Dick Armey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVxrz9s0gHQ

Rep Steve King (R-IA) – making shit up as usual:

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And when he says that the Obama administration was against the amendment?  Wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6YZ1wP1978

This wasn’t easy, what with Lieberman, Robertson, and Brooks in the running, but we have a winner:

It’s as if Obama’s presidency hasn’t really started. He’s still taking inventory of the Bush years. Just this Monday, he referred to “long years of drift” in Afghanistan in order to, I suppose, explain away his own, well, yearlong drift on Afghanistan.

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Ahhhnold. Instead of signing an utterly routine bill for San Francisco, he has his GOP stooges send this:

Gov. Schwarzenegger to Tom Ammiano & SF: Fuck You [SFist]

Holy fucking Joe:

“I told Senator Reid that I’m strongly inclined — I haven’t totally decided, but I’m strongly inclined — to vote to proceed to the health care debate, even though I don’t support the bill that he’s bringing together because it’s important that we start the debate on health care reform because I want to vote for health care reform this year. But I also told him that if the bill remains what it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage. Therefore I will try to stop the passage of the bill.”

Lieberman is a whore who will do anything to stay in office.  Senator for Israel?  No problem.  Shill for big business?  Of course!

Ned Lamont needs to run again, and win.  Joe Lieberman must be driven from polite society.

Lieberman Says He’ll Filibuster Healthcare Reform if Public Option Remains [Think Progress]

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Burt Prelutsky, “a very nice person once you get to know him,” used to be somebody — “humor” columnist for the L.A. Times, movie critic for Los Angeles magazine, a TV writer whose voluminous credits include Dragnet and McMillan & Wife. Now he’s just an old fart blogging for Andrew Breitbart:

Why, in 2009 America, are mulattoes invariably identified as blacks? Surely there is nothing wrong with being a mulatto. There is no stigma attached, as once there was. It merely refers to those who have one white parent and one black. There are many notable individuals who are mulattoes, including Halle Berry, Derek Jeter, Lisa Bonet and Barack Obama. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, is a true amalgamation, being one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-quarter black, one-eighth Native American and one-eighth Dutch. And, yet, with the possible exception of the New York Yankee shortstop, we insist on identifying all of them as black.

It’s as if there is something shameful about their being half or even one-eighth white. If there is, I’d sure like to know what it is. If, on the other hand, there isn’t, why do we insist on acting as if there were?

Dunno, Burt — maybe it has something to do with the history of the word’s use in America. But just to get you up to speed, the polite term du jour appears to be “biracial.” Although we know you were itching to work in “octaroon”.

(Oh, and regarding Chia Obama: We know it’s making the rounds, but didn’t anybody notice it back in January?)

Questions Even Glenn Beck Hasn’t Asked [Big Hollywood, via Media Matters]