…but can the new Messiah pull off a crippling step-over toe hold? A well-timed heel hook? A reverse nelson arm lock? No. No he can not. — And yet the sonofabitch has designs on the presidency. And beatitude. The arrogance! At any rate, I know some of you here are involved in martial arts. So if you’re looking to improve your ground fighting — and you want to introduce something

The often insightful Marc Ambinder thinks that Hillary Clinton’s apparent intent to stay in the race if  she wins the popular vote in Ohio and Texas “will make heads explode in Chicago.” Ambinder need not worry – Camp Obama probably figured that out already.

Michael Goldfarb has the better title, but as the battle over the expired eavesdropping law moves toward a conclusion giving phone companies legal protection from lawsuits for cooperating with the government after 9/11, the reaction of Rick Ellensburg is revealing: There’s very little point anymore in writing about how the Congressional Democratic leadership is complicit in all of the worst Bush abuses, or about how craven they are. All of that is far too

Gawker reports that the New York Times will cut 100 newsroom positions by year’s end.  Executive editor Bill Keller was quick to remind everyone that the NYT will still have 150 more news staffers than any other newspaper.  This will be more than enough reporters to falsely impugn John McCain’s fidelity and citizenship, get things wrong about Hillary Clinton in a piece about the media’s crush on Barack Obama, and

Yesterday, Barack Obama praised Jay Rockefeller’s vote against the Iraq AUMF after receiving a glowing introduction from the West Virginia Senator, contrasting it with Hillary Clinton’s “yes” vote: Obama ripped Sen. Hillary Clinton on Sunday for failing to read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting in 2002 to authorize the Iraq war. He said she should’ve followed the lead of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., contending that he, as the chairman of the Senate

Not that I personally have anything against gay unions, but: Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does not make him “less Christian.””I don’t think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage,

From the ABCNews Political Radar, in an otherwise pessimistic piece about Camp Clinton: In their best case scenario, Clinton aides hope she could win Ohio by 3 to 6 points and squeak out a victory in Texas.  They would consider that a good night and reason to fight on to Pennsylvania, which holds its primary on April 22. Other scenarios, they admit, are not so pretty. “If she wins Texas

As much as I dislike the Clintons, I’m almost starting to feel sorry for the Hildabeast.  Here she is, with the stars perfectly aligned for a run at “Weekend At Bernie’s II” (Chris Dodd, anyone?), and she runs into a guy who seems to be auditioning for a remake of “Being There.”  It would be amusing if it wasn’t for the fact that A) there are way too many idiots in

Via the Associated Press, Nedra Pickler reports that Barack Obama’s senior economic policy adviser, Austan Goolsbee, has broken his silence to claim that Canadian government officials wrote an inaccurate portrayal of his private discussion on the campaign’s trade policy: Goolsbee disputed a section that read: “Noting anxiety among many U.S. domestic audiences about the U.S. economic outlook, Goolsbee candidly acknowledged the protectionist sentiment that has emerged, particularly in the Midwest,

Contrary to the general media reliance on poll-driven stories at the expense of stories on the role of organization, the New York Times has three stories posted today on (or partially on) the ground games Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are rolling out in Texas and Ohio. Randy Kennedy reports from Texarkana: In dozens of interviews across Texas over the last two weeks with campaign workers, volunteers and voters, a similar picture has