Unfortunately, senility seems no impediment to serving in Congress. Democratic Rep. John Murtha said Wednesday that Republican Sen. John McCain is too old to be president. Murtha is 75, four years older than McCain. He says they are nearly the same age, and the rigors and stress of running the country is too much for guys their age. “I’ve served with seven presidents,” Murtha told a union audience. “When they

a poor little female blogger was born In teh ghetto . . .

UC Berkeley’s Jerome Karabel makes a none-too-subtle generational pitch that superdelegates should back Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton (via the L.A. Times): In Obama, the Democratic Party has a potential nominee who offers a unique opportunity to bring the younger generation firmly into the political process, to make many of its members lifelong Democrats and perhaps to lay the groundwork for a historic realignment on the scale of Roosevelt and Reagan. Yet with Democratic

Somebody named Pink Ed has a piece at the Village Voice (h/t Serr8d) on the right-blogosphere’s coverage of the election.  It’s wry, amusing, and demonstrates perfectly the left’s contention that if you disagree with them, you’re either stupid or evil, or some combination of both.  (The inverse relationship btween the two is also telling, and I may comment further on that, later). Insty gets the lowest stupid-to-evil ratio, at 5/95. 

The screen fills with grainy footage of sprawling 1970s gas lines. “Nothing’s changed,” Sen. Barack Obama says into the camera, “except now Exxon’s making $40 billion a year, and we’re paying $3.50 for gas. … I don’t take money from oil companies or Washington lobbyists, and I won’t let them block change anymore.” Obama’s ad, which has been airing in Pennsylvania as the April 22 primary approaches, is technically true

Before we were unavoidably detained yesterday, the WaPo’s Chris Cillizza considered Barack Obama’s Clingy Kerfuffle by borrowing a question from Hoosier Axl Rose: “Where Do We Go Now?” Cillizza looks at several factors which could cause Obama’s comments to become a blip or part of a larger Narrative — ads, polls, superdelegates, the PA results, media coverage of the Pope’s visit, and miscellaneous “X-Factors.”  What follows is a look at most of