Bill Richardson is being tapped for Commerce Secretary.  Seriously.

You got a guy with loads of foreign policy experience and who — by the by — can speak the main languages of everybody on this side of the planet, outside of Brazil and Quebec.  And you slot him at Commerce, instead of the State Department? Does that make any damn sense to any of you?

Yo, Obamaplex: Hillary is good, but she ain’t that good.

From: mail@teamsarah.org
Subject: On Team Sarah: Not funny, David!
Date: November 21, 2008 7:48:07 AM PST

A message to all members of Team Sarah

Such hypocrites!  

Two nights ago, David Letterman, in interviewing Katie Couric, described Gov. Palin as “the first vice presidential candidate that I found myself being aroused about.”

It is ghastly that this kind of discourteous, indecent talk should pass for conversational fodder — even on late night TV.

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The Instapundit has a new column up at Forbes and, as you’d expect, it sucks.

“War is the health of the state,” wrote Randolph Bourne, horrified by World War I and its excesses. And that phrase has been used by libertarians and opponents of state power ever since, as a reason why war is a bad idea.

Certainly the experience of World War I–and, in America, the dramatic expansion of state government power under Woodrow Wilson, as documented in Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism–supports that argument. But subsequent history makes me wonder if war is really as healthy for the state as some other things that get less attention.

When you have to cite The Pantload in the second paragraph, you’re in trouble.

But when the next national crisis struck–the Depression, under FDR–the U.S. got a massive expansion of government that, unlike Wilson’s, has remained with us to the present day. FDR’s policies may have extended the Depression, but what is clear is that when the Depression was over, the New Deal remained. There was no return to normalcy afterward.

Fuck me running – it’s that Amity Shlaes FDR-extended-teh-Depression shit again.  Can’t the wingnuts just admit it’s been debunked debunked debunked?

More fucktardery after the jump.

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U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech Thursday at the Federalist Society dinner at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington. (CNN)

• “Most notably, the President has appointed two members of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito… Both of these remarkably accomplished justices will continue to serve the Nation for many years to come.”
• “Since September 11th, Al Qaeda has not managed to launch a single act of terrorism in the United States. This is a remarkable achievement that no one could have predicted in the days following the September 11th attacks… Much of that credit also goes to the President; in this area, as in many others, leadership and resolve matter.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kjM1asH-8

Straight outta Fargo, it’s Sarah and the turkeys, in their full gory glory.

(Clink o’ the Stinque to RML for scouting the unrated version at HuffPo.)

So: a judge (a) told the feds to release from Gitmo five people who did nothing wrong and — in a move I have never seen before — (b) told the government not to appeal because seven years without trial is enough. WaPo on same:

Leon said the government did not provide enough credible and reliable evidence during a series of closed hearings to justify the detentions of the five Algerians… He said the allegations were provided by a single source in an intelligence document. The government did not provide enough information about the source to determine whether he or she was credible or reliable, Leon ruled.

Which of course means that they are terrorists who must be stopped, according to (yeah) the National Review:

The government is considering its appellate options. Meanwhile, one can only hope that either Algeria or some other country is willing to take these guys. Otherwise, we are in the same fix presented by the Uighur case (which will be argued on appeal next week): facing the prospect of jihadists being released into the United States.

Jesus H. Christ: the guy with the robe said that there was no evidence of these guys being “jihadists.” Listen. You might learn something.

Odds on the Big Three submitting plan on or about December 2 that is accepted by 110th Congress and passed into law: 15-1.

Odds that the Detroit Lions finish the season with 16 losses (ties are stupid): 2-1.

Odds that the Detroit Red Wings lose the Winter Classic at Wrigley: 6-5.

Combined: 36-1. Good value!