… in a ten pound bag:

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I meant what I said – he might be the Republican who did the most damage, shutting down the press when we needed them most.

Patrick Smith, who writes the “Ask the Pilot” column on Salon, has a sign of the times.  And I feel an urge to put on my Citizen Kane DVD.

They have been, and always will be, with us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt9JpYRulSk

Title: “Millie’s Book”

Authors: Barbara Bush & Millie Bush

Rank: 166,729 (#27 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > People, A-Z > ( B ) > Bush, George)

Blurb: “The Bush’s dog, Millie, describes a day in the life of George Herbert Walker Bush and family, discussing morning briefings, deliberations in the Oval Office, and short breaks for squirrel hunting.”

Review: “I’m Millie’s son, Ranger. I think that ‘Millie’s Book’ is truthful, and beautifully written. My mother had incredible courage to write this book and I’m very proud of her.”

Customers Also Bought: “Keeping Up With the Kardashians: The Complete Second Season”

Footnote: Speaking of Amazon’s Long Tail… Okay, no, we won’t go there. But between the Fetus Jar and Talibunny calling Babs a Blue Blood, we just got curious. For the record, Millie ascended to Doggie Heaven in 1997, while Ranger made a quick exit in 1993.

Millie’s Book [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

I have the night off – the girlfriend is cooking me chicken katsu:

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Today, in Operation Clusterfuck Response to WikiLeaks, PayPal has permanently suspended the organization’s account. Per the Gray Lady:

As the release of hundreds of thousands of United States diplomatic cables brings more attention to WikiLeaks, commercial entities on the Internet have come under increased scrutiny for their business relationships with the organization.

Meanwhile, read The Economist’s Democracy in America columnist’s take on the brouhaha.

UPDATE: The Swiss are refusing to bend to U.S. and French pressure to knock Wikileaks.ch off the tubez.  Cue up your Sound of Music soundtrack.

Friday’s Nice Liberal Thought for the Day, from Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly:

President Obama established the Democratic baseline on tax policy quite a while ago — permanent cuts for those making less than $250,000; Clinton-era top rates for the wealthy — and he’s stuck to it for nearly two years, including through the election season. The president appears poised to yield to GOP demands now, which is unfortunate, but is largely a reflection of what transpired on Capitol Hill, where Dems chose to stray from the baseline Obama had already set.

Well, that’s certainly a perfectly reasonable explanation.

So, how’s this for a perfectly reasonable response:

We don’t care.

That is to say, we hold Democrats collectively responsible for the most colossal squandered opportunity of our adult life.

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