John Cornyn (R-TX)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP9By-fHG4s

Apparently he’s not aware that India is our ally.

All this to save a plane we don’t use, especially in the rain.

Staying classy, Joyce Thomann, the president of the Maryland based Republican Women of Ann Arundel County posted an observation on that group’s website that has some people talking:

Obama and Hitler have a great deal in common in my view. Obama and Hitler use the ‘blitzkrieg’ method to overwhelm their enemies. FAST, CARPET BOMBING intent on destruction. Hitler’s blitzkrieg bombing destroyed many European cities – quickly and effectively. Obama is systematically destroying the American economy and with it AMERICA. First the banking/investment industry, next private enterprise (GM and Chrysler) and now HEALTH CARE. And he is working on grabbing more of the American economy with his environmental extremism!

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Today we have three candidates:

Bachmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7uqza5hTiw

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Jeffrey Rosen:

Of course, Judge Sotomayor should be confirmed to the Supreme Court. She obviously wasn’t my first choice, for reasons I reported three weeks ago, having mostly to do with concerns about her temperament reported to me by former clerks and New York prosecutors. But I hope and assume the White House wrestled seriously with those questions of temperament and weighed them against Sotomayor’s other obvious strengths.

The Sotomayor Nomination [TNR]

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SFL wrote this post for me (for which I thank her), because I am busy being slowly driven mad by my contemporaries.  But enough of that.

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Is it the rarefied air of entitlement that leads to the children of politicians to be even more of a douchebag than their office-holding parent?

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In a thrilling come-from-behind win, it’s Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC):

Gov. Mark Sanford is taking the General Assembly to court after lawmakers required him to accept $350 million in disputed federal money by overriding his budget vetoes.

Sanford quickly announced the federal suit after the Senate voted 34-11 on a state budget that forces him to accept the money.

Shithead.

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Michael Patrick Leahy:

Stephanie of Teablogging is being sued by teabagging Less Creepy Bill Whittle for going through public records and discovering that the erstwhile teabagger doesn’t like to pay his taxes until legal actions are taken against him.

Stephanie’s wonderful blog is here. You can read the first page of Leahy’s complaint here – I have no idea why you can’t see the rest of it. Here’s the whole complaint.

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