, issued a two-page formal apology for contributing to the barley-covered shit bomb that is L. Ron Hubbard’s Ishtar! While Battlefield Earth is Xenu’s favorite circle jerk porn, most of us had to eat every kind of anti-depressant on the market to get through the first hour. J.D. blames it all on his penis.” [D-Listed]

The plan would be a diabolical one had it been planned this way all along: destroy the GOP by allowing it to destroy itself in a fit of self-destructive, ideological pique. With health care costs in these United States spiraling out of control, something clearly has to be done to protect average Americans who are coming face to face with the sad reality that, in America, losing your job means losing your health insurance, and that, in turn, often means losing everything you’ve work so hard your entire life to build. Read more »

Jamie Sommers refers us to the following:

Bueno.

CNN has confirmed that Laura Ling and Euna Lee are, in fact, out of North Korea and on the plane with Bill Clinton.

All snark about Bubba succeeding (and perhaps showing up Bill Richardson in the process) aside: allow me to say the only thing that matters.

They’re coming home.  Thank God.