Another hiring reminiscent of that of Michael Brown:

Over lunch this week in Dallas, Bush offered former White House official James K. Glassman the opportunity to run [his presidential library] think tank that the former president has described as a place to foster debate on democracy, education and other global concerns.

Glassman, who was an undersecretary of state in 2008, is a longtime fixture in Washington. He was a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for 12 years and held top executive positions at the Atlantic Monthly, U.S. News & World Report and the New Republic.

Glassman also wrote Dow 36000. Wonder how that worked out?

James K. Glassman to Head Bush Library Policy Institute [Dallas Morning News]

First it was the Birthers.  Then came the Deathers.  And now here’s the latest bright shiny object found by those funlovin’ sociopaths of the far right – the 10th Amendment:

It’s all coming into focus now. When Socialist-for-Life Barack Obama indoctrinates America’s schoolchildren on Tuesday, he’ll hold up a giant Queen of Diamonds and set off the national tyranny everyone’s been warning about:

According to the Global Times English-language edition, the national flag of the communist People’s Republic of China on Sept. 20 will be raised for the first time on the White House’s south lawn — a secured area seldom available for public events — in recognition of the Chinese anniversary.

Or, if you prefer your hysteria in screaming email style:

WHITE HOUSE TO FLY RED CHINESE FLAG!!!1!

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Fuckwitted Republitard Uberfuhrer William Coder Got Busted Before He Pestorked a Lancaster Hooker - Sucks to Be Him. Ha. Haha. Hahahahahaha. Will Jesus Save Him From Going to Jail and Shit?

Not all of the Republican leadership in Pennsylvania are busy stealing from the dead. Some are allegedly cruising the streets trying to bribe crack whores into pestorking them, like William Coder, executive director of the county Republican Committee in Lancaster, PA.

The cops stuffed this Son O’ Caliguard into the bag on Thursday, while he was allegedly cruising the streets of Lancaster, PA apparently trying to score a pestorkorama with one or more of the ladies of the evening who loiter near the fetid hellhole around Penn Square in this lawless burgh.

Coder, attempting an imitation of a carbon-based life form with a conscience, tendered his resignation as the GOP county party uberfuhrer on Friday, according to the local rag. Coder told the local paper, doubtless eliciting fits of gasping laughter, that he maintained his alleged innocence and was simply in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”

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Hi, Barry.  Look: we need to talk.

You remember November 4 of last year, right?  While you were polishing up your Grant Park speech, what was running through your mind?  Was your main thought, “hey, now I get to do everything I dreamed of as a little boy — but only if the Republicans think it’s OK?”

Come on, young man.  The leadership of the GOP, and opponents who were bringing a serious level of crazy, were publicly calling you every name in the book (save one).  They were accusing you of being a terrorist-loving, anti-American Marxist, bent on destroying the United States.  And how did the people respond?  Dude — you won in North Carolina.  Jesse Helms’s old stomping grounds was won by you.  And Indiana.  For Christ’s sake — you won a beet-red state like Indiana.  Gore and Kerry won Wisconsin by a few thousand votes.  You took it by 14 points.  (Trust me — I was there.)  You even nabbed an electoral vote in (excuse me) Nebraska.

And now you’re staking your presidency on a cave-in to Olympia Snowe?  Shoot — I like her, too.  But I don’t like her enough to turn a grand health care plan into a watered down fiasco… which (wait for it) the GOP will still take a dump on.

Enough.  You got an hour on Wednesday.  Prepare to sack up.  Show ’em who’s the boss.  (If memory serves, it’s not Tony Danza.  It would be you.) 

Public option or bust — now, or never.  Those who are in the tank for you will have your back.  Trust.

Surprise! The unemployment rate has risen again, to 9.7%.  Of course. And,

A broader measure of joblessness rose even more sharply than the headline unemployment rate. An expanded unemployment rate that includes people who have given up looking for a job out of frustration and who are working part time but want a full-time job rose to 16.8 percent, from 16.3 percent.

Of course, 83% of us are still gainfully employed, waiting out the Friday before Labor Day weekend, so that we too can be unemployed, for three days of drunkenness or and yard work.

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From Florida this week comes news of what should be an instant urban legend:

An FDA test shows that either a frog or a toad was in a Florida man’s soda can. The Food and Drug Administration test confirmed that the remains of an animal were in Fred Denegri’s can of Diet Pepsi. Denegri popped the can open July 23 as he was grilling dinner outdoors in Ormond Beach.

Imagine: Desperately anticipating cool refreshment after being parched for ages, only to discover that not only does what you selected not quench your thirst, but it makes you feel kind of sick.

House Progressives and the White House on a Collision Course Over Public Option [TPM]