Ladies and Gentlemen, Newt Gingrich and Mrs. Gingrich III.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

[via Sully]

The coast is clear, folks!  The Bush tax cuts are safe for another two years!  And unemployment insurance is good to go until January 2012.  Hooray!

And there’s an ironclad guarantee that the GOP will not, in any way, put the whole tax cut issue out front when the expiration date comes around again just before the 2012 elections.  No ads that suggest, for example, that if Obama gets a second term, taxes will go up.  No way that happens.  The Republicans will have no ability to beat Obama up on this issue again.

Like they just did.

Jesus Christ.  Does anybody in the White House know how to play this game?

The woman in the Hyundai Christmas ads covers Beyonce’s Single Ladies. Me like:

Last we heard from the Asshole from Oklahoma, he was refusing to participate in a Tulsa holiday parade because the town had forsaken Jesus. This morning, he reiterated his opposition to secular Festivus celebrations:

INHOFE: Gretchen, I rode my horse in that parade for 30 years and I never missed one until they changed the name. When he said that was a silly reason, I don’t think that was a silly reason at all… But, you know, this is a bigger picture… You know, I would expect it some other places, but not here in Oklahoma…

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Are you ready to rumble? C-SPAN is airing the battle in San Francisco, beginning at 10 am PST.

Three judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments this morning on whether Prop. 8 is constitutional.

The first hurdle will be for the proponents of the ballot measure to explain to the court how they even have standing to appeal district judge Vaughn Walker’s August 4 decision striking down Prop. 8, seeing as how the named defendant, the Guvernator, and AG/soon to be Governor Moonbeam refused to appeal the decision.

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“And, you know, they live in this fantasy world where it’s always 1945. America’s always number one… Marc Rubio, who’s the new teabag senator from Florida, the new — the new Bobby Jindal, I think, he made a speech, it was astounding. And this is not uncommon for a Republican to talk about this at the CPAC Convention. He said this is the only country in the world where an idea that started out as an idea on a cocktail napkin could wind up being traded on the stock exchange. No, other countries have napkins and stock exchanges. But you see, this is their room full of balls at Chuck E. Cheese. Their fantasy world they live in.”

–Bill Maher, on Fareed Zacharia’s GPS (12/5/2010). 

Company	Action	Cowards?	Explanation
Amazon	Removed WikiLeaks cables from its “cloud” data service.	Yes.	Only 612 cables (out of a quarter-million) had been released, and Amazon was hosting the redacted versions already published by the New York Times and other newspapers.
Tableau Software	Removed charts illustrating statistical summaries of WikiLeaks cables.	Yes.	Never hosted the cables themselves.
EveryDNS	Removed “wikileaks.org” from its free DNS service, which translates domain names to numeric Internet server addresses.	No.	Attacks on system threatened entire service.

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